Andrew Rivas

• I was tasked with overseeing the installation of commercial rough in for a high profile data center. At peak manpower i was overseeing 24 people and had multiple parts of the building being worked on at the same time to move up progress due to multiple start date delays. I had to often coordinate with multiple crafts foreman in order to work around different interfering schedules. Ordering material was a very big issue due to the boom of construction in the Phoenix, Arizona area. I had to order material weeks ahead of time in order to keep up with the different delays that all material would go through. I had access to multiple different programs to read my prints and all associated information needed. We would use 3D apps in order to pre plan work and schedule sub contractors to perform needed work. Every friday we sent out a work schedule for the upcoming week in order for my superintendent to be aware of all aspects of our progression. Every Tuesday we had our supervisors meeting in order to discuss topics and priorities that were created from the week before. At this meeting there was project managers, different levels of superintendents, foreman's, the head safety and the energy marshals. Everyday i was required to turn in a production report and track hours for each worker. Along with coordinating different tasks i had to ensure all equipment was inspected and safe for use.

In this meat packing plant we ran stainless steel rigid conduit due to being a food processing jobsite. I ran underground schedule 40 PVC to stub up above finished floor level so i can come back and tie in with stainless steel conduit. I pulled 3Phase circuits from our MCC room to various parts of the building where screw conveyors for transporting meat were located. I performed different type of terminations on motors depending on the required use of application. I ran a 8" core drill in order to pass through concrete slabs so we could then tie into our our switch gears. Pulled and landed 500s from our switch gears to our bucket breakers. We torqued and marked each lug and bolt termination.

Power Distribution for 277V lighting circuits, 480V circuits for 3 Phase 480V motors, 120V circuits for recepticles. Run busway for power distribution from local substation. 3/4 " & 1" EMT conduit were primarily used for these runs. Ran independent circuit for emergency lights and exit signs. Installed breakers into 277V/480V and 120V/208V panels. In some cases we had to derate wire and up size our pipe to remain within code.

Daily normal tasks will include running EMT, pulling wire, and performing terminations. At this job its been mostly low voltage control works for different types of instrumentation devices needed for the manufacturing process. I have a little over 2 and a half years of low voltage control terminations examples VFD, DCS, and PDU. Im very familiar with terminating in DCS using the I/O list for where terminations need to be made. Along with these daily tasks i would run stainless steel tubing for different instruments.

At this chemical plant we were only contracted for overnight wire pull. I quickly got recognition from within the rest of my co-workers and got tasked to lead man responsibilities. Once the night wire pull contract job was over i got offered to continue to stay and transfer to the day shift to work in the substations. While working in the substations we were tasked with the installations of medium voltage switchgears. While Working inside the substation i was able to get hands on experience terminating Power cells and running back up batteries in series.

On a normal day to day basis we would run ridgid conduit using a mechanical bender. Im used to working with the ridgid 535 threader machine and the ridgid power pony for our conduit running process. We would set up, fabricate, and mount various size cable tray. We pulled different size wires from 10AWG all the way up to size 750 KCMIL wire. Run and mount explosion proof lighting fixtures on different parts of the chemical plants. Ive installed different types of lighting fixtures depending on what area and environment the fixture is to be placed. Ive ran grounding rods and C crimp them to to create a good bonding connection to the grounding grid. Ive have experience in PLC cabinet terminations. I can identify and install different types of NEMA enclosure depending on locations.