Francisco Vela Jr
Mission,TX
Summary
I am a Texas-licensed Journeyman Electrician with 10years experience in oil & gas, chemical plant, semiconductor facilities , and heavy industrial maintenance environments. My background includes overseeing electrical installation, preventive maintenance, Commissioning start up, Telecommunication Fiber networks and troubleshooting of industrial systems while ensuring compliance with safety and regulatory standards.
In addition to my technical expertise, I bring strong supervisory and management experience, including leading crews, assigning work, coordinating schedules, and supporting safe, efficient operations. I have a proven record of reducing downtime, enforcing safety practices, and delivering projects on time while maintaining high-quality standards.
I am a hands-on leader who works closely with teams to drive productivity, accountability, and continuous improvement. I would welcome the opportunity to contribute my leadership and technical skills to your organization.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Electrical Commissioning Technician
MMR ProComm
Port Sulphur, Louisiana
04.2024 - 11.2025
- Perform pre-start up procedures.
- Point-to-point wire checks/ insulation megger tests.
- Utilize one line drawings and vendor drawings.
- Adhered to project Arc Flash Policy.
- Performed energization of the following equipment: Transformers, Switchgears, Control panels, PDC, MCC, Power panels,, VFD, DCS, pumps and motors.
- Racked switchgear breakers in and out.
- Complete Sub-systems to be turned over to the commissioning team to test equipment.
- Have a crew terminating devices and motors from 120v to 480v.
- Kept project managers in loop about field activities through regular reports.
- Reviewed blueprints and schematics to determine proper equipment layout and installation requirements.
- Coordinated with project managers, engineers, and other trades to ensure smooth project progression.
Electrical General Foreman
Fluor Corporation
Albuquerque, New Mexico
07.2023 - 03.2024
- Adhered to strict safety protocols while handling materials in clean room environment.
- Assisted in training new employees on proper clean room procedures, techniques, and safety measures.
- Cleaned parts, using cleaning solutions, alcohol wipes and cloths.
- Installed conduit systems, tray supports, and brackets for proper wire management underneath tiles inside Fab rooms. Installing 2 1/2” for main feeder for tools. 3/4 EMT for 120v circuits for tools and data cables.
- Pulled wires through conduits and cable trays according to electrical schematics. Organizing crews to set up and pull wires for tools ranging from 1c/500 for main feeders and THHN 10Awg wire for 120v circuits.
- Used warehouse management system to accurately record materials and product movement.
- Transported material in and out of warehouse using forklift and other equipment or vehicles.
Fiber Optic Service Tech / Electrician
General Dynamics Information Technology Inc
Louisville, Kentucky
04.2022 - 07.2023
- Installed Fiber pull boxes, 200amp service, 35kw generator and Automatic Transfer Switches for AT&T cell phone tower sites.
- Fusion splice OSP Fiber Optic cables going into the Shelters for Cell phone tower sites including Multimode (MM) and single mode (SM) Fiber strands up too 144 strands for backbone.
- Operated Fujikura 90S splicing equipment to ensure optimal fiber connectivity and performance.
- Conducted regular maintenance checks on splicing tools and equipment for reliability.
- Led site assessments to determine optimal splicing locations for new installations.
- Utilized Fluke OTDR Optic time domain reflective meter to ensure DB loss across fiber strands are up to AT&T standards.
- Obtained materials and equipment required to complete assigned project.
- Installed 35 KW Generac Generators for the cell phone tower site.
- Pulled wire from utility disconnect to the ATS and then to the generator.
- Terminated wires on both ends and made sure lugs were torqued and landed in correct spot.
- Fabricated and installed 1/2 EMT for new lighting fixtures installed, pulled the circuit wires to the lights and terminated them.
- Disassembled and reassembled components following manufacturer specifications.
- Troubleshot problems on different makes of generators and traced root causes.
- Facilitated quality testing and checks and completed required documentation.
- Interpreted wiring diagrams, blueprints and schematics and followed directions from manuals.
- Assessed crew performance, conducting inspections and reporting on workmanship quality issues.
- Promoted worksite safety and adherence to OSHA protocols.
- Completed crew timesheets, safety logs and expense reports.
- Helped team by diagnosing and troubleshooting onsite equipment and system problems.
- Oversaw team activities to maximize productivity and maintain progress against goals.
Electrical Jr. Technician
Saulsburry
Midland, Texas
11.2021 - 03.2022
- Terminations in PLC & RIO cabinets, installing devices, completing systems.
- Identifying and labeling cables throughout the Rio boxes.
- Conducted system tests and troubleshooting, identifying and resolving electrical discrepancies.
- Tested wiring and other system parts for electrical flow and function.
- Executed functional testing of systems safety instrumented system (SIS), emergency shutdown system(ESD), and fire and gas (F&G) system.
- point-to-point wire checks/ insulation merger tests.
- Troubleshoot lighting circuits for pre start up.
- Installed new breakers and or 480Volt buckets.
Electrical Journeyman/Lead Fiber Optic Technician
Primoris PSC
Longview, Texas
02.2021 - 11.2021
- First 4 months as a journeyman electrician I was terminating instrument cables in RIO boxes, Valves, Devices, junction boxes etc.
- I was responsible for termination Fiber Optic cables for the project. Spliced in PDC building and RIO cabinets.
- Operated single and mass fusion splicing equipment.
- Blew fiber, installed cross-connect patches, and conducted full circuit OTDR tests.
- Read, understood, and followed splicing documentation to complete correct work.
- Last 6 months of the project was prompted to Electrical Supervisor. I was in charge of the wire pulling crew, installing channel tray/ cable tray, and terminations in the field.
- Coached crew in installation procedures and other processes as main technical resource.
- Inspected and monitored work areas, examined tools and equipment, and provided employee safety training to prevent, detect, and correct unsafe conditions or violations of procedures and safety rules.
- Achieved work objectives by prioritizing jobs, organizing schedules and coordinating assignments.
Electrical Journeyman Lead /Fiber Optic Cable Technician
McDermott
Porth Arthur, Texas
06.2019 - 02.2021
- Assisted my foreman achieved work objectives by prioritizing jobs, organizing schedules and coordinating assignments.
- Kept team ready for daily demands with effective level of tools, equipment, material, information, and comprehension of tasks.
- Kept all areas clean, organized and in line with company professional standards.
- Maintained full compliance with legal, health, and safety regulations.
- Minimized workplace hazards and accidents through continuous cleanups throughout the day, organize material and equipment, and follow safety rules throughout daily tasks performed.
- Before becoming lead man I worked on my tools fabricating and installing conduit to lights and receptacles, raceway from instrument devices to the junction boxes, and run conduit to heat trace boxes. The conduit consisted of 3/4 to 2” aluminum conduit. We supported our raceway with aluminum, stainless steal, and galvanized unistruct with help of our welders.
- After doing that we helped out in other areas with terminating cables from low voltage all the way up to high voltage. From 480motors , 4160 motors, start stop switches, lights, receptacles, lighting panels, instrument panels, disconnects, transformers, heat trace boxes and panels. Following we had occasionally situations when we had fabricate pieces of cable tray outside of the panel where the cables would land in the panel or dress cables neatly on cable trays. All of the power cables in this jobsite were CLX armored cables. The armored cables had to be prepped, glanded, packed, and then ready to be tailed in to be terminated. This included knocking out holes in panels and carefully handle equipment to drill out holes. This summarizes some of the work activity and duty’s I had on this jobsite.
- Installed and maintained fiber optic systems, ensuring optimal performance and reliability.
- Conducted thorough testing and troubleshooting of fiber optic networks to identify and resolve issues efficiently.
- Managed inventory of fiber optic materials and tools, ensuring availability for ongoing projects without delays.
- Increased network reliability through meticulous fusion splicing, termination, and testing of fiber optic cables.
Electrical jorneyman
Richard Automation (RAI)
Port Lavaca, Texas
09.2018 - 05.2019
- Fabricated and installed ridgid conduit in the heater area of this project from junctionboxes to cable trays.
- This was a job of mostly 1 1/2’ to 3’ conduit with only galvanized unistruct to support the conduit. I had to comprehend and have well knowledge of using the One Shot hydraulic bender to bend our conduit and hoghead or the big 535 to thread and cut the conduit. Once done with the conduit had to pull our wire through the pipe in a quick and well communicated fashion to get the task done on time.
Electrical Helper /Fiber Optic Installer
CB&I
Sulphur, Louisiana
01.2018 - 09.2018
- Supported senior electricians in daily job site activities, including terminating low voltage and high voltage cables in switchgears and motors and dress cables on cable trays and pull wire through cable trays.
- Expanded and improved previously installed building electrical systems with new control systems and modern wiring.
- Traced out wiring short circuits using test meter.
- Helped out in basically all areas that covered terminating cables from power cables, network cables, telecom and communication cables, and Fiber Optic cables. This was a great experience to learn all kinds of cables in every area there is. I terminated cables in transformers and switchgears in the main MCC's , instrumentation cables in plc, dcs, and sis cabinets. then jumped to fiber optic and network cables in control rooms and RIE buildings.
Electrical Top Helper
MMR
Deer park, Texas
06.2017 - 01.2018
- Terminated cables in the mcc mainly power cables in capacitors, cabinets, disconectes, switchgears, and motors.
- Helped out in the control room to terminate wire and got introduced to cable splitting, prepping, and landing cables. Learned how to identify wire landing points in drawings and locating equipment. I slowly went on about myself and started to do things on my own under supervised people to get the hang of getting the hands on experience.
Electrical Helper
Excel
Nederland, Texas
04.2017 - 06.2017
- Fabricated and installed aluminum conduit to instrument devices and flexed them all the way to the device.
- Assisted in running and figuring out raceways from the junction boxes to the devices transmitters. once finished had to use flex to land to the device and then pull the wire to terminate the instrument.
Electrical Helper
MMR
Galena Park, Texas
10.2016 - 04.2017
- I got introduced to the basic equipment that we use on a daily bases such as the hydraulic bender, the 535 threader machine, power pony threader, band saw, power and hand tools. I was taught the basics of bending conduit fabricating supports to hold onto the conduit and way more. Eventually I got into the wire pulling aspect after being done with our conduit run and then finding the landing points to terminate the equipment or device or whatever the case was. Learned how to follow instructions on mounting and hanging boxes, panels, or devices. This is where I branched out to learn all the areas of our electrical field and always tried to ask questions and master the task I am doing.
Education
High School Diploma -
Mission High School
Mission, Texas06.2016
Skills
- Electrical schematics
- High voltage systems
- Equipment commissioning
- Electrical testing
- Fiber splicing expertise
- Telecommunications infrastructure
- Data cabling installation
- 3M Medium voltage Splicing
- Control circuit troubleshooting
- AC/DC control circuitry
- Motor controls
- Electrical wiring
Certification
- TDLR Texas Journeyman Electrician License
- Fiber Optic Fusion Splice Certification
- 3M MV Cable Preparation splices (5-35kv)
- NCCER Electrical Knowledge
- OSHA-30
- NFPA70E Trained
- CPR/First Aid
Languages
English
Full Professional
Spanish
Full Professional
Timeline
Electrical Commissioning Technician
MMR ProComm
04.2024 - 11.2025
Electrical General Foreman
Fluor Corporation
07.2023 - 03.2024
Fiber Optic Service Tech / Electrician
General Dynamics Information Technology Inc
04.2022 - 07.2023
Electrical Jr. Technician
Saulsburry
11.2021 - 03.2022
Electrical Journeyman/Lead Fiber Optic Technician
Primoris PSC
02.2021 - 11.2021
Electrical Journeyman Lead /Fiber Optic Cable Technician
McDermott
06.2019 - 02.2021
Electrical jorneyman
Richard Automation (RAI)
09.2018 - 05.2019
Electrical Helper /Fiber Optic Installer
CB&I
01.2018 - 09.2018
Electrical Top Helper
MMR
06.2017 - 01.2018
Electrical Helper
Excel
04.2017 - 06.2017
Electrical Helper
MMR
10.2016 - 04.2017
High School Diploma -
Mission High School