Jered Crowley
vacaville,California
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Summary
Experienced Chief Engineer with strong troubleshooting skills in electrical, hydraulic, and diesel systems. Known for coordinating major repairs, leading maintenance crews, and keeping marine equipment safe, reliable, and ready for demanding daily operation.
Work History
Chief Engineer
Dutra Dredging
San Rafael, CA
01.2016 - Current
- Started here as an HDR in their shop.
- Duties included maintenance and special projects as they came.
- Some of the first major projects I played a major role in were repowering a set of deck winches on a flat deck barge from 2 cycle detroits to tier 4 final cummins.
- Retro-fitted small hydraulic dump scows with up-to-date hydraulics and freshened up what was left of existing system.
- Eventually was put into a service truck, which was sent from job to job. Sometimes starting the same place every day to assist startup and make sure every machine got to work. After that would fall into whatever maintenance/ repair needed to be done on site, if none then would continue to another job or machine to complete repairs dispatched to me by the 2 mastermechanics.
- Dutra is involved mainly in Marine construction and dredging, as well as some small aggregate plants. I have become very familiar with repairing tugboats / workboats, barges, floating equipment, anchor positioning equipment, conventional and hydraulic winches. 2 Cycle diesel engine repair, non-tier 4 cycle engine repair, tier 3, and tier 4 final engine repair. Dutra uses all manufacturers. We have detroits, Listers, Cummins, Cats, Northern Lights, Kubota, Deutz, John Deere.
- Am familiar with diesel generator repair and AC electrical troubleshooting.
- Eventually was made chief engineer on the DB Paula Lee, where I basically co-ordinated and performed every kind of repair you can imagine. Unclogging the toilets, changing light bulbs, replacing the track that the crane swings on, replacing the center pin, repairing the boom after it was damaged, in-framing engines, retro-fitting outdated equipment, repairing GPS positioning systems.
- After several years they laid the keel on a new vessel, the CB Harry S. It is a flat deck barge with a Liebherr 8300.2 crawler crane aboard. I have been the C. Engineer from the beginning and have been responsible for keeping records, maintenance logs, performing repairs, and implementing a maintenance procedure that fits the needs of this 1 of a kind dredge dredge, and also ensures the safe use of all equipment on board.
- The crane aboard the Harry S is a new model from Liebherr, I believe we were the 5th company to receive one, and we have learned a whole lot about this powerful hydraulic crane as we labor it 22 hours a day 7 days a week.
- I personally trained the Watch Engineers that work directly under me, and one of them has been promoted to Chief Engineer to act as my relief when I am on scheduled time off.
Heavy Duty Repairman
Bigge Crane and Rigging
San Leandro, CA
07.2014 - 01.2016
- Completed apprenticeship program at Bigge and performed all the duties expected of a journey-level mechanic.
- The master mechanic at the start of my employment asked which areas I was knowledgeable in. I had not done much electrical work, and he made sure I was thrown at all of the electrical faults that came in.
- After bolstering my electrical knowledge, he then made sure I got exposure to hydraulic troubleshooting.
- After he deemed I was proficient in these areas, I was sent to the fab shop across from the mechanics shop, to learn welding, fabrication and some machining.
- A year into my employment at Bigge, I was on par with most of the journeymen there. Repairs often included running cranes to dismantle other cranes that needed service. Removing hydraulic cylinders and rebuilding them in house. Removing telescoping boom sections for repair and to repair operating mechanisms internally. Using diagnostic tools to troubleshoot engine and emissions faults. Reading schematics, advanced troubleshooting, and specialty tools were commonly used to diagnose intermittent issues.
- Am familiar with the safe operation of crawler, RT, and AT cranes. Including reading load charts, and ensuring safe configurations.
Heavy Duty Repairman
Sukut Equipment
Calaveras Dam Replacement Project
08.2012 - 07.2014
- Started here as a 1st step apprentice with some automotive knowledge. Had worked at a chevrolet dealership previous to this.
- Was made in charge of fueling equipment at lunch and at the operator's end of shift. Would go through nearly 12,000 Gallons of fuel in my 12 hour shift.
- Was taught how to service all of the Caterpillar machines on site, and eventually was put in charge of maintenance. Duties included fueling, greasing, and changing oils / filters.
- Kept track of fuel quantities in bulk tanks and how much was used and in what machines daily. Recorded hours bi-weekly to schedule maintenance and inventoried maintenance items weekly I.E. air filters, oil filters, oils, grease, etc..
- After nearly a year as the lubeman, was moved to mechanical repairs.
- Was shown how to safely complete repairs on 651E & B model scrapers, D10T & N model bulldozers, D11N dozers, 345, 385, and 5110 CAT excavators, 740 articulating haul trucks, 773B rock trucks, 16G motor graders, and support equipment. Including service trucks, lube trucks, pickups.
- Removed and serviced track frames on big dozers, helped rebush hitches on scrapers, commonly replaced cutting edges, replace and rebuilt hydraulic cylinders, R&R diesel engines and transmissions in all cat equipmement.
Education
Certificate of Completion - Heavy Duty Repairman
OE3 Apprenticeship Program
Rancho Murieta, CA10-2015
Skills
- Troubleshooting electrical and hydraulic systems
- Co-ordinating major repairs and enacting safety measures to mitigate risk
- Competent with nearly anything mechanical or electric
- Able to learn new technology as it comes out, have dabbled with some programmable CPU's to perform small tasks Built a bilge monitoring system for a small vessel that would Alert with sirens and flashing lights as well as showing text as to which compartment has the issue All using Arduino software and computer
Timeline
Chief Engineer
Dutra Dredging
01.2016 - Current
Heavy Duty Repairman
Bigge Crane and Rigging
07.2014 - 01.2016
Heavy Duty Repairman
Sukut Equipment
08.2012 - 07.2014
Certificate of Completion - Heavy Duty Repairman
OE3 Apprenticeship Program