Kevin Gray

• Ability to use discretion and provide independent judgment while utilizing professional skills to perform daily duties to help resolve project operations issues.
• Ensured quality completion of 2 projects on time and within allocated budget
• Performed qualitative reviews of all contract documents for potential conflicts or interpretation issues to mitigate risk
• Worked with Superintendent to facilitate project construction process and coordinated staff activities to assure achievement of goals regarding project budget, schedule, safety standards, and quality control/assurance standards
• Ability to assess requirements of projects and break it into tasks to determine scope of work, budget and staffing needs
• Prepared project specifications and estimates
• Assisted in drafting and awarding subcontracts, purchase orders and change orders
• Created, maintained and monitored detailed master project schedule
• Proactively took steps to avoid potential issues before they may arise.
• Coordinated substantial completion, including proper owner training for essential equipment
• Coordinated final acceptance, including punch list completion, commissioning, and warranties
• Conducted site visits/field investigations as required
• Developed and maintained trust and confidence of clients; maintained close contact on status of project requirements, and billings.
• Promptly identified changes in project scope and notified everyone accordingly; prepared change orders and submitted them timely.
• Facilitated monthly owner billings; review subcontractors' pay requests for completeness and processed them timely.
• Created and fostered collaborative and effective subcontractor and project team relationships
• Lead and/or participated in client presentations and project meetings
• Coordinated documents for submittal to reviewing agencies.

• Ensure consistent and accurate knowledge of all products and services provided by Empire Group and its affiliate companies
• Utilized Salesforce to maintain over 100 potential new sales leads. This system helped organize, set tasks, and allow follow up on new and existing inquiries.
• Communicated with customers and leads to identify and understand their product or service needs; identified and suggested products and services to meet those needs.
• Coordinated meeting to demonstrate functions and utility of products or services to customers based on their needs via face-to-face presentations or through virtual meeting outlets.
• Worked alongside Project management team to ensure customer satisfaction through ongoing communication and relationship management; resolved any issues that may arise post-sale.
• Established Master Service Agreements with customers to become approved vendors. This gave us opportunities to bid on projects which helped us align with our customers on how they could utilize all our services.
• Maintained communication with existing and previous customers, alerting them of new products, services, and enhancements that may be of interest
• Provided periodic territory sales forecasts.
• Kept detailed records of daily activities through online customer database
• Communicated directly with customers and partners to build strong business networks and relationships

• Track new enquiries from Marketing
• Ensure Customer Purchase Orders are distributed to relevant departments
• Coordinate with Marketing, Production and Quality Teams regarding enquiry for new orders
• Respond to new enquiries from Marketing timely
• Assigned Project Coordinator for each project
• Issued technical specifications of each order to relevant departments
• Freeze all issues pertaining to any new order after joint discussion with Marketing, Production, Quality, and Logistics Teams
• Lead Kick-off Meetings before production began.
• Reviewed production plan prepared by the Planning Coordinator
• Ensure timely preparation of each Sales Order and Production Order
• Review and validate Raw Material Requirement and facilitate procurement process with Procurement/SCM
• Ensure availability of RM and consumable items with respect to production schedule
• Track daily production of all plants
• Report and discuss variances with respect to daily production plan.
• Ensure and Review Order Closer Sign-Off Sheet and operational closer.
• Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks

List of Projects completed:

• Energy Transfer - Waha Header Project, The WAHA Header, located near the Waha Hub, is designed to accommodate 6 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas and connects to more than 10 different natural gas pipelines
• Energy Transfer - Red Bluff Project, The Red Bluff Express Pipeline project is approximately 80 miles of 30-inch, 36-inch and 42-inch diameter pipe designed to transport approximately 1.5 billion cubic feet per day (BCf/d) of clean-burning natural gas in West Texas
• Energy Transfer - Trans Pecos Project, The Trans-Pecos Pipeline is a Texas Intrastate pipeline designed to transport 1.4 billion cubic feet per day of clean-burning natural gas as part of an agreement with Commission Federal de Electricidad, Mexico's federal electricity commission
• Energy Transfer - Comanche Trail Project, The Comanche Trail Pipeline provides new market outlets for domestically produced clean-burning natural gas, thereby encouraging continued production in the U.S Energy sector
• Kinder Morgan - Gulf Coast Express Project, the pipeline carries natural gas from the Permian production area to the hub near Agua Dulce, Texas It also enables exports to Mexico and LNG liquefaction terminals on the Gulf coast, while meeting the growing demand for industrial customers
• Williams, Blue-stem Project, originating in Conway, Kansas, The Bluestem Pipeline has been designed to transport 120,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) of natural gas liquids (NGLs), expandable to 225,000 (bpd)
• EPCO - Mentone Project, located in the Delaware sub-basin has the capacity to process 300 MMcf/d of natural gas and extract more than 40,000 b/d of natural gas liquids (NGL)
• Kinder Morgan - Permian Highway Project, Will provide an outlet for increased natural gas production from the Permian Basin to growing market areas along the Texas Gulf Coast
• Kinder Morgan - Triad / Susquehanna Project, Will deliver 180,000 dekatherms (180 million cubic feet) of natural gas per day to the new Invenergy plant in Jessup, called the Lackawanna Energy Center.

• Long-term planning for labor and equipment based on forecasted projections of Logistics Operation
• Responsible for volume forecasting for multiple operational facilities
• Assessed Profit and Loss Margins
• Developed and maintained tools for training of several operation job classifications
• Identified, analyzed, and executed process improvement initiatives
• Determined cost-effective solutions to meet effective operating facility needs based on current capacity and future needs
• Responsible for defining problems, identifying options, evaluating options, and recommending optimal solutions
• Trained operations staff in New Orleans – Post Katrina
• Managed all Time Study efforts at District level
• Responsible for District metrics related to operational and scanning compliance.
• Updated work measurements for 10 centers to ensure proper staffing needs which determined production each operation should be attaining.
• Tracking trailers to ensure each trailer has been In-bounded and Out-bounded properly. Processes are necessary to keep track of inventory in each package center and hub
• Led 5 employees who performed elemental time studies. These studies were used to update time allowances for each package driver.
• Responsible for District metrics related to operational and scanning compliance, development of action plans, and project implementation oversight
• Developed, implemented and deployed approved operational processes and best practices throughout our District.
• Trained operation resources in approved processes and standards for work measurement.