Kyle Howell
Fowlerville,MI
Summary
Proven leader with a track record of historic safety achievements and efficiency improvements at Consumers Energy. Excelled in managing complex projects and mentoring teams, leveraging extensive construction and management experience. Skilled in SAP, Excel, and fostering key business relationships, consistently delivering projects below target costs with zero compliance misses.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
LVD Supervisor
Consumers Energy
Flint, Michigan
06.2025 - Current
- Conducted daily safety briefings to reinforce compliance and strengthen safety culture among team members.
- Supervised electric line workers during storm restoration to ensure safe and efficient power recovery.
- Maintained power systems during non-storm conditions, ensuring continuous operational integrity.
- Managed metrics including CAIDI, SAIDI, and SOD, directly influencing customer rates.
Gas Distribution Manager
Consumers Energy
Howell, MI
06.2022 - Current
- Managed safety goals to obtain historical safety records within the business.
- Managed 4 to 6 supervisors and mentored them through the gas distribution day-to-day tasks.
- Held 'Exceptional' and 'Exceeds' performance category ratings.
- Hold employees accountable while maintaining an equitable work environment.
- Assigned BOO initiatives to include fleet reduction, onsite fueling, directional boring process, and SOD/EOD.
- Improved culture survey scores within the organization.
- Managed compliance, NSIF, and NBS workload with zero compliance misses.
- Represented gas distribution in officer-level work management rally rooms.
- Lead gas distribution work management for the state.
- Lead statewide rollouts of new processes and procedures.
- Worked with the Design/Engineering department to improve processes and procedures.
- Managed the lowest SOD on record, partnering with the union.
Field Leader III
Consumers Energy
Howell, USA
06.2018 - 06.2022
- As a Distribution Field Leader, the focus on safety remained at the forefront.
- Working to maintain a safe environment for 5 years was an incredible task.
- Empowering the employees to make decisions to eliminate waste and target our goals helped clear the way for safe work to be performed.
- Led our leak initiative for Howell and Livonia to the lowest numbers in recent years.
- Implemented many waste elimination projects to reduce costs and spending in our fleet.
- Real-world construction experience to help make decisions on the utilization of all of our equipment and vehicles in Livonia and Howell.
- Able to get closer to the employees to hone in on their strengths and weaknesses, to help build a strong workforce.
- Managed a 7,600-foot high-pressure steel main project.
- Distribution headquarters have never accomplished this large-scale project work in the history of Consumers.
- Expanded our headquarters' numbers to accommodate an increasing workload.
- I took on the type 32 initiative (inside meter inspections), safely completing our type 32 compliance target.
- Managed staking for the ICS to get our staking back on target.
- Led a miss dig team to prevent work stoppage due to the new miss dig system changes.
- Developed short-term countermeasures, rolled them out to all gas operations, and implemented them to keep our crews moving forward.
- Helped improve efficiencies and provide standard work.
- I covered Senior Field Leader roles for Livonia, Howell, on numerous occasions.
- Reduce costs while increasing efficiency by utilizing all our equipment and tooling.
- Moved the underutilized fleet to areas that would put it to use.
- Mentored and trained new field leaders.
Field Leader II
Consumers Energy
Wixom, USA
06.2017 - 06.2018
- As a Field Leader, safety remained the number one focus.
- The main goal is that everyone makes it home safe.
- It is my job to ensure that everyone is engaged during the safety presentations, and that everyone understands how important their role is in making a safe work environment.
- I take pride in working with crew members in the field, and putting in the time and effort to provide support and help workflow balance between groups.
- Managed the Middle Belt 10” steel HP compliance project.
- Helped the crews safely and productively complete the installation of 10,000 feet of 10-inch high-pressure steel.
- Managed multiple crews on complex EIRP/Civic projects in Southeast.
- Stepped up to run the Vintage Service Replacement program for Southeast EIRP (6/15/2017 – current).
- 2018 Vintage Service Program: Set up and maintained a workload schedule of 6,021 service renewals over a 7-month period.
- Directly in charge of day-to-day operations of five field leaders and 125 OM&C employees for Southeast EIRP.
- We improved our estimates to within 1% of the actual hours and outside service costs.
- Helped reduce our hours per service from 35 to 27 hours per service.
- We managed our goal of $3,100 per service target and are currently below the target.
- Helped improve efficiencies and provide standard work
- Implemented processes and procedures to help eliminate waste.
- Ran weekly meetings to allow open communication at all levels.
- Ran daily safety discussions in the field with OM&C.
- Removed barriers for crew leaders, and encouraged them to share their ideas.
- Put the Vintage Service Program on track and ahead of target by 300 services.
Crew Lead/Upgraded Field Leader
Consumers Energy
Wixom, USA
06.2014 - 06.2017
- As a crew lead, I was responsible for the safe work environment in which employees could perform work while having all the tools necessary to be successful.
- I was directly responsible for completing large gas main replacement projects and new customer attachment programs in a time-sensitive, but safe manner.
- Perform safety tailboards each morning before work is performed.
- Perform safety discussions on incidents that occurred to educate employees in their line of work.
- Safely installed gas mains and services for replacement projects to enhance our infrastructure.
- Directly in charge of civic projects, which involved relocating the gas main for road and municipality construction.
- Coordinate with local municipalities about the work being performed, and ensure a professional job site is maintained during construction.
- Educate the residents of the work to be performed before construction.
- Coordinate with contractors on utility locating.
- Review prints and permits prior to construction, along with generating redline/as-builts after construction is completed.
Supervisor/Production Manager
Inland Waters Pollution Control
Detroit, USA
08.2008 - 06.2014
- Designed and built a manufacturing facility that supplied 'Cured-in-Place' liners for trenchless sewer and water repairs to 15 crews.
- Annual production of $15-20 million.
- Managed large-diameter trenchless sewer and water repair projects in many cities across the country.
- Projects ranging from $5 million to $20 million.
- Planned work with contractors to set up a 10,000-square-foot facility for manufacturing.
- Trained employees on the safe operation of state-of-the-art equipment in chemical mixing.
- Maintained inventory and shipments of bulk chemicals for manufacturing.
- Obtained permitting, and scheduled inspections of our facility. Set up and maintained logistics for delivering our products to the field for installation.
- Set up daily safety discussions that pertain to the work being performed.
- Set up confined space training and coordinate archiving confined space reports.
- Designed and built numerous bypass pumping operations.
- Reviewed plans and specs during the design of pre-construction.
- Coordinated utility service providers according to project schedules.
- Obtained specialty permits from local jurisdictional agencies.
- Performed regular job site observations to provide direction to workers.
- Prepared and followed through on all required punch lists.
- Determined the project schedule, which included the sequence of all construction activities.
- Prepared regular-interval progress reports.
- Avoided construction delays by efficiently following through with all aspects of the job.
- Supported construction management in emergency repair and restoration of both sewer and water pipelines.
- Implemented systems to improve process efficiency and reduce the project duration.
- Scheduled all contractors and materials deliveries.
Operator
Utility Services Authority
Belleville, USA
06.2005 - 08.2008
- Operated various equipment in many different construction processes, including pipe bursting, sewer and water main repair, sewer and water main lining, trenchless technologies, including sewer cleaning, televising, remote-operated underground equipment, and large-diameter sewer repair, all while maintaining a safe work environment.
- No injuries occurred during my employment at Utility Services Authority.
Education
High School Diploma -
Pinckney High School
Pinckney, Michigan01.2005
Skills
- Confident leader
- Procedure/policy-oriented
- Not afraid to speak up to safety concerns
- High level of experience in various computer programs, including SAP, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, and Teams
- Extensive construction experience
- Extensive management experience
- Built many relationships in the business across supply chain/engineering/P&C/Permitting and Municipalities
- Storm role EOC CRM
- Team player and dedicated to take on-call and storm callouts whenever available
- Prompt with tasks
- Able to prioritize work efficiently
Timeline
LVD Supervisor
Consumers Energy
06.2025 - Current
Gas Distribution Manager
Consumers Energy
06.2022 - Current
Field Leader III
Consumers Energy
06.2018 - 06.2022
Field Leader II
Consumers Energy
06.2017 - 06.2018
Crew Lead/Upgraded Field Leader
Consumers Energy
06.2014 - 06.2017
Supervisor/Production Manager
Inland Waters Pollution Control
08.2008 - 06.2014
Operator
Utility Services Authority
06.2005 - 08.2008
High School Diploma -
Pinckney High School