Scott Michael Wellman
Knoxville,TN
Summary
Influential leader with the proven skill to effectively build a strong team culture across organizations to achieve sustainable results. Passionate about employee engagement and development to inspire quality contribution to team success.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
Work History
Component Maintenance Optimization Manager
TVA Watts Bar Nuclear Plant
05.2018 - Current
- Lead team of Managers, Engineers, and Maintenance Specialists to safely optimize plant equipment performance by using predictive/preventative technologies in parallel with facilitating maintenance reliability programs
- Manage service, repair, replacement, and testing of critical safety related equipment through Appendix B qualified sources
- Support site in multiple management outage roles to help safely and effectively complete refuel and forced outages
- Fill in for site maintenance director as needed
- Serve in a duty rotation role as maintenance director and emergency response Operations Support Center manager
Component Engineer
TVA Watts Bar Nuclear Plant
12.2014 - 05.2018
- Served as a nuclear qualified engineer in Component Maintenance Optimization (CMO) to lead equipment reliability programs for electric motors, circuit breakers, steam turbines, and generators
- Responsible for developing and maintaining quality maintenance procedures for plant equipment
- Served as WBN interim CMO department manager (in temporary D-level Engineer position)
- Actively participated in industry component user groups and other industry events
- Performed offsite vendor observations to ensure quality repair of WBN components
Maintenance Manager
TVA Kingston Power Plant
10.2012 - 12.2014
- Managed all aspects of facility and equipment maintenance of a 1520 MW, 9 unit, coal fired power plant
- Provided leadership to build consistent employee engagement and to improve safety culture to achieve solid human performance results with top quartile plant reliability
- Managed 118 management and union represented employees and all site support contractors
- Managed $20M yearly budget to within .2% of fiscal year target
- Filled in as Plant Manager
- Served as the first TVA multisite maintenance manager for Kingston and Bull Run power plants
Operations Manager
TVA Kingston Power Plant
10.2010 - 10.2012
- Managed all aspects of safe operation of a 1520 MW, 9 unit, coal fired power plant
- Managed $18M annual budget within 0.3% annually
- Coordinated all emergency response activities for Kingston Plant as Emergency Response Director
- Represented TVA in community meetings s as a part of ash spill recovery and plant start up
- Proceduralized, staffed, and successfully brought new FGD scrubbers, sludge dewatering, and dry fly ash evacuation facilities into commercial operation to meet environmental compliance requirements
- Filled in as Plant Manager
Maintenance Manager
AEP Philip Sporn Plant
08.2007 - 10.2010
- Safely managed all aspects of instrument, environmental, electrical, planning, and mechanical departments and contractor personnel at 1100 MW, 5 unit, coal fired power plant facility
- Managed maintenance department $13M budget within 0.5% of target each year
- Selected as in accelerated development leader and completed program
- Completed three-year term on the “Open Mike” employees in bi-monthly meetings with CEO Michael Morris as a selected delegate to communicate employee concerns with CEO and help cast CEO vision with employees
System Owner Senior
AEP Conesville Plant
04.2006 - 08.2007
- Lead project team to redesign and rebuild flue gas SO2 scrubbers and associated equipment that increased S02 removal efficiency from 92% to 99% at a cost of approximately $5.5M
- Worked with budgeting personnel to allocate proper funding and associated spend for FGD processes which averaged $12M/year
- Served as Clearance System Administrator at Conesville Plant by managing eSOMS software to ensure system integrity and employee compliance
Operations Team Leader (Shift Manager)
AEP Conesville Plant
10.2004 - 04.2006
- Made critical safety, environmental, operational, reliability, and personnel decisions as sole on-shift operations manager for the 2000 MW, 6 unit, power plant
- Safely and efficiently managed five exempt supervisors and associated hourly, union represented, employees on energy production rotating team
- Coordinated and managed all substation switching with transmission operations
Production Support Leader (Supervisor)
AEP Conesville Plant
04.2000 - 10.2004
- Performed all leadership duties in role of First Line Supervisor in Electrical and Instrument Maintenance
- Safely and effectively managed and developed Instrument and Electrical and Instrument Control Technicians
- Managed maintenance online and outage work schedules
Plant Engineer
AEP Conesville Plant
01.1997 - 04.2000
- Managed maintenance along with Capital and O&M projects for all plant equipment including motors, pumps, circuit breakers, transformers, & cables
- Supported plant equipment on a 24/7 emergency callout basis
- Served as project manager to mechanically rebuild and electrically upgrade three 2.5 MW diesel generators to enable successful ‘black start' capability for three generating units
Education
Masters of Business Administration (MBA) -
University of Phoenix
2007
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
Ohio University
1995
Skills
- Passionate about Health and Safety and active with associated programs and processes
- Unwavering commitment to personal and corporate ethical behavior to consistently do the right things for the right reasons
- Effective in building strong relationships across organizations
- Experienced with managing engineering, maintenance, and operational professionals
- Solid presenter and communicator to local, corporate, public and government personnel
- Exceptional technical ability to learn regulations, procedures, equipment, and processes
- Well trained and experienced in safety, finance, technical, and environmental issues
- Community focused and involved with activities to "give back"
Timeline
Component Maintenance Optimization Manager
TVA Watts Bar Nuclear Plant
05.2018 - Current
Component Engineer
TVA Watts Bar Nuclear Plant
12.2014 - 05.2018
Maintenance Manager
TVA Kingston Power Plant
10.2012 - 12.2014
Operations Manager
TVA Kingston Power Plant
10.2010 - 10.2012
Maintenance Manager
AEP Philip Sporn Plant
08.2007 - 10.2010
System Owner Senior
AEP Conesville Plant
04.2006 - 08.2007
Operations Team Leader (Shift Manager)
AEP Conesville Plant
10.2004 - 04.2006
Production Support Leader (Supervisor)
AEP Conesville Plant
04.2000 - 10.2004
Plant Engineer
AEP Conesville Plant
01.1997 - 04.2000
Masters of Business Administration (MBA) -
University of Phoenix
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
Ohio University
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