William Powell
Clanton,Alabama
Summary
25 years of increasing responsibility in Gas Turbine Operations, Steam Turbine Operations, troubleshooting, LOTO, and outage coordination.
Familiar with several different types of power generation. Worked within shipboard power generation using gas turbines and diesel engines, cogeneration, coal fired generation, and combined cycle generation. Knowledgeable about various types of pumps, valves, compressors, coolers, prime movers, and systems operations.
File management for programs including air and water environmental, process safety management/risk management plan, Integrated contingency plan, leading safety indicators, and various procedures
Overview
34
34
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Control Room Operator
Tenaska
01.2008 - Current
- Duties include shift scheduling for all operators, supervising daily activities of operations including meeting hourly generation/VAR support along with proper communication with the energy customer and the balancing authority for an 859 megawatt power plant
- Ensure logs are properly filled out daily
- Site administrator for MSI data logging application as well as GPI training
- Assist the laboratory tech in monitoring day-to-day boiler and cooling tower chemistry
- Develop, write and implement operating and safety procedures, update existing procedures and drawings
- Implement and track the Leading Safety Indicators program
- Schedule and track monthly, quarterly, annual planned inspections and maintenance for operations
- Coordinate with maintenance for normal and outage maintenance activities
- Generate job packages and associated lock out/tag out/confined space/hot work permits
- Assist the operations manager with monthly, quarterly, and annual environmental reports
- Assist with the implementation and administration of Integrated Contingency Plans and PSM/RPM program for onsite chemicals
- Troubleshooting plant conditions and upset to prioritize work and increase plant reliability
- Experience with Microsoft office applications, PI process book, EAM, and Autocad
- Lead, train and supervise plant operations personnel while communicating clearly and effectively with plant personnel, management, customers, and supervisory authorities
Control Room Operator
Tenaska
01.2001 - 01.2008
- Responsible for the day-to-day operation of an 859 megawatt combined cycle facility comprised of 3 7FA G.E Gas turbines, their associated triple pressure Deltak boilers, a GE D11 steam turbine and all support equipment
- Duties included plant and unit starts, meeting hourly dispatch and VAR support, safely operating 2000 PSI/1050F steam systems, 4160V support equipment, chemical systems, water purification systems, and 500KV switching systems
- Responsible for all lock out/tag out activities that took place during a shift ensuring the safety of any employees associated with that activity
- Direct plant operators in day-to-day activities
Field Service Technician
Innovative Combustion Technologies
01.1999 - 01.2001
- Field service technician duties included testing and tuning of coal fired boilers front to back ends
- Tests conducted on forced and induced draft fans, coal fineness and airflow balances, secondary or tertiary air flow balances, furnace gas and temperature traverses, air heater and precipitator testing
- Pulverizer setup, and customer support including designing and installing airflow measurement devices as well as generation of complete service reports
Plant Operator/Maintenance Tech
Santa Maria Cogen
01.1997 - 01.1999
- Responsible for day-to-day operation and maintenance of a Solar MARS gas turbine, the associated HRSG, a large anhydrous/aqueous ammonia refrigeration system and associated production equipment
Gas Turbine Mechanic
U.S. Navy
01.1991 - 01.1997
- Responsible for the day-to-day operation and maintenance of the shipboard propulsion and power generation systems including GE LM2500 and Allison 501K-17 gas turbines along with all support systems, waste heat boiler operations, high pressure and low pressure compressed air systems
- Fuels/oil/water lab supervisor responsible for the fuels and oils quality programs, inventory, refueling/transfer of fuel oil, and day to day boiler chemistry operations
Education
High School -
Good Hope High School
Cullman, AlCommunity College -
Wallace State Community College
Cullman, AlSkills
- Power generation
- Gas turbines
- Cogeneration
- Coal fired generation
- Combined cycle generation
- Pumps
- Valves
- Compressors
- Coolers
- Systems operations
- File management
- Environmental programs
- PSM/RMP
- Integrated contingency plan
- Leading safety indicators
- PI process book
- CMMS/EAM
- Autocad
- Communication
- Leadership
- Training
- Supervision
- Alarm management
- LOTO
Timeline
Lead Control Room Operator
Tenaska
01.2008 - Current
Control Room Operator
Tenaska
01.2001 - 01.2008
Field Service Technician
Innovative Combustion Technologies
01.1999 - 01.2001
Plant Operator/Maintenance Tech
Santa Maria Cogen
01.1997 - 01.1999
Gas Turbine Mechanic
U.S. Navy
01.1991 - 01.1997
High School -
Good Hope High School
Community College -
Wallace State Community College
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