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A.R. (Sandy) Donald.
Project Manager,
Major Projects.
BNGSA Restart Project
Bruce Power
Bruce Nuclear Power Development.
STATUS:
Married 26 years, two children ages 20 and 16. Dual citizenship held: Canadian
and British. Worked for Ontario Hydro Nuclear, and then Ontario Power Generation since
1982. Now employed by Bruce Power
EDUCATION:
Grade 13. Advanced Degree in Marine Engineering. 2nd Class Marine Engineers License, with
a 1st Class dispensation.
COMPUTER ABILITIES:
Taught the "Introduction to Microcomputers" for Georgian College. Responsible
for the standards of 20 students. Proficient in the following programs: WMS, MS Office
(Excel, Access, Word and Power Point), DBASE IV, Lotus 123, Autosketch, Harvard Graphics,
HTML, and Flowcharting 4. Was part of the gap analysis team for Indus Passport. Chaired the Internet Steering
Committee for the Town of Kincardine and area. Took and passed the Primavera 3 V2.0 and
the Winproject course.
OTHER RELEVANT DETAILS:
Green radiation qualified at all locations on site. Supervisor of the Off Site Monitoring
and Decontamination Unit, also Supervisor of the Emergency Worker Centre. Certified Member
of the Joint Health and Safety Committee. Confined Space Coordinator trained. Practical
Loss Control Leadership program qualified. Municipal Spokesperson for Emergency
Preparedness for the Municpality of Kincardine. Deputy
Mayor of the Municipality of
Kincardine. Chair of the Emergency Services Committee. Have given presentations on various
subjects including Passport and Work Management, to groups of up to 45 people, including
the Director levels.
REFERENCES:
References from inside and outside the company are available upon
request.
WORK HISTORY:
1st April 2001 to now
Project Manager, Major Projects, BNGSA Restart Project.
Head of the Contract Administration Section, BNGSA Restart Project. Reporting directly to the
Head of Projects, BNGSA Restart.
Responsible for the coordination of all restart major project work. Responsible
for the Contract Administration department. Supplying the interface
between the Contractors and the station's Operations and Maintenance departments. Mandate
is to "make it happen", resolve problems and keep project safely on track.
Accountable for negotations regarding contracts to the station and supporting
documentation and correspondence control. The section has within it, the Contract Administrator, Contract Coordinators,
Project Coordinators and clerical assistance.
1st August 2000 to 1st April 2001
SECTION MANAGER, FUEL CHANNELS and BOILERS. BNGSA Condition Assessment Team.
Responsible for the inspection of all facets of the Unit 3 and 4 Reactor Fuel
Channels and Steam Generators. Reporting directly to the Restart Manager, O.P.G and the
Restart Manager, Bruce Power. The duties include, but are not limited to:-
Liason with A.E.C.L., O.P.G (external to site) and other contractors to coordinate and
control the successful inspection campiagn of the B3 & B4 Reactor Fuel Channelsand
Steam Generators. To ensure the project is kept safely on time, within budget and to also
ensure that the inspections meet the applicable CSA standards. The mission of the project
is to provide a safety and economic case for the restart of the BNGSA Units 3 and 4,
around December 2002. The condition assessment phase, is to be completed mid February
2001.This was completed on time and on budget.
25th August 1997 to 1st August 2000.
WORK WEEK LEADER BN5-8 Work Control.
Responsible for the execution of all work in the Station a week at a time. Reporting
directly to the S.P.O.C.(Production Superintendent). The duties included, but were not
limited to:-
Planning and coordination of inter group and interdepartmental work to ensure the work is
completed in a safe and timely manner, meeting the station needs. Chairing the daily
status meeting, resolving conflicts and giving salient direction to ensure corrective
action is taken to meet the schedule. Attend the management leadership meeting with the
senior managers, to give status, provide input and discuss strategy to be taken to keep
station production on track. Hold workgroups accountable for production and adherence to
the schedule. Produce a gap report for Senior Management and recommend action to be taken
to ensure problems do not occur again.To be able to realize root cause issues, horizon
problems and deal with them effectively.
1st September 1996 to 24th August 1997.
SENIOR PLANNING TECH. FUEL HANDLING.
Responsible for the strategic and long range planning for Fuel Handling at BN1-4. Planned
and chaired the meetings for the power pulse project and fuel reorder. Reporting directly
to the Operations Coordinator F/H BN1-4.
1st April 1994 to 1st September 1996.
TRADES SUPERVISOR.
Transferred into HWSSD August 1995. Was in charge of organizing the documentation,
procedures and policies, to update them and bring them into line with current practice,
allowing us to be ready for Indus Passport. The database, conceived and developed, is now
in use by the division as the standard. Coordinated the removal and sampling of used IX
Resins from the Waste Volume Reduction Facility, which contained all the major hazards,
conventional, radiological and biological (this had never been done in the world before).
Liased with the various research facilities in Kipling and Chalk River. Work was completed
safely, on time, under dose and without incident. Worked on every system within the Waste
Management facilities on the Bruce site including the incinerator, filtration systems and
storage and transportation modules.
Whilst at BN5-8, I was in charge of 6 to 12 trades people; responsible for their safety
and productivity. Regularly stepped up to Level 1 supervisor during the preceding 18
months, responsible to the Outage Director, as Boiler Coordinator for BN5-8 for Outages.
Responsible for the Boiler project and bringing it in on time. The Boiler work and
inspection part of the Outage, having 10 Trades Supervisors under me and each shift having
5 Mechanics under them. Achieved savings of $1.2 million, by bringing in the Unit 5 Boiler
outage 2 days ahead of schedule, with 150% of the anticipated workload.
Gave presentation to the OHN Outage Management Conference on Boiler Work Coordination and
Integration. Redrew the Boiler opening and closing maintenance procedure. Regularly
provided training and instruction to the MM family (including SMS’s), for all facets
of Boiler work, including emergency closure and rescue procedures. Worked closely with
many different departments from both on, and off-site, including research and specialized
inspection departments, to coordinate all of the maintenance activities involved in
the Boiler work program. Established BN5-8’s first foreign material exclusion policy
to follow INPO’s guidelines.
17th August 1989 to 1st April 1994.
PLANNING TECHNICIAN (OUTAGES).
Planning outages and projects for the Production Support Department. Attached to BN5-8 for
4 years. Conceived, created and developed specific computer programs and procedures,
allowing more efficient use of manpower throughout the outages. Increasing productivity,
increasing safety and decreasing outage downtime. Regularly planning for 50 MMs and 20 CMs
simultaneously. Responsible to the Maintenance Supervisor Outages. Developed a manpower
and resource leveling program. Regularly relieving as Senior Planning Tech. as required.
25th February 1982 to 17th August 1989.
MECHANICAL MAINTAINER.
Worked in all the Nuclear Stations on site, as well as the Bruce Bulk Steam System, and
responded to various shutdowns at the Bruce Heavy Water Plant as well as Pickering Nuclear
Generation Station on occasions, for their shutdowns. Maintaining equipment such as:
Pumps, Valves, Compressors, Gas Turbines, Hydraulic Systems, Steam and Condensate Piping
Systems. Stepped up to Level 2 Supervisor on many occasions during manpower shortages.
Worked on most if not all of the Nuclear systems within the stations, doing 2 West Shift
Projects and various tube removals and tube scrapes at BN1-4. Regularly stepped up during
these periods to Level 2 Union Trades Supervisor, at the time was responsible for 10 men.
Devised and set up the Metrology Lab at the Central Maintenance Facility to meet Z299
standards. Wrote and developed procedures for the Metrology Lab. Worked for a long period
as a DR assessor. At the inception of Bruce Information Management System and the Work
Management System, became a work group expert, being an instructor and resource person for
the Mechanical Maintenance and Control Maintenance families.
2nd February 1981 to 2nd November 1981.
SECOND ENGINEER.
Working for Upper Lakes Shipping. In charge of the day to day running of the engine room.
Responsible for the productivity, safety and discipline of 3 engineers, approximately 10
crew members and 1 or 2 apprentices. reporting directly to the Chief Engineer for all
maintenance and operating parameters, both mechanical and electrical. Involved in the
planning and budgeting of major drydockings and maintenance overhauls.
July 1980 to November 1980.
PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE ENGINEER.
Working for Denholm Ship Management Ltd. Asked by the company to develop and implement a
preventative maintenance program for their fleet of supertankers, ranging in size from
120,000 tonnes to 320,000 tonnes and being powered by Steam Turbines and large Diesel
Engines. Reporting to the Maintenance Superintendent, gave direction to 3 engineers and 6
clerks. Project was brought in under time and under budget. At this time I was asked to
join Upper Lakes Shipping by the Chief Engineer of Upper Lakes Shipping of Port Weller
Dry-Docks in St. Catherine’s.
September 1977 to July 1980.
MARINE ENGINEER.
Working for Denholm Ship Management Ltd. Worked my way up through the ranks. Hands on
experience in Diesels, Gas turbines, Steam turbines, compressors, purifiers, generators,
valves, refrigeration, large hydraulic and electrical systems.
August 1973 to September 1977.
POST SECONDARY EDUCATION.
Glasgow College of Nautical Studies. Degree and advanced degree attained after four years.
all subjects taken were passed. subjects were: Applied Mechanics, Electrotechnology, Naval
Architecture, Marine Heat Engines, Power Plant Control Systems, Instrumentation and
Mathematics. Also studied and passed: Practical Fault diagnosis and troubleshooting,
Computer logic theory, Electronic maintenance practices, Job planning, Human Resource
management and the Critical path planning method.
References can be made available to you by fax, if required.
If I can be of any further assistance, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Thanks very much,
Sandy Donald.
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