WILLIAM S. NETTLETON, JR. (Bill)
Experience Summary
Thirty-three years in construction management positions with PMSI, Georgia Power Company, and Southern Company Services. Experienced in project management, construction management, problem solving, estimating, and scheduling for small and large projects.
Related Experience
Managed diverse workgroups to focus on a common goal of producing a safe, high quality, on schedule, and on budget projects. Working with other project entities such as plant operations, engineering, procurement and environmental to provide delivery of timely design and information to support completion of the project. Ensuring that the projects are in compliance with all applicable codes, OSHA, and water/air pollution requirements.
Interfacing with craft, contractors, vendors, design engineers, and plant personnel to resolve problems, plan activities, develop alternate solutions, prevent scheduling conflicts, safety improvements, preparing and reviewing bid documents, scheduling activities, expediting/coordinating material deliveries, and payment of invoices.
Estimating and scheduling plant construction work. This consisted of providing conceptual or detailed bids/estimates and schedules on a wide range of projects from boiler modifications, earth work, painting, structural steel, piping, and new generating plants.
MAJOR projects
PMSI:
AEP/Public Service of Oklahoma Northeaster Unit 3 - Provided project controls and technical expertise to facilitate the installation of waterwall panels, superheater crown seal replacement, and general boiler tube replacement/repairs.
Southern Company:
Scherer PRB Coal Conversion Project (880 MW Coal Units) – Managed construction team to convert Units 1 and 2 to burn Powder River Basin (PRB) coal. The project consisted of the following: Demolition of all ductwork between the boiler and precipitator inlet and outlets and reroute and reinstall new ductwork in order to convert the precipitator from hot side to cold side. Completed a partial rebuild of all 4 precipitator boxes on each unit. Replaced the couton bottom tube panels of each boiler. Installed a five track railroad yard approximately 1.8 miles long to facilitate additional trains to unload PRB coal. The project was completed on time and within budget. Project recordable safety incident rate was below 1.6.
Branch Cooling Tower Project – Managed project team to install 32 cell fiberglass mechanical draft cooling tower, intake structure, discharge structure, weir wall and associated piping and electrical work in order to cool half of the water being discharged into Lake Sinclair. This project was completed on time and on budget.
Dahlberg Combustion Turbine Project (10 - 7EA 80 MW Units) – Managed project team to install ten combustion turbines. The first eight units were designed and installed as a turnkey project with General Electric. Units 1-8 were completed on schedule and under budget. Units 9 and 10 were designed and constructed in house and were also completed on time and under budget.
Bowen Unit 2 Hot Reheat Piping Replacement – Managed project team to prepare specifications and bid documents for the material and installation. Supervised the installation of the heavy wall hot reheat piping replacement over two outages, which were completed on time and on budget.
McIntosh Combustion Turbine Project (8 - GT11N1 80 MW Units) - Responsible for construction management of all mechanical activities including combustion turbine erection, piping, painting, erection of 9.5 million gallon oil tank, conversion of a 9.5 million gallon #6 fuel oil tank to a demineralized water tank, and the water treatment plant. Provided field interface between contractors, vendors, and the design engineer. Coordinated field Q.C. for mechanical activities. Updated and maintained project construction schedule on Primavera. Wrote scope documents for mechanical contractor bid packages and evaluated mechanical bid proposals.
Yates Chiyoda CT - 121 Scrubber Project (DOE Clean Coal Project) – Construction Manager for the last year of project which included Georgia Power Company craft and contractors (110 peak manpower). As the site construction engineer provided field civil and mechanical engineering support; developed and tracked 250 activity schedule and $11,000,000 construction budget; coordinated construction start-up activities.
Scherer Construction (4-880 MW Coal Units) - Supervised mechanical construction engineering staff with responsibility for field support and construction management of all mechanical contractors. Scheduled piping systems, coordinated mechanical activity schedules, created mini-schedules for problem areas, and developed conceptual schedules for co-generation projects. Responsible for management of the piping contract, review of inquiries, and evaluations of furnish and erect contracts. Resolved piping, hanger, and equipment field problems with vendors, contractors, and the design engineer.
Plant Hatch Construction (2 - 810 MW BWR Nuclear Units) - Coordinated hanger and anchor bolt inspection/repair programs mandated by the NRC. Coordinated pre-startup hanger surveillance for Unit 2. Established valve inventory system for construction. Resolved piping and hanger problems with vendors, contractors, and the design engineer.
Certifications
Engineer in Training 1976
AWS Certified Welding Inspector (1978-1987)