John Close, PMP

Senior Project Manager at Ulteig Engineering
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(386) 825-5501
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Bozeman, Montana, United States, US
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Credentials

  • Project Management Professional (PMP)
    Project Management Institute
    Jan, 2016
    - Nov, 2024
  • Certified Water and Sewer Operator
    Montana DEQ

Experience

  • Ulteig
    • United States
    • Engineering Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Senior Project Manager
      • May 2015 - Present

      Project Management on natural gas transmission, renewable, and automation projects throughout Montana. Project development, budgeting, scheduling, execution, monitoring and control. Project Management on natural gas transmission, renewable, and automation projects throughout Montana. Project development, budgeting, scheduling, execution, monitoring and control.

  • Halcon Resources Corporation
    • United States
    • Oil and Gas
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Measurement and Automation Engineer
      • Aug 2014 - Mar 2015

      Project Management on the design, procurement, installation, programming, and startup of the automation and instrumentation systems on multi-well pads for an upstream oil and gas producer. Integrated well site production information with the SCADA system to provide real time production and alarm status. Provided technical support for the SCADA aspects of the well site equipment and for the third party measurement and automation providers. Executed field-based tasks on host HMI (ClearSCADA) system. Provided troubleshooting expertise on field instrumentation, remote terminal units, and SCADA communication systems. Show less

  • Utility Solutions, LLC
    • Bozeman, Montana
    • Operations Manager
      • Feb 2006 - Jul 2014

      Project Management and operational responsibility for a centralized water and sewer system built to service five subdivisions. Operations include four water booster stations, 300,000 gpd activated sludge wastewater treatment facility, 10 sewage lift stations, and three effluent disposal areas. Developed SCADA system to automate processes and provide alarming and monitoring capabilities. Allen-Bradley PLCs, Wonderware HMI software, Active Factory database software, and SCADAlarm system. Responsible for project management of the design, construction, programming, and startup for the electrical and control system on an 180,000 gpd sewage treatment facility in western North Dakota. Developed loop descriptions, database, control panel drawings, PLC programming (Allen-Bradley), HMI programming (InduSoft), remote monitoring, and instrumentation startup and calibration Show less

  • Industrial Automation Consulting
    • Three Forks, Montana
    • Project Manager/Control System Engineer
      • Dec 2001 - Feb 2006

      Project management and control system engineering on 10-15 active projects. Primary customer contact responsible for project accounting, estimating, scheduling and personnel management. PLC and HMI design, programming and startup. Telemetry design, installation and startup. EFM and RTU configuration. CSV report configuration. Projects include municipal water and wastewater SCADA applications, industrial process control and electrical substation remote monitoring. Internal responsibilities include personnel management and goal setting, project methodology and development. Show less

  • Luzenac America
    • Three Forks, Montana
    • Mill Manager
      • Nov 1990 - Sep 2001

      Responsible for all aspects of facility management in the organization’s flagship milling facility. Areas of responsibility include safety, quality, production, maintenance, engineering, customer service, accounting, budgeting, personnel management, union negotiations and dispute resolution, and capital expenditures. Notable accomplishments include facility achieving seven years with no lost time accidents and becoming the first talc mill in North America to achieve ISO9002 registration. Decreased workers’ compensation costs from over $50K per year to less that $1K. Facility achieved ISO 14000 registration. Increased production by 50% and productivity by 33% between 1992 and 2000. Project management responsibilities on $17MM expansion that included the installation of a roller mill, air classified mill, pelletizing mill, warehousing, large-scale automated packaging, robotic packaging, product chemical coating system, and conversion of hard-wired relay and control system to PLC and HMI-based control system. Show less

Education

  • Montana State University-Bozeman
    Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Construction Engineering Technology

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