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Hugh Hamill

Edmonton,AB

Summary

Experienced Maintenance Millwright proficient in performing well under pressure and tight deadlines. Adept at identifying causes of mechanical problems and repairing machinery or replacing defective parts.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Maintenance millwright

Sherritt International
Fort Saskatchewan, AB
04.2017 - Current
  • Responsible for regular maintenance on pumps, blower, fans, dryers, steam turbines, compressors, conveyors, bucket elevators, thickeners, drum filters and autoclaves
  • Duties included preventative and predictive maintenance schedules utilizing oil sampling analysis and vibration analysis, mechanical seal installations, rotating equipment overhauls
  • Millwright, McSween Custom Fabricating, Welding, Erecting Ltd.

Journeyman Millwright Contractor

McSween Custom Fabricating, Welding, Erecting Ltd.
Fort Saskatchewan/Red Water, AB
07.2014 - 04.2017
  • For general plant maintenance including shutdowns and overhauls.
  • Quickly learned new skills and applied them to daily tasks, improving efficiency and productivity.
  • Worked flexible hours; night, weekend, and holiday shifts.

Maintenance millwright

Select Ready Foods
Edmonton, AB
07.2016 - 10.2016
  • Responsible for general plant maintenance as well as troubleshooting hydraulic, electrical and mechanical issues with food processing equipment as well as conveyors including hydraulic motors and pumps as well as electrical motors
  • Maintenance duties also include machining parts for high priority repair of production machinery.
  • Inspected and examined all machinery and equipment to detect malfunctions or irregularities.

Maintenance millwright

Bri-Steel Manufacturing
Edmonton, AB
02.2014 - 07.2014
  • Responsible for regular maintenance on roller conveyors, hydraulic/pneumatic systems, gearboxes, reducers, seals, plant air compressors, and pipe bevellers
  • Continued gaining useful experience troubleshooting hydraulic systems and supervising apprentice millwrights
  • Used MIG and SMAW welding and oxy-acetylene torch cutting to fabricate and repair items in the plant
  • Gained useful experience fabricating and repairing parts to improve existing installed equipment

Millwright/Foreman

Louvretech Services Ltd
Edmonton, AB
01.2013 - 02.2014
  • Traveled around Alberta and Northern British Columbia contracting for companies including CNRL, Suncor, Conoco Phillips, Veresen, Tourmaline, Spectra, Devon, Sinopec Daylight Energy, and TAQA maintaining the efficiency of fans, natural gas compressors and process exchangers
  • Specialized in the onsite repair, replacement and modification of louver sections as well as fin tube inspection and cleaning with air and dry ice
  • Also maintained fans by inspecting and replacing belt sheaves and belts, bearings and fan blades
  • Gained useful experience supervising apprentice millwrights, trouble-shooting problems on the job site, coordinating with customers by phone, email and in person, and building and maintaining good relationships with customers.

Maintenance millwright

Portola Packaging Inc
Edmonton, AB
01.2012 - 01.2013
  • Responsible for regular maintenance on Uniloy blow-molding systems, overhead cable conveyors, table top conveyors and roller chain conveyors, gearboxes, seals, vacuum pumps, lobe blowers, industrial high-density polyethylene grinders, compressors, chillers and overhead roof fans
  • Gained more experience maintaining and troubleshooting hydraulic/pneumatic systems, as well as trouble-shooting PLC (programmable logic controllers) and electrical systems with a Journeyman electrician.

Maintenance millwright

CHEP Canada
Edmonton, AB
01.2011 - 12.2011
  • Gained extensive experience with CMMS (Computerized maintenance management systems) using preventative maintenance work orders
  • Responsible for regular maintenance on roller chain conveyor systems including but not limited to replacing chain, sprockets and bearings when required
  • Worked closely with electrical contractors to troubleshoot electrical problems involving solenoids, circuit breakers, thermal overload relays, photo-eye sensors and PLC (programmable logic controllers)
  • Gained experience maintaining hydraulic/pneumatic stacking and de-stacking units, checking and replacing fluids and filters.

Maintenance millwright

Domino Machines
Edmonton, AB
10.2010 - 01.2011
  • Responsible for regular maintenance on CNC turning and milling machines, checking and replacing fluids, filters and seals, checking, cleaning and replacing coolant levels
  • Installed stationary industrial machinery and mechanical equipment according to layout plans.
  • Repaired damaged electrical and mechanical components, including servos, solenoids, gears, conveyors, and pumps.

Millwright apprentice

Team Industrial Services
Fort Saskatchewan, AB
12.2009 - 10.2010
  • Responsible for tensioning, torquing and de-torquing pipe flanges with rating classes from 150 - 900 using hydraulic and pneumatic tensioning rams and torque wrenches
  • Gained experience fielding machining, including flange facing and cold-cutting operations
  • Worked with pipefitters and other millwrights to achieve pipe strain tolerance installing pumps.

Millwright apprentice

National Oilwell Varco
Edmonton, AB
07.2008 - 10.2009
  • Responsible for building, testing, and trouble-shooting hydraulic systems using stainless steel tubing and fittings
  • Vast experience using all sizes of imperial and metric tubing and fittings, and reading hydraulic systems schematics
  • Assisted Journeymen millwrights in doing alignments, installing electric motors and pumps, and installing and testing hydraulic brake calipers.

Education

High School Diploma -

W.P Wagner High School
Edmonton, AB
06.2008

Journeyman Millwright Certificate - Trades

NAIT
Edmonton, AB
04.2014

Category 1 Vibration Analyst, Emerson AMS Training and Certification - Vibration Analysis

Emerson AMS Training And Certification
Knoxville, TN

Skills

  • Able to work as a team member, leader or independently
  • Capable of installing, trouble-shooting, and repairing hydraulic, pneumatic, mechanical and electrical systems
  • Gas-metal arc welding (MIG), tungsten inert gas welding (TIG), shielded-metal arc welding (SMAW), oxyacetylene torch-cutting experience
  • Experience using machine shop equipment
  • Experience using CMMS with preventative/predictive work order systems
  • Able to interpret and draw blueprints
  • Reading comprehension
  • Vast experience installing and testing new stainless steel tubing systems
  • Extensive experience with vibration analysis
  • Exceptional ability to adapt to new concepts and technology
  • Safe work procedure development
  • Precision alignment

Timeline

Maintenance millwright

Sherritt International
04.2017 - Current

Maintenance millwright

Select Ready Foods
07.2016 - 10.2016

Journeyman Millwright Contractor

McSween Custom Fabricating, Welding, Erecting Ltd.
07.2014 - 04.2017

Maintenance millwright

Bri-Steel Manufacturing
02.2014 - 07.2014

Millwright/Foreman

Louvretech Services Ltd
01.2013 - 02.2014

Maintenance millwright

Portola Packaging Inc
01.2012 - 01.2013

Maintenance millwright

CHEP Canada
01.2011 - 12.2011

Maintenance millwright

Domino Machines
10.2010 - 01.2011

Millwright apprentice

Team Industrial Services
12.2009 - 10.2010

Millwright apprentice

National Oilwell Varco
07.2008 - 10.2009

High School Diploma -

W.P Wagner High School

Journeyman Millwright Certificate - Trades

NAIT

Category 1 Vibration Analyst, Emerson AMS Training and Certification - Vibration Analysis

Emerson AMS Training And Certification
Hugh Hamill