SHELDON SERBY
Bonnyville
Summary
Results-driven leader with positive attitude and passion for providing high-quality advice and guidance to clients. Proven ability to identify customer needs, resolve conflicts and build strong relationships. Possesses excellent problem-solving, communication and interpersonal skills.
Demonstrates strong analytical, communication, and teamwork skills, with proven ability to quickly adapt to new environments. Eager to contribute to team success and further develop professional skills. Brings positive attitude and commitment to continuous learning and growth.
Proactive and goal-oriented professional with excellent time management and problem-solving skills. Known for reliability and adaptability, with swift capacity to learn and apply new skills. Committed to leveraging these qualities to drive team success and contribute to organizational growth.
Overview
32
32
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Turnaround Advisor Level 3 / Maintenance Supervisor
NES Fircroft
01.2021 - 12.2024
- Company Overview: Subcontract to Imperial Oil (Cold Lake Operations)
- Maintenance supervision on plant and field scheduled base maintenance work activities
- Manage direct supervision plans for non routine, safety sensitive contractors
- Setup and lead daily toolbox talks
- Topics specific to work scopes
- Intervene and stop unsafe work
- Plan, coordinate and execute corrosion coupon replacement program
- Work with planner, operations, contractor to execute most safe and efficient schedule for work execution
- Coordinate and execute new to site contractor to perform pipeline corrosion robotic inspection
- Setup contractor for success with Imperials company guidelines
- Daily execution reports with Integrity team involvement
- Execute repair procedures from engineering
- With new technology, were able to scan through pipeline with insulation on to find corrosion problem areas, saving a premature pipeline failure
- Adhere to task plans, procedures, schedule and set Budgets
- Approve, Track and monitor daily costs
- Report deficiencies to planner
- Optimize daily work routines
- Always finding a new technique or tool to make work safer and more efficient
- Turnaround preplanning, and supervision of work execution on plant shutdowns
- Job scoping, develop task plans, review engineering
- Walk work scopes with vendors, amend any changes
- Determine scaffold requirements and supervise builds to accommodate work scope eliminating mods
- Inventory and review materials received to site
- Ensure correct materials before staging at worksite
- Work schedule reviews and optimize to minimize equipment downtime durations
- Supervision of piping pre inspection NDE requirements
- Ensure good piping ahead of shutdown
- Work execution supervision
- Lead safety meetings, optimize schedule, shift resources as required to eliminate crew downtime
- Work closely with plant operations, ensure work permits issued in timely matter
- Shift resources if waiting for equipment turnovers, Setup and attend daily work coordination meetings
- Perform daily Schedule updates to scheduler, documenting any unforeseen downtime
- Daily SIMOPS lookahead and reviews to optimize any conflicting work scopes
- Cost control
- Review and approve daily tickets
- Monitor costs as per Approved Budget
- Report any deficiencies, cost overruns with explanations to planner and shutdown manager
- Subcontract to Imperial Oil (Cold Lake Operations)
Subcontract
Warco Industrial and Cooling Services Ltd.
01.2019 - 12.2020
- Supply services in sales, administration, costing, and supervision associated to mechanical services in oil and gas plant maintenance
- Work with Warco sales team in acquiring new customers and maintain existing customers
- Responsible for project planning from inception to completion in role of superintendent as required
- Work with Warco administration and customers in cost reporting
- Work with shop and field personnel in safe and effective work planning and execution
- Develop and implement work procedures and best practices
- Project management on Imperial 2019 Mahkeses shutdown
- 16 heat exchangers safely executed in 30 days during outage
- Planning, ordering and receiving materials, cost reporting, onboarding 3rd party contractors, full mechanical PM including cleanings, repairs found on inspections, onsite supervision of all work execution
- Took on role of Quality Control Manager
- Responsible for understanding and complying to Warco's quality control manual
- Complete quality control packages for heat exchanger and aerial cooler repairs
- Compliance with contractor qc and reporting to ABSA
Tank and Exchanger Maintenance Planner / Supervisor
Imperial Oil Cold Lake
01.2014 - 12.2018
- Scoping and planning district plant tank and exchanger PM's
- Involvement with integrity inspections and develop repair plans as per inspection findings and known repairs
- Supervising and mentoring work crews
- Worked closely with new crew's onsite to set up for success
- Intensive involvement with new contractors onsite
- Aided to develop training program for new exchanger crew to site
- Initiate and complete ongoing continuous improvement opportunities and complete in a very timely manner to improve mechanical efficiencies and save costs
- Review of next years 52-week plans and provide budgetary estimates to foreman and superintendent for next years in advance corporate plan
- Review previous tank and exchanger inspection histories to prepare for potential repairs, time in advance to purchase new bundles or components
- Cost tracking of all tank and exchanger pm and repair work and reporting to foreman and superintendents to meet corporate plan
- Accountable for managing plant tank and exchanger maintenance budgets
- Optimize work schedules and crew sizes to minimize or eliminate overtime extra costs, providing does not impact production outage
- Attend and run morning meetings
- Bring topics to review corporate policies and procedures
- Involvement with corporate contract team for new tank and exchanger contracts
Maintenance Supervisor - Field / Plant
Imperial Oil Cold Lake
01.2011 - 12.2014
- Rainbow Lake being divested, applied for maintenance supervisor role in Cold Lake and awarded role out of 6 candidates
- Daily review and updates to maintenance schedules
- Attend contractor morning meetings
- Listen to contractors, and bring topics to share that need more guidance and understanding of corporate policies
- Training in continuous improvement and achieved Green Belt
- Continuously working with contractors for work improvements, adjustments to shifts and schedules to minimize overtime cost impacts
- LPO involvement and addressing follow ups in a prompt manner
- Interventions of unsafe work
Well Services Specialist / Optimization
Rainbow Lake Operations
01.2010 - 12.2011
- Coordinate all well servicing activities with Calgary reservoir team
- Provide and review well production
- Optimize bottom hole pumps and pumping zones to maximize oil sales
- Attend weekly operation production meetings
- Provide guidance and suggestions to operations to optimize wells
- Tap and space bottom hole pumps, shive changes
- Adhere to schedules and cost compliance
- Site preplanning spacing requirements with rig consultants
- Preparation of leases before rig and equipment gets to site
- Bottom hole pump repairs, tubing and casing repairs
- Rig less work including wire lining, gas well bottom hole choke changes, polished rod changeouts
- In charge of district plant and all field road and lease scheduling, corporate budget, schedules
- Daily time ticket review and Approval in Eses system
Plant Operator
ExxonMobil
01.2005 - 12.2010
- Plant operator at ExxonMobil battery 10 facility
- Plant operating experience and maintain daily operation of gas compression, utility boilers, dehydration, refrigeration, treaters, free water knockouts, heat exchangers, incinerator
- Review daily maintenance activities and issue work permits
- Equipment take down following procedures, isolation for maintenance
- Plant turnaround senior operator duties
- Emergency response involvement in practice exercises
- Optimizing for maximum oil and gas sales
- Continuous improvement, initiate cost saving measures and complete in timely manner
Owner/Operator - General Maintenance
Serbs Oilfield Services Ltd.
01.1999 - 12.1999
- Coordination and supervision of multiple integrity digs
- Experience in all phases of corrosion inspection and pipeline repair and replacements
- Installation of new satellite and wellhead flow line risers
- Pipefitting experience
- Extensive involvement in maintenance activities during plant shut downs
- Reclamation experience in reclaiming suspended leases
General maintenance / Steamer Operator
CJ's Steaming and Oilfield Services
01.1993 - 12.1999
- Steamer operator and general oilfield maintenance
- Foreman duties on preventative corrosion program for Anderson Exploration
- Experienced in hydro testing, removal and installation of new risers
- Took charge of ground disturbance and digging operations
- Maintenance activities in multiple plant shut downs
Education
Grade 12 -
High school diploma
Gas Process Operations -
SAIT
Skills
- Analytical thinking
- Time management
- Critical thinking
- Written communication
- Problem-solving
- Decision-making
- Client engagement
- Compliance requirements
- Active listening
- Client relationship management
- Risk assessment
- Regulatory compliance
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Interpersonal communication
- Organizational skills
- Attention to detail
- Multitasking
Certificatesoftraining
- SAIT - Gas Process Operations
- Grade 12 High school diploma
- Petroleum Safety training
- Construction Safety Training 09 (CSTS)
- Construction Safety Training 2020 CSTS
- Common Safety Orientation - Energy Safety Canada
- WHMIS 2015 (CSTS)
- Defensive driving training
- ExxonMobil Fundamentals of Safety training
- Safety Leadership Development 2 Training program
- Continuous Improvement Training - Green Belt Achieved
- H2s Alive
- Standard First Aid & CPR/AED
- Gas Testing / Gas detection
- Respirator Fit testing
Certification
- First Aid Certification
- CPR/AED Certification
Timeline
Turnaround Advisor Level 3 / Maintenance Supervisor
NES Fircroft
01.2021 - 12.2024
Subcontract
Warco Industrial and Cooling Services Ltd.
01.2019 - 12.2020
Tank and Exchanger Maintenance Planner / Supervisor
Imperial Oil Cold Lake
01.2014 - 12.2018
Maintenance Supervisor - Field / Plant
Imperial Oil Cold Lake
01.2011 - 12.2014
Well Services Specialist / Optimization
Rainbow Lake Operations
01.2010 - 12.2011
Plant Operator
ExxonMobil
01.2005 - 12.2010
Owner/Operator - General Maintenance
Serbs Oilfield Services Ltd.
01.1999 - 12.1999
General maintenance / Steamer Operator
CJ's Steaming and Oilfield Services
01.1993 - 12.1999
Gas Process Operations -
SAIT
- First Aid Certification
- CPR/AED Certification
Grade 12 -
High school diploma
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