Charles
Project Controls & Scheduling
– B.S., Chemical Engineering,
University of Washington
– Joined in 2002 |
Why I joined:
I like the challenge. I like understanding processes and how pieces come together to form a greater whole. Being at Washington Division provides a cutting edge opportunity to be involved with industries as varied as the mind can imagine.
Why I've stayed:
You have a chance to play a concrete role in solving some very specific problems on the job here, but you also have a unique and unparalleled opportunity to get involved with a corporation that reaches all sorts of countries.
What I do:
I started at the nuclear Waste Treatment Plant in Richland, Washington. It's a $13 billion project to design and build a plant that, basically, stores nuclear waste in glass. I led a $240,000 project that involved building a model for chemical waste behavior and was a key element in a one-of-a-kind training simulator.
After that, I joined the Professional Rotational Experience Program (PREP). The program involved a year and a half of rotations in Aiken, Denver, and Princeton, working across a variety of disciplines where I received project management training. I used the skills I learned to support proposal efforts for our Energy and Environment unit. I had the unique experience of leading teams in developing ROM cost and schedule baselines for over $12 billion of potential work.
Currently, I am the project controls and scheduling lead for our corporate office in Richland, Washington. |
