Acting as a Field/Office engineer with Psomas (previously The Covello Group), my team and I worked as consultants with Delta Diablo Sanitation District to complete this capital improvement project. The overall goal of the project was to replace the main switchgear, transformer, and all of the feeder cables to field MCCs. This project required a heavy emphasis on coordinating shutdowns. In the duration of the project, each part of the plant went through a successful bypass, shutdown, or use of a temporary generator at some point without impacting the plant’s necessary ability to process the wastewater from over 200,000 Northern California residents.

My role had an emphasis on following the plans and specifications of the job. This involved:

1. Coordinating and leading team meetings with the owners, engineers, and contractors

2. Outages planning & documentation - creating System Outage Requests

3. Reviewing Submittals and sending them to the engineer when necessary

4. Reviewing RFIs and submitting them to the appropriate party to get answers

5. Inspecting and documenting contractor work and progress

6. Providing necessary answers to field design-related questions