Name : Steve Palek
Industry Type : Building Products - Equipment
City & State : Woodstock, IL
Job Title Mechanical Superintendent
Relocation Preferences : ?????
Objective : Construction Management / Energy / Equipment Installation /Mechanical Superintendent
Resume :  
MECHANICAL CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISOR
Project Management / Quality Assurance / Global Fabrication / OSHA / Equipment Installation
Cost Controls / Manufacturing Operations / Union and Non-Union / Construction Management / EH&S / Multi-Sites
Utilizing my broad-based experience in field operations, I have led diverse groups to reach demanding cost control, quality and scheduling goals. My mechanical expertise ensures components are fabricated and assembled in accordance with quality requirements to support customer needs and expectations.
Optimizing service and assembly operations
Delivering the highest quality product to ensure customer satisfaction
Managing multiple, concurrent, large-scale complex assembly projects
Analyzing complex installation challenges and developing innovative solutions
Ensuring quality assurance and job-site safety
As a detail-oriented, effective communicator and problem solver, I blend leadership skills with mechanical knowledge to meet demanding customer and company objectives. My credentials include Mig, Arc, Mild Steel and Stainless Steel welding certifications and I have taken numerous leadership and safety courses also have a TWIC Card to access secure areas.
SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Delivered key components for major international client. Challenged to finish assembling Eisenmanns 46 air make-up units and deliver to Mercedes Benz plant in Canada. Set up off-site assembly facility to accommodate equipment and production. Hired/trained workforce, assembling, testing, and shipping units ahead of schedule.
Directed all aspects of industrial project. Contracted to install new boiler system for PMEs chemical plant client. Analyzed blueprints and P+ID (piping blueprints), determining demolition, construction and fabrication strategies. Directed all civil, steel and piping construction, ensuring all quality, environmental and state inspections were met.
Resolved environmental project issue. Eisenmanns client provided incorrect byproduct data, damaging RTO unit. As technical consultant, collaborated with local contractor to develop disassembly and safety procedures. Implemented changes with minimal disruption to production, increasing customer satisfaction.
Optimized manufacturing operations by installing key industrial element. Selected by Eisenmann to install multiple 160 Roller Hearth kilns to clients new manufacturing facility. Developed and implemented fabrication and assembly processes, testing kilns to ensure precision and quality issues were met.
CAREER HISTORY
Mechanical Superintendent, PME, 2008 to 2009. Contracted to direct the installation of chemical plants industrial boiler system for this $1B engineering contractor. Oversaw the demolition, civil, structural and mechanical construction, shipping, receiving, QA, and ensured OSHA and EH&S regulations were met. Managed crew of 50+.
Lead Project Coordinator, Prairie State Industries, 2007 to 2008. Contracted to lead the fabrication, welding and installation of RTO (Rotary Thermal Oxidizer) unit for this $1.7M steel fabricator and casings organization.
Eisenmann Corporation. Promoted to levels of increasing responsibility for this $500M+ global supplier of ceramic technology, surface finishing systems, environmental technology and material flow automation equipment firm.
Assembly and Fabrication Supervisor, 1997 to 2007. Promoted to oversee the fabrication and assembly for projects on-site and off-site to ensure completion of multiple industrial projects. Reviewed engineering blueprints for appropriate part inventory. Led union/non-union crews of up to 25 and projects up to $100M.
Foreman, 1995 to 1997. Promoted to coordinate, fabricate, weld and assemble multiple industrial component assemblies. Oversaw in-house projects, controlled part inventory and collaborated with engineering on production design issues and resolutions. Managed team of ten.
Earlier: Welder/Fabricator/Assembly, Eisenmann Corporation. Assistant Manager/Frame Technician, Carey Auto Body. Welder/Fabricator, Kapus Fabricating.





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