Name : geneblair2000
Industry Type : Design Build Firms
City & State : dayton, oh
Job Title construction manager
Relocation Preferences : midwest southeast
Objective :
Resume :  
Name:GENE D. BLAIR

Title:Project Manager / Construction Site Manager

Education:Eastern Kentucky University (Richmond, KY)
University of Louisville (Louisville, KY)

Training:Fluor-Daniel Design Management Training (Jackson, TN)
OSHA 30-Hour Construction Safety Course (Latham, NY)
American Safety & Health Institute Blood borne Pathogens Training (Columbus, OH)
American Safety & Health Institute Basic First Aid (Adult) (Columbus, OH)
American Heart Association CPR Certified (Columbus, OH)
Microsoft Excel Advanced Utilization Training (Columbus, OH)
Jack Miller Design/Build Seminar (Atlanta, GA)
Plant Sanitation & QA Practices U.S.D.A. (Wellston, OH)


Mr. Blair is a results-oriented professional with over twenty years of experience in the design, construction, and manufacturing fields. Excellent communication skills. Team builder, mentor and coach who enjoys the challenge of leading a team of creative people through the process of problem solving and continuous improvement. Additional skills include:

Interpretation and review of detailed construction documents including specifications, detailed estimates, requests for quotations, scopes of work, and scheduling
Pre-qualifying and evaluating contractors, sub-contractors, and suppliers
Supervising contractors during the construction installation phase and the start-up and commissioning of systems.
Purchasing and procuring equipment and services
Preparation of project reporting to status safety, cost, schedule and quality
Interface with plant QA/QC and Production personnel to meet throughput and sanitation requirements.

Representative project assignments and activities include:

ConAgra Foods, Oakdale, CA Site Manager overseeing the installation of process equipment and systems to improve the quality of fruit delivery systems to the canning process.
Kelloggs Foods, Chicago, IL - Construction Administration for several small projects during a plant turn around. Managed the placement of roof top air conditioning equipment, the replacement of a candy kitchen flooring system and floor drainage. Managed the modification of several pieces of process equipment.
ConAgra Foods, Indianapolis, IN Site manager for a process start up effort. Managed outside contractors doing GMP and equipment improvements while we ramped up to a final successful delivery rate for the product.
Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis, IN Construction Site Manager for multiple projects including a new packaging process line facility consisting of over 10,000 S.F. of GMP production space and a mezzanine office space of equal size.
Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis, IN Construction Site Manager for the renovation of existing space to house new dispensing, sampling and warehousing facilities. The construction included elevated equipment platforms for HVAC and process support equipment.
Alkermes Inc, Wilmington, OH - Managed the construction of a 10,000 S.F. warehouse facility and the renovation of existing spaces to add several dispensing suites, sampling rooms and GMP storage facilities. Added 2-8 Deg. C. Stability rooms, -20 Deg. C. holding freezer for raw drug product, and a humidity control room for holding sensitive dry drug components. Installed laminar flow hoods, enclosed fume hoods, HEPA filtration systems for HVAC air delivery.
Alkermes Inc, Wilmington, OH - Managed the renovation and upgrade of a clinical manufacturing area to formulate and dispense a new drug. Installed new WFI, pure steam, CIP systems, Nitrogen, plant air piping, new HVAC and local ventilation for the formulation suite.

Alkermes Inc, Wilmington, OH - Construction Management, including modifications to existing facilities to add new formulation areas, dispensing suites, screen cleaning facilities, stability rooms, document storage systems, and warehouse facilities.
General Mills, Wellston, OH Assistant Site Manager - Managed construction of production enhancements for the Flex II Production Upgrade. Improvement of GMP and Sanitation systems and practices.
Sempra Energy Solutions, Cleveland, OH Site Manager - Provided construction management for, for the construction of a 3,600-ton central chilled water plant to air condition an existing health care facility.

Procter & Gamble in Jackson, TN - Served as contracts and construction manager on a multi-million dollar food processing plant. Plant sanitation and delivery systems for dry raw materials.

Henkel KGa Construction Site Manager - Managed plant expansion, which included procurement of all major capital equipment, materials, components and contractor services.

General Mills, Wellston, OH. - Construction Management for a process modification and facility enhancement for a pizza manufacturing plant. The total project was performed in less than five months.

Veterans Administration Hospital, Cleveland, OH - Construction and project management for a 3600 ton chiller facility for a large. Supervised energy reduction modifications on the existing plant.

General Motors, Dayton, OH - Construction management for, security office addition and 4600 ton HVAC system.

DELPHI Harrison Thermal Systems, Moraine, OH - Performed LEAN Transformation implementation.

Toyota Tsusho America, Georgetown, KY Construction Site Manager - Performed as contracts and construction manager for tier one suppliers.

Procter & Gamble, Jackson, TN - Contracts and construction manager

General Motors/Delphi Interiors and Lighting Systems, Dayton, OH - Project management

Henkel KGa, Hoboken, NJ, Kankakee, IL, and Cincinnati, OH - Construction management

American Synthetic Rubber, Louisville, KY - Contract facilities engineer






Employment History:

Jacobs Field Services North America2006 - Present

Construction Solutions
Independent Contractor 1988 - 2006

Climate Control Of E-Town (Elizabethtown, KY)
Senior Project Manager1985 1988

Mason & Hanger, Silas Mason Co. (Lexington, KY) Senior Mechanical Designer/Estimator1978 1985

Carter-Foster, Inc.(Frankfort, KY)
Senior Mechanical Designer 1976 - 1978

Central Associated Engineers (Versailles, KY) Lead Mechanical Designer1974 - 1976

James E. Smith & Sons, Inc. (Louisville, KY)
Project Estimator/Coordinator1972 1974







Personal contact information:

Gene D. Blair
3820 Conn Rd.
Nashport, OH 43830
740-588-1942 Home
513-284-4460 Cell
740-221-5835












Project listing:

American Fructose Demitt, TX Designed process piping for a new chain to deliver high fructose syrup. The project required developing spool drawings, working with the fabricators to complete the spools and supervising the installation of the piping at the site.
American Fructose Demitt, TX Designed the corn delivery system from the grain elevator to the steeping towers. Worked with the vendors and contractors to install the systems.
American Cyanamid Parkersburg, WV designed piping systems for a large rotary drying system for animal additive powders. Worked with the installation team to deliver the project.
Henkel Chemicals Hoboken, NJ Designed a waste pre-treatment facility to isolate, quantify, and identify the several waste streams from a surfactant manufacturing facility. Worked in the field with the clients engineers to install the system and trouble shoot it. We completed the project early and within budget.
Henkel Chemicals Cincinnati, OH Designed HVAC systems for a new Esters manufacturing building.
Henkel Chemicals Kankakee, IL Designed, and supervised the construction of a new sulfation facility, including two tank farms, two large reactors, a deaeration vessel, and all of the associated support systems. The system was completed 30 days early and $400,000.00 under budget.
Henkel Chemicals Kankakee, IL Supervised the installation of additional tank farms to support a resins project.
Kenton County School Board Covington, KY Provided field supervision to install HVAC and plumbing systems in six elementary school additions and renovations and the construction of a new 800 student middle school.
Cincinnati Metropolitan Sewer District Cincinnati, OH - Designed and supervised the installation of HVAC systems for a new 650,000 SF maintenance facility.
Delphi Automotive Vandalia, OH Performed construction management on a new 115,000 SF manufacturing facility which was built in Matamoras, MX. I went to Mexico to build the facility. It included all process utilities, and new HVAC systems for an existing building.
Procter & Gamble Jackson, TN Supervised the installation of dry raw materials systems for a potato crisp manufacturing facility. The systems included vacuum transfer lines for dry materials from the bins building to the dough blenders in another building. The project included building a bins building that was four stories tall, (92-0 ) about 4800 SF per floor. The building included one side of the building that was designed to blow-out .
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Ogleville, IN Performed conceptual design and supervision of the construction of a new plating facility. The facility included a scrubber system and an on-site waste treatment system. The systems were all from Japan with very poor drawings, most of the installation had to be field fit.
Delphi Automotive Moraine, OH performed lean manufacturing transformation on a 2.3 million SF facility reducing the manufacturing area to approximately 750,000 SF without eliminating any of the processes required to manufacture the automotive air conditioning compressors made there. We eliminated wasted motion, scrap, and in process materials by moving operations closer together.


General Motors Moraine, OH Acted as work element manager for the installation of a 9200 ton chilled water delivery system for a new vehicle assembly facility. The work included the construction of a 2.5 million gallon chilled water storage tank, 54-0 in diameter, 92-0 straight side, and the distribution systems out to the air handling units throughout the facility.
United States Veterans Administration Cleveland, OH Acted as site manager for the construction of a 3600 ton chiller plant. The project included energy reducing updates for the existing lighting systems, and a new HVAC controls interface.
General Mills Wellston, OH Site manager for a process expansion that included sanitary piping systems, finished product materials handling systems and carton delivery systems that delivered cased product to the -30 degree storage freezer.
Alkermes Pharmaceuticals Wilmington, OH Supervised the installation of high purity piping systems including Water for Injection, Purified water, Polymers used for injection, Purified steam and Medical quality compressed air.
Eli Lilly & Co. Indianapolis, IN Site manager on three separate projects, two of which were packaging lines for injectable drugs, and a Dispensing, Sampling and Warehousing project that included the installation of clean room suites. Each suite had a purified water loop that was dropped into the suite for laboratory processes. The suites were served by individual HVAC systems that included HEPA filtration and pure steam humidification.
ConAgra Foods Indianapolis, IN Assisted in the start-up and commissioning of two new high speed can filling systems for Redi-Wip whipped cream.
Kelloggs Chicago, IL Supervised refurbishing of cure rooms for candy manufacturing. The work included installing roof top air handling systems, and new ceilings and air delivery plenums in each of the cure rooms. Also supervised the installation of a trowelled-on epoxy flooring system in one of the candy kitchens.








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