Steven Howlett

Project Manager / Project Controls Manager / Senior P6 Scheduler 

11467 Gracey Ln - Sandy, UT 84092

Stevehowlett378@gmail.com

801-889-6580

 

 

Summary of Key Experience and Responsibilities

Twenty-five (25) years of management experience, plus Primavera P6 scheduling within the commercial and industrial construction industry including vertical and Government commercial buildings. industrial construction including bridge and highway, utility infrastructure, water treatment, mining and metal refinement.

Expertise includes business development, general management, scheduling, contract negotiations, claims management, cost control, document control, risk analysis, change orders, estimating, RFIs, submittals, cost validation and pay requests, accruals and forecasts.

Scheduling including: cost & resource loading, planned value reporting, schedule update, baseline schedule analysis, claims - time impact analysis, risk analysis, root cause analysis and schedule approval for government projects. 

Fully conversant with industry project management and scheduling software and “best practice” project management and P6 schedule methodology.

 

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT:

 

Google

Google fiber - Salt Lake City, Utah

Project management team:

Responsible for Budget, schedule (P6) and Project Controls functions.

 

 

 

PAST EMPLOYMENT:

 

June 2009 to 2014

Project Manager/ Project Controls Manager / Senior Scheduler

 Turner and Townsend – Turner and Townsend is a UK top 100 (similar to US fortune 500) Major World projects management company with offices worldwide 

Skills Include - project management, cost and budget management, cost control, generation of cost and resource loaded P6 schedules. Manage planned value data generation including best practice project scheduling. Manage earned value documentation reports and verification of CPI and SPI, change management, claims/delay analysis, time impact and root cause analysis. "cold eyes” investigation services delivering findings and recommendations for successful management of large publicly owned companies. 

 

Major Projects:

     Hecla Mining - Lucky Friday Silver mine – New construction – Idaho, USA

    Tahoe Mining - Escobal Gold Mine - New construction - Guatemala

    Quest Rare Minerals - Rare Earths mine - New construction - Toronto, Canada

    Baha Mining - Boleo Copper mine - New construction, Santa Rosalia - Mexico

    Anglo American - Quellaveco Copper Mine - New construction - Santiago, Chile 

    BHP Billiton - Escondida Copper Mine - New construction - Chile

    Rio Tinto- Eagle nickel mine - New construction - Michigan, USA 

    Rio Tinto Alcan - Kemano Aluminum plant - New construction - Vancouver BC Canada

    Cameco – Uranium mines – New construction – Saskatchewan, BC Canada

 

 

 

January 2008 to June 2009

Project Manager – Utah Titanium - Titanium Refinement Plant (new construction)

Allegheny Technologies, Inc - Pittsburgh, PA.

Managed mechanical portion of 1.8 Billion Dollar Titanium production plant – new construction -Maintained company point of contact with owner, engineers and other company leads. Managed acquisition of staff and interfaced with multiple project disciplines including engineering, procurement and project controls. I was responsible for project controls, change management, pay requests, and overall company involvement in the project. Maintained negotiation with unions in acquisition of trade and took the lead in an overall successful participation on this complex project.

 

 

 

March 2005 to January 2008

Project Manager – Utah Salt Lake City Waste Water Treatment Plant (new construction)

Bodell Construction - Salt Lake City, Utah 

Salt Lake City, Waste Water Treatment Plant - new construction infrastructure. Six one million gallon aeration basins, four five million gallon clarifiers and thickeners, methane fired power plant, two sump and housing structures with 1000 h.p. turbine pumps, evaporation basins expansion and SCADA (fiber optic)  automation of plant operations. Managed acquisition of staff and sub-contractors, document control, cost control and procurement. Functioned as point of contact with owner and Engineers and developed and maintained an ongoing productive relationship with plant management. Note: On this project I managed the logistics of the largest temporary bypass pumping operation undertaken in Utah to date i.e. 60 million gallons/day.  

 

 

 

November 2003 to March 2005

Project Engineer / Scheduler - Utah Bridge and Highway infrastructure (new construction)

Wadsworth Inc - Draper, Utah

 Demolition of two bridges on SR-201 at Redwood Road in Salt Lake City followed by new construction of three bridges and seven miles of highways and overpasses on SR-201 and Redwood Road. Involved close interaction with Utah Department of Transportation, assigned as Point of Contact with the owner (UDOT) and the engineers on the project. I was assigned management of materials, change management and pay request processing through UDOT. I created and maintained the project schedule including; cost and resource loading, risk analysis, time impact analysis and Government schedule approval and overall project controls.

 

 

January 2002 to November 2003

Senior Scheduler – Utah Hilton Rio Grande Hotel (new construction)

American Heritage Construction - Salt Lake City, UT - 

Hotel - new construction including business, retail and underground parking structures. Create and maintain schedule including; update delays mitigation management.

 

January 1981 to January 2002

Business Manager - Utah (Principal)

Mountain Valley Inc - Draper, Utah  

Business development, establish employee base, client development, oversee production output.  company distributed dairy products as a co-op of inter-mountain producers. Distribution included the Western half of the United States. The Company was profitably sold in 1999 to a national distributor.  

 

 

EDUCATION:

University of Utah