John Grant

Background

About John Grant

Shop/Production Manager recognized as exceptional motivator talented generating high level of employee morale and engagement. Upbeat, flexible individual with expertise in Welding, Welding Supervision and Engineering. Experience managing employees while carrying out all daily responsibilities while having multiple projects running at the same time for Shell, BP, Technip, Pumpco, V&M, Chevron to name but a few and carried out with Safety as the number one priority at all times. Worked on multiple offshore oil rigs in the North Sea off Scotland, working on shutdowns and maintenance of well heads and pipeline fabrication within the platform, upgrading and manufacturing new pipelines with a good understanding of engineering drawing, safety procedures and protocols, permits to work, hot work scenarios. Worked on the construction of subsea pipelines on the Spoolbases, the reel lay boats associated with laying the completed pipes offshore as well as tie-ins. FL, FSFL & SCR construction. Rockwater LTD, Wick, Scotland Petrology, Glasgow, Scotland Umax, Evanston, Scotland Technip Spoolbase, Evanton, Scotland. Technip Spoolbase, Mobile, Alabama. Technip Spoolbase, Orkanger, Norway. Vessels worked on Norlift Apache Constructor Deep Blue Moved to Houston, Texas to set up a WPQT Fabrication Shop. Build the shop from 4 walls and a concrete floor to a fully functional Weld Procedure Qualification and Welder Qualification Shop. Built up a great safety culture and did not have one Lost Time Injury in the whole of my time in Houston running the shop, 13 years in total. Workplace Risk Assessments. Annual review of Risk Assessments with local and worldwide safety teams. Installed Automatic and Manually welding bays. Beveling areas. Purchased plant for the shop and the yard. Controlled everything from the pipe arriving in the yard to the delivery of the finished product to multiple test labs in the Houston area and all associated paperwork, material transfers etc. Construction of 2G & 5G fatigue and bending trials. Payroll entry Schedule and train employees Employee performance evaluation Employee interviews Pipe sizes from 4” to 48” WPQT’s qualified over the course of 13 years for SPOOLBASES & Jay-lay, reel-lay, Beach pull jobs Bahamas 42” and Trinidad & Tobago 16” and Landlines all over the US!