Ross Purcell

Ross Purcell

Field Service Technician

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Manager of Business Development / O&M at Voith Hydro

  • Education

    • Chattanooga State Community College

      2014 - 2017
      A.A.S. Welding Eng. Tec. Welding Engineering Technology/Technician

      Graduate Fall 2017

    • The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

      2012 - 2014
      Environmental Science
  • Experience

    • Voith Hydro

      Jun 2012 - Feb 2018
      Field Service Technician

      Five years of experience as part of a team performing field machining and weld repairs to hydroelectric turbines and embedded components. Experience also includes Teardown & Re-assembly that involved heavy rigging and large scale crane operations. Field machining experience includes restoring embedded components with extensive stainless weld overlays, machining large diameters to precise hydraulic contours, setting centers with static micrometers, erecting large machine tools, and numerous smaller precision operations with mag base drills, keyway mills, hand tools, stones, etc. Additional experience in fabrication and design of field machine tools such as large scale single point boring equipment. Show less

    • AMT Hydro Services

      Feb 2018 - Jan 2019
      Project Engineer / Consultant

      Facilitates the design, development, and installation of various turbine components and performance enhancing modifications. Responsible for site performance, customer relations, and producing results in a timely manner. Develops and configures the estimation and presentation of work scope proposals.

    • Thorough Built LLC.

      May 2019 - Jan 2020
      Project Engineer / CWI

      Serving industrial manufacturing, fabrication, and machining needs in the south east. Responsibility's also include the consultation, technical design, and sales of a broad scope of services for the hydro power generation industry.

    • HydroPoint

      Jan 2020 - Jan 2022
      VP of Engineering & Marketing

      Responsible for technical sales, managment and equipment design. This includes maintaining strategic customer relations, technical consultation, and process plan development / implementation. Primarily serving the Hydro Power Generation Industry in regards to component refurbishment and precision surface restoration. Technical Roles:-Design / Fabrication of field machining equipment-Quality Assurance Program Director-Welding Program Director / CWI Project Performance Roles:-Scheduling / Critical Path-Data Representation / Interpretation-Technical Overview / ReportsSales / Marketing:-Site Evaluation-Customer Relations-Sales Projection / Strategies/ Sr. Estimator Show less

    • Voith Hydro

      Mar 2022 - now
      • Manager of Business Development / O&M North America

        Apr 2023 - now
      • Manager of Service / North America Field Machining

        Mar 2022 - Apr 2023
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • OSHA 10

      OSHA
    • NCCCO LEVEL II RIGGING/SIGNAL

      NCCCO
      Nov 2016
    • CWI

      American Welding Society
    • FCAW/AUTO-FCAW/SMAW/GMAW/GTAW UNLIMITED THICKNESS X-RAY QUALITY

      American Welding Society
      Nov 2013