Noah Bryant, P.E.

Experience

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  Sappi

  Jun 2001 - Jan 2006

  Engineering Intern

  Five-year seasonal internship under electrical, environmental, instrument, civil, and mechanical engineers during every school vacation and break. Specialized in manipulating Foxboro and Allen-Bradley PLC process control networks and displays to provide solutions for managers and operators in very different production environments all across the mill. Prepared over 1000 OSISoft PI2 trends for migration to PI3, and assisted with creation of PI reports using PI-PC DataLink and trends using PI-ProcessBook. Inspected 3300 steam traps and over 200 pressure relief valves yearly, producing repair reports and managing the maps and databases. Learned state pressure vessel code, some Maine DEP regulations on oil storage, gas emissions for boiler stacks, and water flows at each of Sappi's dams. Show less

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  UMaine Math Department

  Sept 2004 - Dec 2004

  Student Instructor's Aide III

  Graded quizzes for three of Professor Kimball's math classes. Also maintained the quiz and test score database for Professor Kimball for all three classes.

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  Old Town School Department

  Jan 2006 - Mar 2006

  Substitute Teacher

  K-12 substitute teacher. Taught primarily 5th grade special ed, and all tracks and grades of high school biology, history, and art.

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  Norris Inc.

  Mar 2006 - Dec 2006

  Technician

  Part of Northern Maine's four-person fleet of full-service inspection and installation technicians servicing the following systems handling dozens of accounts: fire alarm, security, access control, emergency call, communications, and professional sound.

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  The Journey (Scarborough Foursquare Church)

  Jan 2007 - Apr 2011

  Staff Pastor-in-training

  Lead the music team and assisted in other church departments such as children's church, community outreach, marketing, preaching, administration, website management, and planning. Worked on a minister's district license to be installed as an ordained assisting pastor.

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  Sappi

  Jan 2007 - Nov 2011

  Determining which products will be manufactured on which production asset to maximize profit through exceptional customer service; managing thousands of continuous customer orders using advanced planning block scheduling; assigning and expediting certain products to specific customer orders; daily troubleshooting of system upkeep issues; Lean Six-Sigma Green Belt; scheduling of container truckloads to international warehouses; member of ISO9001/ISO14001/ISO18001 management team; member of Corporate Wellness six-sigma project team and promotional product re-design team Show less Process Engineer in a highly-technical specialties manufacturing operation. Assist production managers with process data analysis and with technological advice. Periodically fill-in for managers, and work closely with product management. Conduct numerous full-scale trials based on lab research. Assist with product commercialization. Troubleshoot major quality upsets using Kepner-Tregoe methodology. Manage quality testing lab crew training, equipment, and test methods. Member of ISO9001/ISO14001/ISO18001 management team. Completed SigmaKaizen Green Belt training. Member of Corporate Wellness six-sigma project team. Show less

  • Production Planner

    Oct 2009 - Nov 2011

  • Process Engineer

    Jan 2007 - Oct 2009
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  Zajac LLC

  Nov 2011 - now

  Project Manager

  Interact directly with clients implementing detail design, procurement, fabrication, acceptance testing, installation, and validation of turn-key liquid processing systems such as dosing, blending, batching, pasteurization, cooling, filtration, and cleaning-in-place for dairy, brewery, food, and pharmaceutical industries. Manage regional and international projects with prefabricated systems that ship and install globally.