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Nathan Binns

Nathan Binns

Shop Manager

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Covert, MIMember since May 18, 2026
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About

Overcome difficult obstacles and achieve greatness in a fast paced ground breaking field.

Experience

Shop Manager - Underwater Construction Company - Stevensville, MI

(2023-01)

  • Provide training on equipment and machinery to my team.
  • Annually evaluate divers' on their shop performance.
  • Track and provide maintenance of shop assets.
  • Manage the location and function of 10.8 million dollars of equipment.
  • Order equipment based on vendor analysis.
  • Developed a software program that tracks equipment.
  • Identify and resolve issues related to inventory, staff, and diving operations.
  • Develop a lean program to reduce operation cost.
  • Ensure adherence to company policies and procedures, as well as ADCI, Navy dive manual and United Coast Guard regulatory requirements.
  • Satisfactorily complete technical testing of diving equipment governed by Navy Dive Manual.
  • Direct morning meetings to identify safety observations, goals of the day, and roles and responsibilities.
  • Conduct safety observations on a daily basis and provide coaching to front line workers.
  • Respectively communicate to upper management a 16 week look ahead.
  • Administer disciplinary actions or lessons learned which may include Human performance issues.
  • Provide yearly hands-on training to divers on diving operations.
  • Orchestrate testing and repair life saving equipment.
  • Acquire documentation verifying authenticity of diving equipment.
  • Lead new hire orientation.
  • Prepare, organize, and distribute equipment to multiple scheduled jobs weekly.
  • Supervise divers' payroll.
  • Responsibly ship, track, and verify the receipt of equipment throughout the country.

Door/ locks specialist - AEP - DC Cook Nuclear Plant

(2018-01 - 2023-01)

  • Planning Qualification Card completion within a year.
  • Reduce vendor cost by 60K.
  • Provide oversight of vendors.
  • Plan Minor Maintenance work.
  • Responsible for vendor contracts.
  • Create New item MR's (Material Request.)
  • Work with engineering and planning on plant equipment and EC (Engineering Condition.)
  • Develop WOER to engineering (Work Order Engineering Request.)
  • Buy and research parts to comply with NFPA-805 (National Fire Protection Association.)
  • Submit AR's to identify plant issues and answer assignments.
  • Create PMs for door issues.
  • Understand plant procedures and plant systems.
  • Schedule projects with FIN department and communicate if support is needed and hours of work.
  • Work with operations on duration of projects: Risk management and LCO time line.
  • Exhibit knowledge of operations HELB (High Energy Line Break) and Ventilation procedures.
  • Route WBG (welding burning grinding) permit and Door permit.
  • Add details to work order history and take work packages to finished.
  • Add Task to Work Orders and add scope to Work Orders.
  • Validate work packages are complete.
  • Maintain a parts list created by myself due to inaccurate BOM (Bill of Material.)

Outage Diving Supervisor - AEP - DC Cook Nuclear Plant

(2020-01 - 2022-01)

  • Oversight of vendor (UCC divers.)
  • ESOMS (Computer system used to hang and track Clearance tags.)
  • WARL paper work (High Risk activities to inform senior leadership.)
  • FME paper work (Foreign Material.)
  • Confined Space paper work.
  • Staging Permit.
  • Clearance walk-downs.
  • Clearance Acceptor.
  • Verify that the Clearance provides protection to the dive team.
  • Brief Divers on clearance and plant status.
  • Oversight that the Dive operations are in accordance with Cook Plant producers (Safe Dive Practices.)
  • Diving Supervisor Qualification.
  • Supervised 2020, outage trash rake replacement.
  • Supervised 2021, Condenser inlet tunnel cleaning and inspection of WMO-22 valve.
  • Supervised 2022, Forbay cleaning, Circ. Bay cleaning and Circ. Inspection.
  • Coordinate with different work groups for support and troubleshoot issues MTM, MTI, FIN, and BHI.

Security Human Performance Coordinator - AEP - DC Cook Nuclear Plant

(2017-01 - 2018-01)

  • Performed HUCA (Human Performance Culpability Assessment.)
  • Participated in ISC committee (Screening Committee to screen incoming AR to address severity.)
  • Developed a safety culture within Security.
  • Generated AR's that identified safety concerns.
  • Tracked and trended to security KPI's (Security Indicators that show downward trend with-in Security.)
  • Engaged in E-ACE (A group of cross departments that evaluates the cause of a major issue or condition.)
  • Contributed in baffle bolts Root Cause evaluation. (Bolts that hold the inner lining inside the core.)

Security - AEP - DC Cook Nuclear Plant

(2014-01 - 2017-01)

  • Performed Security tours.
  • Tested on knowledge of Security defensive strategy.
  • Displayed knowledge of Security procedures.
  • Performed security searches.
  • Participated in security Force on Force.

Education

Cert. Diving - Commercial Diver - Southern Louisiana Tech (2012-01 - 2012-12)

Skills

Shop Manager

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