Two weeks ago we were thrilled to bring our APM + APCom teams together in Pasadena at our Training & Development Center. Our APCom Corporate and Field Superintendents learned about the processes and policies our company has in place and received hands-on training for their administrative, quality and safety duties...
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APM is proud to have teams of leaders. One leader that continues to shine bright is Ken Robertson, APM Fossil North Superintendent. Ken recently led a team at the Oak Creek Power Plant in Wisconsin during a turbine generator outage and the results exceeded the customer's expectations...
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The APM Fossil West team defied the odds and weather in Antioch, California, at the Pacific Gas & Electric Gateway Generation Station. The team was performing an exceptionally larger work scope when they were met with adverse weather conditions...
Read MoreLast week we held our integration celebration for APM +APCom at the Pasadena Training & Development Center. The APCom team joined us on site Tuesday through Friday to collaborate with each of the functional counterparts. We were proud of the engagement and attention...
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During a recent .05 upgrade to the 7FA turbine project at Florida Power & Light – Fort Myers, the APM Fossil South team received high NPS scores for their performance. There were two surveys for the entire Block 2 outage. A Power Block is the term used to identify turbines. Generally Block 1 will have units A and B and there are 5 blocks at Ft Myers. The first survey score was...
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A hearty shout-out to the APM Fossil West team that completed the project at NV Energy – Frank A. Tracy Generating Station in Storey County, Nevada last fall. A recent Everyday Power Services communication celebrated Quality Heroes and announced the 2015 Customer Quality Excellence Award finalists and winner. The Customer Quality Excellence Award recognizes...
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The APM Fossil North team recently completed a job in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania. APM Superintendent, Rick Sereno, and his crew of nine Millwrights performed a turning gear replacement, alignment check and valve calibration. The team received a great review from the customer, who complimented the team's...
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The APM Fossil team’s motivation comes from within. Frank Gutierrez, GE Senior Regional Operations Manager, posted an article on Colab that highlights APM’s work at the Mountainview Generation Station in Redlands, California. Frank highlighted some of the team’s motivations...
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Congratulations go out to Ben Andriakos, APM Fossil North Millwright Journeymen out of Local 1076. Ben was chosen to attend the Indiana/Kentucky/Ohio Regional Council of Carpenters, Newburgh, Indiana competition for Millwrights, and was judged on his skill set which included...
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When every member on a team gives their all when working towards a common goal, the final product will come out flawless. This was the case when the APM Nuclear team completed their 23 day project at the Browns Ferry Power Plant in Athens, Alabama...
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When you need a crew that performs a quality outage, precisely done the first time, APM delivers. APM recently completed the Calpine - Westbrook outage in Westbrook, ME. The job began on March 25, 2016 and the outage scope was a hot gas path on a 7FA GT and a generator minor. APM Superintendents, John Nicewicz (day shift) and Mark Foster (night shift) led the crew that was able to...
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Today we would like to recognize one member of the APM family, Jason Murphy. Jason has been with APM since 2007, working in the APM Fossil North region. Like so many before him, he has worked his way up from Apprentice, and he is now an...
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Our Elk Hills Power customer in Tupman, California recently sent the APM Fossil West team a letter of appreciation for assisting with their latest outage. Bob Bond, Team Leader at Elk Hills, sent an email expressing his appreciation for our team’s great safety culture and quality...
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Recently at an APM Fossil North jobsite at the Oak Creek Power Plant in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, the day and night shift crews showed a tremendous amount of camaraderie by coming together for the betterment of two of their teammates. The team pooled money together to buy two apprentices the tools...
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During a recent jobsite visit to Entergy’s site in Ouachita, Louisiana, I had the pleasure of watching and photographing an APM Fossil South team orchestrate lifting and installing the rotor. The team took their time to guarantee a successful lift and every person on the crew was 100% attuned to the task at hand. They all communicated with each other and the Project Manager, Michael Hill...
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Slow and steady wins the race. Recently at Entergy - Hinds Energy Facility in Jackson, Mississippi, the APM Fossil South team performed a major on the plant’s D11 combined cycle steam turbine unit. This particular job has been going on since September of 2015. Michael Hill led as APM Project Manager, and the APM Superintendents were, Ron Turner, Jr./Ronnie Cox on ST days, and Kendell Tennyson, ST Nights disassembly and Brennon Morris, ST Nights Reassembly...
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APM was honored to have one of our Superintendents, Jack McKay, III, and his crew to take part in this test. They reported this new beam worked very well, was much easier to use, could be broken down and moved with a Fork Truck, among other favorable comments. Jack was very impressed with it and shared his thoughts...
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Our APM Fossil South team recently performed a job at Florida Power & Light Company - Fort Myers Power Plant in Florida. The team worked to make this project a complete success. The customer sent a performance review survey of the outage and the work our team did...
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GE Oil & Gas recently rallied a multi-national project leadership team at Equatorial Guinea LNG in Bioko Island, Malabo. They assembled a team of Technical Advisors and Field Engineers from all over the world. The team was overseeing a large project on an MS 5002D gas turbine...
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