Our APM Leadership Development Center (LDC) continues to buzz with activity despite COVID-19 challenges! We are proud that the facility has maintained momentum as a hub for collaboration and learning during the past 12+ months. The development of our facility was a major investment, and the time required to carefully and thoroughly plan events over the past 2+ years, especially with consideration for social distancing and tedious hygiene during the pandemic, has been no small achievement for the coordination team …
Read MoreTwo weeks past we hosted ~40 new Superintendent candidates at our LDC. It was great to have in person classes back. Even with COVID protocols in place and followed, there was an energy in the LDC I missed and quickly found.
Read MoreA core commonality between LEAN concepts and our focus on safety is the valuation of life and time well spent. Recently, members of our corporate team, Bruce Bever (Chief Finance Director), Lisset Lopez (Business Improvement Director), and Mellissa Fryman (Billing Manager), visited our Wilmington, MA office…
Read MoreOur APM senior leadership team spent the past week coming together to discuss our status today and develop strategies for future success. From the good discussions, there were a few key themes I want to share…
Read MoreOur Pasadena Training and Development Center recently hosted the New Superintendent and Keyman Training. This comprehensive training allows our field employees to advance their education and continue completing jobs with the quality...
Read MoreThe APM + APCom Superintendent training continued this week in Las Vegas, Nevada. The session included Superintendents from the Fossil West Region, along with a few Specialty Services and APCom Superintendents, and was about 31 students strong...
Read MoreOur APM + APCom Superintendent Summer Training continued this week in Peoria, Illinois on Tuesday and Wednesday, 7/18 and 7/19. A big THANK YOU to all who attended and to our presenters, trainers and organizers...
Read MoreSummer is an exciting time for our APM + APCom team. We have training events going on in various locations for the next several weeks and we thank our Superintendents who are attending in person and by Webex. This is how we...
Read MoreThe vision of our APM + APCom Training & Development Center (TDC) is coming to fruition. From its inception, the goal of TDC was to demonstrate our company’s commitment to empower employees with advanced education. This ensures that we provide the highest fulfillment excellence in the industry...
Read MoreWhen you need safety as your first priority, APM delivers. Our APM Nuclear team recently fulfilled an outage at the Duane Arnold site for Florida Power & Light. During the job, our Superintendent, Terry Jennings, saved the life of another contractor employee, “Matt” by performing CPR and activating an AED to restart his heart...
Read MoreThis year we return to the edge of our Fall outage season after a great 2014 Superintendent Conference in Orlando, Florida. We had over 400 in attendance, including APM Superintendents, GETSCO Superintendents, GSSI Safety Specialists and APM Corporate management and personnel. We would like to thank everyone who participated in the event to gear up for the upcoming outage seasons...
Read MorePasadena recently bid farewell to one of its GE 7FA turbine rotors on January 31st of this year. The rotor was given to the APM SS Division by GE in early 2011 to use for training purposes. Over the years, it has served its time as a truly effective training tool, assisting in the training process for many APM SS Blade Technicians on multiple work scopes including removal and installation of buckets for F class gas turbines, biscuit mod, blend polish and peen, blade blending, erosion blending and flapper peening. The training mock-up in Pasadena is indicative of performing these processes at a site where the rotor is out of the machine and on rollers.
Knowing that internal parts of the training rotor we had was needed to repair a flooded power plant rotor in the Northeast (Coyote), the APM SS Division returned the rotor back to the GE Houston Service Center and replaced our training mock-up with a spare rotor from the Pasadena APM yard. The lead guys involved in the move were APM Personnel, Steven Putman, John Syphrett, Robert Thibodeaux and Kendall Tennyson...
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