As many of our employees will recall, we hosted our first Employee Experience Survey last summer. Following the conclusion of the survey, our workforce reported 76% satisfaction with the workplace culture at APM…
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In August of 2021, our Steam Fossil Team, led by Superintendents John Stalling, Dave Sturgis, Roger Jones, Dax Reed and Jared Kennard, was scheduled to mobilize for an outage at Woodland Pulp Mill in Baileyville, Maine. However, the team was called in sooner than expected to aid in the repair of a rotor causing damage to the mill.
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This month’s spotlight features APM Finance Manager, Sharonda Young! Sharonda joined APM in 2008 after learning about a position in Payroll from another employee, Stephanie McGowan, at their son's basketball game…
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Our APM Gas Services team, along with One Field Services, ventured to the Trimble County Station located in Kentucky again this year to conduct a hot gas path scope on one of the 7FA gas turbines…
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This past week Tom Hermanns, our APM Leadership Development Director, Mike Grotton, our APM Lead EHS Manager, and myself attended the Global TapRoot Summit in Knoxville, TN…
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Safety and Health are critical every day. This week we took some extra time to celebrate the ways in which we achieve good safety and health. The consequences of each can be drastically positive or negative, as well as immediate or long term. Allow me to share some more thoughts with you in the below video…
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“In September of 2021, the State of Louisiana was tarnished from the aftereffects of Hurricane Ida. With thousands of homes destroyed, constant power outages, and flooding unseen since Katrina, the swamplands of the Bayou State were in desperate need of recovery.”
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This month’s spotlight features APM Oil & Gas Superintendent, William Nance! William joined APM in 2017. Previously, William worked for Westinghouse and was on site at the same time as APM. He also worked for UPS and Exxon, where he met an APM employee, Ronnie Campbell, who encouraged him to join APM…
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These past two weeks I had the pleasure of visiting two jobsites – Constellation Wolf Hollow and Dynegy Kendall. I enjoyed observing our crews do good work, talking with the crews about their challenges, and hopefully giving the crews some encouragement and wisdom. Thank you to the crews that welcomed me to their work and allowed me to learn more about what we do…
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One of our new APM Boiler division Superintendents, Terry Royce, and the Boilermakers of local 40 took on a quick turnaround project in Kentucky last fall and hit a home run. The APM Boiler team received a request from GE Gas Power to support the installation of a new blow off deflector inside of a gas turbine stack…
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What is Live Outage? This question was asked in our recent townhall. I tried to answer it, but wanted to follow-up in written form to better answer. -and- GE Gas Power gave me a gift this week with an email devoted to Live-Outage . I encourage you to read the email that was shared, the linked articles, watch the videos, etc. to learn about all things Live Outage…
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Capacity … This word has been common in my thoughts and discussions recently. What is capacity? Per Dictionary.com, capacity is …
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This month’s spotlight features APM Steam Fossil Superintendent, Dave Maxwell! Dave joined APM in 2012 as a millwright / turbine hand. After three years of service, he was asked to advance to the role of crane operator. After one outage as a crane operator, he was promoted to the keyman role. He worked in that role for three more years before being recommended for the Superintendent role by another APM Superintendent. At home, Dave is a Farmer, an uncle to two fantastic nephews and one great nephew, as well as a sawyer and dozer operator. We are so excited to spotlight Dave! Read more to get to know his history with APM, proudest moments, and thoughts on leadership…
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I understand today is National Employee Appreciation Day. So today I wanted to look each of you in the eye (virtually) and say Thank You! for all you do to make APM great. I pray each of you feel appreciated, respected, and valued each day you work for APM…
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I trust our APM team members have seen the Red EHS Alert shared in our Weekly EHS Report – Week 6 regarding the recent pinched finger event. Fortunately, our APM teammate is recovering well and working. We recently met with the investigation team to review the Root Cause Analysis (RCA) of the event. The team did a good job of gathering information, summarizing the event, and identifying the various causes. One tool the team used to discover the root cause is a 5-WHY Analysis …
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This month’s spotlight features APM Canada Project Manager, Paul Mahe´! Paul joined APM Canada in 2001 as a first year millwright and has worked his way through the ranks ever since, achieving positions including Foreman, Superintendent, Safety Officer, Western Canada Regional Manager, and Project Manager. Today, he coordinates some of the largest outages we have ever executed in Canada, and last year he was nominated for the 2020 Presidential Awards. We are so excited to spotlight Paul! Read more to get to know his history with APM, proudest moments, and some of his favorite hobbies …
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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 …
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The past two months have been an energizing time in APM @ our LDC. We have hosted ~250 people, including a New Superintendent Course for ~25 new superintendents (along with another in Canada), a Project Superintendent Course for ~20 top superintendents to support transactional (ex: no FE) scopes, and multiple Live Outage Courses for ~30 core superintendents and crews (along with a few of our GE partners)…
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Our safety keystone - the safety disciplines we adhere to on a daily basis - is the foundation for how we deliver performance excellence as well as a great customer and employee experience. Reflecting on 2021, I am very proud of our safety performance. Why?
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We delivered performance excellence in 2021, but it came with a sacrifice. My biggest concern for sustaining that performance excellence is the cost that it takes our APM team to deliver that. The desire for better balance is apparent with the feedback we received from the employee experience survey.
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