1. Kenneth L. Noel
104 Cedar St Fruitland, IA 52749, 563-260-1739, kennoel1955@hotmail.com
Experience
1980-2015 (retired)
MidAmerican Energy (formerly Iowa Illinois Gas and Electric Company)
Thirty-five years of experience in power plant operations, maintenance, and engineering. Project
Manager for jobs up to $10 million while responsible for day to day performance and boiler
engineer duties: turbine testing, boiler testing, EPA boiler MATS (mercury air toxics standards)
inspections and testing, large and small boilers and auxiliary equipment performance testing.
Experience with refined coal process. Includes thirty-three years of experience at Louisa
Generating Station, an 805 megawatt coal fired power plant.
Positions held:
• Senior Engineer, Louisa Generating Station (1998-2015)
• Performance engineer, project manager, boiler engineer.
• Superintendent Operations, Louisa Generating Station (1995-1998)
• Supervised all operating duties at Louisa Generating Station (coal yard and main
plant) responsible for hiring operating personnel and maintaining the unit’s
maintenance and operating budget.
• Operations Engineer, Louisa Generating Station (1991-1995)
• Supervised all operating duties (coal yard and main plant) responsible for hiring
operating personnel and maintaining the unit’s operating budget.
• Mechanical Maintenance Superintendent, Louisa Generating Station (1990-1991)
• Supervised all maintenance duties (coal yard and main plant) responsible for
hiring all maintenance personnel and maintaining maintenance budget.
• Engineer (1985-1990)
• Performance engineer, project manager, wrote operating instructions, supervised
custodial personnel, and turbine engineer.
• Shift Supervisor, Louisa Generating Station (1982-1985)
• Supervised and trained rotating shift operating staff.
• Engineer Assistant (1980-1982)
• Small engineering projects, worked under direction of senior engineers.
Education
The Universityof Iowa
Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering (1980)
Specialized Training
• Confined Space Rescue

2. • EMT/First Aid/CPR
• Vibration training
• General Physics Performance Calculations training
• Emerson Visual Controls training
• Westinghouse Turbine training
• Babcock & Wilcox Boiler training
• Proficient in Excel, Access, Word, Oracle Financial, Outlook, Gant Charts, ETAPro
performance calculations, ETAPro APR and ETAPro virtual plant modeling
Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
References available upon request