Forrest Suehs is a Texas Professional Engineer with over 20 years of experience in leadership roles in operations, project management, engineering, and quality assurance. He has extensive experience managing multidisciplinary engineering teams on large industrial projects in various industries including oil and gas, refining, chemicals, and power. His background includes roles as an engineering manager, department manager, and project lead engineer for companies such as Wood Group, URS, ABB Lummus Global, and Dow Chemical.

1. FORREST SUEHS
Spring, Texas 77388 | 281.224.6212 | f2suehs@gmail.com
TEXAS PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER
Accomplished Operations Director with more than 20 years’ leadership experience, driving technical strategic
solutions, project management, change management, quality assurance, and engineering technical excellence.
Partnered with business unit leadership, managed multidiscipline development teams, skilled at aligning
business activities with established objectives. Motivating leader who develops, mentors, and empowers
employees to excel.
CORE SKILLS
Project Management | Budget Development & Management | Contracts & Negotiations
Change Management | Continuous Process Improvement | Cost Control | Estimating
Regulatory Compliance | EPC Project Execution | UPS Systems |Health, Safety, & Environment (HSE)
Technical Expertise
Power Transmission & Distribution Systems | Power Generation | Energy Management | Grounding | Lighting
| UPS power | Switchgear | Motor Control | Instrument Control Systems | DCS | Fire & Gas | SIS | Oil & Gas |
Refining | Pipeline | Offshore Deepwater |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
WOOD GROUP MUSTANG-Houston, Texas 2009–2015
Global Manager, Electrical
Supervised Wood Group worldwide Electrical Engineering and Design Department managers; Developed and
maintained discipline guidelines, practices, and standards. Implemented and supported work share
opportunities throughout Mustang worldwide.
• Created a model to connect technical worldwide leaders for each office to organize its SME capability,
resulting in a network of discipline experts sharing and supporting project and department development.
• Managed team of eight charged with developing and implementing an engineering information access
system to be shared by WG Mustang engineering community.
• Championed global cost saving initiative to provide uniform software access to the latest version to all
Wood Group Electrical departments.
URS PROCESS & ENERGY GROUP-HOUSTON, TEXAS 2007–2009
Engineering Manager
Supervised civil/structural, mechanical, E&I, and design managers. Planned department manpower
requirements for the engineering of power generation, refining, chemicals, and pipeline projects. Member of
office leadership team, developed proposal evaluations, managed budget, office practices and policies, and
project reviews.
E&I Department Manager
Supervised electrical and instrument engineering and design staff; managed manpower requirements,
technical development of department staff engineers and designers, and evaluated department staff.

2. Established and maintained project proposal estimates; created department practices and procedures, and
conducted technical quality audits. Developed work share opportunities between Houston, Austin, Baton
Rouge, Lake Charles, and New Orleans.
ABB LUMMUS GLOBAL, INC.-Houston, Texas 1995–2009
E&I Department Manager
Supervised electrical and instrument engineering and design staff. Managed manpower requirements, the
technical development of staff engineers and designers, and evaluated staff. Developed and maintained
department budget, practices, and procedures. Prepared project proposal estimates and conducted
department technical quality audits.
• Saved over $500,000 per day for the construction contractor by negotiating a technical solution to a
complex issue between the client and the construction contractor.
Chief Electrical Engineer
Supervised electrical engineering staff; developed and maintained department practices and procedures.
Conducted department technical quality audits; managed department manpower requirements; supervised
the development of project proposal estimate costs, and managed the technical development of department
staff engineers.
Sr. Principal Engineer
Project discipline lead engineer; ensured technical compliance with project requirements in developing project
deliverables, executing the project in accordance with schedule, developing discipline execution plan, and
equipment and material technical evaluations. Conducted discipline reporting to project and administrative
management, and developed project proposal estimate costs.
Project references for ABB Lummus Global, Inc.:
• Fujian Refining & Ethylene Unit Project, China
• ExxonMobil Kizomba B, Drilling Tension Leg Platform, Angola
• ExxonMobil Kizomba A, Drilling Tension Leg Platform, Angola
• BP SECCO Ethylene Unit, China
• Rio Pol Ethylene Unit, Brazil
• BASF C4
• Monsanto Herbicide Plant, Brazil
• BASF NROC Ethylene Unit
• Yanpet Expansion Project ($800 million), Saudi Petrochemical Company, Ethylene Unit, 760,000 MTA
• Aramco Berri, Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Sulfur Unit #3
• Texas Eastman Division, Eastman Chemical Company, EP, Ethylene Expansion, 200 MM lbs./yr.
DOW CHEMICAL U.S.A.-Houston, Texas 1987–1995
Electrical Specialist
Project discipline lead engineer; ensured technical compliance with the project requirements in the
development of project deliverables, executing the project in accordance with schedule requirements,
developing discipline execution plan, conducting equipment and material technical evaluations, discipline
reporting to project, and administrative management.
Project references for Dow Chemical USA, E&CS Division:
• Unit #4 Geothermal Power Plant- Installation of a new 50 MW geothermal electrical power plant, Magma
Power Company.
• Unit #3 Acid Re-injection Installed three steam re-injection pumps–4,000 hp. variable frequency drives, 50
degree C ambient, Magma Power Company
• Hardrock, Ceramic Plant, 4 MW Electric Furnace–Dow Chemical, Michigan Division

3. • Cornerstone, Multi-product Pharmaceutical Plant (3,000 kva load)–Marion-Merrell–Dow
• Mannex, Pharma related facility (1,500 kva load)–Dow Chemical
• Stade–MDI plant, Dow Chemical, Europe
• Del Ranch, Elmore, Leathers, Installation of three new 50 MW geothermal electric power plants, Magma
Power Company
EDUCATION
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook | Lotus Notes | Adobe | SKM Power System Software
Engineering Integrated Database (ENID) | Document Management Database (IDocs) | INTOOLS
ETAP Electrical Engineering Software | Documentum | SAI Global| Primavera