Jeffrey Hammitt
Senior Consultant – Structural/Blades
EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS
NE Missouri State University
B.S. in Industrial Technology
- Certified Composites Technician
- Six Sigma Green Belt
BIOGRAPHY
Jeffrey Hammitt has over forty years of experience in the design, construction and maintenance of fossilfueled power plants and utility scale wind turbines and well-recognized as an industry subject matter expert in wind turbine blades and structures. Experienced in fundamentals of project management and knowledgeable in all aspects of power plant and wind turbine mechanical equipment and systems, Jeffrey brings his expertise to OCI. Skilled in the design and repair of fiberglass and carbon fiber composite structures, Jeffrey acts as Senior Consultant to the insurance industry, corporations, and their respective legal counsel.
RELAVANT INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
Member of the IEC Technical Advisor Group for development of wind turbine standards
NextEra Energy Resources, Staff Technical Specialist
- Power Gen & Wind Fleet Engineering Team
- Technical Leader, 22,000 MW’s Wind Turbines in Operation–Blades, Towers Foundations
- Led root cause analysis efforts for blade failures and turbine collapses and submitted reports to insurers
Florida Power & Light, (Various Roles)
- Power Generation Central Maintenance Team
- Developed Procedures & Specifications
- Estimating, Contract Development, Contract Supervision
- Fossil Plant Design
- Manatee Orimulsion Conversion Project (800MW oil-fired units)
Ahlstrom Pyropower Corp, Field Service Engineer/Project Group Lead
- Startup Engineer for 180MW CoGen facility
- Monitor Construction of Boilers
EXPERTISE
- Wind Turbine Composite Blades, Towers,Foundations, Bolting Systems
- Wind Turbine Blade Failure Analysis
- Wind Turbine Blade Aerodynamics, Design, and Reliability
- Coal-Fired Power Plants-Boilers
- Design of Mechanical Equipment
- HVAC & DuctworkRepair/Replacement Strategy
- Defect/Failure Modeling
- Applicable Software/Technology:
- AutoCAD, Microsoft Project, & MS Office
