2005 JCSA Employee of the Year
Kevin Linkous has been named James City Service Authority=s Employee of the Year. Kevin was recognized recently at the JCSA's annual Safety and Recognition awards Ceremony.
The Employee of the Year is an extension of the JCSA Employee of the Month program. Kevin was chosen from the past year's 12 monthly honorees. He has been with the JCSA since August 2001. His selection was based on performance while performing duties as an Industrial Mechanic.
Kevin has come a long way since he joined JCSA, from one with a novice=s knowledge base for controls and instrumentation, to a master mechanic for getting new Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system online. For SCADA, Kevin has been very involved in getting the 107 utility facilities ready and doing the necessary system checkouts for facility acceptance. Contractor representatives from Hartwell Engineering and Systems East Inc. were very complimentary on Kevin=s professionalism and his methodical approach to the SCADA project.
For the past several months Kevin has been there for JCSA, when it again needed him. Kevin has been in the electrical and instrumentation over-watch mode at the Five Forks Water Treatment Plant making sure any shortcomings were addressed to allow it to come online as projected. He worked tirelessly in developing a fourteen-page list of electrical and instrumentation discrepancies at the Plant. Kevin did the necessary research through the technical specification and electrical codes in comparing work done by the Contractor to what codes and technical specifications required. He was tenacious at trying to resolve discrepancies noted in the electrical and instrumentation for the plant. His efforts have saved JCSA many thousands of dollars and helped to ensure a properly operating facility.
Beyond the plant, Kevin also took the lead in start-up and inspection of the controls and SCADA systems at the new Lift Station 1-2, JCSA=s largest wastewater pumping facility. This station is not the typical JCSA station and includes many new and unique features in the control logic arena. As proved once again, Kevin definitely goes above and beyond, and is a true asset to JCSA. When you consider all that he does now, and in the past, we can think of no better recipentent of the award.