Bart van der Meulen

Head of Long Term Asset Development

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

About

Experience

  • Tata Steel in Europe (12 yrs 10 mos)
    • Head of Long Term Asset Development
      Aug 2017 - Present · 9 yrs 3 mos

      Responsible for future asset configuration in IJmuiden. Focus on the transition to a low CO2 and circular steelmaking operation. Earlier focus was on upgrading current downstream assets to produce the high end product range.

    • Chief Engineer and Manager Long Term Asset Strategy
      2014 – Jul 2017

      Responsible for Maintenance and future asset configuration.

  • Tata Steel Europe (8 yrs 1 mo)
    • Program Manager Maintenance
      2010 – 2013

      Successfully executed maintenance improvement program. Scope: all 10 works in IJmuiden, around 2000 FTE involved. Reduction of 25% of maintenance spend (achieved) and 50% improved equipment reliability (on track). Standard work flow implementation, standard budgeting process, monthly maintenance review at all levels (directors to team leaders), implementation of risk based maintenance. Strong focus on change management (mindset and behaviour). Leading small department of 25 FTE change agents and 10 FTE consultants.

    • Manager Revamp Hot Strip Mill
      2005 – 2010

      Member of Works MT. Responsible of revamp Hot Strip Mill. 100+ M Euro CAPEX scheme. Set up and execution of long term asset strategy by: benchmarking with European and Asian competitors, prioritizing the projects (est 40 brown field projects), making the business cases, ordering the in-house engineering department and contractors (engineering and execution of projects), tuning with Production. Leading small department of 15 FTE engineers.

  • Works Engineer at Corus
    2000 – 2004

  • Several positions at Hoogovens IJmuiden
    1990 – 1999

    Multiple functions including: Project Manager CAPEX projects, Process Engineer, Production Manager.