Geert Taes

Project Director

Antwerp Metropolitan Area

About

Engineering in olie-, gas- en petrochemische industrie Specialties: SOFTWARE SKILLS · MS-Office (Word, Excel, Outlook…) · Internet Explorer · Conval (e.g. design control valves) · Flowel (primary flow measuring elements) · TR-Ciel electrical network and cable calculation · …..

Experience

  • SNC-Lavalin (25 yrs 6 mos)
    • Project Director
      Apr 2008 - Present · 18 yrs 3 mos

      · Turnkey project Fluxys Loenhout Extension IV · Consortium with contractor. · Project Budget 61 m€, SNC-Lavalin part 32m€ · Present phase: construction, pre-commissioning and commissioning. · Staffing, planning, budget, briefing and overall guidance of the project · Project control (reports, client meetings, efficiency, budget, planning, …). · People management responsibility (manage, coach, support, control, …) over 20 professional freelancers. · Negotiations with suppliers and subcontractors.

    • Department Manager Chemicals Antwerp
      Dec 2006 - Mar 2008 · 1 yr 4 mos

      · Total commercial, financial and operational responsibility of business unit · Turnover ± 6 Million € / year · Number of employees: 75

    • Engineering manager
      Jan 2003 - Nov 2006 · 3 yrs 11 mos

      · People management (lead engineers Civil, Process, Mechanical, Piping) · Interdisciplinary engineering process · Evaluate proposals · Manage operations · Personnel planning

  • Amoco Chemical belgium (11 yrs 10 mos)
    • Project engineer electricity & instrumentation
      Sep 1993 - Dec 2000 · 7 yrs 4 mos

      · Yearly budget: ± 2.000.000 EUR · Cost control en planning of projects · Budgeting, calculation of project present value and writing of approval file of projects · Projects: o Database drawings & making drawings available on LAN & WAN. o E&I 40% de-bottlenecking project polymer plant o Trunking radio communication system o Speed control 1MW DC motor and harmonic filter o 6kV and 380V Motor Control Centers o Local Area Network o Measurement and pressure reducing station H2 & N2-pipeline o Radioactive level measurements of polymerisation reactors o Evaluation & installation of melt index meters on polymer product o Dosing equipment of additive pellets. o Several on-line analysers. o Y2K

    • Process control engineer
      Mar 1989 - Aug 1993 · 4 yrs 6 mos

      · Development of process control schemes · Modelling & simulation of processes · Projects : o Multivariable control polymerisation reactor o Multivariable control dehydration tower o Modelling hydrogenation reactor o Modelling feed mixture oxidation reactor