Geert Van de Weyer

Site Engineering Manager

Belgium

About

Experience

  • Site Engineering Manager at FrieslandCampina
    May 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

    Responsible with my site engineering team - for projects to replace, improve or modify the site's assets or extend asset life time, - for drawing & P&ID management, - for capital management and capex PO admin, - for onsite works coordination. Responsible for site investment plan & site project portfolio.

  • GBfoods (Puurs)
    • Corporate Engineering Standarization Manager
      Feb 2021 - May 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Corporate Engineering manager, working on engineering standardization of processes, tools and way of working, link with e.g. Procurement, Finance or HS&E. Project management for the African project portfolio Production, Maintenance and change management for the African production, in support of the Operations' team Improvement Engineer for the African production installation.

    • Group Engineering Manager
      Aug 2019 - Jan 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Group Capex & MRO management - Budget follow up, capex approval and project support - Engineering systems & processes Project Management for projects in several EU production facilities Project manager for insourcing of cold sauce production, installing a new line (process, packing, facilities & utilities). This new line has increased the site's production capacity with 1/3. The project needed to be delivered in a very tight schedule with limited resources.

  • Group Engineering Manager at Continental Foods
    Jul 2019 - Jan 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

    Group Capex & MRO management - Budget follow up, capex approval and project support - Engineering systems & processes Project Management for projects in several EU production facilities Integration of an acquired business into our Capital and MRO budget and reporting lines Integration of our company into the Capital budget and reporting lines of our acquiring company

  • Kellogg Company (7 yrs)
    • Capital Project Manager
      Jun 2014 - Jun 2019 · 5 yrs 1 mo

      Projects I have worked on as Project Manager: - Logistics: Transportation & reorganization of assets across our EU network after divestiture - Installation of a new CHP plant & boiler house, with impact on several of the existing utilities systems to bring savings while increasing energy sustainability. Project scope: civil scope for the new equipment, a complex integration of the new equipment into the plant, a repair and replace plus upgrade of the existing fumes extraction & incineration system, which was previously the only heat source of the utilities plant. - Installation of a new pilot plant; with several steps of the production process in lab or pilot plant scale. It enables the R&D department to research and test on lab and pilot plant scale, before testing on the actual production lines, which reduces losses on production time and increases success rate for innovations. - Modification of a packing line from packing material arrival to finished product truck loading to run additional pack sizes. - Roll out to all production lines of an innovation project to completely redesign a part of the production process. Both civil and equipment scope had to be installed in limited production down time in the middle of an operational plant, while also introducing a new CIP system. This project delivered a reduction in production losses and increased the change over efficiency.

    • Project Engineer Utilities
      Jul 2012 - May 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos

      Technology owner within European Engineering for Utilities, with responsibility for the Utilities long term masterplan while leading the Utilities scope of every project. - HVAC masterplan: installation of several new HVAC systems, modifications to reduce condensation within the production area, several food safety upgrades, clean design equipment - Utilities for a new production line including HVAC, water systems, compressed air, CFD simulation for & installation of a new baking fumes extraction & treatment system - Lead engineer for a contracted engineering company to install a full new utilities plant for a brown field production facility. Installation of a new High Pressure Steam boiler and integration into an existing Medium Pressure Steam system & boiler house; installation of a new generated gasses plant, waste water treatment plant (civil + equipment), HV room and emergency generators, water treatment & hot water systems, cleaning systems, sanitary water, compressed air plant and network, ammonia/chilled water plant and chilled water network (civil + equipment), cooking fumes extraction and treatment, natural gas network, cooling towers, HVAC system

  • Procter & Gamble (Mechelen)
    • Project Engineer Utilities
      Nov 2011 - Jun 2012 · 8 mos

      Technology owner within European Engineering for Utilities, with responsibility for the Utilities long term masterplan while leading the Utilities scope of every project. - Energy masterplan: pre-feasibility study for a Combined Heat & Power plant (Gas Turbine) - Chilled water masterplan: installation of a new chiller, study for chilled water network optimization - HVAC masterplan: installation of several new HVAC systems, including a dedicated chiller - Compressed air masterplan: feasibility study to introduce a low pressure air network for truck unloading - Energy pinch study with all heat & cold mass streams

    • Start Up & Training leader
      Mar 2009 - Oct 2011 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      - IWS Education & Training leader, responsible to manage and improve the internal training systems, implement training plans & skill matrices in all site departments of 2 factories with in total about 800 people (production and support functions) - Start Up leader in a Project to introduce a new Production data system, responsible to update all operational reporting tools & train the operational teams for input and reporting.

    • Operations Team leader
      2001 - Feb 2009 · 8 yrs 2 mos

      I had several roles in operations: - Teamleader for various operational areas: Utilities, Raw Materials, Warehouse & Scrap, (De-)Palletizers, up to 36 people, including maintenenance planning. - Departmental Systems owner for TPM/IWS (AM, E&T), maintenance, break down elimination - Energy coordinator: Energy budget owner & Kyoto energy reduction program leader, raising awareness and coordinating energy reduction projects or kaizens.