Netherlands
I am a chemical/process engineer currently working as a Shift Engineer in Manufacturing at BASF Heerenveen, supporting chemical production through shift-based operations, process safety, troubleshooting, operator development, and practical production execution. My experience sits at the interface between operations, process engineering, maintenance, manufacturing support, and process safety. I enjoy work where technical judgement has to be applied directly to real plant behaviour: understanding deviations, identifying bottlenecks, improving operating methods, supporting safe equipment handover, and converting production priorities into executable shift work. Before joining BASF, I worked at JIGPC in Saudi Arabia on the world’s largest Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle complex. My role developed from unit-level process engineering support on the Soot Ash Recovery Unit into broader gasification circuit support across gasification, acid gas removal, hydrogen recovery, sulphur recovery, and soot ash recovery. This included production planning, process monitoring, senior management reporting, troubleshooting, MOC/RCA support, and work on a site-wide water balance constraint that contributed to relieving a significant production bottleneck. I also have experience in process safety engineering, HAZOP/revalidation studies, P&ID review, commissioning support, plant design, lab/testwork support, and technical documentation. I am particularly interested in the practical side of chemical engineering: how equipment, operators, procedures, controls, and process constraints interact in the real plant environment. Outside formal engineering roles, I have a long-standing leadership and coaching background through archery, scouting, and tutoring. That has shaped the way I work: direct communication, ownership, discipline, hands-on problem solving, and a strong focus on developing people as well as systems.
Seconded through Proconics International. My role as a Process engineer at the Soot Ash Recovery Unit > Assist Production / Operations team as and when required. > Assist Maintenance team with process inputs to their activities, > Monitor plant performance and identify performance gaps. > Develop methods of tracking equipment health and predicting equipment failure. > Troubleshoot problems and develop solutions to resolve plant operating issues. > Plant optimization - planning and executing tests to investigate bottlenecks and identify areas that can be used to improve overall plant capacity. > Initiate and support development and execution of plant modifications and projects. > Providing Process technical inputs during MOC's, Hazard Reviews, RCA's and other relevant topics. > Address environmental concerns
I am an Engineer in training, completing the graduate program which will expose me to all the facets included in the traditional EPCM Engineering companies, as well as completing my Professional Engineering Registration with ECSA.
Set up and ran the precommissioning of a commercial Hydrogen Fuel Cell. Partially completed the commissioning of the same Fuel Cell. Supervised the manufacture of custom generator sets mounted on trailers.
Finished the final year of my Chemical Engineering Degree. The University of Pretoria does not allow final semester students to be employed in the engineering sector while completing their final design project.