Lukas Alletsee

Chemical Engineering and Manufacturing

Visp, Valais, Switzerland

About

Experience

  • Arxada (4 yrs 8 mos)
    • Manufacturing Manager
      Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

    • On-site
      Present

      - member of the plant management team, in charge of a continuous mono plant - deputy of plant manager - 11 direct reports (production supervisors), 10 indirect reports (operators day shift) - lead of production team incl. production supervisor, maintenance engineers, shift employees - lead in planning and implementation of technical changes and investment projects, risk analysis, management of change MOC, continuous improvements - coaching shift employees - on-call duty responsibility for all plants in production cluster

    • Production Team Lead / Manufacturing Chemist
      Mar 2022 - Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos

      - member of the plant management team, in charge of a continuous mono plant - lead of production team incl. production supervisor, maintenance engineers, shift employees - lead in planning and implementation of technical changes and investment projects, risk analysis, management of change MOC, continuous improvements - coaching shift employees - on-call duty responsibility for all plants in production cluster

  • Process Engineer at BASF
    Apr 2020 - Mar 2022 · 2 yrs

    - lead conceptual process engineer and conceptual process design during pre-FEED of a large capital project (aroma ingredients, > 100 M EUR, part of the new BASF Zhanjiang Verbund): technology transfer from existing plant, process simulation (continuous and batch) and mass- and energy balance for whole plant, coordination support of equipment layout, debottlenecking of batch process and transfer to Operations; plant start-up successful start-up of plant; project successfully completed on schedule and under budget - despite project start 6 months behind schedule; plant start-up in April 2026 - process simulation for the introduction of a new amine product and transfer to Operations (USA) - continuous process simulation for performing a bottleneck and pinch point analysis (identifying an easy-to-implement heat integration potential) and coordination of plant trials, equipment revamp and troubleshooting for a continuous process for a continuous plant cluster (epoxides and glycols) - statistical evaluation of process data for debottlenecking of a batch process for agrochemicals - engagement in the development of a new in-house knowledge sharing platform for Global Engineering - process simulation tools: Aspen Plus, Chemasim, Chemadis, Inosim

  • Graduate Research Assistant at Helmholtz-Institut Erlangen-Nürnberg für Erneuerbare Energien
    Apr 2018 - Apr 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

    hydrogenation experiments, sample preparations for analysis (especially NMR spectroscopy and GC), evaluation of experimental data, literature research

  • Research And Development Intern at BASF
    Nov 2017 - Mar 2018 · 5 mos

    evaluation of experimental data with the aid of statistical methods, literature research, assistance in the development of a catalyst for the selective hydrogenation of hydrocarbon streams in the screening phase

  • Research Intern at Spanish Council for Scientific Research
    Sep 2017 - Nov 2017 · 3 mos

    Greater Sevilla Metropolitan Area