Rucphen, North Brabant, Netherlands
Organizational leader with a strong technical background in chemical, food and biotech industries. Passionate about coaching, team development and creating structure. Proven track record in managing project, production, commissioning, and process engineering teams, with expertise in automation, process optimization, and compliance. Excels at analyzing, structuring, and solving complex problems while driving cross-functional collaboration and continuous improvement. Adept at stakeholder management and operational excellence, with a hands-on approach to leadership and team growth.
Full accountability for assigned projects (Typically 0.3MM up to 10MM) Supporting development of capital governance framework and PMO
Leading and coaching technical team, focused on standardization and optimization. Program management of cross functional and business critical programs Stakeholder management for investors and (technical) consultants. Project owner for program related CAPEX projects Development of project process, governance and organisational structure. Stakeholder management for investors and (technical) consultants. Part of site and senior leadership teams.
Responsible for the operations/production department for the state of the art production facility for Abunda. Leading and coaching a team of 23. Focused on knowledge transfer and HSE culture. Part of site and senior leadership teams.
Responsible for the coordination of all activities surrounding commissioning including handovers, scheduling, resource planning, documentation, training and vendor scopes for greenfield project realizing a new production facility capable of producing 10000 tons of Mycoprotein annually. Part of the project and process engineering team. Member of the company wide HSE committee (nominated role)
Continuation of previous role after acquisition by Covestro
Project engineering manager for the Voyager DCS migration project (assignment) Functional management of 4 direct reports and 8 indirect reports. Responsible for on time in full delivery of all engineering packages Supporting project management in budget, commercial and stakeholder management aspects
Process and Project Engineering at the Process & Technology Center for DSM Resins and Functional Materials. Activies: Worldwide support for sites in business group: Technical support for new business development, SHE studies (Hazardous substances, process safety analysis, hazop) and engineering in large capital projects. Assignment: Project engineering manager in LCP project for DCS migration (>1 mln Euro)
Student assistant for the Bachelor course Chemical Reactor Engineering. My task is to make a program in Matlab that can generate individual assignment bundles. Templates are taken from a database and formatted so that the can be compiled in Latex. A modular system was designed to be course independent and flexible towards future demands.
Student member of the University Counsel for Groep-één fraction. Chairman of the fraction. Member of the Financial Committee Chairman of the Bachelor College Committee. With the university having recently radically altered it's bachelor program to a bachelor college and the implementation of a graduate school being close, great effort was needed to insure high quality education and solid representation of student is the Counsel.
Working together with different parties in organizing a formal ceremony and large event for over 3000 students. Ensuring quality of the event whilst making large scale budgets cuts. Combining the opening of the latest building on the campus, Flux, taking into account different schedules and priorities.