Le Mans, Pays de la Loire, France
Experienced Engineering Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the renewables and environment industry. Skilled in Power Plants, Continuous Improvement, Power Systems, Engineering, and EPC. Strong engineering professional with a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) focused in Project Management from FIA - Fundação Instituto de Administração.
Responsible for the engineering & test bench management at Flowserve in Arnage workshop.
Responsible for the management of the Turbines Engineering department at GE Renewables - Hydro. Working across several areas and dealing with related interfaces with supply chain, project management, manufacturing and quality as well as managing interfaces with diferent engineering team around the world in France, China, India and Canada.
Position: Engineering Manager Responsabilities: Management of the turbines engineering team including draftsman, project leaders, design engineers and technical project managers. The main responsibilities were related to planning, expenses control, development and training people, budget management, setting year objectives and year performance evaluation. Furthermore the role requires and provides a solid technical background and project management knowledge motivated by the constant relation with the project engineering execution for hydroelectric power plants. The main contributions are related to the projects such as Baixo Iguaçu, Ituango (Colômbia), São Manoel and others. Main achievements: Quality improvement by reduction of drawing revisions, implementation of management practices to improve milestones achievements and budget goals. Improvement of the team skills and background, establishment of practices and methods to improve project engineering execution.
Position: Engineering Coordinator Responsabilities: Management of the mechanical calculation team. Team composed by 15 engineers developing mechanical calculations of turbines, generators, hydromechanical and lifting equipment. The main responsibilities were related to the planning, expense control, development and training people, budget management, setting year objectives and year performance evaluation. The main contributions were related to the powerplants projects such as: Teles Pires, Chaglla (Peru), El Quimbo (Colômbia), Manduriacu (Equador), Santo Antonio do Jari, Belo Monte, Santo Antonio e Jirau.
Position: Test rig Engineer - Expatriated Responsible for experiments execution on a hydraulic test platform, on reduced turbines model. The experiments were related to the turbine performance, cavitation, pressure pulsation and mechanical measurements.
Position: Technical Project Coordinator Responsible for technical project management of a vertical turbine. The role of the function was related to define the turbine mechanical design, moreover the responsibilities were related to planning, coordination of draftsmans, define purchase specifications, preparation of drawings for manufacturing, assure the engineering interfaces within the powerhouse as well as the interfaces with the customer. The project was located on Panamá named Changuinola I, a Francis turbine of 100MW of output power.
Position: Mechanical Calculation Engineer Responsible for mechanical calculation of hydraulic turbines components such as runners, covers, shafts, bearings, spiral case, coupling and others, based on the application of design criteria according to international standards and codes such as ASME, DIN, IEEE and BSI. The role included the preparation of calculations reports based on analytical and finite element approach. Contribution on projects of small power plants such as PCH Retiro, PCH Palmeira, PCH Mont Serrat, PCH Bonfante, PCH Queluz, PCH Lavrinhas and large power plants such as (Foz do Chapecó and 14 de Julho).