Santiago Daniel Delgado Tovar

Sales & Chemical Engineer | Resource Recovery | Anaerobic Digestion | Biogas Upgrading | Environmental Biotechnology

Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

About

An enthusiastic environmental biotechnologist and chemical engineer with 4+ years of relevant commercial and technical experience in industrial and municipal wastewater treatment, as well as in biogas treatment and upgrading projects, where circular economy, resource recovery and sustainability are key factors.

Experience

  • Veolia | Resource recovery technologies (Делфт)
    • Sales Engineer
      Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

      Duties: • Key Account Manager and Business Development for the Iberian Peninsula, Czech Republic, NORAM and LATAM region. • Generate € 4M revenue in EP and EPC projects. • Train the local Business Units regarding MemGas (biogas upgrading) product. Achievements: • Secure an EPC biogas upgrading contract in France for the municipal industry with a selling value of € 4.5M.

    • Tender Engineer
      Aug 2024 - May 2025 · 10 mos

      Duties: • Calculate sales price for MemGas product and after sales services. • Prepare concept and firm proposals for MemGas to customers worldwide. • Manage and improve the costing tool with its corresponding data base. Achievement: • New proposal template with its corresponding annexes such as motor list, Battery limits list and responsibility matrix. • Secure an EP biogas upgrading contract in the USA for the municipal industry with a selling value of € 2M.

  • Proposal Manager at Paques
    Dec 2021 - Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 8 mos

    Duties: • Key Account Manager for the Iberian Peninsula. • Make conceptual designs, sales BFD, PFD and Lay-out. • Prepare offers with value proposition to customers worldwide. • Calculate sales price for e.g., pilot rental, THIOPAQ® (biological desulphurization) product delivery and BIOPAQ® (granular anaerobic treatment) Min. package including corresponding site services. Achievements: • € 2M generated revenue by selling in-house technologies such as ANAMMOX® (deammonification), BIOPAQ® & THIOPAQ® in several industries across Europe. • Lead the team that developed the UK commercial strategy for the coming years. • Secure an EPC wastewater treatment contract in the UK for the P&P industry with a selling value of € 9M.

  • Process Technology Intern at Econvert Water & Energy B.V.
    Mar 2021 - Aug 2021 · 6 mos

    Project title: Cultivation of Anaerobic Granular Sludge: From Flocculent to Granular Sludge Duties: • Elaborate a method/guideline to convert anaerobic flocculent sludge into granular sludge in a EGSB pilot reactor. Achievements: • A guideline and state of art for the granulation of anaerobic sludge in a column-type reactor.

  • Junior Analyst at AgroCares
    Aug 2020 - Jan 2021 · 6 mos

    Duties: • Preparation and chemical analysis of samples to determine the available nutrients in soil. Achievements: • Data acquisition and management to develop the innovative Near Infra-Red Spectrometer which allows to determine in-situ the available nutrients in soil.

  • R&D Product Packaging Engineer - Intern at PepsiCo
    Dec 2016 - Jun 2017 · 7 mos

    Duties: • Create prototypes (dummies) of new products or designs. • Evaluate the integrity of the snacks after delivery/transportation. Achievements: • Testing and improving the packaging step of new products or designs.