Kruibeke, Flemish Region, Belgium
- Mechanical engineering professional with a solid background in static pressure equipment (piping, valves, pressure vessels, fired heaters, tanks, marine loading); - Pursues to improve long term mechanical integrity; - Risk driven approach in balancing resources and objectives; - High focus on process and personal safety, driven by petrochemical industry experience; - Leads without formal authority, using informal style;
- Lead incident investigations and root cause analysis; - Set up framework for site risk management and stewardship; - Set up practical and competitive workflow for developing site equipment strategies (ES); - Facilitate implementation of new ES platform along with data import and onboarding of stakeholders; - Temporary assignments during 2020 site turnaround: 1) 6 months as scaffolding supervisor; 2) Buddy manager for inspection company to improve their field safety performance;
- Piping & valves specialist for Singapore integrated complex (2 refineries, 1 chemical plant) - Coach and train less experienced engineers; - Complete advanced technical assessments for projects, maintenance, turnarounds and incidents; - Manage site wide studies;
The goal of this one-month internship was to assess sour water corrosion damage in the piping of the gofiner installation at Antwerp refinery and to evaluate the piping inspection program.