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Dunquerque, France

As a reliability engineer of the cranes department at Mardyck plant, I am responsible for:• Daily monitoring and proper operation of the plant's cranes;• Manage the CMMS system inputs;• Major failure analysis;• Improve troubleshooting methods;• Building of projects linked to maintenance opportunities;• Review and upgrade of maintenance plans;• Management of maintenance plans' execution and efficiency;

São Luís

• Avoid U$ 3M losses in 2021 with great maintenance efforts in milling system;• Generated more than U$ 200K in 2020 with actions from failure analysis only; • Enhanced professional knowledge trough contact with Alcoa/Brazilian electrical standards;• Increased instrumentation skills and knowledge when commissioning advanced sensors and engaging in Alcoa instrumentation team;• Collaborated closely to the team responsible for developing the anti-cavitation system used… Show more • Avoid U$ 3M losses in 2021 with great maintenance efforts in milling system;• Generated more than U$ 200K in 2020 with actions from failure analysis only; • Enhanced professional knowledge trough contact with Alcoa/Brazilian electrical standards;• Increased instrumentation skills and knowledge when commissioning advanced sensors and engaging in Alcoa instrumentation team;• Collaborated closely to the team responsible for developing the anti-cavitation system used in Refinery’s pumps;Achievements: - Leader of the group in charge of engineering a new control setup for the water neutralization system. This small neutralization plant inside the Refinery had an outdate and obsolete technology, replaced by new PLCs, network, control logics and instrumentation, ensuring factory operability. Show less

Barcarena

• First contact with Refinery instrumentation: flowmeters, conductivity meters, temperature sensors, DPcells, ultrasonic level and radiometric density meters;• Applied reliability techniques to review maintenance strategies for a full sector of the company (more than 1000+ equipment);• Managed the maintenance team for a short period as backup;Achievements: - Substantial gains with coarse seed filters performance, trough the implementa-tion of a pioneer level measurement… Show more • First contact with Refinery instrumentation: flowmeters, conductivity meters, temperature sensors, DPcells, ultrasonic level and radiometric density meters;• Applied reliability techniques to review maintenance strategies for a full sector of the company (more than 1000+ equipment);• Managed the maintenance team for a short period as backup;Achievements: - Substantial gains with coarse seed filters performance, trough the implementa-tion of a pioneer level measurement method, a Photo Electric Distance Sensor. This achievement brought to the company about U$ 30K/month in gains. Show less

São Luís

• Performed failure analysis on substantial equipment failures; • Had the opportunity to get in contact with many types of equipment and producing systems, like compressed air, mills, PLC, VSD and blowers;• Metal tapping vehicle Factory Acceptance Test at Hencon (Netherlands);Achievements: - Head of compressed air team, implementing new predictive maintenance techniques, eliminating leakages, improved compressors performance, commissioning of VSD air dryers and the… Show more • Performed failure analysis on substantial equipment failures; • Had the opportunity to get in contact with many types of equipment and producing systems, like compressed air, mills, PLC, VSD and blowers;• Metal tapping vehicle Factory Acceptance Test at Hencon (Netherlands);Achievements: - Head of compressed air team, implementing new predictive maintenance techniques, eliminating leakages, improved compressors performance, commissioning of VSD air dryers and the installation of new automation improvements. The actions of this team generated U$ 500K gains in the year of 2012. Show less

Specialization, Maintenance Engineering

Specialization in Maintenance and Reliability Engineering.

Bachelor, Electrical Engineering

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering.