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Operations and production coordinator at a Direct Reduction plant. Production planning, resources management, KPI monitoring, Health Safety and Environment management. In charge of leading the production team, including daily production, training, continuous improvement and safety activities.Raw materials and final product stock management. Teamworking with Maintenence staff.Achievements:- Rerfractory materials annual repairs coordination. Purchases and services planning; overall supervision. All repairs carried out on schedule and within budget, ensuring continuous plant operation without thermal insulation failures.- Substantial cost reduction on Steel shop heavy cleaning services through monitoring and intervention on third party company activities.- Coordination of Steel shop heavy cleaning service insourcing project. Creation of synergy with existing areas and elimination of fixed costs and fees.

Direct Reduction process performance monitoring. Analysis of KPI, process variables, specific consumptions, raw materials evaluation and product quality.Production and Lab audits to iron ore suppliers. Plant expansion projections and calculations. Quality documents creation and follow up.Achievements:- Implementation of new work instruction system. Creation of documents, training of workers on new procedures and training of shift leaders on creating new work instructions.- Commissioning of new iron ore coating system. Test runs, improvements planning, process adjustments, final commissioning and handbook creation.- Analysis of equipment performances on future plant expansion. - Participation as author and lecturer on MIDREX Technology International Conferences and on Argentinian Siderurgy Institute Steel Conferences.

Aging study of epoxy-fiberglass composite material piping under service conditions. Testing developement and characterization. Mathematical analysis and modeling.