Freelancer, Industrial electro-mechanical installations and maintenance consultant. Expert at advanced Energy Power Systems.

I am working on the creation (“from scratch”) of a modern Technical Department by:• Supporting trouble-free operation of the plant’s total electro-mechanical equipment having daily in person involvement at each technical malfunction• Creating, revising and ensuring the implementation of preventive maintenance schedules – periodical technical inspections• Created and administering a full coded technical warehouse• Managing the Technical Department’s procurement• Managing subcontractors work ensuring the compliance according to specifications• Ensuring the personnel safety (safety technician responsibilities)

I was training in order to absorb the role of the Technical Manager of the facility. The facility is producing exclusively PP products for Food and Chemicals industries. It is divided in three major departments: Injection (20+ production lines - ENGEL, STORK, DEMAG etc), Thermoforming (12+ production lines - KEIFEL, GREINER etc), OFFSET printing (10+ production lines - VANDAM, POLYTYPE).

Job description:-) Active participation on the day by day troubleshooting of the plant’s electro-mechanical equipment-) Creating, revising and ensuring the implementation of the preventive maintenance schedules at: • bottle PET SIDEL and carton TBA TETRAPAK production lines (48.000 b/h) • high pasteurizer systems VTIS/FLEX ALFA LAVAL • other production equipment (valves-pumps, centrifugal separators, product tanks etc) • plant’s utilities systems: --) Middle / low voltage substation with installed electrical power approximately 5MVA --) Compressed air production facilities with low-middle pressure air compressors --) Industrial and “clean” steam production facilities --) Refrigerant equipment and circulation network --) Water pumping, processing and circulating systems --) Waste water treatment plant --) Electrical forklifts and pallet trucks -) Supervising and leading up to 40 technical staff in (3) sub-divisions of the Technical Department-) Reporting to Plant Manager on a daily basis-) Superintending the subcontractors’ work ensuring compliance with specifications-) Assuring of plant’s electro-mechanical equipment operation compliance with present state legislation-) Authoring, standardize, assessing and ensuring the implementation of Good Maintenance Practices (GMPs) according to manufacturers’ specifications and Technical Department’s standards-) Managing the Technical Department’s procurement: • purchasing materials, equipment and ordering technical services • evaluating and overseeing our suppliers facilities • seeking alternative suppliers-) Creating, monitoring and presenting proper technical and economical indexes to upper management in respect of equipment’s operation and performance-) Collaborating with external audit bodies (state and private)-) Conducting interviews with job applicants, assessing technical staff CVs

Trainee Electrical Engineer during heavy electro-mechanical installation project (High/medium voltage oil transformers, SF6 GIS switch gear etc) at the work site of Greek PPC's electrical distribution substation at Heraklio, Crete, as a sub-contractor of ABB company.