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Plant Development Site GrenlandLeading the Chlorine and VCM plants during preparations and execution of the 2021 Turnaround.Estimated 5 weeks and ca. 120,000 man-hours

Leading the maintenance department consisting of 14 colleagues of diverse education, experience and expertise. Responsible for maintenance, modifications and CapEx projects for 4 nitric acid plants, as well as a CO2 liquification plant, a tank farm, and the local industrial park's steam, water, and air supply.Ensuring a safe workplace via collaborative, multidiscipline preparation and execution of maintenance activities and active involvement of workers on-siteMaximizing plant uptime and availability, recently set 2 back-to-back production records during July & August 2019Managing over 15 M€/year investment budget for safety improvements, asset upgrades/de-bottlenecking, and end-of-lifetime replacementProviding and allocating technical assistance to projects and modifications initiated by stakeholders to improve production and/or reduce operating costsDesign and implementation of Yara Productivity System (YPS) for maintenance department, that incorporate several aspects of LEAN, 5S, and Continuous ImprovementTurnaround manager for past 5 turnarounds, including systematic preparations and execution for complete plant stoppage lasting 1-4 weeks.Member of HIP incident response team, responsible for site-wide emergency maintenance work

Design and compose optimal PGM gauze packs for Nitric Acid plants.Performance monitoring and database management.Supervise during catalyst installations, and inspection of equipment.Follow-up production and performance of N2O abatement catalyst.Contribute in catalyst development work.

Project manager for R&D projects totalling over 5 M€.Commercialisation of emerging titanium technologies focussing on primary metal production, physical metallurgy and additive manufacturingDevelopment of IPR strategy and patent portfolioTechnical relations with customers and suppliers

Conducting lectures, lab demonstrations, tutorials

Developed ladle metallurgy and material disposition procedures, co-ordinated process capability study at STAR recycling facility