Luis Machado

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Instrument & Control Systems
Luis Machado's Location
Seville, Andalusia, Spain, Spain
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About Luis Machado

• With over 28 years of experience in the Oil and Gas Industry within the field of Instrumentation, Control, and Safety Systems: Projects -EPC-, Engineering, and Maintenance.• Demonstrated leadership capabilities relating to Maintenance, Engineering, and Project teams, up to the Superintendent level.• Direct involvement in engineering, projects (EPC - commissioning and start-up) related to various equipment such as Honeywell Control Systems, Yokogawa CENTUM 3000 Control system, Emergency Shutdown Systems, Triconex, Rosemount, Foxboro, Fisher, Masoneilan, Woodward and CCC turbine/compressor controllers, Allen-Bradley, Siemens PLCs, F&G systems/equipment, among others.• Control and tracking of Key Performance Indicators - KPIs, Equipment Data Indicators (MTBR, MTBF, MTTR), equipment availability/reliability, Alarm Management implementation, risk analysis, equipment design, and maintenance strategies based on Safety Integrity Level -SIL- and Reliability Centered Maintenance, elaboration, planning, and follow-up of preventive, proactive, predictive, and corrective maintenance.• Utilization of software packages such as SAP, Process Information (PI) including configuration, and Microsoft Excel among others.• Alarm Management implementation, tracking, and execution.• As Instrument and Control Engineering Superintendent and Maintenance Superintendent, I have provided technical assistance to instrumentation projects during engineering, construction, commissioning, and start-up, as well as Factory and Site Acceptance Tests (FAT & SAT).• Demonstrated experience in administration and coordination of personnel activities, career development - training, and recruitment.• My work style is team-oriented, requiring minimal supervision – Goals/objectives and responsibilities –. I consistently aim to exceed the goals established by the organization, within industry safety parameters and norms.• I hold a USA Patent (my first patent so far) for a mechanical device related to center of mass balance.

Luis Machado's Current Company Details

Instrument & Control Systems
Luis Machado Work Experience Details
  • Kizer Energy Inc.
    Instrument And Control Systems Consultant
    Kizer Energy Inc. Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
    Remote Work
    • Elaboration of pre-commissioning and commissioning procedures for the instrument, Control, and Safety Systems of the Bakersfield Renewable Fuels refinery in California, USA. Remote work assignment.
  • Family Business
    Operations Manager - Ceo
    Family Business Feb 2017 - Sep 2022
    Goose Creek, South Carolina. Usa
  • Exxonmobil
    Icss (Instrument Control & Safety Sistems) Supervisor
    Exxonmobil Jul 2013 - Nov 2016
    Offshore, Nigeria
    • Responsible for the reliability and availability of all control and safety systems by coordinating and supervising all maintenance activities related to the Yokogawa process control system, Invensys (now Schneider Electrical)–Triconex- for process safety, ESD and F&G, also PLC packages such as Allen-Bradly and Siemens, including Metering system, Flow transmitters and analyzers.• Carrying out and managing the process and implementation of temporary/long-term defeats on the Systems, following TOTAL/ExxonMobil safety philosophies.• I was involved in the team responsible for conducting risk analysis on the process units of the USAN FPSO.• Alarm Management implementation and continuous application, with excellent results, from over 100 alarms per hour reduced to less than 15 (average), and improving.• Working in conjunction with the engineering team onshore (OTS) to address and solve Instrument/ Control/Safety System problems.• Troubleshooting, data/trend, and root cause analysis for process/equipment upsets and shutdowns, using PI/XHQ as tools and reporting.
  • Yemen Lng Company
    Instrument Maintenance Superintendent
    Yemen Lng Company Oct 2007 - Dec 2010
    Balhaf, Yemen
    I have managed around 74 employees (YLNG and contracted staff), over ten different nationalities, working in rotation 28x28 days, all Plant Instrumentation, workshop and different contracts for a LNG plant (2 Trains) with production of 6,7 MT/Y. I have assisted YemenLNG Operations team for the commissioning and start up of the Units. Among my responsibilities I was in charge of coordinating the elaboration and implementation of maintenance procedures and contracts, instrument preventive maintenance plans, spare parts, tools, vendor training and assistance, personnel work strategies and assignments, personnel recruitment, appraisals and assistance for Plant shutdown and start-up.
  • Exxonmobil
    Instrument Reliability Engineer
    Exxonmobil May 2005 - Feb 2006
    Cerro Negro, Venezuela
    • Provided engineer and technical assistance to the production and project instrument teams.• Elaboration of Maintenance plans and procedures based on reliability objectives and Safety Integrity Level (SIL) goals.
  • Pdvsa Paraguaná Refinery Complex
    Instrument Maintenance Superintendent
    Pdvsa Paraguaná Refinery Complex Jan 2000 - Jan 2003
    Falcon State, Venezuela
    Responsible for the reliability, availability and performance of the instrumentation and control equipments and control systems. Supervision and follow up of preventive, predictive and corrective maintenance on all instrumentation equipment and systems of the Cardón Refinery. Technical support to instrumentation projects and plant revamps. Personnel evaluation, career plans and training needs. The workgroup was of 82 people, instrument professionals and technicians.
  • Pdvsa Paraguaná Refinery Complex
    Instrument Engineering Superintendent
    Pdvsa Paraguaná Refinery Complex Jan 1999 - Jan 2000
    Falcon State, Venezuela
    Head of the Instrument Engineering team. Responsible for evaluation, specifications, implementation, installation and startup of technical changes for instrumentation and control systems in the Amuay Refinery. Technical assistance to projects and support to the maintenance team in the detection and solution of recurrent problems. Maintenance contract preparation and revision for the Paraguaná Refining Complex and for the whole company nationwide. Evaluation, preparation and implementation of preventive and predictive maintenance plans.
  • Cardón Refinery
    Instrument Engineer
    Cardón Refinery Jan 1997 - Jan 1999
    In charge of the evaluation, specifications, implementation, installation and startup of technical changes for instrumentation and control systems in the Cardón Refinery. Study and preparation of preventive maintenance plans, obtaining excellent savings for the company in the application of these plans. Identification and solving of recurrent problems affecting equipment such as Distributed Control Systems TDC-3000 of Honeywell, Programmable Logic Controllers, Digital Controllers, Machine Monitoring Systems, Emergency Shutdown Systems.
  • Cardón Refinery
    Instrument Supervisor
    Cardón Refinery Jan 1996 - Jan 1997
    Preventive maintenance instrumentation supervisor. Responsible for the preventive maintenance of the instrumentation equipment of the Cardón Refinery.
  • Cardón Refinery
    Project Engineer
    Cardón Refinery Jan 1989 - Jan 1996
    Worked in Off Site Utilities Project (RSI) and the Cardón Refinery Project (PARC). I was in charge of supervising installation, loop commissioning, acceptance tests and startup of TDC-3000 systems and Triconex Logic Controllers (PLC) and Rockwell Allen-Bradley PLCs of all units of the new plants.
  • Honeywell
    Project Engineer
    Honeywell Jan 1987 - Jan 1989
    Work assignment for Honeywell International Projects team. Factory Acceptance tests of the Distributed Control System for CPC (Chinese Petroleum Corporation). Assembly, implementation and Factory tests of the TDC system for the Shuaiba Project in Kuwait. Integral Training on TDC equipments and systems.
  • Cardón Refinery
    Maintenance Hardware Engineer
    Cardón Refinery Jan 1982 - Jan 1987
    TRAINING COURSES Honeywell Application Module and Programmable Logic Controllerconfiguration and implementation 1991Foxboro Process Control Technology 1992Honeywell Advanced Logic Manager configuration 1994Critical Process Controller Configuration - CPC Triconex 1995UOP CCR Instrumentation and Lock Hopper System 1995Reliability Centered Maintenance 1997Instruments and Control Systems Engineering 1997Control Valve Engineering 1998Quantitative Analysis Techniques for SIS evaluation 1998Personal and supervisor development

Luis Machado Skills

Feed Epc Contract Management Gas Onshore Project Engineering Power Generation Scada Refineries Downstream Oil Upstream Refining Offshore Drilling Instrumentation Programmable Logic Controller Commissioning Refinery Control Valves Lng Petrochemical Refinery Operations Control Systems Design Fpso Oil Energy Engineering Onshore Operations Liquefied Natural Gas Preventive Maintenance Plc Factory Process Control Petroleum Hazop Pumps Pipelines Oil/gas Process Engineering Distributed Control System Floating Production Dcs Gas Turbines Piping Power Plants Inspection Storage And Offloading Oil And Gas

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