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São Gonçalo Do Amarante, Ceará, Brasil

• Consultant for field operations;• Drafter company standards and best practices in mechanical area of expertise;• Consultant and reviewer for capital projects reviewing engineering design packages;• Attend project review meetings;• Creation of new technologies/solution and apply them in operations;• Provide training courses to developing engineers;• Guide developing engineers and ensure knowledge sharing;• Handle Cost Account Management on assigned mechanical projects;• Support Manufacturing Area to resolve issues;• Manage interface with multidisciplinary projects;• Offer technical guidance;• Guide junior engineers on technical issues;• Guide technical and support personnel;• Manage mechanical design tools (software, scanners 3D etc).

Brazil

• Implementation of CAPEX projects in rolling mills, finished products (welded meshes, steel meshes, and trusses), Energy, Utilities, and Administrative areas of ​​Mini Mills;• Management/execution of multidisciplinary projects ensuring that they are completed within the time, cost, and scope established during the study phase;• Management of companies contracted to execute CAPEX investments such as automakers, construction companies, basic and detailed engineering, electromechanical, and others;• Prepare, consolidate and prioritize investment requests in accordance with the Company's corporate strategy for the composition of the Investment Plan;• Financial management of CAPEX investments in order to ensure a sustainable disbursement flow.

São Gonçalo Do Amarante, Ce, Brazil

• Designing new equipment, mechanisms or improvements, and modifications, aimed at reducing costs, and increasing efficiency, through computational tools such as CAD/CAE (Autodesk Product Design & Manufacturing Softwares) and scanning devices (CREAFORM Handyscan).• Preparation of bill of material, technical specifications, calculus, and reports, through the usage of relevant software.• Development of procedures, supervising and training co-workers about welding processes before and during the execution of welding works, thus, reducing time and waste of raw material.• Solid experience in application with national and international standards such as ABNT, ASME, DIN, AISI, ANSI, and others.• Investigating the root cause of failures in equipment or operational failure with the newest technologies and applying the quality methodologies to eliminate recurring failures and maximize production.• Implementation of combined welding processes, knowledge of metallurgy, and engineering requirements to produce quality welding work on ferrous and non-ferrous metals.• Design and implementation of projects to adapt equipment to meet NR-12 (work security in machinery and equipment).• Implement training for team members and be responsible to elaborate a routine to keep knowledge gained in practice. Moreover, supporting all departments affected by technical knowledge and follow production.• Preparation, review, and implementation of Maintenance Plans through the best maintenance practices such as the FMEA method for the analysis of failure modes and their effects.• Development of Maintenance Plans of 52 weeks at multiple machines such as combustion engines, electric motors, pumps, and centrifuges, among others.• Inspection of equipment and use of maintenance data for the application of mathematical models, probability, and statistics. Thus, the introductory implementation of reliability engineering and asset management effectively.

São Gonçalo Do Amarante, Ce, Brazil

• Activities can be defined like inspection of erection, welding, assemblies and commissioning of steel structures and main equipment of ladle turret, segment repair shop, continuous casting machine, tundish repair shop, overhead cranes and others that compose Continuous Casting Plant.

Fortaleza Area, Ce, Brazil

• Execute and apply project management philosophy on EPC contract of 7 wind farms, more than 200MW, including planning and follow-up of access roads, foundations, internal grid, substations, wind turbine logistics, assembly and commissioning.

São Paulo Area, Sp, Brazil

• Capitalize and analyze the best ways for the construction of Thermoelectric Ceará Energy's steel structure, regarding its completion and success.• Diagnose and consolidate the cost of steel structure assembly based on project milestones, labor charges with the labor union, time management, raw material reducing, tools available (cranes, forklifts, trucks, and others) and other technical challenges.• Negotiate with the client about possible penalties, because of delays such as labor strikes, manpower flow, inflation of market, weather changes and others.

Fortaleza Area, Ce, Brazil

The activities and accountabilities continue being the same from last job position.

Fortaleza Area, Ce, Brazil

• Design new equipment, and mechanisms, aimed at attending the requirements of the client, standards, and government regulation, through computational tools such as CAD (Computer-Aided Design), and CAE (Computer-Aided Engineering).• Reviewing documentation, technical drawings, and quality documents.

Graduate Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Post-Graduate Degree, Project Management

Post-Graduate Degree, Reinforced Concrete Structures Engineering

Post-Graduate Degree, Electrical Engineering