Establishing, maintaining, propagating the quality, safety, health and environmental policies according to the various quality systems, laws & regulations.

Defining work orders for Production, Warehouse and Expedition. Determining items to be purchased for Operations. Monitoring and adjusting the work processes to increase Operations' efficiency and effectiveness.

Responsible for coordinating the assembly and FAT of the THIOPAQ® desulphurization units. Ensuring availability of all required components prior to start of assembly; creating and maintaining the project planning.

Engineering plant layout of biotechnological process installations; Working on the configuration and maintenance of Bentley OpenPlant Modeler software, the 3D-CAD program used for producing these plant layout drawings.

WestTech Consultancy offers freelance engineering and consultancy services in the field of Petrochemical Engineering and Process Engineering. Related programming and scripting services are also offered. Additionally, WestTech Consultancy performs revisions and translations of technical documentation written in English, Spanish or Dutch.Taeke Westerdijk has specific experience with Dynamic Modeling & Simulation, Conceptual Design of Thermodynamic Processes, Process Optimization, Waste to Raw Material Studies, Risk Based Inspection Studies, Plant Life Expectancy Studies and Consequence Assessments.

Risk Based Inspection Studies, Plant Life Expectancy Studies, Consequence AssessmentsFollowing up on integrity inspections of refinery and terminal assets such as tanks, piping and heat exchangers: processing previously collected inspection data in RB-IT, a software tool developed by Inventure Technologies. Determining the integrity and predicting the remaining life time of these assets, then opting the next on-stream inspection or turnaround.Taeke Westerdijk worked on projects for refineries and tank terminal companies such as: • Shell Pernis Refinery • Odfjell Terminals • Q8 Refinery • Vopak Terminals

Worked on ICT projects at different organisations. Tasks included working at ICT service desks, participating in extensive hardware inventory projects, distributing new hardware and updating existing Citrix environments.

Voluntary teacher in Manizales, Colombia; teaching English to classes of around 8 students. Lessons were interactive and used the method of immersion, often considered the most effective way of learning a language.

Took courses regarding conceptual design and dynamic modeling of thermal power plants, sustainable development of energy systems, among others. Three months' internship in La Paz, Bolivia at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) in 2007: wrote a technical report on the energetic use of waste wood and saw dust. Determined the amounts and the calorific value of this type of biomass, and quantified the possible power output and investment costs of a to be commissioned power plant. Final thesis project: studied the possibility of operating an organic Rankine cycle turbogenerator in island mode, i.e. not connected to the electricity grid. Implemented a dynamic model of an existing 150 kW ORC turbogenerator in the software Matlab/Simulink and ran simulations to assess whether such a power plant can be run in island mode.

Approaching potential clients by phone to sell the software TOPdesk, an ITIL-based service management software for IT, Facilities Management, and eHRM help desks.