Polyvinyl Chloride(PVC) Technology Expert: Syntheses, Market Studies, Manufacturing, Plant Operations and HAZOP

Expertise

• Specialized in PVC-S technology: Syntheses, working in industrial field and industrial research.
• DCS and PLC, implement work in existing or in new plants.
• Waste water treatment and separations gas to liquid systems.
• Review P&IDs, PFDs and equipment lists.
• PVC marketing studies: HAZOP studies, technical reports.
• Pilot unit processes optimization.

Experience

Undisclosed Company,Chemical Engineer, 1995 - Present

Plant Supervisor, Propilenglicol and Graft Polyesters Department

• Coordination of operational and production activities.
• Develop instructions and updating work procedures.
• Working for optimize plants in order to reduce consumption of utilities and raw materials, improving the quality of finished products.
• Run Plant Engineer; acts as a technical resource for operations personnel, applying technical skills within manage production, to optimize plant operations, resolve plant problems thus enabling production of low cost, quality products and maximizing value to the business.
• Process operational disciplines, safety leadership and coordinating the field operator support team to maximize safe, quality production.

Plant Supervisor, PVC-S Department, 2014

• Coordination of operational and production activities.
• Develop instructions and updating work procedures.
• Working for optimize plants in order to reduce consumption of utilities and raw materials, improving the quality of finished products.
• Run Plant Engineer; acts as a technical resource for operations personnel, applying technical skills within manage production, to optimize plant operations, resolve plant problems thus enabling production of low cost, quality products and maximizing value to the business.
• Responsibility for process operational disciplines, safety leadership and coordinating the field operator support team to maximize safe, quality production.

Plant Manager, 2012 - 2014

• Plans, organize, coordinates and control the manufacturing activity in the PVC section, observes manufacturing technologies, work instructions, compliance with consumer rules, respect for product quality.
• Led plant activity, solves organizational and operational problems follows achieves optimum performance and evaluate, identify strategies in order to improve long- and short-term performance and mitigate potential issues.
• Develop, review and coordinates turnaround scope, start-up, shutdown procedures, and operator training manuals.
• Updates existing fractionation facilities/systems to identify improvement opportunities, potential problems, and remedies to existing problems;
• Coordinates production activity with respect to manufacturing technology, product quality and compliance with consumer rules.
• Coordinates the actions of safe operation and facilities department. Into practice the company's policy on the business of manufacturing, quality, environment, reliability and ensure continuous improvement of its data.
• Ensures assistance in maintaining plant and technology integrity and review and improve the manufacturing procedures.
• Approves updated policies and procedures, relevant to/and affect, environmental health, safety and operations.
• Approves chemical process programs in order to minimize chemical consumptions, inventories, utilities requirement and energy to reduce costs.

Deputy Plant Manager, 2010 - 2012

• Participates in company programs such as loss prevention compliance, insurance, audit, incident investigation, safety, inspection and audit.
• Responsible to ensure raw materials, semi-finished materials, parts, equipment, packaging, utilities; responsible for modernizing and upgrading facilities and preparing technical documentation.
• Supports the running and implementation of the technical projects and Improve the production process on a continuous basis, in cooperation and coordination with the corporate departments.
• Determines the link of the production performance with the business performance, define and prioritize the improvement tasks and projects.
• Performs the Incident Reporting, Off-Spec Production Reporting and similar analysis, determine and implement the improvement measures.
• Run Plant Engineer; acts as a technical resource for operations personnel, applying technical skills within manage production, to optimize plant operations, resolve plant problems thus enabling production of low cost, quality products and maximizing value to the business.
• Responsibility for process operational disciplines, safety leadership and coordinating the field operator support team to maximize safe, quality production.
• Works as project manager with investment department in a new and big project (design, build, commissioning for technical lines and equipments, works for philosophy diagram implemented in a DCS system applied to existing technology with new and big capacity equipments, start-up procedures, train employers).

Chemical Engineer, Specialist in PVC Technology, 1995 - 2010

• Quality assurance; responsible (conform SR EN ISO 9001) and ES (conform SR EN ISO 14001).
• Prepares all documents for certified process (certified from TUV Sudderland in an Integrated system of quality environment).
• Works actively to all internal or external QA and ES audits (TUV Sudderrland) to obtain certificates.
• Coordinates production activity with respect to manufacturing technology, product quality and compliance with consumer rules.
• Assist with laboratory testing by conducting comprehensive analysis of chemical experimental data using analytical and statistical methods, achieving conclusions and planning subsequent experiments.
• Design and perform tests, analysis and material or project evaluations conducted on material samples submitted by customer or field representatives.
• Prepared technical reports and presentations.
• Worked directly with consultants to improve and increase capacity and technology for old plants, and to install new plant with 70 cm reactors, using new procedures, at the lower costs.
• Working with project designs ( makes design programs for project departments , checks and accepts the finals designs and follow all the applies in industrial field).
• Implemented change in work procedures in conformity final products quality and orders.
• Supply of raw materials and industrial tests in order to improve final product quality.
• Prepared documents for all chemicals in use in chemical plants , keeping in order REAGH rules.
• Executed and runs with DCS system and PLC control.
• Chemical engineer in polymerization section; keeping processes under control, daily supervise technical steps and parameters , write procedures and train people concerning working parameters, recipes, savings, whenever necessary.
• During working time was actively involved in technically projects; from start of constructions, supervise work of people involved in, supervise commissioning activity before start-up of, works with procedures to adjust processes, to adjust work parameters, to start-up every step and to train people concerning work and parameter procedures, capacity tests.

Plant Foreman, PVC-S 2 Plant, 1995

• Chemical Engineer - Foreman: Responsibilities (team: chemists operators and maintenance people) in a drying section of PVC-S plant).
• Trained team to optimization functioning of production lines in order to save production costs and improve quality of final product.

Honors & Publications

Credentials

• WEI- English language, diploma
• Certified in Marketing studies
• Certified as Professional trainer
• Co-Author for a chemical product (micro suspension)

Languages

• English
• French
• Italian
• Greek
• Russian

Patents

• Holds a patent in reverse osmosis technology

Education

• B.S. Chemical Engineering, Polytechnic University, Bucharesti, Faculty of Chemistry Industrial, Romania
• B.A. LICEUL Economic and Administrative Law, RM Valcea, Romania