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steven suykens

First Name: 
steven
Last Name: 
suykens

Operational turnaround and project manager

Independent Belgian Refinery NV

Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Oil & Energy industry

May 2012 – Present (3 months) Antwerp Area, Belgium

Operational turnaround and project manager

Petroplus, BRC refinery

 

January 2005 – April 2012 (7 years 4 months)

Operational Turnaround manager for the 2010 turnaround.
Operational Turnaround manager for the 2011 slowdown.
Make sure all safety aspects are covered and mitigated to an acceptable level. In charge of the development and feasibility studies of modifications or projects. Organise all training needs in regards to projects.
Insure that an integrated planning exists between operations and the project team.
Owner of the 10yrs equipment outage plan.
Guard cost efficiency and cost effectiveness.
Focal point for all Corporate TAR, projects and SHE reviews.

Operation support manager

Belgian Refining corporation

 

January 2001 – December 2005 (5 years)

Monitor mass balance across units, investigate issues arising
Identify, measure and adjust key efficiency parameters of units to give optimum energy usage
Monitor catalyst performance of all units, report on outcomes
Investigate every plant outage, identifying root cause and providing recommendations for Improvement, manage the actions to completion
Be the key link to the planning team, reporting unit constraints and assessing daily economics. Look for opportunities to remove constraints
Produce the operating set-points for the plant instructions, measure their success on a daily basis
Key operational contact for DCS Alarm management. Measure, report and produce improvements to reduce DCS alarms

Steven has 1 recommendation (1 partner) including:

  • 1st sandra schreuder, Process Technologist Sulphur Processes, Shell Global Solutions

Relief supervisor

Belgian Refining Corporation

 

October 1992 – December 2000 (8 years 3 months) Antwerp, Belgium

2yrs as a production operator.
6yrs as a shift supervisor..

Professional Since: 
May-1990 (34.0 yrs experience)
Years Experience: 
42

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