General: I´ve 25 years of experience in the manufacturing, erection and supervision (includs comissioning and hydraulic pressure tests) of all kind of piping, structural steel and tank works for refineries, petrochemicals, power stations , paper mills ,breweries , steel mills, cement mills, industrial refrigeration, air condicioning and oil wells . I worked in three continents and in a lot of contries like Shouth Africa, Kazakstan, Benin, Germany, Belgiun, Holland, Ivory Coast, Botswana, Suaziland and Portugal. I worked with some of majors multinacionals on the business, as ABB, Stein Müller, Forster Wheeler,
Tecnhipe, Parker. I was in majors ventures like the erection of Cape Town Callberg nuclear power station, Matimba power station (by that time the biggest in the world and the only one to work only with air refrigeration) in Ellis Rust South Africa or the Central Gatering Facilities on Dunga oil wells in Kazakstan. Very good knowledge of the ASME, ASTM and API norms. Good knowledge of Projects and Human Resources managment. Firms where I worked: 1975: Venda Nova Technical School 1976/1980: GREMETAL (Sines refinery and petrochemical, Leça da Palmeira refinery,ISOPOR in Estarreja, main workshop in Buçelas, CIMPOR cement mill in Alhandra). Pipe fitter. 1980/1981: MOMPOR (Erection of oil tanks and piping in Porto Brandão.) Boilermaker and pipe fitter. 1981: PORTICELLI (Revamping of Abidjan oil refinery in Ivory Coast.) Pipe fitter. 1981: BARON ET LEVÉQUE INTERNATIONAL (Erection of a cement mill in Benin)
Boilermaker. 1982/1983: OLYMPIC ENG.SOUTH AFRICAN (Main Workshop in Wadevile) Boilermaker and pipe fitter. 1983/1984: FORSTER WHEELER SOUTH AFRICAN (Erection of boiler nº2 for SAPI paper mill in Nelspruit.) Pipe forman. 1984/1985: MITSUBISHI JAPAN (Erection of a generator for SAPI paper mill in Nelspruit South Africa) Pipe forman. 1985/1986: ASTRA INTERNATIONAL ITALIAN (Erection of three plant rooms for the air conditioning system of Sun & and Towers Hotel in Johanesburg South Africa) Pipe and boilermaker forman. 1986/1987: COOL ENG. SOUTH AFRICAN (Erection of the cooling towers and compressors for Pietersburg brewerie . Erection of the cooling towers for the refrigeration system of Klerksdorp gold mine in South Africa.) Pipe forman 1988/1989: ARMINCO SOUTH AFRICAN (Erection of the turbine piping in Matimba power station.) Pipe fitter. 1989: GENREC SOUTH AFRICAN (Erection of the Gas Platform in Saldanha Bay). Pipe fitter.
1990/1991: STEIN MÜLLER SOUTH AFRICAN (Erection of MOSSEL BAY refinery ) Piping supervisor 1991/1992: LAUER BELGIUN (Erection of a Steam Cracker for BASF in Antwerp, Belgiun) Pipe forman. 1993/1996: MERCANTIL BELGIUN (Manufacturing of aluminium piping for SOLVAY in Antwerp) Pipe forman 1997/1998: SIMMI PORTUGAL (Manufacturing and erection of piping for CELNORT new paper machine in Viana do Castelo.) Pipe forman 1998: FORSTER WHEELER FRENCH (Revamping of unity 2000 in Leça da Palmeira refinery.) Piping supervisor. 1998/2000: PARTEX OIL AND GAS (Erection of C.G.F.(Central Gatering Facilities) for Dunga oil wells in Kazakstan.) Mechanical and piping supervisor 2001/2002: TECHNIP PORTUGUESE (Revamping of aromatics unity in Leça da Palmeira refinery) Piping supervisor. 2003/2005: AMAL (Supervising a team of boilermakers and riggers on Gas Terminal in Sines) Strutural Supervisor.
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