Laurentiu Ionita, Business Manager

Laurentiu Ionita

Business Manager

Mandarin Worldwide General Trading LLC

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Master of Science
Experience
23 years, 5 months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :23 years, 5 months

Business Manager at Mandarin Worldwide General Trading LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since September 2014

• Oversee the company's performances and finances in accordance with the budgets;
• Developing e-commerce platform and web site for the company;
• Implement all procedures of sales and trading operations best practices;
• Carrying out market research through industry contacts, publications, trade events and news in order to identify ideas for growth and alternative methods of sales efficiency;
• Responsible to track the financial aspects of the projects and coordinates and adjusts the work effort with the team to ensure that the work is completed within the parameters of the agreed to schedule
• Manage end-to-end procurement and supply chain processes;
• Direct involve with the local authorities Custom, Municipality, labor office;
• Excellent attention to details, organizational and leadership skills;
• Excellent communication, networking and negotiation presentation skills;
• Outstanding analytical and problem-solving abilities;

Project Manager at APPLIED CORROSION TECHNOLOGY
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • April 2010 to August 2014

Jackup Drilling Rigs: Refurbishment and New builds - blasting & painting;
Projects achieved for Lamprell Energy www.lamprell.com, Gulf Piping Company www.imcc.ae/imcc/companies/GPC.asp, Gulf Marine Services www.gmsuae.ae (Gulf II, Nabors VIII, Lionstar I, Norbe VI, Endurance, Endeavour, NDC, Noble, Rowan, Aban, Seadrill);
-Daily operations in coatings and finishing business segment including all regulatory (safety and environmental) compliance requirements;
-Achievement of productivity rates that are established and supporting the meeting budgets;
-Review all mill certifications on component materials to assure compliance with requirements;
-Analyze inspection and test reports, and make recommendations for improvement of quality and economy;
-Coordinate with Project Coordinators to provide required project submittals within contract deadlines;
-Assist all Production personnel who have been assigned quality control/quality assurance responsibilities;
-Ensure compliance with any additional or special quality assurance procedures required by project specifications;
-Perform internal audits to assure compliance with Quality Standards and Control Procedures;
-Report and track to closure all quality non-conformances;
-Serve as Company representative for in-plant audits and inspections;
-Allocating and monitoring the manpower requirements;
-Establishing and maintaining client relations as well as involvement with marketing, contractual design, and production meetings;
-Developing or assist with the development and implementation of policies and procedures consistent across;
-Overseeing department’s personnel which includes, but not limited to, work allocation, training, and problem resolution;
-Evaluating performance and make recommendations for personnel action;.
-Motivating employees to achieve peak productivity and performance;
-Reviewing and interpreting operating figures and analyses; and oversees related reports for business development;
-Work with technical client issues relating to corrosion concerns and provide technical insight to problems in corrosion control affecting design operation and maintenance in, conformity with oil + gas international applicable standards;
-Providing advice and assistance to Top Management in the planning, administration, implementation and evaluation of improvements to operating and technical policies, systems and procedures;
-Assisting in developing annual operating budgets for the branch and provide financial direction for the department;
-Provide specialized technical corrosion control services and consultation to a variety Client or Contractors
Direct involved in the Works with the Business/Accounting Manager or Project Controller and the Department Manager for project reviews and with company management on an as-needed basis;
-Registering the company for prequalification with State owned Oil & Gas Companies, Adnoc Group, NDC, Adma-Opco.

Site Manager at Anticorrosion Protective Systems
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • September 2008 to March 2010

-Coordinating & controlling yard activities on production requirements;
-Monitor and ensure implementation of Quality Assurance & HSE Policy;
-Technical Assistance for projects / Training for painters;
-Preparing documentation for PQT & projects;
-Performs project’s inspections as per Inspection Test Plan / Method of statement / Client Specification;
-Prepare Test Certificates & Coating and Cleaning Verification Reports;
-Performs all kind of special testing activities: Dial Micrometer, Climatic Monitoring, Testex Tape, WFT/DFT, Spark & Sponge Test, Dust Test, Chloride Test, Bend Test, Pull off Adhesion Test, Curing Test;
-Monitoring and checking of Blasting & Painting activities (prior/after), storage of materials and recording of paint details. Monitor and ensure over coating intervals are respected.
-Perform job duties as assigned by Management;
-Communicates regularly with Officers, Managers, & Supervisors about the different divisions and department’s issues;
-Consistently be on time for work, meetings, and appointments and deliver work projects by assigned due dates;
-Maintain assigned work areas in a clean and orderly fashion;
-Maintain and ensure the safety of all assigned equipment;
-Perform all duties in conformance to appropriate safety and security standards
-Monitoring and approving Special Testing in Laboratory: Cathodic Disbonding, Impact Strength, Indentation resistance, Chemical Resistance;
-Directly involved with: Thermal Spray Application, Plural Component Spray, Airless Spin Spray and Automatic Spray Application;
-Managing the sites coating activities;
-Preparing reports of work progress;
-Projects achieved (NDIA-Punj Lloyd, Burj Dubai-Eversendai, DWCA-Amana, OGD III-Bechtel, LEKHWAIR-PDO, ADCOP-CPECC, MOQ- NPCC, GASCO, DODSAL, ALSA, etc.);

Paints Division Manager at Al Fajer Establishment, Dubai
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • July 2005 to July 2008

Coordinating and decision-making for Paints Division on daily basis activity;
-Monitoring of sites painting activities;
Price Quotations for products required by clients;
Cost Sheets for each Painting System utilized;
Preparation of Project Estimation & Actual Costs;
Professional training for painters; Solutions for client’s claims;
Promotional Meetings with Consultants, Construction Companies, Applicators, Maintenance Companies, Private persons;
-Develops tests and inspection plans for areas of responsibility in accordance with internal quality requirements and contract specifications, including but not limited to Classification Societies, and other applicable engineering standards;
-Serves as liaison between supervision, crafts and regulatory agencies, as required;
-Ensures that all preliminary inspection requirements have been satisfied and are accomplished in accordance with contract specifications prior to final inspection call outs to regulatory agencies;
-Monitor craft work to ensure proper workmanship is in accordance with regulatory agencies, classification society and acceptable shipbuilding practices as appropriate;
-Ensures that all instrumentation and gauges used in testing procedures are properly calibrated in accordance with regulatory agencies and company calibration guidelines;
-Established and maintained positive, cooperative working relationships with crafts, owner representatives, and regulatory agency officials;
-Develop and assist in administering training to supervisors for applicable test and inspection requirements;
-Ensure that materials purchased and installed meet requirements of contract specifications by performing random checks;
-Ensure that all subcontractors’ qualifications meet requirements of regulatory agencies and contract specifications. Also ensures all subcontractor required quality assurance submittals are correct and fulfill requirements of the specifications.
-Reviews and qualifies all Quality Assurance requirements imposed by outside agencies. Verifies that requirements do not impose higher levels of effort to accomplish then those required by contract specifications.
-Coordinates with management and craft supervisors to ensure all personnel meet the minimum skill and ability along and possess the required certifications to accomplish the task assigned.
-Development of Division from zero to the actual personnel;

Factory Deputy Manager at POLY DELTA CHEMICALS S.A. Bucharest
  • Romania
  • July 2002 to May 2005

Production scheduling & maintenance;
-Overseeing the manufacturing process of paints & coatings: alkyds (long & short chain), acrylics, epoxies, coal tar epoxies, ethyl silicates, silicones, emulsions & enamels(water based);
-Provide specialized technical corrosion control services and consultation to a variety of public and private clients;
Work with technical client issues relating to corrosion concerns and provide technical insight to problems;
-Coordinate the work of the team throughout the entire development of project;
-Responsible to coordinate workload through the entire project development to complete deliverables on schedule;
-Implementation of ISO 9001 in production;
-Accounting activity for production and distribution field;
-R&D projects participation with results in new technologies development;
-Quality control of colors; corrections with spectrophotometer;
-Production implementation, optimization and standardization of new products and new raw materials (binders, fillers, pigments, additives);
-Professional training for production labors;
-Solutions for client’s claims;

Technologist Engineer at S.C. POLY DELTA CHEMICALS S.A. Bucharest
  • Romania
  • December 2000 to July 2002

Production scheduling & maintenance;
-Overseeing the manufacturing process;
Responsible to coordinate workload through the entire project development to complete deliverables on schedule;
-Responsible to track the production aspects of the projects and coordinates and adjusts the work effort with the team to ensure that the work is completed within the parameters of the agreed to schedule;
-Accounting activity for production and distribution field.

Education

Master's degree, Master of Science
  • at “Politehnica” University
  • July 2001

“Industrial Systems Engineering”

Bachelor's degree, Chemical Engineer
  • at “Politehnica” University
  • July 2000

Engineering Science Department - French Stream, Chemical Faculty Specialization: Macromolecular Compounds Technology.

Specialties & Skills

Factory
Production
Preparation
Science
Testing
MS Windows 2003, MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)

Languages

English
Intermediate
French
Intermediate
Russian
Intermediate
Romanian
Native Speaker

Memberships

NACE international
  • Coating Inspector Level II
  • July 2007

Training and Certifications

Coating Inspector Level II (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2007

Hobbies

  • football, chess, stamp collecting