Vratislav Kavalier, Paint Shop Maintenance and Facility operation Manager

Vratislav Kavalier

Paint Shop Maintenance and Facility operation Manager

Jaguar Land Rover Slovakia

Location
Slovak Republic
Education
Master's degree, International Business
Experience
28 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :28 years, 4 Months

Paint Shop Maintenance and Facility operation Manager at Jaguar Land Rover Slovakia
  • Slovak Republic - Nitra
  • My current job since March 2017

Leading paint and “non production” technologies department, 7 direct engineers, outsourcing companies providing service and maintenance activities, set the operation of new production plant, technology takeover, start up the technology, leading quality and productivity improvement actions, energy management, processes optimalization, setting the KPI´s and its tracking. Start the operation from green field.

Maintenance and Facility Manager at ZKW Slovakia
  • Slovak Republic - Nitra
  • March 2014 to February 2017

Leading of maintenance and facility department. Rebuilding of department to new structure and new modern maintenance approach. Application of TPM approach as is autonomous maintenance, preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance. Application of new technical analytical tools as is measurement of tempreratures, pressures, flows, vibrations, electrical values, tribodiagnostic measures and analyses.
Looking after 68 moulding machines with range from 50t up to 1700t, assembly lines, vacuum surface treatment machines evaporating ones and sputtering one, plastic materia supply, robotics and PLC programming department.
Cost and energy efficiency leading, budgeting, planning, KPI´s setting and tracking.

Senior Rotating Equipment Engineer - Commissioning at ThyssenKrupp Uhde Services
  • Algeria - Oran
  • April 2013 to February 2014

Commissioning, troubleshooting of the rotating equipment, turbines, compressors, pumps, ammonia industrial refrigeration, project Sorfert Algeria, ammonia and urea plant. Analyses of the fails, vibrations, temperature, flow.

Maintenance and Facility Manager at Gnotec Ferrex Slovakia
  • Slovak Republic
  • January 2012 to March 2013

Leading the technical department, maintenance technicians and technology technicians, taking care about the tools, production machines and buildings, application and keeping the TPM system, transfers of technologies, installation of the new technologies, commissioning of the new technologies, tasks solving as a project team member, continuously improvement, acquisition of the property and spare parts, determination of technical conditions for purchasing and selection the suppliers, monitoring, analysis and optimalization of the costs for management, maintenance and energies, checking and valuation of the employees.

Site Mechanical Superintendant at Enel INN Italy
  • Slovak Republic
  • March 2010 to December 2011

Supervision of the technological parts erection, over - pumping stations, DG stations, compressed air stations, cooling water stations, water treatment plant, sludge treatment plant, cranes. Communication with suppliers, managing of the works supply and material supply, hand - over of the working areas, checking of the material supplies. Pre - commissioning activities. Checking the time plan, checking of the quality and completeness of the supplies.

Hard Service Coordinator at Ryvola Slovakia
  • Slovak Republic
  • November 2006 to February 2010

Team leader for industrial operation employees: maintenance, operators, mechanicals, electricians, waste water treatment plant, technical recording of the restricted technical equipment, special inspections planning, preparing of the maintenance planes, coordination of the suppliers, organization of the employees trainings, keeping of the equipment operation - turbo compressors, screw compressors, over - pumping stations, boiler rooms, switchgears, electricity distributors, air handling units, stable fire fighting system, fire alarm system, waste water treatment plant, water treatment plant, settings the technical specifications for new equipment purchasing, commissioning of the new equipment, creating of the service contracts, recording of the equipment maintenance, reparation of the failures, special inspection, execution of the equipment reparation, execution of the operative and preventive maintenance, preparation of the assembly works calculations, realization of the installation works, correction in the technical documentation, analysis of the power consumption, reporting.

Sergeant of Metropolitan Police Department at Town Hall of Zilina
  • Slovak Republic
  • September 2000 to October 2006

Task management of the police department staff, direction of the wage records, interaction with public, solving the collisions, pupil’s education in the elementary schools.

Technician at Slovakian Railways
  • Slovak Republic
  • December 1995 to August 2000

Technical recording, technical inspections and maintenance of the technical equipment.

Education

Master's degree, International Business
  • at Bratislava´s Justice College
  • June 2010
High school or equivalent, Electrotechnical qualification
  • at Slovak Technical University
  • June 2008
High school or equivalent, Machine Industry
  • at Industrial Machinery High School
  • June 1997

Specialties & Skills

Compressors
Maintenance Services
Commissioning
Operation
Maintenance
Pneumatic
Hydraulic
PLC Siemens LOGO, S7 1200 programming
Ammonia cooling operation

Languages

English
Expert

Memberships

Slovakian Electrotechnical Federation
  • Member
  • June 2008

Training and Certifications

Electrotechnical inspector §24 pub. not. 508/2009 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2022
Valid Until:
January 2027
HV Operation Leading up with no voltage restriction (Training)
Training Institute:
Technical inspection Slovakia
Date Attended:
August 2017
ISO 14001 Internal Auditor (Training)
Training Institute:
Bureau Veritas
Date Attended:
July 2012
PLC Siemens Step 7 programmer (Training)
Training Institute:
NES Nova Dubnica
Date Attended:
April 2012
TPM introduction (Training)
Training Institute:
Slovakian Maintenance Company
Date Attended:
January 2007

Hobbies

  • Technical literature
  • Sport