Dan Vander Meer

Assumed P&L and administrative responsibility for Project mobilization and the operation of all Company’s 425 pieces of construction rental equipment, cranes, and light vehicles

Implemented machine telematics and a data-driven approach to analyze mechanical breakdowns, trends impacting the company's equipment availability and fleet costs.

Managed maintenance operations and trades people to include, mechanics, welders, operators, and fabricators.

Monitored safety procedure and compliance to insure safe operations.

Assessed all repairs thoroughly and managed CMMS so that all replacement parts inventory is ordered and scheduled maintenance was performed in timely manner.

Implemented various financial control measures to ensure optimum operational status and cost-effective technical services provided to clients.


Carried out trend analysis to identify problem areas and made recommendations for rectification of variances and irregularities.

Managed day to day operations for maintenance and fabrication department with over 500 trade professionals to support $750 million-dollar annual sales for regional oil and gas support rental and maintenance support contracts.

Spearheaded $45 million budget for ensuring cost-effective emergency repairs, scheduled maintenance and operation of 7, 000-piece heavy equipment, heavy-duty truck, passenger bus and light vehicle duty fleet.

Managed capital requests for all asset purchases and inventory procurement

Managed robust and technically advanced maintenance facilities performing major mechanical rebuilds, scheduled and predictive maintenance. Supported company fleet operations in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Jordan, and Iraq.

Implemented world class API Standards for maintenance departments and projects budgets for profitable multi-country and regional maintenance contracts for Saudi Aramco, CNOC, Saipem and Qatar Oil Company.

Supplied machinery and technical personnel for key projects in Ras Tanura, Shaybah, Khurais, Zuluf for Saudi Aramco.

Directed maintenance operations and logistics for 1500-piece heavy equipment and heavy-duty truck fleet.

Managed maintenance program for rotary equipment and power generation assets at 12 remote natural gas exploration site service locations and one main repair shop.

Developed maintenance strategy for reducing maintenance costs by 32% for InterOil’s 32.5 Mbd oil refinery.

Leveraged machine and plant telematics and drove increased productivity and reduced cost by 23%.

Supported daily operations and focused on equipment reliability, availability improvement, and maintenance and repair procedures, thus increasing equipment availability from 62% to 86% in 12 months.

Responsible for specifying the equipment needs of the projects depending on the conditions.

Managed the maintenance and workshops activities and fulfilled repair requests from projects and sites in coordination with the division manager.

Assisted procurement department in equipment’s specifications purchase requests and evaluated technical proposals from suppliers.

Ensured that all equipment was maintained, repaired, returned, and installed to production status and that all safety procedures were followed properly.