Dragos Plaesu, Senior process/production engineer

Dragos Plaesu

Senior process/production engineer

AlSafwa

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Master's degree, management in petroleum engineering
Experience
16 years, 7 Months

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Total years of experience :16 years, 7 Months

Senior process/production engineer at AlSafwa
  • Saudi Arabia
  • My current job since August 2016

Main responsibilities:
• Analyze/ report of production and operating data for troubleshooting purposes; checking& ensuring the work done by the process staff.
• Perform/ coordinate regular process audits and inspections (heat and material balances, process audits etc.);
• Ensuring that all Standard Operating Procedures and relevant control charts are applied by the shift team; Creating new SOP’s where needed;
• Identifying the risks of stopping the production activity and suggesting relevant corrective actions;
• Key figure in incident analysis teams
• Ensuring that the product quality is in line with the plant's customer needs;
• Maintaining positive relationships with Production and Maintenance personnel;
• I use MAXIMO, IP21 to track/ maximize my plant & my team’s potential;

Process manager at CRH
  • Romania
  • My current job since January 2015

Safety:
• Enforce & support my colleagues in the application of all Health & Safety standards;
• Create and deliver safety training to plant personnel;
• Ensure reporting of key learning from the Group;
• Perform safety audits on field
• HAZOP analysis,

Process/production:
• Leading the Energy Reduction & Heat Reduction Committees- yearly savings of at least €100k;
• Analyze/ report of production and operating data for troubleshooting purposes; checking& ensuring the work done by the process staff.
• Perform/ coordinate regular process audits and inspections (heat and material balances, process audits etc.); I was personally responsible for 4 mill & 2 kiln audits, which lead to yearly savings of around €0.3 million.
• Ensuring that all Standard Operating Procedures and relevant control charts are applied by the shift team; Creating new SOP’s where needed;
• Identifying the risks of stopping the production activity and suggesting relevant corrective actions;
• Key figure in incident analysis teams, both internal and external (discussions with other plants)
• Ensuring that the product quality is in line with the plant's customer needs;
• Maintaining positive relationships with Production and Maintenance personnel;
• I use MAXIMO, IP21 to track/ maximize my plant & my team’s potential;
• Leading and ensuring the process of continuous improvement in the plant (Kaizen, 5S, DILO);

Main projects supervised/ member of commissioning teams:
MED kiln filter- €6000k; SNCR installation - €500k; MEDGREEN project- €10000k

Senior process/ production engineer. at Lafarge
  • Romania
  • July 2011 to January 2015

Main responsibilities:
• Ensuring the application of all Health & Safety standards and performing safety audits on a regular basis;
• Reporting of production and operating data & performing incident analysis
• Ensuring that all Standard Operating Procedures and relevant control charts are applied by the shift team; Creating new SOP’s where needed.
• Ensuring that the specific inspection program is always respected;

Field/DCS Operator at Rompetrol Petrochemicals
  • Romania
  • July 2010 to April 2011

I was a field operator for a LDPE plant, then i advanced at DCS operator.
Responsibilities: - monitoring the functioning of the equipments;
- responding and resolving possible malfunctions;
- reporting encountered problems to engineering department;
- improving, where possible, utility and resource consumption for the plant.

Project manager/Comissioning engineer at Primera SA
  • Romania
  • May 2008 to May 2010

Responsibilities: - development of technical documentation and offer demands;
• conducting and organizing workers at different sites;
• ensuring the best cost/results report;
• managing daily HR problems for my employees;
• ensuring that the budget and deadlines are respected.

• Kaizen implementation in the work areas

Process/ Production Engineer at Rompetrol Refining
  • Romania
  • July 2007 to April 2008

I worked in the CDU (crude distillation unit), in the delayed cocker unit, and in the Hydrofining units.
Responsibilities:
• Following and improving the functioning of the existing equipments;
• Creating process documentations and installation flows; SOP, HAZOP;
• Resolving malfunctions in refining processes;
• KPI establishment and status follow up;

Education

Master's degree, management in petroleum engineering
  • at ovidius university constanta
  • July 2009
Bachelor's degree, petrochemical engineering
  • at ovidius university constanta
  • July 2008

scholarship for all 5 years; license paper on influence of desalination over the atmospheric distillation process.

Specialties & Skills

Production
Process Engineering
Process Optimization
Process Orientation
office package
process engineering
production management
safety engineer

Languages

French
Intermediate
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Alternative fuels workshop (Training)
Training Institute:
Dublin
Date Attended:
September 2015
Duration:
40 hours
MAXIMO - Lafarge Industrial Performance Center; (Training)
Training Institute:
Lyon, France
Date Attended:
June 2012
Duration:
40 hours
Grinding- Maximize utilization of cement mills; (Training)
Training Institute:
Bydzgoszcz, Poland
Date Attended:
July 2012
Duration:
40 hours
Pyroprocessing - Complete kiln heat & mass balance; (Training)
Training Institute:
Wossingen, Germany
Date Attended:
November 2014
Duration:
40 hours
Cement Professional Development Program (Safety & Environment, Production & Quality, Process, Mainte (Training)
Training Institute:
Novi Sad, Serbia
Date Attended:
October 2012
Duration:
160 hours
Raw mix optimisation (Training)
Training Institute:
Lafarge IPEA
Date Attended:
October 2013
Duration:
40 hours
Alternative fuels workshop (Training)
Training Institute:
Wossingen, Germany
Date Attended:
June 2012
Duration:
40 hours
Managerial Skills Development and Leadership (Training)
Training Institute:
Medgidia, Romania
Date Attended:
July 2014
Duration:
40 hours

Hobbies

  • sports, coin collecting, learning new software programs (autocad, primavera, etc)