Experience

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  Junior company of chemical and environmental engineering - proteq jr.

  Jul 2007 - Jan 2008

  Ceo

  Develop leadership skills;Reporting of all company performance and projects;Mainly project developed: Project and design a methodology of solid waste treatment at university;

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  Optics and materials group - optma at ufal

  Jan 2009 - Jan 2010

  Student research - pibit

  Opctics and Materials Group - Physics DepartmentProject Co-work: Microstructured optical fibers applied to sensor for Biological samples; photonic bandgap fibers

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  Alcoa

  Jan 2012 - now

  • Leader of a team with process engineers, technicians, and coordinators in charge of Potrooms, ABC and other smelter utilities areas in order to produce Aluminum with lower cost, control and improve several other KPIs at Alcoa (Alumar Smelter). • Developed and implemented strategies to restart 3 Potlines, increasing production, current efficiency, reduce energy consumption also product quality improvements.• Department cost control, train and coach operational employees and deployment of operational excellence and continuous improvement.• Safety and Environmental advocate leading to safer place ensuring tools deployment and engagement. . Smelter facility was idle for 7 years, working directly supporting restart process. Exibir menos Process Engineer – Bayer (Alumina Refinery)• Production and main refinery KPIS (Bauxite, Energy, Soda) planning and forecasting;• Development and support on short and long term plans for refinery, including strategy, prioritization and scheduling.• Responsible for planning major maintenance events (planned & unplanned) in order to reduce the impacts on plant process stability, handling conflicts between activities, minimizing production losses and optimizing financial indicators;• Lead a team of 5 shift production coordinators, in charge of develop technical skills and decision making process; Exibir menos Process Engineer – Red Side (San Ciprian Refinery, Galicia - Spain)• Short assignment with an objective of knowledge exchange and support technical department;• Review extraction connection and evaluation of opportunities in ratio control;• Development of an action plan to improve washers advanced control (WAC) focused on flocculant dosage and underflow rate control, increasing CCD circuit stability;• Development of new instruments finance business case with an objective of increase process stability; • Evaluate washers residual life and recommendations of thickeners underflow control; Exibir menos Digestion Area (Alumina Refinery)• SPA (Single point accountability) of Energy and Alumina Recovery connections;• Daily monitoring of process KPIs, Digestion production and equipment process performance of milling, digestion reactors, heaters, evaporation & condensate system;• Strategy development regarding different types of bauxite ore consumption aiming reduce the negative process impacts caused by quality deviations and non-typical ores; • Improvements on extraction control, standardize troubleshooting’s and operational strategies;• Coaching of new engineers and interns, helping on technical development at red side area; Exibir menos Responsible for major projects at Red Side area. (Alumina Refinery)• Monitoring and Reporting refinery energy performance and consumption factors (Coal, Diesel, BPF, electric energy and cogeneration);• Maintenance reports, evaluating equipment conditions before/after maintenance also overhaul deployment of heaters, evaporation, pressure vessels conditions and capability;• Red side project leader working with CoE (Center of Excellence)/TDG (Technology Development Group) enhancing process optimization and increase production, financial savings > 2.5 MU$/year EBTIDA; Exibir menos Process Engineer – Clarification (Alumina Refinery)• Daily monitoring and follow up for main KPIs, regarding to thickeners & CCD operation, filters, slaking lime & flocculant make-up operations;• SPA (Single point accountability) of Soda and Recovery connections;• Implementation of Advanced Process Control (multi-variable control), Regulatory control logics blocks, equipment interlocks ensuring maximum equipment performance and process optimization, avoiding losses as well as environmental impacts;• Application of statistical analysis tools, seeking for opportunities improving process KPIs capability mainly through DMAIC methodology;• Developments of operational troubleshooting’s for control attendants and production coordinators, dynamic help chain focused in problem solving;• Root cause analysis (RCA) for production losses developing actions for reconnection also mitigation. Therefore, avoiding reoccurrence; • Interface with Technology Development Group (TDG) and Center of Excellence (CoE) for Best Practices implementation; • Interface with suppliers of lime, process chemical and filters cloth, managing consumption factors and development of projects with EBITDA savings > 2MU$S/year; Exibir menos Process Engineer – Electrode (Aluminum Smelter)• Raw materials inventory control such as: Pitch, Coke, Pig Iron and refractories for induction furnace maintenance;• CSI (Customer Satisfaction Index) SPA between Potrooms & Electrode areas, responsible for development of process strategies and several actions to ensure product quality and reduce number of out-of-spec issues;• Application of multicomponent mass balance calculation to reduce raw material consumption and improve production ensuring product quality requirements;• Implementation of new operational procedures and standardization of operational activities reducing deviations in Cast Iron chemistry & Anode bulk density (GAD), increase of scrap utilization, also working on methodologies for Anode reactivity lab analysis and sampling;• Member of liquid metal team, development of strategies to ensure operational standards in EHS mainly regarding liquid metal transfer and movement;• Process optimization & trial projects with EBITDA savings > 250 kUS$/year; Exibir menos

  • Process Manager - Potrooms

    Mar 2022 - now

  • Senior Process Engineer

    Jan 2019 - Mar 2022

  • Process Engineer

    Jan 2018 - Jan 2019

  • Process Engineer (Assignment)

    Jan 2018 - Jan 2018

  • Process Engineer

    Jan 2017 - Jan 2018

  • Project Engineer

    Jan 2016 - Mar 2017

  • Process Engineer

    Jan 2014 - Jul 2016

  • Process Engineer

    Jan 2012 - Jan 2014

  • Internship

    Jan 2012 - Jan 2012