André Ribeiro

Experience

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  Gerdau S.A.

  Jan 2010 - Sept 2010

  Intern

  Internship at Gerdau Steelmaking in process and productivity improvement projects, specifically in melting and refining area, such as chemical composition hit rate and sequence brake in continuous casting.

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  USIMINAS

  Jan 2011 - Sept 2016

  Senior Process Engineer

  Steelmaking Technical Management- Work in hot metal treatment, primary and secondary refining of a 4,5Mt Melt Shop with cost saving projects (Nippon Steel partnership);- Coordination of OPTIMIZATION project (Foster initiatives to reduce costs in Steelmaking General Management, through the management of key indicators that influence the management results, using as reference the cost of hot rolled coil); routine management (interface with operational area to control the parameters of greatest influence in the process;- Operational standards development and review;- Perform performance improvement of the secondary refining facilities;- Plan and do tests for new steels with product engineering Show less

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  ArcelorMittal Pecém

  Jan 2017 - now

  - Responsible for Steelmaking contracts, technical specification and contracts handover;- Manage the process of: identifying and eliminating unsafe conditions, anomaly recording and treatment;- Implement and manage the practices of: preliminary task risk analysis, power lockout, emergency equipment testing, emergency drills, fire detection and combat systems, emergency response plan;- Crictical risks management (e.g. steel leakage through hole in ladle during casting and drop of refractory material and people inside BOF during relining work, leading two main projects for risks elimination – laser monitoring system for teeming ladles and relining machine with mobile platform;- Responsible for stabilizing (eliminating special causes) the outcome of the processes under responsibility, in all dimensions: intrinsic quality, cost, delivery, team morale, safety, occupational health, environment, and energy efficiency;- Implement the KPI's and PI's and disseminate them;- Routine management (SDCA): standardize the activities, participate in the development of technical standards, coordinate the development of operational standards, educate and train the operators/maintainers in the activities and in the technical and operational standards, plan and execute the operational work diagnosis, treat trigger and off-trigger anomalies;- Manage training and development: prepare the training matrix containing technical knowledge (basic/technical/leverage |OFF & OJT|), management, institutional and behavioral knowledge;- Career management: implement career track, map position profile and critical positions, appoint successors and potentials;- Elaboration of the strategic map 2022-2024 of the Steelmaking Services Management;- Implement new refractory supplier development plan, aiming cost reduction;- Prepare Steelmaking refractories and services contracts budget (CAPEX/OPEX);- Refractories inventory management (molded and non-molded). Show less - Responsible for RH Degasser and Ladle Furnace management (routine stabilization - eliminate special causes, KPI's and PI's control aiming steel cleanness, FMEA and PFMEA application, supervisors and operators lead, off job team capacitate);- Stabilize the outcome of the processes under responsibility, in all dimensions (Safety, Quality, Cost, Staff Moral, Environment and Energy Efficiency);- Elaborate the process flowchart and map the process; receive standard targets and deploy them with team; practice SDCA; participate in the development of technical standards; fault tree analysis;implement the 5S; implement the risk elimination plan; participate in problem solving (improvement projects);- Develop the training matrix containing technical knowledge (OFF and OJT), institutional and behavioral; implement operational certification; perform the performance evaluation; practice feedback, prepare the individual development plan with the employee, coach the operators, monitor results and development plan and take corrective actions; manage team satisfaction; manage career of 67 shiftworkers -implement the career path, map profile of positions, critical positions and potentials (define successors);- Define parameters for production programming (lead time, use, performance, rhythm, maintenance shutdown follow up). Show less - Steelmaking Management staff focusing routine items (safety, moral, production, cost, quality);- Daily process analysis identifying operational slack;- Risks management (identification, analysis, evaluation and blocking of risks to the health and safety of people and the environment);- On-the-job shiftworkers training;- Prepare Steelmaking budget (CAPEX/OPEX);- Continuous Casting Management staff focusing on increasing the equipment using rate, quality and performance;- Optimization of the process flows of the continuous casting machine in order to improve product quality and productivity;- Equipment/process fault tree analysis;- Improvements projects with POSCO partnership;- Projects development refractory suppliers (tundish, mold and flow control);- Daily monitoring with maintenance to solve equipment pending issues in order to keep the machine in the design pattern and check with the supervision on production scheduling; Show less

  • Refractory Area Manager

    Apr 2023 - now

  • Contract Operation and Refractories Coordinator - Steelmaking

    Jun 2021 - now

  • Secondary Refining Coordinator - Steelmaking

    Jan 2020 - May 2021

  • Senior Process Analyst

    Jan 2017 - Dec 2019