Stuart Soares

Experience

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  ISQ

  May 1999 - Oct 2012

  Supervising a team of inspectors performing pipelines installation, design, welding and NDT, inspection, hot tapping, cathodic protection and audits to the manufacturers, providing solutions to the refineries and gas operators, namely to GALP& REN (Portugal), Sonangol (Angola), Sonantrach (Algeria) and Shell (Cape Verde). Performing inspection services on the installation and commissioning of gas transmission pipelines, integrity calculations execution, installation and commissioning of cathodic protection systems, installation, hot tapping design and welding inspection, delivering quality services to refineries and gas operators, namely: GALP & Transgás (Portugal) and Shell (Cape Verde).

  • Quality Project Manager

    Sept 2007 - Oct 2012

  • Gas Pipeline Engineer

    May 1999 - Sept 2007
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  ISQapave

  Nov 2012 - Oct 2015

  QA/QC Project Engineer

  Responsible for all the quality control inspection services on the most relevant oil&gas onshore and offshore projects, providing services to BP (Block 18 and Block 31), Total and Sonangol.

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  ISQ

  Nov 2015 - Aug 2021

  Pipeline Lead Engineer

  Leading the programme level of many different oil&gas pipeline projects, ensuring solutions to the refineries, onshore & sea-line oil & gas operators.Inspection Services Project Director at the construction of the natural gas transmission pipelines for the Portuguese TSO (REN).Strong experience in oil&gas projects at overseas holding constraining environments such as the ones in the Sahara Desert.Quality and Technical Project Management holding high-level requirements at the nuclear projects of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor / Fusion for Energy (F4E).Major Clients: GALP & REN (Portugal), Enagas / Naturgas (Spain); Sonangol (Angola), Sonantrach (Algeria) and Vivo Energy (Cape Verde Islands); ITER (Several European countries). Show less

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  QatarEnergy

  Sept 2021 - Jan 2022

  QC Specialist

  Review of the Quality Plans at the Independent Gate Reviews, for the Capital Projects. Coordinator of the Committee of the Third Parties Certification&Inspection Agencies. Reporting the Quality Discipline at Onshore, Offshore and Infrastructures to the High-Level Management.

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  Bureau Veritas Group

  Feb 2022 - Dec 2024

  Managing the Sines regional branch office, driving revenue performance, growth, and operations management for the provision of services mostly to the oil&gas and refining and petrochemical units.Spearhead 14 people, managing a budget of 0,7M€ while constantly developing and implementing financial and CapEx strategies to achieve top-line revenue and drive cost reductions. Turnaround an Operational Profit (OP) =-43,8% in 2022 to an OP=+8,0% in 2023.Performing planning, resource allocations, local procurement; business risk analysis, stakeholders & sponsors communications, for effective operations management. Show less

  • Senior Project Manager

    Oct 2022 - Dec 2024

  • Head Of Operations

    Feb 2022 - May 2024
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  Proman

  Jan 2025 - now

  Project Quality Manager

  Ensuring the Quality Deliverables on EPC Capital Projects.