Stuart Soares

Stuart Soares

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Project QA/QC Manager

  • Education

    • ISEL - Instituto Superior De Engenharia De Lisboa

      2008 - 2009
      Post Graduation Mechanical Engineer Materials,Welding&Corrosion of Gas Pipelines

      Master in Mechanical Engineering

    • INDEG-ISCTE Executive Education

      2024 - 2025
      Postgraduate Degree Business Administration and Management, General
    • ISEL - Instituto Superior De Engenharia De Lisboa

      2006 - 2008
      Master of Science (MSc) Mechanical engineering

      Post-Graduation in Mechanical Engineering

  • Experience

    • 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
    • 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.

    • 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

    • 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.

    • 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
    • Proman

      Jan 2025 - now
      Project Quality Manager

      Ensuring the Quality Deliverables on EPC Capital Projects.

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Tecnico de Gás

      Direcção Geral de Energia e Geologia
      Oct 2009
    • Certified Associated Welding Inspector

      American Welding Society
      Oct 2004
    • Licensed Engineer (MSc Mecanichal Eng)

      Ordem dos Engenheiros
      Jul 2007
    • Quality Auditor

      ISQ
      Nov 2000
    • Quality Management Systems

      ISQ
      May 2000
    • RT Interpreter

      ISQ
    • Certified Welding Inspector

      American Welding Society
      Jan 2021
      View certificate certificate
    • HUET Offshore STCW95 - H2S/ HUET/ PSSR / FP&FF/ PST/ EFA

      Sonangol Starfish Oil & Gas
      May 2013
    • Visual Testing ACCP Level II

      The American Society for Nondestructive Testing
      Jan 2020
    • Cathodic Protection Tester (CP)

      NACE International, The Worldwide Corrosion Authority
      Jun 2021