WORKING IN ORINOCO IRON

 WORKING IN ORINOCO IRON

Orinoco Iron is a  iron ore reducing plant (briquette plant) where I worked over 11 years, which has many equipments widely used in oil refinery processes, because Orinoco Iron has to produce reformer gas from natural gas as a part of its internal process

This plant started up in 2000 by IBH and BHP Billinton companies and it is an iron ore reduction plant, which transforms the iron ore in briquettes of pure iron of 84% of metallic. The process used for this purpose is FINMET that means "fine metallic" and this technology was developed by Venezuelan people. It was built in Matanzas Puerto Ordaz Edo Bolívar Venezuela. It  has a capacity of 2,0 million tons of briquettes per year. This plant is constituted by two modules of a million tons each one. Each module has two trains of production and each one produce one thousand and five houndred tons (1700) by day.  

ORINOCO IRON

During 11 years I performed a very outstanding career starting as a Mechanical Maintenance Engineer (1999) , working in field, and ending in this company as a Superintendent of Procurement and shipping (2011). As a pioneer, I had the opportunity to grow up as a profesional of engineering and administration in the plant and making the company to grow up also, I was promoted at differents roles and positions, growing in responsibilities and duties as well, achieving a great and integral experience and "Know how" to control and administer a big  iron ore reducing company.

As a result, I have the abilities and knowledge to function effectively as an individual and in multidisciplinary and multicultural teams, as a team leader or manager as well as an effective staff member.

Here is my career summary in this plant:

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Superintendent of Procurement and shipping (2010- January 2011)

• I was in charge to handle and manage resources to purchase industrial goods, cost analysis as well as the logistics of shipping for export and import.

Supervisor  of Sales Administrative Services (2007- 2010).

Coordinated with Sales Managers to:

• Prepare sale budget and maintain/improve budget limitations to meet plant’s annual objectives and standards according to sales projections.

• Monitor production vs. sales to review production schedule accordingly. Ensure enough replenishments of finished goods supply.

• Apply effective modification on production plan for timely production of special orders or promotional items.

• Coordinates with procurement officers to ensure smooth supply of raw materials.

• Establishes quality control standards and procedures. Ensures strictly adherence to those standards (ISO 9001 2000).

• Management of complaints, supporting Post Sale Technical Manager

QA/QC  Supervisor (2006-2007).

• I was part of the staff to the Superintendent of Inspection and Corrosion of Technical Management. • I was responsible for coordinating the inspection of static equipment during operations to ensure the reliability of the company (predictive inspections in opportunity) to avoid out of schedules shut downs. Not accidents record during my management.

QA/QC  Coordinator (Shut down)  (2004-2006) 

• I was part of the staff  staff of the Shut Down Superintendence. I was responsible for leading an inspector’s staff and activities during plant shut downs to ensure the reliability of the equipments during normal operations, detecting out deviations in opportunity to prevent delays and unscheduled shut downs after Start Ups

Coordinator of mechanical installations (2001-2004)

• I managed construction contractor staff to ensure the successful start up of the module 2 within budget and schedule as planned.

• I received a special gratitude award from my staff (104 people) for the way I handed and gave the instructions to meet project objectives. Not disabling accidents. From the workers of the companies T.D.A, Montiven, Pirca and OI who participated in the Commissioning and start up of Modulo II of Orinoco Iron, showing gratitude to Cristóbal Méndez, for the enormous technical and moral support and leadership to achievement  our objective without any fatal accident or lost time due to Injury.  “Security and Productivity go hand in hand”.  09/20/2003

Maintenance Coordinator (2001)

• I held the position of “Maintenance Coordinator”  in the mineral handling area, to performance a substitution for vacation during 32 days.

Mechanical Maintenance Engineer I (1999-2001)

• Collect information about the behaviour of equipment from the mechanical point of view using non-destructive testing and vibration analysis. The most widely used non-destructive testing are: " thickness, ultrasound analysis, inspection with eddy current equipment, welding inspection, spot check and X-rays. "

• Supervised permanent staff and temporary staff to achieve the required quality in their work and parts and components produced and / or repaired in-house or acquired from third parties, following rules and procedures.

• Participated in twenty (20) plant shutdowns, with the maintenance engineering group, responsible for mechanical inspections of reactors, gas plant, hydrogen plant and auxiliary equipment, ensuring successful plant start-ups.