Senior Mechanical Engineer @ ATG Europe, seconded to Fusion for Energy

November 2024 to Present – Based in Barcelona, Spain

Reporting to:

Head of Mechanical Engineering at FUTED (Fusion Technologies and Engineering Department)

Main responsibilities:

• Working on Water Detritiation System (WDS) and Isotope Separation System (ISS) for the Cryoplant and Fuel Cycle Programme (CPFC), and Water Cooled Lead Lithium (WCLL) and Helium Cooled Ceramic Pebbles (HCCP) systems for the Test Blanket Module Programme (TBM)
• Production and Review of Process Design Documents: PFDs, PIDs, Line Lists, Equipment Sizing, etc…
• Production and Review of Mechanical Design Documents: Pressure Vessel Datasheets, Pump Datasheets, Valve Datasheets, PED / ESPN Assessment, etc…
• Production and Review of I&C Design Documents: Instrumentation Lists, Instrument Datasheets, Instrument Hook Up Diagrams, etc…
• Production and Review of Technical Design Reports
• Production and Review of Project Specifications
• Production and Review of Project Procurement Specifications
• Selection of Mechanical components: Valves, Pumps, Filters, Actuators, etc…
• Selection of Instrumentation components: Level, Pressure, Flow, Temperature, etc…
• Calculation of Costs
• Calculation of Engineering Parameters
• Production of Dual Use Certification Assessments
• Attendance to Project Meetings
• Attendance to HAZOPs

Remarkable achievements:

• Design refinement of the Isotope Separation System (ISS) and Water Detritiation System (WDS), following their respective PDRs, with a focus on simplification and cost savings
• Selection of Pumps, Instrumentation and Valves for the Water Detritiation System (WDS) with view to have all items qualified before FDR, not delaying Project execution / delivery
• Design refinement of Water Cooled Lead Lithium (WCLL) and Helium Cooled Ceramic Pebbles (HCCP) systems, prior to PDR, with a focus on simplification, cost savings, and design unification with other Systems and Programmes

Project Manager @ Global Gas Energy

October 2023 to May 2024 – Based in Badalona, Spain

Reporting to:

CEO

Main responsibilities:

• Project Management of Compressed Natural Gas Packaged solutions, from enquiry to equipment delivery

Remarkable achievements:

• Set a clear path of ‘Quality First’ and ‘Company First’ policies in terms of Procurement of materials and Project Management
• Develop the Procurement portfolio of companies, with new procedures and policies in Project execution, saving costs, reducing delivery times, and increasing quality in the final products

Lead Proposals Engineer @ JC Fábrica de Válvulas, S.A.

November 2022 to May 2023 – Based in Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain

Reporting to:

Sales Director

Main responsibilities:

• Leading production of proposals (bid document and costings)
• Leading prequalifications with the different Oil and Gas end users and contractors
• Leading Terms and Conditions review

Remarkable achievements:

• Instruct the Sales, Procurement, and Project Departments in better Commercial and Engineering practices in order to maintain and repeat Purchase Orders

Contract Senior Project Engineer @ A-Gas Ltd. UK

November 2021 to May 2022 – Based in Barcelona, Spain. Working remotely for the UK, with trips to site in the Netherlands

Reporting to:

EU Head of Engineering Design & Build in Portbury (United Kingdom)

Main responsibilities:

Working on a new distillation unit to be installed on A-Gas site in Eygelshoven (Netherlands), including the following tasks:

• Leading production of project documents: datasheets, material lists, P&IDs, etc…
• Preparing, reviewing and evaluating RFQs and subsequent bids from suppliers on all the items in the distillation unit: valves, instruments, pressure vessels, pumps, compressors, PSVs, structural steel, etc…
• Site visits to recollect information about the existing unit in Eygelshoven, in which our distillation unit was based

Remarkable achievements:

• Site information collection to make Reverse Engineering of the existing installation, in order to construct a new one based on the same design
• Creation and standardization of document templates for all the project documents

Senior Proposals Engineer @ Inprocess Technology and Consulting Group S.L.

June 2021 to October 2021 – Based in Barcelona, Spain

Reporting to:

Managing Director

Main responsibilities:

Leading production of proposals (bid documents and costings) for the following:

• Steady State Simulation
• Dynamic Simulation
• Emulated Operator Training System (OTS)
• Direct-Connect OTS
• Mixed Emulated/Direct-Connect OTS
• LifeCycle OTS
• Flare Revalidation
• Flow Assurance
• Digital Twin
• Real Time Optimization (RTO)

The software offered in the proposals includes, but is not limited to, the following:

• Aspen Hysys®
• Aspen Plus®
• OLGA Dynamic Multiphase Flow Simulator
• Unisim® Design
• Petro-SIM

Senior Process Engineer @ Enhydra Ltd.

January 2020 to January 2021 – Based in Cromhall, United Kingdom

Reporting to:

Managing Director

Main responsibilities:

• Leading production of proposals (bid documents and costings)
• Sizing and design of the different PWT technologies: Corrugated Plate Interceptor (CPI), Degasser, Deoiling HC, Desanding HC, Multiphase Desanders, Induced Gas Flotation (IGF), Compact Flotation Unit (CFU), Nutshell Filter (NSF), Dual Media Filter (DMF), Activated Carbon Filter, Organoclay Filter (PS85), Cartridge Filter, Coalescing Filter, Vacuum Deaerator (VAD), H2S Stripper, according to the characteristics of the Produced Water to treat and required outlet
• Preparing, reviewing and evaluating RFQs and subsequent bids from suppliers (valves, instruments, pressure vessels, pumps, skid fabrication and PSVs)
• Preparing and reviewing the different technical documents attached to the proposal (P&IDs, PFDs and GAs)
• Leading the handover meeting to the project team

Remarkable achievements:

• Standardization and unification of the multiple proposals templates, getting from around 15 to only 1, eliminating formatting discrepancies and considerably reducing the time spent on producing each proposal by making colour differentiated multiple choices depending on the technology quoted and its characteristics

Senior Proposals Engineer @ Alderley Systems Ltd. (ASL)

June 2019 to January 2020 – Based in Wickwar, United Kingdom

Reporting to:

Proposals and Sales Director

Main responsibilities:

• Leading production of proposals (bid document and costings)
• Assistance to weekly sales and proposals meeting, being responsible for the meeting minutes
• Preparing, reviewing and evaluating RFQs and subsequent bids from suppliers (valves, instruments, pressure vessels, pumps, PSVs and pipe and fittings)
• Reviewing and approving of the different technical documents attached to the proposal (P&IDs, PFDs and GAs)
• Leading the different Design Review Meetings, before sending the initial proposal and before accepting the Purchase Order
• Leading the costing meeting, to review costings and set a margin
• Contract and Terms and Conditions negotiation, if necessary
• Leading the handover meeting to the project team

Remarkable achievements:

• Mentoring and leading the new Proposals Engineer in the team, after he finished his Graduate Scheme in the company and moved to the Proposals team
• Giving training in PWT to the Proposals Manager and Senior Proposals Engineer of the Alderley Proposals Team in Dubai (UAE)

Project Manager @ Jordan Manufacturing Ltd. (JML)

January 2019 to June 2019 – Based in Yate, United Kingdom

Reporting to:

Projects Director

Main responsibilities:

• Managing vacuum chamber manufacturing contract for Renishaw, from proposal to delivery
• Assistance to daily production briefings, reporting to the Managing Director
• Supporting the Proposals department with proposals for bigger contracts

Remarkable achievements:

• Quickly adapting to a new environment with huge Project constraints and technical improvement needs
• Being able to Manage and Deliver the assigned Projects, with the company in big financial and human resources difficulties (the company entered administration a couple of weeks after I left)

Senior Proposals Engineer @ Alderley Systems Ltd. (ASL)

January 2016 to January 2019 – Based in Wickwar, United Kingdom

Reporting to:

Proposals and Sales Director

Main responsibilities:

• Leading production of proposals (bid document and costings)
• Assistance to weekly sales and proposals meeting, being responsible for the meeting minutes
• Preparing, reviewing and evaluating RFQs and subsequent bids from suppliers (valves, instruments, pressure vessels, pumps, PSVs and pipe and fittings)
• Reviewing and approving of the different technical documents attached to the propoal (P&IDs, PFDs and GAs)
• Leading the different Design Review Meetings, before sending the initial proposal and before accepting the Purchase Order
• Leading the costing meeting, to review costings and set a margin
• Contract and Terms and Conditions negotiation, if necessary
• Leading the handover meeting to the project team

Remarkable achievements:

• Obtaining Shell Penguins FPSO Produced Water Treatment Purchase Order, as the path to it was a difficult combination of the inexperience of Fluor Philippines in managing big EPC projects and Shell’s demanding technical requirements. Further to this, in this project, I did the final negotiation with the Fluor Procurement team as the Proposals delegate, along with the Sales Director

Proposals Engineer @ Alderley Process Technologies Ltd. (APT)

June 2013 to January 2016 – Based in Charfield, United Kingdom

Reporting to:

Managing Director

Main responsibilities:

• Leading production of proposals (bid document and costings)
• Assistance to weekly sales and proposals meeting, being responsible for the meeting minutes
• Leading prequalifications with the different Oil and Gas end users and contractors
• Preparing, reviewing and evaluating RFQs and subsequent bids from suppliers (valves, instruments, pressure vessels, pumps, skid fabrication and PSVs)
• Leading the costing meeting, to review costings and set a margin
• Contract and Terms and Conditions negotiation, if necessary
• Leading the handover meeting to the project team

Remarkable achievements:

• Qualifying Alderley Systems manufacturing site in Wickwar (United Kingdom) with Kuwait Oil Company, KOC, in the Oily Water Treatment Category

Proposals Engineer @ Española de Montajes Metálicos S.A. (EMMSA)

January 2008 to June 2013 – Based in Barcelona, Spain

Reporting to:

Proposals and Engineering Manager

Main responsibilities:

• As part of the proposal and engineering department I took part of the study from the first stage through the tender submission. I participated in the design and quotation of API and ASME tanks and vessels, TEMA heat exchangers and UNE-EN, ASME & ISO facilities

Remarkable achievements:

• Introducing the AutoCAD layout tabs to the project department, being able to train them into using it. From then on, Project Engineers were drawing the model on a 1:1 scale, and creating as many layout tabs as necessary depending on the drawings that needed to be printed. This, in theory very little difference, changed the way the whole department was working, being able to work faster and with far better results

Project Manager @ Canalizaciones Instalaciones y Servicios Auxiliares S.L. (CAINSA)

May 2007 to January 2008 – Based in Barcelona, Spain

Reporting to:

Managing Director

Main responsibilities:

Project Management of Natural Gas facilities, both for industrial and commercial purposes, from enquiry to delivery

Proposals Engineer @ Equipos de Manutención y Obras S.A. (EMOSA)

January 2006 to December 2006 – Based in Viladecans, Spain

Reporting to:

Sales and Proposals Director

Main responsibilities:

Manage Multivac Food Vacuum Packing machine quotations from the client petition to the factory order

Project Engineer @ Reins

February 2004 to February 2005 – Based in Barcelona, Spain

Reporting to:

Branch Manager

Main responsibilities:

Analyze and design gas grids for Gas Natural, now Naturgy, which owns the Spanish National Gas Grid

Intern Lab Technician @ Ferrovial

September 2001 to December 2001 – Based in Montornes del Valles, Spain

Reporting to:

Water Treatment Plant Operations Manager

Main responsibilities:

Manage and perform the laboratory daily analisys for wastewater and sludges of the Wastewater Treatment Plant

IT Operator @ Shared Medical Systems (SMS)

June 2000 to June 2002 – Based in Barcelona, Spain

Reporting to:

Lead Operator

Main responsibilities:

Shift Operator in the Data Processing Center of one of the reference hospitals in Spain: Hospital Clinic de Barcelona

My tasks included, but were not limited to:

• Control of the right functioning of the Hospital servers
• Make backups of each of the Hospital servers
• Register incidences with servers / databases and solve them if urgent
• Register tickets for Help Desk and solve them if urgent