MANUEL SANTANA
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Objective:
To find a position as a Rotative Equipment Maintenance Engineer, Team lead, Turbine Maintenance Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Engineer Assistant or a position in a related Area.
Experience:
Coordinated, Supervised and Controlled major (overhaul), retrofit, and minor maintenance of Rotating Equipment.
Supervised the Repairing Shop of Rotating Equipment components such as: Rotors, Shafts, Bearings, Seals, Blades, Diaphragms, Nozzles, Valves, Speed Governors, Reblading, Steam and Gas Turbines, Centrifugal Compressors, Gear Boxes, Expanders, Screw Compressors and Pumps.
Analyzed Failure of Rotating Equipments and its components.
Installed and aligned Rotating Machinery.
Planned, Scheduled, Executed and Followed-up Maintenance.
Calibrated Hydraulic control valve.
Development of Spare analysis and strategies.
Good Knowledge of Turbo Machineries Dynamic, such as: Unbalance, misalignment, oil whip, oil whirl, Bearing problems, internal friction, Vibration modes, etc.
Good Knowledge in control and protection systems of Turbo machineries.
Good Knowledge of Reliability Tools and Analysis.
Good knowledge of Rotating Equipment pre-commissioning and commissioning.
Good knowledge of Rotating Equipment Auxiliaries operation and maintenance (Surface condensers, air removal packages, gland condensers, lube oil systems, seal oil systems, dry gas seal systems, etc.).
Made Mechanical and Electrical drawings using Autocad program.
Made drawings and tool paths to geometrical figures using Enroute program.
Good Knowledge of Microsoft Project 2007.
Education:
Postgraduate study in Rotating Equipment- Simón Bolívar University, Caracas, Venezuela. 1996.
Mechanical Engineer- Zulia University- Maracaibo, Venezuela. 1978.
Work Experience:
FC Associate I - November 2017 to this date
Amazon Fulfillment Center – Miami, Fl USA
Processed the returns made by customers, checked the status and determined if it was salable, refurbish or damage. Sorted envelops and packages building pallets, wrapped pallets, transported pallets with pallet jacks.
Draftsperson - April 2016 to this date
Free Lance – Miami, Fl USA
Elaborated furniture, architectural, structural, pool, electrical and piping drawings using Autocad 2008 to 2012.
Field Service Engineer – February 2012 to March 2016.
ELLIOTT GROUP – Jeannette, PA USA
Provided technical assistance for Centrifugal Compressors, Steam Turbines, Gear Boxes and its auxiliaries (Surface condensers, air removal packages, gland condensers, lube oil, seal oil, dry gas seal systems, etc.), field and shop repairs.
Field Service Engineer – December 2008 to February 2012
GRANITE SERVICE INC.– Tampa, Fl USA
Provided technical assistance for Centrifugal Compressors, Gas Turbines, Gear Boxes, Expanders and its auxiliaries (lube oil, seal oil, dry gas seal systems, etc.), field and shop repairs.
Draftsperson - March 2005 to November 2008
ARTCO GROUP – Miami, Fl USA
Elaborated Furniture drawings and designs using Autocad 2005 to 2008 and made tool paths applying enroute3 program.
Draftsperson - March 2004 to December 2005
Free Lance – Miami, Fl USA
Elaborated architectural, structural, pool, electrical and piping drawings using Autocad 2002 to 2005 and Microstation.
Rotating Equipment Field Service Engineer Feb 2003 to Feb 2004
DICEPRICA Maracaibo - Venezuela
DICEPRICA: It is a well known Venezuelan Enterprise that gives engineering, consulting and supporting to all kind of Industries, especially Oil, Gas, Petrochemical, Chemical and Refineries Industries.
Provided technical assistance for Rotating Equipment repair, especially Centrifugal Compressors and Pumps, Gas and Steam Turbines, Turbo expanders, Gear boxes, etc.
Made different mechanical and electrical drawings using Autocad 2000.
Rotating Equipment Supervisor Aug 1984 to Feb 2003
PDVSA Pequiven El Tablazo – Venezuela
PDVSA Pequiven: It is the largest and most important Petrochemical Company in Venezuela that has some of the following plants: LGN, MVC, PVC, Olefin, Chlorine, Ammoniac, Urea, Industrial Services (power plants and treatment water plants) etc.
Coordinated Planned, Scheduled, Estimated, Supervised and Executed maintenance of Rotating Equipment in the Petrochemical Complex of El Tablazo such as: Steam and Gas Turbines, Centrifugal, Screw and Axial Compressors, Gear Boxes, Turbo expanders, Gas generators, Motors, Electrical generators and Pumps of different brands and types.
Coordinated and Supervised Shop Repairing of rotating equipment components.
Supervised internal personnel and international technician and engineers from external resource providers (General Electric, Nuovo Pignone, Alston Power, Sulzer, Philadelphia, Siemens, Elliot, Maag, York, Solar, Dresser Rand, etc).
Controlled and Administrated spare parts.
Be involved in Reliability committees to get improved in the Maintenance Performance.
Be involved in Safety meetings and committees to look into and prevent future incidents and accidents.
Used Autocad program to make and recover mechanical and electrical drawings.
Maintenance Supervisor Apr 1979 to Jul 1984
CADAFE Yaritagua – Venezuela
CADAFE: It is the largest and most important Electrical Company in Venezuela.
Planned, controlled and executed maintenances of gas and steam turbines and its auxiliary equipment such as: diesels, coolers, pumps, valves, electrical generators, control valves, motors, etc
Controlled and supervised technical and professional personnel in electrical, instrument and mechanical areas.
Administrated and controlled spare parts.
Temporally assumed the position of chief of electrical power generation plants.
Production Chief May 1978 to Jan 1979
PepsiCo Maracaibo – Venezuela
PepsiCo: It is the largest beverages Company in Venezuela with more than 65% of the beverage market.
Controlled and supervised plant production.
Prepared production reports.
Supervised and controlled personnel.
Supervised the plant maintenance.
Courses and Conferences:
Turbojet Twin Pack Pratt and Whitney Course.
Gas and Steam Turbine Courses.
Lubrication Courses.
Attended and observed the shop repair procedures of Pratt and Whitney Power Turbine and Gas Generator.
The use of instrumentation data acquisition and machinery malfunction.
The use of monitoring instrumentation and their calibration.
Mechanical Seal Courses.
Tribology of Machines Course.
Other courses such as: SAPR3, Seven Habits for Highly Effective People, Maintenance based in Reliability, Empowerment, etc.
18th Turbo machinery Symposium.
35 th Annual Gas Turbine Users meeting.
Autocad 2D and 3D Rafael Belloso Chacin University, Maracaibo, Venezuela
Autocad 2D and 3D Southwest Miami High School Miami, Fl, USA 2004
Microstation Sunset High School Miami, Fl, USA 2006
General Electric Induction course for Field Service Engineers Houston, TX, USA 2008
Basic offshore safety induction and emergency training Port of Spain, Trinidad 2010
Elliott Field Service Engineer Training Jeannette, PA, USA 2013
Main Skills:
Microsoft Office packages, Microsoft project 2007, SAP R3, Lotus Note, CNC/enroute3, Land Development, Microstation and Autocad Programs.
Spanish/English.
REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST