Industrial Engineer Project Management
Resume:
Curriculum Vitae
*.Name of staff: Manuel Novo
2.Professional Title: MSc Industrial engineer
3.Date of birth: 6-Nov-1971, Paris (France).
4.Nationality: Spain
5.Details: Tel.: +63-968-***-****. Email: ******.****@*****.***
6.Professional Education:
Institution
E.T.S. Industrial Engineers, University of Vigo, Spain. http://etsei.uvigo.es/
Date
1997
Degree
MSc Industrial Engineer. Master Thesis: Hydropower run-of-river plant 9MW in the Mandeo river, Spain.
Institution
IESIDE Business School at Vigo (former Caixanova) https://www.ieside.edu/
Date
2004
Degree
Executive MBA, Master (900 hr, 18 months).
Institution
Official Board of Technical Mining Engineers of Asturias, Spain. https://www.colminas.com/
Date
2001
Degree
Health and Safety Higher national diploma (Master, 600 hr)
7.Training courses:
•Project management PMP course as per PMI s PMBOK, 4th ed.
•Permit to Work in Power Plants. Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC), Liberia, 2017.
•Gates and valves training seminar, Mercury, New Zealand, 2018.
•IEC 61850 based Substation Automation, Engineering Institute of Technology, Australia, 2015.
•Hydrology for hydropower plants, Dams & weirs, Hydraulic structures, Concrete structures and Hydraulics from Civil Engineers Association, Seminars.
•Building installations, Renewable energies and efficiency course, Industrial Security, Power Electrical Systems, Quality in the Industry, Steel Structures Design, Bioclimatic Architecture, etc.
8.Countries of work experience: Spain, Portugal, UAE, Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, PNG, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, South Africa, Mozambique, Malawi, Angola, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Liberia, New Zealand and Australia.
9.Salient current duties and responsibilities:
Planning the Operations, maintenance and asset management of power plants (diesel, hydropower, wind and assist on solar), development and action plans; Management of Engineering Team and external consultants with focus on feasibility, costs controls and revenues increase supporting the site teams; Tendering and Procurement Management, developing tendering documents and managing the bidding process up to the contract agreement signature; Execution Support from project inception to DED and contracting, Risk Management identifying, evaluating and mitigation any risks, Plant operations and maintenance management with implementation of procedures for plant optimization.
10.Employment record (in reverse chronological order):
Company, Job title, Duration: Wawa JVCo (Prime Infra), O&M Director and Project Delivery EM Chief Engineer during construction and commissioning, November 2023 to present day, involved in Tayabasan Weir 2 Operations and Maintenance and Upper Wawa Dam (84m high) and Pumping station (518+259 MLD, 6+3 m3/s) construction, commissioning and Operations and Maintenance.
Company, Job title, Duration: MGen, Chief Technical Officer, March to October 2023, involved in several projects and different technologies such as solar (Baras 75Mwac, Bongabon 18.75 Mwac, Rope 50 Mwac), wind, pumped storage (Wawa PSP 600MW), CCGT (South Premier Power Corporation 1,200 MW; Excellent Energy Resources, Inc, 1,275 MW; Atimonan 1,200 MW), LNG gas (Linseed Field Corporation 257k CBM nat gas), waste to energy (Quezon City W2E project), SPNEC (Solar 3,500 MW & BESS 4,500 MWh), etc.
Company, Job title, Duration: Santa Clara International Corp. Director of Renewable Energies. Design management, Construction supervision, Procurement management, O&M support, Contracts, Development on hydropower, wind, solar, water infrastructures, pumped storage hydro and other renewable energies, Philippines, July 2021 to March 2023. Achievements on plants optimization with higher generation, lower CAPEX, shorter schedules, etc. Involved in 10+ hydropower projects, a bulk water supply project (75 MLD) and two pumped hydro storage projects (200 MW each). Over a period of 17 months I could trim down CAPEX in around 2 billion PhP.
Company, Job title, Duration: Leliadoura, S.L., Design, Construction, Development; O&M hydropower and wind, January 2021 to September 2021 involved in the Ngenge HPP 13.8 MW (Uganda) Feasibility Study design, ESIA report, Resettlement Action Plan Report, and Grid Impact Study report. Engagement on electromechanical equipment design supervision and procurement management in the Tayabasan weir 2 project (Philippines) for Prime BMD from February to June 2021.
Company, Job title, Duration: rAREH, Engineering, Operations and Maintenance and Asset Manager, September 2019 to January 2021, with reneable energy projects in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, South Africa, Malawi, Moçambique and Sierra Leone. This included the solar projects Nkhotakota (26MWp, Malawi), Makindu solar (30 MWp, Kenya) acting Owner’s engineer and several hydropower plants up to 50 MW.
Activities, Achievements and Contracts Exposure: support and lead of the above-mentioned O&M activities, with duties on the plants performance, engineering supervision, contracts review, etc. Repaired in 1-month (Dec 17th 2019 to January 20th 2020) the 18 MW Mpanga HPP (Uganda) unit 3 hydropower turbine that was out of service for more than 18 months with the previous Owner, and developed a Feasibility Study to increase 3.5% the generation with new runners, install the 4th powertrain and incrase the head around 4 m. Hydropower and solar projects development support to BD department.
Company, Job title, Duration: GHD, Technical Director, September 2017 to September 2019. Philippines and New Zealand.
Activities, Achievements and Contracts Exposure: we act as basic and detail designers, project managers, lender s engineers, technical and commercial advisors to our clients in the hydropower sector. I worked on contracts in a number of different matters such as EPC contract, split contracts following Silver, Red, Yellow and White FIDIC books; PPAs advise and technical support to our clients; similar support on negotiations with local municipalities, grid operator NGCP, Indigenous peoples communities, NWRB, DENR, ERC, DOE, other lender s engineers, we review and advise documents for projects take over by other developers, assess technical condition of plants, remaining lifecycle expectancy, etc.
Member of the panel of experts that supported the Australian government, ARENA, Australian National University, Black & Veatch and the contractor McConnel Dowell on the Pumped Hydro Storage program ANU PHESCEM to screen and select feasible sites for further development.
Company, Job title, Duration: Hydro Operation International, S.A., Deputy Plant Manager/Operations Manager; January 2017 to Sep 2017. Liberia.
Activities, Achievements and Contracts Exposure: acted as Deputy Plant Manager in charge of Operations of the Plant. In charge of training my counterpart, a local engineer who was assigned as local Operations supervisor. After a couple of months, the National Project Director engaged me also with the five local engineers assigned to Operations department.
Contracts: review and work our company contract for Operations, Maintenance and Training, based on the FIDIC template. Acted as support of the PIU (Project Implementation Unit), by Manitoba Hydro International, to review and supervise the works provided by the Contractors and the documents approved by the Owner’s Engineer were according to their contracts before we were signing the taking over documents, etc, the punch lists, partial taking overs, remediation actions, etc.
Company, Job title, Duration: First Gen Hydro Power Corp., Hydro Project Manager, Operations and Maintenance Head; January 2015 to Oct 2016. Philippines.
Activities, Achievements and Contracts Exposure: O&M Head and Project Manager for the Masiway HPP 12 MW refurbishment which was achieved ahead of schedule, and Agusan nº 2 HPP 1.6 MW technical due diligence and uprating study. Masiway refurbishment EPC contract awarded to Alstom China (offshore) and Philippines (onshore) for manufacturing and installation respectively. Outsourcing of the new subcontractors, with all the contractual management it involved. Technical support to the Pantabangan, Masiway and Agusan plants with special attention to the Annual Preventive Maintenance activities, the plants optimization and retrofits, and the daily activities. Also, some support to greenfield projects (Bubunawan nº2).
Contracts: involvement especially with the Masiway HPP refurbishment EPC FIDIC contract which I managed during manufacturing, installation and commissioning but I also reviewed the EPC contract documents of Pantabangan HPP 120 MW refurbishment. I conducted a high-level feasibility study to uprate the Masiway hydropower plant.
I also conducted the Agusan nº 2 HPP Feasibility Study report and managed the different proposals for civil works, generating equipment, transmission line, etc.
Company, Job title, Duration: Leliadoura, S.L; Founder and CEO. Senior electromechanical engineer, project manager; January 2014 to January 2015.
Activities, Achievements and Contracts Exposure: involvement as designer, project manager, manufacturing supervisor, quality system implementation support engineer, public subsidies documents preparation, etc, for local administrations and private companies.
Company, Job title, Duration: Sogreah gulf, Artelia, LLC; Senior Industrial engineer; January 2013 to October 2013 (as freelancer), and from October 2013 to January 2014 as employee.
Activities, Achievements and Contracts Exposure: support on projects and proposals on water infrastructure projects (Auyayna pump station, Jeddah lifting station) and Jamba-Ia- Mina and Jamba-Ia-Ona hydropower plants (Angola). Design of the electromechanical equipment of the Jamba-Ia- Mina HPP powerhouse and the Auyayna pump station.
Contracts: I reviewed the technical aspects of the Brazilian EPC contractor s proposal for Jamba-Ia-Mina (in Portuguese language) to the Owner: BOQ, schedule, working methodology, risks, etc.
Company, Job title, Duration: Novo Consultores, S.L.; Freelance industrial engineer; September 2006 to October 2013.
Activities, Achievements and Contracts Exposure: here I worked as a freelancer as designer, project manager, manufacturing supervisor, quality system implementation support engineer, public subsidies documents preparation engineer, etc, for public administrations and private clients.
Contracts: as a freelancer I had to handle my own contracts which I signed off with the clients, the scope of works, deliverables, the timeline or schedule, documents, expenses, etc. Wind farms: Muras 13.2 MW and Laxosa 19.8 MW designer. Also agreed to address the DED, construction management and the plant O&M works. Water supply projects: several projects of water supply for local administrations, including the design and the site supervision.
Company, Job title, Duration: Empresa pública Hospital Costa del Sol, public employee position; General Services Director’s support manager in charge of the 2nd extension (40 M€); June 2006 to September 2006.
Activities, Achievements and Contracts Exposure: here I had to work with the economists who prepared the Feasibility Study of the Hospital 2nd phase extension; the architects who designed the main works and the engineers who worked on the electromechanical installations.
Contracts was to review their deliverables were actually according to their contracts, nothing was left out and to review the EPC contract of the works and the proposals.
Company, Job title, Duration: Tasga, S.L. (Copasa Group); Industrial Director in charge of Operations and Maintenance and electromechanical area lead; August 2003 to February 2006.
Activities, Achievements and Contracts Exposure: I handled the O&M of Salto de Gomil HPP on the daily activities, operations, maintenance, etc. I worked with six Civil Engineers and I as Electromechanical engineer, and several CAD operators. We worked under a matrix structure, so I reported to the Project Manager of the projects on electromechanical matters I handled, and they reported to me on Salto de Touro HPP where I acted as the Project Director. We worked on fifteen hydro projects from tendering phase to O&M and my support was on electromechanical matters and the liaison with the Civil Works.
Contracts: we worked as per the matrix structure, i.e. each project involved a Civil Engineer and I as electomechanical engineer, then the Managing Director supervised the contract draft with the Legal advisor. There were some contracts were only I and the MD were involved such as the generating equipment, communications or the transmission lines ones. The contracts were based on the Yellow and Red Fidic ones. The contracts with the offtaker were under the FiT tariff.
Company, Job title, Duration: GAMESA ENERGÍA RENOVABLES, S.A. as a wind farms developer that subcontracted Gamesa Eólica, S.A. as the EPC contractor; Area Manager, Project Manager; November 2000 to August 2003 developing wind farms.
Activities, Achievements and Contracts Exposure: I was as Area manager and Project manager in charge of several wind farms development, from inception stage, design supervision to the O&M phase when I finally became the Plant manager in charge of the Operations and Maintenance. Hence, I had several wind farms under different stages of development. I was the Project Manager of the first 50 MW wind farm in Spain (Masgalán, 2001, 75 turbines 660 kW each) and built another 50 MW one (Ameixeiras, 75 turbines) in just six months.
Contracts: working with the legal advisor and the different directors.
Wind farms: Masgalán 50 MW, Ameixeiras 50 MW, Monte Carrio 31.4 MW, Pedregal 30.6 MW, Monte Treito 30.6 MW.
Company, Job title, Duration: Cortizo Hidroeléctricas, S.A.; Technical Director; June 1998 to August 2000.
Activities, Achievements and Contracts Exposure: I was the only engineer in the company who worked with the Owner, the Financial manager and the permitting manager. My first assignment was to manage the Operations and Maintenance of the two hydropower plants already under operations. I also carried out all the technical activities since reconnaissance study to manage the O&M and refurbishment of the existing plants (Chantada and Taboada HPP). Managed several concurrent plants’ development. Each project involved up to 20 different suppliers, contractors, consultants, counselors, etc, managing technical design (civil works and electromech), EIA, Health and Safety Plan, contractor’s management, construction site supervision, commissioning coordination and O&M plans development and implementation.
Contracts: I worked in liaison with the Legal advisor and the Financial manager to draw up the different contracts with the following third parties: weir, intake and powerhouse contractor; turbine manufacturer; generator manufacturer; gates manufacturer; electrical and SCADA contractor; transmission line contractor; hydrologist consultant; local right of way agents; land line contractor; local communities; offtaker (Naturgy); contractual documents with Water, Labor, Environmental regional administrations and Municipalities, etc. Finally, I administered the contracts during construction, their claims, variation orders management, punch lists, taking overs, etc. The contracts with the offtaker were under the FiT type. We had only one EPC contract and the rest were split contracts directly with the suppliers which entailed a huge number of different contracts for these plants under construction which took less than a year to be under commercial operations. Aside from the hydropower projects I also acted as Owner’s engineer during the construction of the diesel cogeneration plant (Picusa 5 MW) and supported the Operations and Maintenance department of Aluminios Cortizo cogeneration plant (10 MW), giving support on engineering, procurements, construction, installation, commissioning, O&M, etc.
Hydropower plants: Segade 9 MW, Caldas presa 1 MW, Santabaia 1.4 MW (Pelton), Liñares 4.02 MW, Castro 4.2 MW.
Company, Job title, Duration: Pumade, S.A. (Aurela Group); Support engineer at Production and Quality Department; January 1998 to June 1998.
Activities, Achievements and Contracts Exposure: Support engineer in charge of develop all Technical instructions, Manuals, technical documentation on the implementation of ISO 9001. Manufacturing support engineer supervising Methods and Timings, studying new layout improvements, costs reduction and energy consumption optimization.
Contracts: review some of the service contract related with the external consultant who supported us with the ISO 9001 standard implementation.
11.Software: user of MS Office, AutoCAD, MS Project, SCADA (by Gamesa, Voith, Andritz, Alstom, Gugler, Baliño/Undenas, Jinlun, Repros), TurbnPro, SHPD, Hydrohelp. CMMS in hydro and wind power plants. Notions on: Simsen, Primavera, Staad, Siemens PSS/E, Bentley waterhammer, Siemens Digsi. Excel VBA Developer of energy modelling, hydraulic models, etc for hydropower plants, pumped storage, PV solar and batteries BESS, etc.
12.Professional Experience: Some examples of power plants designed, constructed and/or operated.
July 2021 to March 2023: Santa Clara International Corp., Philippines, Director of Renewable Energies: involvement in Siguil, Lake Mainit, Silo-o, Malitbog, Mangima, Upper Tumauini, Clarin, Mat-I, Lalawinan, Chico, Water supply project, pumped storage projects, among others.
January 2021 to July 2021: Leliadoura, S.L. Consultancy, 13.8 MW Ngenge HPP (Uganda) hydropower plant development.
Sep. 2019 to January 2021: RAREH, O&M, Engineering and Asset manager. Mpanga HPP 18 MW, Nyamwamba HPP 9 MW.
Sep. 2017 – Sep. 2019: Technical Director at GHD. https://www.ghd.com/ Philippines and New Zealand.
Name of assignment or project: Mount Coffee HPP 88 MW – Liberia
Year: 2017
Location: Mount Coffee – Liberia 4x22 Mw Francis turbines, 10 radial gates spillway.
Client: Liberia Electricity Corporation
Positions held: Deputy Plant Manager/Operations Manager.
Name of assignment or project: Masiway Hydropower Project - Philippines
Year: from Jan 2015 to October 2016
Location: Nueva Ecija, Philippines
Client: First Gen Hydro Power Corporation
Main project features: This project comprises a 25 m high RCC dam, 9x16.85 m substation, 21x35 m underground powerhouse with 1x12 MW Kaplan turbine-generator unit, outdoor switchboards 13.8 kV, LV/MV, I&C and SCADA.
Outdoor substation: 13.8/69 kV for generation bay
Positions held: Project Manager, OM Head
Activities performed: Management of the refurbishment of the HPP comprising excitation, governor, main transformer, protection and metering and substation circuit breaker.
Name of assignment or project: Jamba-Ia-Mina Hydropower Project - Angola
Year: from May 2013 to June 2013
Location: Jamba-Ia-Mina, Angola
Client: Sogreah FZCO
Main project features: This project comprises a 66 m high RCC dam, 612 m dam overall length, 2x5.6x10.55 m intake gate, 223 m length and 6x4.2 m diameter penstock, 23.4x96 m surface powerhouse with 3x74.6 MW Francis turbine-generator unit, indoor switchboards 15 kV, LV/MV, I&C and SCADA, and a 0.18 Km length 15 kV Underground powerline.
Outdoor substation: 15/220 kV for generation bays, 220/30 kV for distribution bay, 75x64 m.
Positions held: electromechanical engineer.
Activities performed: redesign new surface powerhouse and switchyard.
Name of assignment or project: Touro Hydropower Project - Spain
Year: from June 2003 to February 2006
Location: Ollares, Touro, Spain
Client: Tasga, Ltd.
Main project features: The Salto de Touro project comprises a 29.75 m high RCC dam, 15 x 6 m section headrace tunnel, 21 m long penstock, surface powerhouse with 2x7 MW Ingehydro Kaplan turbine, Indar generator units, mechanical equipment, LV/MV, I&C and SCADA.
Outdoor substation: 6/66 kV, 335 k€, 12x20 m.
Overhead powerline: 7.7 km length, 66 kV, 1.16 m€.
Positions held: project director.
Activities performed: Project Manager, site construction supervision, procurements manager, planning, scheduling, budgeting, commissioning and operation and maintenance manager.
Name of assignment or project: Caldas de Reis Segade powerhouse Hydropower Project - Spain
Year: From June 1998 to August 2000
Location: Caldas de Reis, Spain
Client: Cortizo Hidroeléctricas, S.A.
Main project features: The project comprises a 38.5 m high RCC dam with an overall length of 161 m, 628 m of 3 m dia. headrace tunnel, gates tower, 60 m long penstock and 12.5x35 m surface powerhouse with 2 x 4.5 MW Baliño Francis turbine-generator units, 20 kV indoor panels.
Indoor substation: 6/20 kV, 85 k€.
Overhead powerline: 2.3 km length, 20 kV, 225 k€.
Positions held: project director.
Activities performed: Project Manager, site construction supervision, Designer engineer, Procurements Manager, planning, scheduling, budgeting, commissioning, Plant Director for operation and maintenance.
13.Relevant Working Experience:
Cortizo Hidroeléctricas, S.A. (Cortizo Group, developer, Spain), GAMESA energías renovables, S.A. (developer Spain), Tasga, Ltd. (COPASA, developer & EPC, Spain), Sogreah Gulf FZCO Dubai (ARTELIA GROUP, consultant Dubai), First Gen Hydro Power Corporation (Philippines, developer Philippines), Hydro Operation International (O&M contractor Liberia), GHD (Philippines and New Zealand, consultant), responsAbility (Kenya, developer), Santa Clara International Corporation (EPC contractor and developer Philippines) and Meralco Power Generation-Global Business Power (developer Philippines).
14.Languages (1-Excellent, 5-Basic):
Language
Reading
Writing
Speaking
English
1
1
2
Portuguese
1
2
2
Spanish
1
1
1
French: basics.
15.Membership of professional associations:
Member of the Industrial Engineers Professional Board in Galicia, Spain (1999), #1,089 license.
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