Wolfgang B. - Project Manager

Baesweiler, Germany

Experience

Apr 2025 - Sep 2025

6 months

Project Manager

Inovyn

Project management: schedule; forecast; organization chart; kick-off meeting
Creating a needs-based structure in SAP
Site management and coordination of work
Supporting suppliers and operations regarding the project
Adjusting process flow diagrams
Organizing electrical work and its scope
Setting up framework conditions for plant control
Optimizing layout planning for implementation
Assembly organization and management for dismantling a subsystem
Risk assessments
Independent and self-responsible handling of contracts, execution, approval up to payment release
Organizing safety posts
Implementing safety measures with short training sessions
Ensuring proper disposal
Discussing spare parts proposals
Organizing change orders

Sep 2023 - Sep 2025

2 years 1 month

Project Manager

Freelancer

Project manager for a project installing a reactor and setting up infrastructure independent of ongoing operations
Project management: schedule, forecast, organization chart, kick-off meeting
All project-related correspondence in all matters
Budget responsibility and changes to a needs-based structure in SAP
Creating purchase requisitions, orders, and payment approvals in SAP
Preparing request documents and specifications, and checking order confirmations
Organizing purchasing with the department and adjusting order texts
Site visits with suppliers before tendering and creating reports
Collaboration with assembly supervision and reviewing concepts
Evaluating offers for the relevant trades
Implementing the subproject for unloading the large, heavy reactor
Preparing the path for the heavy-duty transporter
Tendering and conducting interviews for the site safety coordinator (SiGeKo)
Assembly management for steel structure erection, rough assembly, and insulation of the reactor
Upgrading the steel structure according to the new ASR directive
Creating crane plans
Adjustment work due to individual collisions
Also organizing and coordinating the work
Accompanying civil works for the foundation with the structural engineer
Leading the bi-weekly project meetings
Reviewing the 3D model and presenting the planning
Updating PIDs in the 3D model
Participating in HAZOP meetings and adding safety-relevant interlocks
Optimizing piping planning with detailed specifications in the project
Creating valve and piping lists and adjusting them
Creating instrumentation and control data sheets, specifying material-specific data for future process parameters (lower process pressure)
Sizing control valves and specifying instrument measurement ranges
Checking pump design
Technical support for the fire protection concept
Planning and implementing weather protection for insulation work
Supporting suppliers and operations regarding the project
Planning completion of the containment tray for the external pump
Organizing approval by the structural engineer

Jan 2023 - Jun 2023

6 months

Project Manager

Hamburg-based chemical company

Project manager for 5 projects from development to partial commissioning
Replacing oval gear meters with magnetic-inductive flow meters with batch controllers
Requirements specification and technical description for linking a continuous plant with a batch melting plant for paraffin blends
Tendering and costing of a small-quantity dosing system
Loading of separating agents from the production kettle into tank trucks
Upgrading a production kettle to a production plant with a special agitator and transfer pump into a buffer tank

Aug 2022 - Dec 2022

5 months

Lead Engineer

plantIng GmbH

Lead Engineer for planning projects and technical expertise from plant engineering to aerospace technology
Optimizing the production of CFRP tanks for the Ariane 6
Feasibility study for vapor recovery during loading and unloading in a refinery
Cost estimate for an internal H2 pipeline
Reviewing and revising projects towards "Best Practice"

Apr 2010 - Jul 2022

12 years 4 months

Project Manager

Buss-SMS-Canzler GmbH

Project manager for plant projects and standalone equipment projects from acquisition to handover to the customer
Calculation, specification, inquiry, ordering, and supervision of assembly and commissioning
Supervising piping planning
Evaporation and rectification for material separation of wastewater for reuse as a skid
Concentration of ethanol using membrane technology and rectification in pharmaceutical manufacturing as a skid
Multi-stage short-path evaporation for processing wax and similar substances as a skid
Evaporation of solvents from catalysts with weighing of residues as a skid
Multi-stage short-path evaporation for production of monoglycerides and specific sterols with on-site assembly

Jul 2009 - Mar 2010

9 months

Key Account Manager

WIP Engineering GmbH

Acquisition and contract conclusion of engineering projects and employee leasing

Jul 1992 - Jun 2009

17 years

Project Manager

Kirchfeld GmbH transferred to MAN Ferrostaal

Project manager in plant engineering for edible oil refining and construction of turnkey biodiesel plants
Later head of the Biofuels and fatty acid processing department
Calculation, specification, inquiry, ordering and supervision of installation and commissioning
Supervision of piping design
Creation of a turnkey plant for biodiesel production with complete process building and operating resources assumptions.
Creation of a turnkey carrier steam distillation plant with column and deodorization by designing a new so-called triplex cylinder.

Oct 1987 - Jun 1992

4 years 9 months

Project Manager

Walter Rau Verfahrenstechnik

Consulting activities in edible oil refining and margarine production, as well as executing plant projects
Project management for the delivery of a plant for degumming vegetable crude oil

Summary

I can quickly get up to speed with new programs.

37 years of work experience in plant engineering with client acquisition, proposal preparation, contract negotiation, design and calculation, planning, procurement, assembly supervision, and commissioning.

Successful sales activities in projects and services.

Safety, health, environmental protection (SGU) for managers of contractors