Romain V.
Manufacturing Welding Engineer
Professional Status
Freelancer
Available
About Me
Management of continuous improvement projects, inspection, supervision, industrialization of new products, creation of production lines, documentary review and conformity assessment. Experience in identifying and managing CFSI (Counterfeit, Fraudulent, Suspect, Item).
Freelance
AESUS
Since November 2022
Saint-Pons de Thomières
- Welding industry
Technical Assistance, Inspection and Training
Quality Engineer- Ailes Marines
Iberdrola
Since October 2023
- Amaris Inspection
Quality Engineer- Ailes Marines
Inter Array Cables
- Review of As Built reports
- Review of manufacturing Record Book
- Management of punch lists
- Follow-up of quality indicators
- Review of As Built reports
Inspecteur QA/QC
Engie (Somainko)
February 2023
to March 2023
Koné
New Caledonia
- Weld World :
Quality monitoring of work during furnace shutdown (KNS site):
- Inspect Welding – Forming – Assembly and Controls operations.
- Monitoring and reporting of manufacturing progress
- Compile documentation
- Ensure the follow-up of non-conformities and corrective actions
- Inspect Welding – Forming – Assembly and Controls operations.
Manufacturing Inspector Provence Grand Large (PGL)
EDF Renouvelable
June 2021
to October 2022
- Amaris Inspection
Manufacturing Inspector for the Provence Grand Large (PGL) project
Offshore wind turbine floats
Material: Steel
Tension leg Platform (TLP) - Components up to 330 tons
SBM Offshore Concept
Welding processes: SAW - FCAW - MCAW - GTAW - SMAW
NDT : UT / MT / VT
EDF Renouvelable / Amaris Inspection , Yard Eiffage Métal in Fos sur mer
- Guarantee the application of HSE rules on site
- Inspect welding - assembly - inspection operations.
- Write and distribute inspection reports.
- Monitor manufacturing progress
- Evaluate documentation
- Verify and validate NDT and dimensional inspection reports.
- Follow-up on non-conformities and corrective actions.
- Support engineering in the field of welding
- Monitor inspections by the project's certifying body
- Organize and coordinate NDT cross-check missions
- Write up experience feedback
- Guarantee the application of HSE rules on site
Nuclear Valves Project Manager Q1 - ITPIA– Projet Hinkley Point C
Apave
January 2019
to January 2020
- Conformity assessment of Hinkley Point C Q1 valves: Main steam isolation valve - Main feedwater isolation valve - Pressure steam valve
Lloyds Register Apave (JV)
EDEEM100122 et EDEEM 120122
Material: Steel - Cladding ( Wear Resistant and Corrosion Resistant Alloys)
Welding processes: SAW - GMAW - GTAW - SMAW
- Risk analysis
- Special materials evaluation
- Quality plans
- Manufacturing and inspection procedures
- Welding manuals.
- Risk analysis
ITER Vacuum Vessel Manufacturing Inspector
FUSION FOR ENERGY (F4E)
January 2018
to January 2019
Monfalcone
Italy
- For Apave
- Inspect Welding - Forming - Machining - Assembly and Control operations.
- Write and distribute inspection and control reports.
- Follow-up and report on manufacturing progress (expediting).
- Evaluate the documentation associated with AIPs.
- Verify and validate NDT and dimensional inspection reports.
- Review radiograms (Spot check)
- Follow-up on non-conformities and corrective actions
- Inspect Welding - Forming - Machining - Assembly and Control operations.
Head of manufacturing support welding department
Sclumberger (Cameron France )
September 2012
to 2017
Béziers
- Department missions
- Definition and management of continuous improvement projects < M€.
- Recruitment and training of welders, supervisors and technicians
- Optimize production methods and processes
- Contribute to production planning (Load/Capacity adequacy)
- Contribute to product design optimization (Slimline Annular - RCD)
- Liaison between welding engineering and other departments
- Search for root causes of welding non-conformities
- Carry out safety and technical inspections
- Formalize best practices / Make processes more reliable
- Industrialize new parts and develop robotized welding
- Supplier training (Nabertherm - Fronius - IGM)
- Coordinate welding equipment calibration operations in the workshop
- Analyze variances on production and purchasing orders
- Definition and management of continuous improvement projects < M€.
- Robotic welding project
- Purchase and installation of a welding robot
- Drawing up specifications and sending out tenders
- Analysis of quotations and selection of suppliers
- Creation of layout drawings and supplier acceptance (IGM)
- Management of welding engineering for PQR development
- Supervision of filler material and gas selection tests
- Steering of industrialization tests
- Updating standard ranges and costs
- Purchase and installation of a welding robot
- 6Sigma project Welding quality improvement
- Welding quality improvement
- Creation of a (multidisciplinary) team and an Ishikawa diagram
- Analyze non-conformities and draft good welding practices
- Verify compliance with good practices through Technical Visits
- Development of a Welding Management System (WMS) application
- Define performance indicators and integrate them into the WMS
- Welding quality improvement
- 6Sigma project: Bringing the heat treatment process under control
- Creation of a (multidisciplinary) team
- Conduct a Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMEA)
- Process modeling (internal and external) using Visio software (Process Map)
- Implement the new process
- Internal process control with foremen
- Drawing up specifications for modifications to furnace management software
- Implement new software
- Training of foremen and drafting of user instructions
- Creation of a (multidisciplinary) team
- Project to increase welding capacity
- Purchase of welding machines and heat treatment furnaces
- Drawing up specifications and sending out invitations to tender
- Analysis of quotations and selection of suppliers
- Start-up of equipment and training of operators after recruitment
- Factory Acceptance Test at furnace supplier (Nabertherm - Germany)
- Training at welding equipment supplier (ETR, Fronius - Austria)
- Purchase of welding machines and heat treatment furnaces
General Installation Supervisor Georges Besse site 2
AREVA SGN
March 2011
to September 2012
- For Sofren :
Supervision of : Fives Nordon - ACPP - VAT - VG Scienta - COMEX - Leybolds
Vacuum - PCI
Supervision of the installation of piping, skids and valves:
Aluminum vacuum piping 2" to 6" - Pumps - UF6 valves
Welding processes: GTAW-A Orbital
NDT: VT - UT / Helium leak test
- Supervise subcontractors in charge of assembly work
- Lead site meetings and draft reports
- Ensure compliance with Technical Specifications
- Ensure strict application of HSE rules on site (safety inspections)
- Identify, formalize and participate in the resolution of non-conformities (FSS)
- Check work quality (FVC)
- Check compliance with specifications and standards (STD)
- Contribute to planning and daily monitoring of deviations
- Manage on-site interference
- Ensure compliance with deadlines, milestones and stopping points defined in the schedule.
- Supervise site withdrawal at the end of work and site restoration.
- Interface with customer's operational teams
- Validate suppliers' physical progress
- Monitor completion of FME - FAD and DI.
- Pre-acceptance of work, preparing acceptance reports with each company
- Draw up lists of reservations and tests
- Write the surveillance report and the EXS follow-up with the RCE
- Write the REX feedback report with the RCE.
- Transfer installations to testing.
- Supervise subcontractors in charge of assembly work
Ingénieur Alternant
M.I.S.
October 2007
to October 2010
Sauvian
- Workshop and site supervision - Business management
Customers: Comhurex Malvesi - Cameron France - Buesa - Razel Bec - Aérocomposite Occitanie - Lyonnaise des eaux - SAUR - Placoplatre
Fabrications: Wind turbine blade mould support (30m) - Transport skids
transport - Stairs - Fenders - Piping - Maintenance
Welding processes: SMAW - GTAW-M - GMAW
NDT : PT - VT
Industrial maintenance and service management
- Processing calls for tender (CCT, Specifications)
- Draw up and send out sales proposals
- Define resource requirements (human/material)
- Purchase raw materials and auxiliary products
- Creation of manufacturing drawings
- Launch workshop and site orders
- Supervision of manufacturing and installation teams
- Subcontract management - Coating and laser cutting
- Follow-up and progress of job sites
- Oversee the winding down of the site at the end of the work and the restoration of the site.
- Preliminary welding DMOS according to ASME IX.
- Dimensional and visual inspection (welds).
- Processing calls for tender (CCT, Specifications)
Welding Technologist
CMP ARLES
October 2004
to October 2007
Arles
- Welding Technologist / Site Manager
Fabrications for the oil, chemical, nuclear and cement industries
Forming and welding: HLE steels - Aluminium - Stainless steels - Cladding
Customers : Technip - Cegelec - Packinox - Air Liquide - Pirson - Polysius - Total
Kvaerner - Heurtey - CNOOC- CHEVRON - Gaz de France - SAIPEM
Welding processes: SMAW - GTAW- ESW - SAW - GMAW
NDT : RT / UT / MT / PT - Laser Tracker - Drafting of welding specifications and inspection and test plans (ITP)
- Welding human resources management (induction qualifications)
- Non-destructive testing (penetrant testing and magnetic particle inspection) and dimensional testing
- Planning of subcontracting operations (TOFD-RT-UT-TTH)
- Reception of surface preparations/coatings
- Inspections and acceptance of subcontracted equipment (International).
- Drafting of welding specifications and inspection and test plans (ITP)
- Workshop follow-up -CEGELEC : Experimental chamber for the megajoule laser (LMJ CEA) - Aluminium sphere --Thickness 120 mm diameter 10m
- Technip : HDS reactor for Feyzin - Steel 1.25 Cr clad 347- Thickness 80 mm
-Packinox: Stainless steel plate heat exchangers - 2.25 Cr steel P420 HT L2 - 55 mm - Diam. 12 m
Sollac: HF1 shielding for Pirson
- Eluxyl: Chemical industry internals for Axens
- Technip : HDS reactor for Feyzin - Steel 1.25 Cr clad 347- Thickness 80 mm
- Akpo Project - Pressure vessels for Technip to ASME (Total)
- Daily reporting (customer project manager)
- Definition and implementation of corrective actions to guarantee deadlines
- Interface between different production departments-Acceptance and control of subcontracting operations
- Optimization of production times and costs-Review of documentation
- Acceptance and control of subcontracting operations-Compilation of manufacturers' files (paper and digital)- Review of documentation- Compilation of manufacturers' files (paper and digital)
- Daily reporting (customer project manager)
- Site foreman On U. S. Steel Košice (Slovakia)
- Nitrogen and oxygen storage for Air Liquide
Double-jacket tanks Carbon steel and stainless steel
- Manage the team and subcontractors responsible for carrying out the work (10 p.)
- Contribute to planning and daily monitoring of drifts-Perform hydraulic tests
- Compile manufacturer's file
- Subcontract management - Passivation / Perlitage
- Nitrogen and oxygen storage for Air Liquide
Languages
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English
Good
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Italian
Notions
Ingénieur en Fabrication et Qualité des Structures Chaudronnées
Polytech Montpellier
October 2007
to October 2010
Formation API Welding Inspector
Licence Structures Métalliques et assemblages soudés - IWT
IUT de Nîmes
October 2004
to September 2005
- Assistant Treasurer A. S. L. G. F. Châtaigneraies du Pays Saint-Ponais « Lo castanh »