Between plans and reality.
For more than 20 years, I have worked on industrial and plant engineering projects – from engineering and design through construction and site supervision to commissioning.
Some problems don’t belong to any one discipline.
Technical projects rarely become difficult where everything fits neatly within a defined area of responsibility.
Things get interesting at the interfaces: when disciplines depend on one another, information is scattered, plans and reality begin to diverge, or different people look at the same problem and see different things.
That is where much of my work takes place.
I first try to understand what is actually happening. Which systems affect one another? Which assumptions still hold? Where is the technical problem – and where are people simply talking past each other?
Not every procedure automatically leads to the best result. Not every responsibility reflects reality neatly. And not every disagreement needs a winner.
In the end, something has to work.
From the detail to the system.
My professional background is in electrical, instrumentation and control engineering and interdisciplinary plant engineering.
Over more than two decades, I have worked across different project phases: design and engineering, technical project execution, construction and site supervision, testing and commissioning.
Over time, my perspective has increasingly shifted from individual components to the way the overall system works together.
Experience includes:
Petrochemicals & chemicals · Refineries · Hydrogen · Energy facilities · Battery storage · Automation & E/I&C · Safety systems · Technical interfaces
Engineering doesn’t only happen at a desk.
A drawing can look perfectly right and still not work.
That is why the path from design through construction to commissioning has always mattered to me. Once you have seen how plants are actually built, modified, tested and operated, you eventually start looking at engineering differently.
Paper is patient. Plants tend not to be.
Today, I am particularly interested in what happens in between.
Interfaces between disciplines.
Dependencies between systems.
Different technical perspectives.
Decisions based on incomplete information.
I like working where the first step is to explore the situation: listening, asking questions, connecting the dots, examining possibilities and bringing the right people together.
Sometimes the solution lies in the technology. Sometimes in doing things in a different order. And sometimes in getting two people to finally talk about the same problem.
A few stops along the way.
Technical Consultant I&C / E&I – Energy, hydrogen and storage projects
E&I Site Supervisor – Refinery environment
Technical Project Execution E&I – Petrochemicals & chemicals
Technician & Project Manager – Plant engineering
From process control electronics technician to state-certified engineering technician and technical consultant:
The roles have changed. The connection to practical work has remained.
Not every project needs the same role.
What matters is where I can genuinely contribute.
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