Alessandro Varella
Skellefteå
Summary
I am a project and maintenance management professional with extensive experience in asset management and process optimization within the aluminum, packaging, and battery industries. I have a proven track record of enhancing operational efficiency, fostering safety cultures, and successfully driving industrial projects. I am eager to leverage my leadership skills to support Stegra's mission in transforming the green steel industry.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Project Manager
Northvolt Ett
07.2023 - Current
- Responsible for managing a yearly CAPEX budget of +140 M SEK, overseeing equipment installations, upgrades, and other key facility projects.
- Periodically report project status updates to management and communicate with executives in decision-making, program management and other stakeholders.
- Monitor project progress, identified risks, and implemented corrective measures to ensure successful project outcomes.
- Established strong relationships with vendors to drive collaboration and ensure alignment with project goals
- Built a multidisciplinary team of project managers and implemented a project management model and SOPs to ensure timely delivery, governance and compliance with project requirements.
Maintenance Supervisor
CBA
01.2023 - 06.2023
- Led a team of 40 employees responsible for maintenance execution, ensuring operational efficiency, and maintaining strict adherence to safety standards.
- Engaged the team to perform root cause failure analysis initiatives and report the maintenance executed with focus on improving equipment performance and reduce production downtime.
- Implemented Lean initiatives and promoted improvements in maintenance manning efficiency and ensured maintenance coverage over all shifts.
Maintenance Planning and Reliability Supervisor
Raízen
06.2020 - 12.2022
- Led a team overseeing maintenance planning, shutdown projects, predictive maintenance, industrial lubrication, and cost management.
- Responsible for yearly plant shutdown projects with budgets over 30 MSEK, improving planning, enhancing contractor relationships, and strengthening project controls to ensure timely and efficient execution.
- Implemented a robust maintenance strategy including asset criticality analysis, maintenance plans, asset tree development, maintenance planning & scheduling, and KPI tracking.
- Championed root cause failure analysis initiatives and successfully implemented FMEA methodologies to enhance equipment reliability, resulting in being awarded Best Reliability Project in 2021 among 32 plants for achieving significant improvements in separators' availability.
Senior Reliability Consultant
NexaPoint Consulting
01.2019 - 05.2020
- Project Manager for the Asset Reliability Project in an aluminum extrusion plant in USA.
- Implemented maintenance metrics such as MTBF, MTTR, Downtime and Planning Compliance.
- Implemented root cause analysis, autonomous maintenance and FMEA methodology.
- As a result, reduced mechanical downtime from 7% to 3.8%.
Maintenance Manager
Tetra Pak
10.2001 - 11.2018
- Started as a Technical Service Engineer and progressed through roles including Project Manager and Maintenance Manager.
- Managed commissioning projects, ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery while meeting required quality standards.
- Led upgrades installations aimed at optimizing equipment performance.
- Actively contributed to the CAPEX projects ensuring alignment with maintenance requirements.
Education
Certificate - Project Management
University of Houston Clear-Lake
Houston, USA07.2009
Bachelor of Science - Materials Engineering
Universidade Estadual De Ponta Grossa
Ponta Grossa, Brazil12.1999
Skills
- Project Management
- Maintenance Management
- Reliability Maintenance
- Planning
- TPM
- Continuous improvement
- Root cause failure analysis
Languages
English
Proficient
C2
Spanish
Proficient
C2
Swedish
Beginner
A1
Portuguese
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Senior Project Manager
Northvolt Ett
07.2023 - Current
Maintenance Supervisor
CBA
01.2023 - 06.2023
Maintenance Planning and Reliability Supervisor
Raízen
06.2020 - 12.2022
Senior Reliability Consultant
NexaPoint Consulting
01.2019 - 05.2020
Maintenance Manager
Tetra Pak
10.2001 - 11.2018
Certificate - Project Management
University of Houston Clear-Lake
Bachelor of Science - Materials Engineering
Universidade Estadual De Ponta Grossa