The Becht Team

Machteld Weijers
Machteld Weijers is an engineer with almost 20 years of experience in the petroleum refining industry. Her experience includes various leadership and management roles focusing on process engineering, process and personal safety, and projects. She is based in the Becht office in the Netherlands, and while in a global role to ensure clients as served well, she is a local point of contact for many of our EMEA clients in the areas of process engineering, process safety management, and also multi-discipline projects.
Machteld has a passion for managing safety with HSE experience that has been gained throughout various roles during her career. In one of her leadership roles, she was responsible for technical support including process safety engineering in addition to having the overall responsibility of the safety of a site by being a member of the Refinery Leadership Team. At Becht, Machteld leads the Process Safety Management group of advisors, which provides her with a strong network of experts in all aspects of process safety as well as environmental and industrial hygiene.
Another area of special interest is energy management. Machteld has experienced the challenge of managing energy efficiency programs while being on the operations side of the business and is now well positioned to support the industry on the “do’s” and “don’ts” of energy management. She has proven to be an effective project manager in delivering valuable multi-discipline energy studies for our clients.
Machteld holds an MSc in Mechanical Engineering specialized in Biomedical Engineering and Fluid Dynamics from the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.
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