The Becht Team
Santiago Traverso
Santiago E. Traverso has over 30 years of experience as turnaround manager and construction project manager in the petroleum refining industry. He is a subject matter expert (SME) in reliability and maintenance.
His experience includes:
- Managed 2022 mega turnaround (1 million man-hours) including planning, scheduling and execution
o Turnaround included fluidized bed catalytic cracker (FCCU) cyclones replacement, heavy lifts.
o Achieved zero OSHA recordable incidents.
- Managed 2017 and 2018 major turnarounds including planning, scheduling and execution.
- Managed refinery wide maintenance activities including planning, scheduling and execution.
- Managed construction of new delayed coker
o Managed site preparation and civil works.
o Implemented special recovery plan after initial delays by project team.
o Handed management back to Project Team once delays were solved.
- Managed one 500k man hours complete refinery planned turnaround plus two 100k man hours reforming and hydrofining turnarounds
o In charge of planning, engineering, scheduling, purchasing, safety, and construction.
- Managed engineering and execution over one 450k man hours complete refinery planned turnaround (TA)
o TA included: atmospheric distillation (90 KBD), vacuum distillation, existing delayed coker, FCCU (cyclones replacement / heavy lifts), reforming, naphtha and diesel hydrofiners.
- Managed ‘small’ projects below $10 MM including feasibility analysis, planning, funding, development, and engineering,
- Deployed and fully implemented “Global Reliability System”.
o Team Member of Reliability Improvement Leadership Team (RILT).
o Developed equipment strategies
o Participated in incident investigation
o Developed reliability initiatives
o Defined equipment reliability operating envelopes
Mr. Traverso holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a Master’ in Industrial Administration from Escuela Organización Industrial España, Madrid, Spain.
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