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1. Mathieu Schutters
Nationality: Belgium
Date of Birth: 04/02/1950
Education: Technical school, technician.
Languages: Native tongue is Dutch.
German: speak read and write very good.
English: speak read and write very good.
Spanish: speak read and write very good.
Email: mmmschutters@hotmail.com
Phone number: +34 671-262654
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE.
Actual – Free lance
Company VHICOA Puerto Ordaz Venezuela.
2015 - December 2017
 Fabrication and erection Manager of 165 preassembled pipe rack modules, and the
assembling of complete Desalter packages units for the Puerto la Cruz refinery in Venezuela.
 Responsible for the safety on the work floor, planning, engineering coordination, fabrication
and assembling according planning, select and controlling of subcontractors and suppliers for
instrumentation and electrical activities, pre-commissioning up to acceptance of the client.
Company: PROMAN GmbH Dusseldorf Germany.
2014 - 2014 (End of year)
General Superintendent for Civil and Mechanical activities for a Methanol Plant in Pampa, TX, USA.
 Responsible for the planning and supervision of the installation of heavy equipment such as
columns, exchangers and pressure vessels, the installation and alignment of pumps, turbines
and other rotating equipment and pre-commissioning activities.
 Progress control of Civil Works - Foundations
Company: FERROSTAAL GmbH Essen Germany
2013 - 2014 (June)
Plant Shutdown Manager at a 1000MW Combined Cycle Power Plant. Maracaibo, Venezuela
 Responsible for the making of detailed planning, setting up safety plans, organizing the
detailed equipment repair instructions being in conjunction with the subcontractors, suppliers
and company personnel. Selection of subcontractors for valve repairs, exchanger and cleaning
equipment, gas turbines repairs and parts replacement. Always with a strong compromise to
keep the completion date.
 Pouring additional foundations
Company: MAN Diesel Germany
2013 – 2013 (End of the year)

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Work Preparation Manager for the Commissioning of a Power Plant with 12 MAN Diesel Engines
(240MW). Guadalupe (France).
 Responsible to do the pre-commissioning planning set-up with its detailed activities such as
pump and equipment alignment, set up the test loops for piping systems, hydraulic testing,
flushing and chemical cleaning, reassembling the system after cleaning, leak testing up to
hand over to the commissioning team.
 Progress control of Civil Works - Foundations
Company: FLAGSOL Koln Germany.
2012 – 2013 (Beginning of the year)
Construction manager for Solar power plant Arenales Morón de La Frontera, Spain.
 Responsible for the safety on site, to have daily meetings with supervisors, subcontractors and
suppliers, checking the progress according to the planning, preventing a 2-week look ahead
schedule and taking action on detailed activities to ensure the planned completion dates.
 Coordination of heavy construction equipment between subcontractors and company
personnel. Weekly reporting to the head office, including cost estimations and cost controlling.
Company: Ferrostaal GmbH Essen Germany
2010 – 2011 (End of the year)
Mechanical Construction manager, Solar power plant Andasol III Guadix, Granada, Spain.
 Responsible for the installation and final alignment of rotating equipment, installation of
pressure vessels and heaters. Planning of construction of all pipe and duct works including
testing, steam blowing and insulation, supervision of the installation of the 50MW turbine and
generator.
 Daily safety and progress follow up meetings with subcontractors, suppliers and company
personnel.
 Handover of the different systems to the commissioning team, such as the Air, Steam, Cooling
Water, Nitrogen, Raw Water, etc.
Company: Ferrostaal GmbH Essen Germany.
2009 - 2010
Planning and calculation for a Compressor Plant in Curacao Refinery and housing projects in
Caracas, Venezuela.
Company: Ferrostaal GmbH Essen Germany.
2008 – 2009 (Beginning of the year)
Coordinator for after sales service and warranty manager for a Closed Combined Cycle power plant
Termozulia in Maracaibo, Venezuela.
Company: Ferrostaal GmbH Essen Germany.
1997 – 2008 (Beginning of the year)
General construction manager for projects in the Guayana area Venezuela
 Responsible for the safety issues, personnel recruitment, material purchasing, planning of the
lifting and erection equipment, controlling and planning set-up together with the general

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planner for the different projects in curse. At the same time, I was the Workshop Manager in
charge of the pipe spools prefabrication, pressure vessels and boilers with ASME Stamp and
steel structure plus ducting.
 At the workshop we had 630 employees, engineers, project controllers, cost controllers, QA-
QC, fabrication personnel, packing and shipping personnel.
Company: PROMAN GmbH Duesseldorf Germany.
1993 – 1997
Superintendent for the mechanical and piping erection, responsible for the detail engineering and
planning for two Methanol Plants in Point Lisas Trinidad and Tobago.
 Responsible for holding daily safety and progress meetings with subcontractors to follow up
the progress according a 2 week look ahead schedule, take actions on activities with a delay to
make sure to keep the finish date. Making the planning for piping test systems, cleaning steam
blowing, insulation, painting and color marking of the systems. Checking rigging plans
especially for heavy lifts and select the lifting equipment. Controlling and reporting alignment
on all rotating equipment.
Company: PROMAN GmbH Duesseldorf Germany.
1991 – 1992
Construction Manager for 2 Water treatment plants in Karf el Sheikh, Egypt.
 This project was finally not built due to economical and contract misunderstandings.
Company: PROMAN GmbH Duesseldorf Germany.
1990 – 1991
Workshop Technical Advisor and Production Manager with HB Ferrostaal Structures, Metallica’s SA in
Bogota, Columbia. A company specialized in the fabrication of bridges.
Company: PROMAN GmbH Duesseldorf Germany.
1989 – 1990
Assistant Site manager for the construction of a Sulphur Acid plant with Enami.
Responsible for the control and follow up of the planning, engineering, and progress. Keeping
daily safety meeting with the subcontracting and company personnel coordination and follow
up of the progress. Reporting progress on a weekly base to the Site manager together with the
cost estimation until end of construction.
Company: Weiss Germany
1988 – 1989
General site supervision, progress and cost controlling, checking equipment alignments, piping
systems and hand over completed systems to the client for a MDI plant for BASF Antwerp Belgium.
Company: PROMAN GmbH Duesseldorf in joint venture with Weber GmbH - Germany
1987 – 1987
Site manager for an Air separation (Cold box) plant in BASF Ludwigshafen am Rhein - Germany.

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 Starting with the fabrication of stainless steel and aluminum piping and its chemical cleaning.
Pipe installation from the Air Liquid delivered cold box using a special 1500-ton Demag crane.
 Installation and testing of SS and aluminum piping, as well as, the cable trays and the closing
of the cold box. Connecting the piping to the already existing systems, due to, a lot of argon
welding inside the box and safety being the highest issue on this project.
Company: PROMAN GmbH Duesseldorf Germany.
1985 – 1987
Planning engineer and cost controlling on a PVC and Polyethylene Plant by UHDE Gmbh for Indupa
Argentina.
Company: DSD Dillinger Germany (later Ferrostaal)
1982 – 1984
 Planning engineer and cost controlling for a fertilizer plant of Croissot Loire VEB Dungemittel
werk Rostock German Democratic Republic.
Company: DSD Dillinger Germany (later Ferrostaal).
1980 – 1981
Supervisor and coordination of Piping systems for Direct Reduction plant Midrex Iscott in Trinidad and
Tobago.
 Punch listing of the piping systems and coordinating the finishing of the piping system including
checking of pump alignment and stress-free pump connections.
Company: DSD Dillinger Germany (later Ferrostaal).
1978 – 1980
Supervision and QA-QC controlling for 2800 Mt Piping for Flour in Venezuela.
 Responsible for drawing isometric, making spool cutting lists, spools BOMs, follow up the
progress, coordination, painting and shipping.
Company: DSD Dillinger Germany (later Ferrostaal).
1976 – 1977
Planning and detailed engineering for piping on a chlorine plant for Crawford and Russel in
Johannesburg South Africa.
 Responsible for cost controlling, price estimation for different activities, design of pipe supports
and material purchasing. Punching pipe systems and supervising the testing and insulation.
Company: Bentleigh Construction Edenvale South Africa
1970 – 1976
Boilermaker of pressure vessels and Pressure piping for Bentleigh Construction Edenvale South
Africa.