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Guy Krikilion

Leverkusen,NRW

Summary

My professional background encompasses a wide spectrum of expertise—ranging from the rigorous detail of high-fidelity process engineering to the strategic governance of multi-billion dollar capital investments. I thrive as an analytical partner to leadership, helping navigate complex technical and organizational challenges where depth and clarity are paramount.

While I am highly adept at the administrative and strategic oversight required for global projects, I am currently prioritizing roles that allow me to dive back into technical problem-solving and scientific advancement. I am particularly motivated by tasks that serve an environmental or scientific purpose, though I remain open to any challenge that demands a high level of computational logic and 'broad-view' thinking.

I am equally motivated by the prospect of collaborating with local teams—whether virtually or through on-site assignments in regions such as Asia or Africa. I view this level of international cooperation, often for periods of several weeks or months, as a powerful driver for both technological exchange and project success, and it is a dimension of work that aligns seamlessly with my global professional experience.

Overview

29
29
years of professional experience
14
14

Certifications

Work History

Senior Project Manager and Digitalisation

Bayer
Germany
10.2020 - 12.2024
  • Project Management and assisting roles in several mid-sized (1 - 5 million EUR) projects in Dormagen, Monheim and Muttenz (Switzerland)
  • Project Manager during the early phases of a 35 million EUR project
  • Represent CropScience EMEA Engineering team in digitalization initiatives within the division and the company

Senior Investment Manager (division CropScience)

Bayer
Monheim, NRW, Deutschland
01.2017 - 09.2020
  • Overseeing of CropScience order of magnitude 1 billion EUR worldwide yearly investment budget
  • Economical evaluation of investment strategy (make or buy / make or make: alternative locations and implementations) with globel CropScience supply chain / venture managers team
  • Leading global investment management software implementation at legacy Monsanto (planning, migration, go-live, training and hypercare)

Project Controls

Bayer (customer: K+S)
Saskatoon, Sask., Canada
01.2013 - 12.2016
  • Over 4 billion Dollar potash solution mine capital investment project
  • Leading cost and schedule controlling owner team and overseeing contractor (AMEC Foster Wheeler) project services
  • Customer: K+S Potash Canada

Global Resource Management; Expert Cost Estimation & Project Controlling

Bayer
Leverkusen, Germany
08.2012 - 12.2012

Global Resource Management:

  • Introduce a new system (workflow and IT tool) for workforce planning
  • Worldwide branches, worldwide assignments of employees to projects
  • Screen market for proper tools
  • Evaluate tools
  • Propose a consistent solution fitting international requirements
  • Introduce new tool and workflows

Expert Cost Estimation & Project Controlling:

  • Improving efficiency and quality by better Cost Estimation and Project Controlling groups integration
  • Support globalization of Cost Estimation and Project Controlling groups worldwide
  • Company internal consulting to Cost Estimation and Project Controlling groups worldwide
  • Consulting to projects' Project Controlling

Project Controlling Consulting

Bayer
Shanghai, China
01.2012 - 02.2012
  • Investment volume of over 1.5 billion EUR
  • Special tasks in Project Controlling - set-up of Project Controlling
  • Set-up of project assignment tools and workflows
  • Set-up of integration of time sheet systems in project organization and controlling

Engineering Manager

Bayer
Shanghai, China & Dormagen, Germany
06.2011 - 12.2011
  • Engineering Manager for extended Scope Definition of a 100+ million EUR investment project in China

Program Controller

Bayer
Shanghai, China
06.2008 - 05.2011
  • Program Controlling lead function in Bayer MaterialScience China megaproject
  • Investment in Shanghai, world-scale isocyanates plant
  • Cost Controlling for over 600 million EUR investment
  • Coordination of cost controlling for 6 projects
  • Coordination of project internal organization
  • Coordination with project external environment: procurement, accounting, asset management, finance
  • Concept, development, roll-out and management of the program's time management system

Lead Project Controller

Bayer
Shanghai, China
01.2006 - 05.2008
  • Control lead of the Caojing mononitrobenzene project, part of the Bayer MaterialScience China MDI train investment in China
  • Monitor and steer project cost, schedule and quality issues by proposing preventive and corrective actions
  • Provide support to the Project Manager in project-internal affairs, and be his financial deputy

Process Analysis Engineer

Bayer
Leverkusen, Germany
10.2004 - 12.2005
  • Build computer process model, from scratch, for the MDI plant in Uerdingen; perform model validation; link model to plant process computer for automatic model run and (participating/coordinating) creation of on-line intranet interface to model; summarisation of plant calorific energy consumption
  • Build an in-depth computer process model, from scratch, for a Leverkusen Biuret plant; fit fluids physical properties and model parameters to plant data; perform model validation; provide customer with better process understanding by intensive discussions; analyse alternative operation modes;
  • Software tools: mainly VTPlan (Bayer-own developed software) and AspenPlus

Manager Process Modelling (Supply Chain)

Bayer
Leverkusen, Germany
09.2001 - 09.2004
  • Project: worldwide implementation of Supply Chain automation and optimisation for the Bayer HealthCare (pharmaceutical, consumer care and animal health) branches
  • Project: EEMEA project as basis for a worldwide Supply Chain planning tool for Bayer Polymers
  • Software tool: SAP-APO (Advanced Planning and Optimisation)

Manager Process Modelling (Chemical & Physical Processes)

Bayer
Antwerp, Belgium
01.2001 - 08.2001
  • Conceive and implement chemical and physical process models
  • Collect and determine physico-chemical model parameters
  • Compute critically the implemented processes
  • Perform optimisation studies
  • Projects: simulation / design of continuous a multistage phosgenation reactor in combination with CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics), determination of physical and chemical phosgenation reaction parameters based on laboratory data, optimisation of phosgenation reactor configuration alternatives, ...
  • Software tools: SpeedUp, Aspen Plus, Aspen Custom Modeller, gProms, ....

Consultant / Chemical Pharma Project Manager

HEA
Ghent, Belgium
10.1999 - 12.2000
  • Scientific consultant for the customers of this company
  • Project leader of chem./pharm. development activities in a large pharmaceutical company
  • Draw up registration files, mainly for (but not restricted to) the EU and US
  • Answer to questions of authorities related to drug registration files
  • HEA (Health Engineering and Assurance) was a small Belgian pharma consulting company with local and international customers in Belgium, the US, Japan and Turkey. HEA's activities have been continued and extended with own laboratories in a new company, Pharm@vise (www.pharmavize.com).

Mechanical Engineer

Biotim
Wilrijk (Antwerp area), Belgium
10.1998 - 10.1999
  • Determine the lay-out of the plant, make hydraulic profiles, P&ID's, equipment and piping specifications and lists, draw up civil construction guidelines, ....
  • Engineering lead in team with electrical engineers and draughtsmen, and collaboration with process and project engineers as well as the commercial department
  • Plant operator training
  • Process water projects: studies and detailed engineering as well as project lead during construction and assistance at the plant start-up
  • Wastewater projects: mainly detailed engineering for the external market (England, Egypt)

Process Technology Engineer

Biotim
Wilrijk (Antwerp area), Belgium
11.1997 - 09.1998
  • Analysis and conception of the process in cooperation with the client and the commercial department
  • Responsible for process water projects
  • Cooperation in large-scale drinking water project studies
  • Techniques involved: process water demineralisation, decontamination, drinking water mineralisation... by ion exchange, filtration techniques including reverse osmosis, UV-irradiation, calcination, evaporation
  • Biotim (Belgian-based with branches in England, Germany and Scotland) was part of the large Fabricom / Tractebel / Société Générale group, originally Belgian, later part of the French Lyonnaise des Eaux. Biotim was an engineering company / contractor for waste, process and drinking water treatment plants with a leading position in the anaerobic treatment of waste water. It was the acquisition of Biotim by Waterleau (www.water-leau.com) in 2004 that made the latter become one of the world's top-3 players in the field of anaerobic wastewater treatment.

Trader

Ecoval
Dilbeek (Brussels area), Belgium
11.1995 - 11.1997
  • Matching supply and demand, taking into account (container, conventional or charter) transport, financing, restitutions and special intervention legislation of the respective (e.g. European Union) government. Markets: Middle-East, South-America and North-Africa
  • General responsibility as trader for the product group butter and butter oil on the international market and special dairy products for the EU market
  • Ecoval has for long been a world leading dairy trade company (milk and whey powder, butter and butter oil), of belgian origin, with branches spread over Europe, North-America and Australia, at that time. Nowadays headquarters located in the Netherlands and offices also in South America and China.

Lecturer

Ghent University
Ghent, Belgium
09.1995 - 09.1995
  • University of Ghent, Department of Agricultural and Applied Biological Sciences.
  • Mathematics introduction course for the new students of the faculty

Education

Master - International Course in Food Science and Technology

University of Ghent
01.1995

Master - Biotechnology - Mestrado em Biotecnologia (1st part)

Instituto Superior Técnico
01.1994

Engineer - Chemical Engineering

Universiteit Gent
01.1993

Latin-Mathematics

Sint-Catharinacollege
01.1988

Skills

  • Chemical Engineering
  • Process Simulation
  • Project Control
  • Project planning
  • Cross-functional communication
  • Cost control
  • Data analysis
  • Process development
  • Process flow analysis
  • Chemical engineering
  • Energy efficiency
  • Process modification
  • Analytical thinking

Certification

  • Supply Chain Design
    MIT, MA, USA - edX Verified Certificate
  • Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics: Quantum Transport
    Purdue University, USA - edX Verified Certificate
  • Embedded Systems - Shape the World
    University of Texas at Austin, USA - edX Verified Certificate
  • Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python
    MIT, MA, USA - edX Verified Certificate
  • Technology for Biobased Products
    Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands - edX Honor Code Certificate
  • Supply Chain and Logistics Fundamentals
    MIT, MA, USA - edX Verified Certificate
  • Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science
    MIT, MA, USA - edX Verified Certificate
  • Signals & Systems Part 01
    Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India - edX Verified Certificate
  • Retos agricultura y alimentación en el siglo XXI
    Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Spain - edX Verified Certificate
  • Introduction to Big Data with Apache Spark
    University of California, Berkeley, USA - edX Verified Certificate
  • Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics: Basic Concepts
    Purdue University, USA - edX Verified Certificate
  • Scalable Machine Learning
    University of California, Berkeley, USA - edX Verified Certificate
  • Circuits and Electronics
    MIT, MA, USA - edX Verified Certificate
  • Medicinal Chemistry
    Davidson College, USA - edX Verified Certificate

Languages

Spanish
Upper intermediate (B2)
French
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
German
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Dutch
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Portuguese
Advanced (C1)
Chinese (Mandarin)
Intermediate (B1)

Software

MS Excel

MS Access

SAP

Python

VBA

Programming

MS PowerPoint

Aspen

Timeline

Senior Project Manager and Digitalisation

Bayer
10.2020 - 12.2024

Senior Investment Manager (division CropScience)

Bayer
01.2017 - 09.2020

Project Controls

Bayer (customer: K+S)
01.2013 - 12.2016

Global Resource Management; Expert Cost Estimation & Project Controlling

Bayer
08.2012 - 12.2012

Project Controlling Consulting

Bayer
01.2012 - 02.2012

Engineering Manager

Bayer
06.2011 - 12.2011

Program Controller

Bayer
06.2008 - 05.2011

Lead Project Controller

Bayer
01.2006 - 05.2008

Process Analysis Engineer

Bayer
10.2004 - 12.2005

Manager Process Modelling (Supply Chain)

Bayer
09.2001 - 09.2004

Manager Process Modelling (Chemical & Physical Processes)

Bayer
01.2001 - 08.2001

Consultant / Chemical Pharma Project Manager

HEA
10.1999 - 12.2000

Mechanical Engineer

Biotim
10.1998 - 10.1999

Process Technology Engineer

Biotim
11.1997 - 09.1998

Trader

Ecoval
11.1995 - 11.1997

Lecturer

Ghent University
09.1995 - 09.1995

Master - Biotechnology - Mestrado em Biotecnologia (1st part)

Instituto Superior Técnico

Engineer - Chemical Engineering

Universiteit Gent

Latin-Mathematics

Sint-Catharinacollege

Master - International Course in Food Science and Technology

University of Ghent
Guy Krikilion