Nicolas GÉRARD

En résumé

Entreprises

• Feljas et Masson - Project Manager

  2019 - maintenant Feljas & Masson is a French company, based in LAVAL - FRANCE. It has specialized in electro-mechanical works for water pumping and water treatment, providing hand to hand stations. The company has been present internationally for more than 40 years, notably in Ethiopia where a local agency has been created.
  
  Project management:
  
  ROBE TOWN - ETHIOPIA (5M€ + 30METB)
  - 1 raw water pumping station & 1 booster pumping station : 27,000m3/day
  - Water treatment gravity line with aeration, coagulation/ flocculation, Clarifiers and rapid sand filters
  
  => Contract and risk analysis
  => Contract documents preparation and submittal
  => Design related documents submittal
  => Design review negociation with Client, Consultant and Water Ministry (Scope of Work modification to be approved for LC opening)
  => Consortium leadership: 2 Ethiopian companies and Feljas & Masson
  => Consortium site work monitoring
  
  
  Commissioning:
  
  DIRE DAWA - ETHIOPIA (8.5M€ + 31.7METB)
  - more than 15 new boreholes: 45,000m3/day
  - 4 pumping stations (24 surface pumps ranging from 200kW to 350kW)
  
  => Installation and commissioning of water anlaysis equipment
  => Commissioning of sodium hypochlorite solution dosing systems
  => Client staff training on chemical analysis and dosing

• Feljas et Masson - Project Manager - Expatriate

  2016 - 2019 The missions I was assigned made me work as Project Manager, Site Manager, Commissioning Engineer and Maintenance Engineer.
  
  Project management:
  
  ADDIS ABABA - ETHIOPIA - Legedadi Water Treatment Plant (10M€ + 33METB) - 200,000m3/day or 50% of Addis Ababa potable water production
  - 20 rapid sand filters (63m2 each)
  - 4 Pulsatube clarifiers
  - Gas chlorination and electrochlorination dosing systems
  
  => Contract, claims and payment negotiations (as Project Manager)
  => Consortium leadership: CGCOC & Feljas and Masson (as Project Manager)
  => Commissioning of new extension (42,000m3/day additional) (as Project Manager)
  => Commissioning of an electro-chlorination system (as Project Manager)
  => Rehabilitation of the 170,000m3/day existing plant (as Site manager)
  => Defects liability monitoring (as Project Manager / Maintenance Engineer)
  
  ADDIS ABABA - ETHIOPIA - Akaki Deep Well project (7.9MUSD + 4.7METB)
  - 22 boreholes ranging from 80m3/hr to 250m3/hr for a total of 70,000m3/day and an installation depth ranging from 50m to 200m
  - 2 booster pumping stations / 16 x 350kW surface pumps and a gas chlorination dosing system
  
  => Successful negotiation with Client and Consultant to obtain the Defects Liability final report (as Project Manager)
  => Claims preparation and negotiation (as Project Manager)
  => Maintenance missions during defects liability period (as Maintenance Engineer)
  
  ADDIS ABABA - ETHIOPIA - Legedadi Deep Well project (7.6M€ + 24.3METB)
  - 10 boreholes ranging from 150m3/hr to 300m3/hr for a total of 45,000m3/day and an installation depth ranging from 50m to 200m
  - 1 booster pumping station
  
  => Successful negotiation with Client and Consultant to obtain the Defects Liability final report (as Project Manager)
  => Claims preparation and negotiation (as Project Manager)
  => Maintenance missions during defects liability period (as Maintenance Engineer)

• John Deere - Production Control Specialist_SAP expert in Material Handling Modules

  Moline 2014 - 2015 I participated in the transition to the SAP ERP software.
  
  • Leading Role in optimizing the Material Handling, Logistics and Warehouse Management modules / strategies of SAP for John Deere ( 1 year work and more than 10,000 part numbers analyzed)
  • In charge of implementing these SAP modules in 2 facilities.
  • Instructor for SAP at every organizational levels for the pre-launching stages
  • Successful launching in both plants, active coaching role during the ramp up process for production (100% of production capacity reached in a week)
  • Intense collaboration with global John Deere SAP experts (Brazil, USA, Germany, France)
  
  I was in charge of the introduction of new products
  
  • Focusing on the optimum strategies of internal logistics for these new parts
  • Designing the production line from the point of view of material handling (4 new lines implemented)
  • Leader of negotiations with container suppliers ($50,000 USD investment for more than 7,000 plastic containers)

• John Deere - Material Handling Intern

  Moline 2013 - 2013 • Part of a multidisciplinary team and leader of a logistics project. I was in charge of the design of the assembly / welding line material handling strategy for the biggest product of the plant, the planter 1745.
  • Leader of a kanban project at the plant scale.

• Industrias Berel - Industrial Engineering Intern

  2013 - 2013 In charge of the continuous improvement schedule of the plant, implementing lean manufacturing concepts.

• Scania - Assembly line operator

  Écouflant 2011 - 2011 My school educational politics is to make understand to its students the industry from bottom to top. Following this requisite I worked one month within a team on a truck assembly line, getting the job done and analyzing the interactions Engineer-Operator.

Formations

• Insituto Tecnológico Y De Estudios Superiores De Monterrey (Monterrey)

  Monterrey 2012 - 2013 Engineer's Degree, Engineering/Industrial Management
  
  One year exchange student

• Ecole Nationale Supérieure Des Arts Et Métiers

  Angers 2010 - 2013 Engineer's Degree, Mechanical, industrial and energetical Engineering
  
  Elite French Engineering school which philosophy is to train engineers close to their community that will have a fine technical and practical knowledge.

• Ecole Nationale Supérieure Des Arts Et Métiers

  Paris 2010 - 2013 Engineer student in Industry, Mechanics and Energy

• Lycée Vaubant

  Brest 2008 - 2010 Intensive preparatory classes for the competitive admission exams to top engineering schools

Réseau

• Bérenger NÈBLE

• Camille KERBAUL

• Célia HIBOU-CWANCIG

• Hamza OULAARBI

• Hector ROCHAS

• Jérémy GUILLOTEAU

• Jordan LAURENT

• Romain COTTEREAU

• Trehin VINCENT