Dipl.-Ing. Roelof Ritsema

• End-to-end responsibility for multiple CAPEX and OPEX projects in a food-grade, GMP-aligned production environment • Delivered a 44 m³/h process water treatment plant, including civil works, steel structures, platforms, utilities, and commissioning • Led development and commissioning of a new extrusion-based production line for innovative starch derivatives • Managed tendering, procurement, FAT/SAT, validation activities, and final handover to operations • Active participant in technical board meetings

Principal project management professional with over 35 years of experience leading complex CAPEX projects from start to handover in food, beverage, pharmaceutical, mechanical engineering sectors • Ultimately responsible for multi-million dollar projects, including scope, planning, budget, risk management • Expertise in multidisciplinary teams, stakeholder alignment, validation support (cGMP/FDA), EPC project execution • Strong in budget forecasting, financial reporting, contract management, documentation

Consultant as a Senior Projectmanager

• Responsible for technical changes, expansions, and new installations in FDA-regulated injectable production. • Coordinated URS, change control, impact assessments, validation, and calibration strategies. • Delivered two new vial packaging lines including labeling and sterilization. • Expanded mixing units and utilities; executed site redesign including security and infrastructure.

• Led complex powertrain development programs compliant with Euro 6, CARB, and US EPA regulations. • Managed cross-functional teams (HW&D, EE, Validation, Purchasing, Finance) across global matrix organizations. • Accountable for planning, budget, technical reviews, and executive reporting.

Consultant as Senior Pojectmanager

• Program lead for €2–28M EPC-M projects involving global production facilities (EU, US, China, India). • Delivered new compressor products, production lines, and factory expansions. • Directed international engineering teams and global suppliers. • Managing tender projects from engineering to commissioning for complete systems

Capex Project manager for Setting up, monitoring and executing investment projects for the installations of Anheuser Busch Inbev in the area West Europe (Benelux, France and Germany). These tasks will be performed in the capacity of Consultant of the company Altran. Capex, Opex, PMP, PMI, ECP, ECPM, C&SU, EHCP, Lean, GEP, GMP, Hazop, Hacp. Hazzp. Ehedg,

Setting up, Setting, monitoring and executing investment projects for the installations of Anheuser Busch Inbev in the area West Europe (Benelux, France and Germany). These tasks will be performed in the capacity of Consultant of the company Altran.

As manager projects, among others, I am responsible for the optimal process from order intake up to comissioning of the orders. I am responsible for a positive cash flow in accordance with the calculations of VTK and its sister company Hebold in Cuxhaven. I am ensuring the optimal performance of the workflow management system and the introduction and implementation of this system at Hebold in Cuxhaven. Through the introduction of good procedures I provide added value in the process

• Managing as wel the team of projectmanagers as well the engineering department • Managing various global projects from engineering to commissioning for complete systems and elements in the field of food, pharma, cosmetics and oil and gas. • Implemented a new approach to work from orderintak up to commssioning at custommer sites. • Introduced a better workflow system to deal with projects from sales towards manufacturing at van Tongeren Kennemer bv.and Hebold with guidelines and procedures.

· Managing the project to develop and create a production unit for producing latex medical (surgical) gloves. In this the system is a proto-type to produce 1 billion latex medical gloves a year. Eventually an entire factory in Malaysia has to operate at a capacity of 10 to 20 fold. (1 billion gloves only the English market). · I did manage the technical and process development of the total equipment.

· Managing orders from the customer in- and outside of Meyn. In Asia (India, Thailand, Malaysia, China) Germany, Belgium, Belarus, Australia and South Africa. · Project-size between 100.000 and 20.000.000 Euro not parts or spare-parts. · Average a Project manager deals with 12 to 15 projects a year. · Contracting, sale, designing, installation and start-up of poultry processing plants. · Examine the requirements and the targets of the customer, contract negotiations, start-up of the projec

· Responsible for development and sales of metal seals, valves and specials for non-catalog products. · Responsible for development and service of polymer seals. Special in favour of pneumatic valve systems for high powered racing engines. Specific racing engines in Formula 1. · Studies to infiltrate in other market for metal seals and seal systems. · Sales, application and cost responsible for metal-seals for all kind of use, e.g.: power plants, nuclear vessels, high vacuum, combustion engines, marine ap

Initiating new concepts and making use of new applications and technologies for lithographic systems. Controlling the project-plan, distribution of work, budgets and coaching of team members. Development of a system to provide substrates with DNA-strings. Patent granted.

· Theory and workshops in Mechanical engineering, Industrial engineering and Civil engineering. · Co-ordinator application course cryogenics. · Implementing a complete CAE/CAD/CAM program (Unigraphics) in the university as an education tool in engineering. · Co-writer of the policy note “Design in an automated environment” aimed by the HBO council in 1994. · Technical computer applications.

· Responsible for the development and routing from Performance specification up to the second produced series and release for production of component and PCB handling. · Responsible for the complete design. Responsible for the design quality of the systems. · Release for production of PCB transport and handling systems in flow-lines and systems. · Proposing improvements resulting in better performance for new and upgrading of present systems. · Team leader of 4 employees.

Replacing the head of office when absence. Projects: - Investigation and inventory of CAD system for the company. - Design of tooling and dies for car manufacturing. Senior Designer. - Outsourced to Philips-CFT inside a multitasking project to develop a new electronic component placer. (components are leaded components like resistors, capacities, diodes, transistors). - Tooling designs for manufacturing processes.

Responsible for the material logistics (piping materials) for a rebuild of a zinc-plant. From smelting to electrolyses. Designer Internal transport systems.

Precision engineering (Mechatronics)

Education training

Equipment design