Cevahir Sivri

As Maintenance Manager at Unes Enerji İşletme ve Bakım A.Ş., I lead the maintenance operations for the Yeni Elektrik Power Plant, a key CCGT facility. My role involves: • Overseeing the plant's maintenance function to ensure compliance with contractual obligations, commercial targets, and statutory requirements. • Developing and optimizing maintenance procedures to meet quality assurance (QA) objectives, playing a critical role in achieving relevant QA certifications. • Managing all maintenance-related contracts, including long-term service agreements (LTSA) for gas turbines, ensuring cost-effective and efficient operations. • Coordinating and supervising scheduled overhauls, outages, and the continuous development of the maintenance team through targeted training initiatives. • Implementing strategies to improve internal communication and foster teamwork across departments, enhancing overall operational performance. • Preparing and managing the maintenance budget, ensuring effective resource allocation and cost control. • Managing spare parts inventory, optimizing stock levels to balance cost efficiency with operational readiness, and ensuring the availability of critical components to minimize downtime. • Conducting performance appraisals and providing feedback to subordinates, driving professional growth and accountability. • Liaising with other departments to ensure alignment with the overall business strategy and operational goals. • Ensuring that the highest standards of safety and environmental compliance are maintained in all maintenance activities, in line with ISO14001, ISO50001, ISO45001, and ISO9001 standards.

As Technical Manager at Unes Enerji İşletme ve Bakım A.Ş., I played a pivotal role in enhancing the operational performance and reliability of Yeni Elektrik Power Plant. My key responsibilities included: • Overseeing plant performance monitoring and reporting, ensuring optimal efficiency and output. • Managing the plant's IT infrastructure, including the computer network, communication systems, and CMMS (IBM Maximo), to support seamless operations. • Leading long-term asset planning initiatives based on criticality and risk analysis, which ensured sustained high reliability and minimized downtime. • Driving digital transformation projects, including plant digitalization and visualization through the PI System, implementing automated reporting and condition monitoring. • Ensuring full compliance with occupational health, safety, and environmental regulations, and managing the Business Continuity Process to mitigate operational risks. • Conducting engineering studies and technical investigations to support data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement across the plant. • Developing and managing the technical services budget, while negotiating and overseeing contracts for external technical services

In my role as Technical Support Engineer, I was integral to optimizing plant operations and ensuring the reliability of critical systems at Unes Enerji İşletme ve Bakım A.Ş. My responsibilities included: • Implementing and managing the CMMS (Maximo Asset Management), ensuring seamless maintenance planning and execution. • Conducting in-depth process investigations, root cause analysis, and engineering studies to enhance plant performance and efficiency. • Monitoring the performance of gas turbines and other key plant assets, and supporting the planning and execution of overhaul programs and repairs. • Leading initiatives in energy saving, cost reduction, and operational improvements, driving significant enhancements in plant efficiency. • Developing and maintaining integrated management systems across multiple ISO standards, including ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 27001, ISO 50001, and OHSAS 18001. • Preparing detailed technical reports and performance reviews, contributing to strategic decision-making and continuous improvement within the organization

At SMS Siemag, I contributed to the start-up phase and ongoing operations by: • Managing the purchasing process, including the selection of equipment, machines, and services. • Developing and improving planning and purchasing procedures to streamline maintenance operations. • Generating and tracking maintenance plans for continuous casting molds used in steel plants. • Participating as a key user in the SAP Roll-Out Project, focusing on SAP MM/PM/PP/SD modules

In my role at MyTechnic, I ensured the timely availability of materials, components, and tools necessary for aircraft maintenance. Key duties included: • Determining and verifying material requirements based on maintenance scopes. • Managing material identification and inventory, ensuring compliance with military and technical specifications. • Evaluating stock levels and updating inventory management systems to optimize turnaround times and minimize downtime.

As a Maintenance Planning Engineer at Lafarge Aslan Çimento, I was responsible for planning and coordinating maintenance operations across the plant. My role involved: • Preparing detailed maintenance plans and cost estimates, ensuring resource optimization. • Managing data on Maximo CMMS, and updating technical documents, equipment specifications, and flow sheets. • Organizing shutdown schedules, leading investment projects, and participating in maintenance budgeting and procurement. • Monitoring spare parts inventory and recommending adjustments to max-min levels to ensure operational continuity.