Alexis Agustìn Làrez Alcàzarez wins the European Maintenance Manager of the Year Award

Maandag, 17 april 2023 10:46

Alexis Agustìn Làrez Alcàzarez wins the European Maintenance Manager of the Year Award. This happened during the EuroMaintenance dinner on April 17 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, powered by NVDO (Dutch Maintenance Society). ''To help create a network for young maintenance professionals and to assist them in the start and early development of their carreers''.

That’s the mission of the Salvetti Foundation. The foundation aims to award excellence in maintenance management and to contribute to bringing young maintenance professionals together in order to retain this group in the professional field and motivate them in their careers in cooperation with EFNMS and relevant European Union-organisations. Alcàzarez was nominated by the Spanish maintenance society ‘AEM’. The laureate is technical director at Enova Levante, a company specialized in technical services. Jury; “Alcàzarez is an experienced leader associated with Asset Management and technical reliability in Spain and countries in Latin America. He has more than 22 years international experience in various types of industry. He is Lead Auditor in Asset Management and quality systems based on ISO 55001 and ISO 9001. Additionally, he is University Lecturer in master and postgraduate programmes”. As shown in his cv, he possesses many certificates and skills. Eq, criticality and analysing tools as, RCM, FMECA, RCA, and a strong knowledge of industry processes on strategic, tactical and operational level. He is author of the book Tools of Reliability”.

Alcàzarez is respected for his very broad experience and therefore a very welcome and appreciated speaker at international conferences, according to the jury. A number of published and registered papers from him can be found in international magazines. Salvetti Foundation mentiones as well that Alcàzarez has a PhD Degree in computer technology and environmental engineering. Skills which he practised as leader in the cement industry when he was involved in the implementation of the environmental standard ISO14001. These environment related skills become more and more important as maintaining assets should support new sustainability goals.

Salvetti Foundation also awarded Alberto Franzini with the Master Thesis Award and Jyri Hanski with the Philosofer Thesis Award.