Actors in the environmental transition????

Discover a series of portraits of VINCI Energies collaborators. Coming from all horizons, they have unique profiles and singular careers. All over the world, they work in one of the many professions that make up VINCI Energies' rich heritage. Thanks to their commitment, they contribute every day to the environmental transition.

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Environmental ambassador

In order to shake things up on the environmental front, VINCI Energies is looking to speed up information flow by forming a global network of its environmental managers. In Portugal, this responsibility has been assigned to Cátia Margarido , whose role is to build environmental awareness among VINCI Energies collaborators and to encourage them to take action:

“My role is to promote and develop actions around VINCI’s three focus areas: climate, circular economy and biodiversity. Together with Portugal’s CEO, we set the strategy to be followed and apply it in two ways. First, by organising cross-cutting activities with the various VINCI Energies business lines. And second, by supporting the initiatives taken in the three focus areas by each of our subsidiaries.”

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Project manager as orchestra conductor

Ansgar Johan Ladstein has been Project Manager at Omexom Norge since 2021.

His role? To manage a variety of renewable energy and electrical engineering projects from start to finish:

"A Project Manager is like the conductor of an orchestra, you have to manage the technical side of the project, but equally its contractual and financial aspects. You define the materials, equipment and time required to complete the project, put suitable teams in place, establish the contract, and ensure follow-up with the customer and with subcontractors, not forgetting the whole human resources dimension."

One of its recent projects involved equipping a bus depot in Oslo with 76 charging points for electric vehicles and two substations, each containing 2×2.5 MVA transformers, with a strong focus on reducing CO? emissions.

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A work-study student on course for success

Katrin Orth has made a success of both work and study. During just over two years at Axians Portugal and Axians Germany , where she is working on innovation and technology management, Katrin has relished her role as a student in the corporate world.

Now, Katrin Orth continues his Master's studies while managing digitisation and technological innovation projects at Axians in Mannheim. "I wanted to enhance my studies with some practical experience more focused on innovation. I saw a VINCI Energies posting on LinkedIn. That position had already been filled, but they invited me to join them as a “working student” at the Digitalschmiede, the innovation hub VINCI Energies operates in Frankfurt.”

Starting in 2022 at VINCI Energies' innovation laboratory in Germany, her adventure took her for six months to Axians Portugal in Lisbon. Returning to Germany in 2023, she joined Axians Neo, where she is working on an SAP digital planning solution for operations and maintenance management.

More than two years after his debut, his enthusiasm remains intact:

"I love the diversity of the projects we work on at VINCI Energies. I work on something different every day – it’s never the same. You never get bored and it’s so rewarding to be working on enhancing people’s life and work through technology.”

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Power that brings autonomy

Inspired by his father's expertise, Flávio GOMIDE followed his advice and went on to study electrical engineering. Today, his job as company director at Omexom Brasil offers him a dual opportunity: to make an active contribution to the energy transition and to develop his entrepreneurial skills in the service of projects that improve people's lives.

For Flávio :

"It’s very important that our projects make a tangible contribution to energy transition. What I really like about VINCI Energies is the autonomy. This way of working, which is specific to VINCI Energies, is very rewarding and motivating."

In Brazil, hydroelectric plants produce only two-thirds of the country's electricity. Flávio Gomide reinforces his conviction that there is a way forward in the Brazilian market, to create and manage not one but two entities, dedicated to the solar and hydroelectric markets respectively.

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What she loves best about her job is… the unexpected

Andreea Popescu is a Project Manager at Frigotehnica in Romania and a specialist in commercial and industrial refrigeration. What she most likes about her job is novelty, managing the unexpected, and the need to constantly adapt.

After four years designing hydraulic machines for a specialist company, she joined Frigotehnica in 2012:

"I didn’t know anything about refrigeration! But the prospect of learning more about a new field, and in a Project Manager role, is what helped me make up my mind."

Andreea Popescu thrives on change and innovation. But the Project Manager hasn’t lost sight of one of her main priorities: advising clients on how to reduce their carbon footprint. Scaling the equipment just right, monitoring to reduce energy consumption and ensuring the safe management of polluting refrigerants are all part of her daily work.

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4.0 building design expert

Having joined Netherlands-based Bosman , part of VINCI Energies, in 2021 Tjerk Alewijn created his own role as R&D coordinator BIM.

His work involves using several available tools and standards, and in the near future artificial intelligence to develop an intelligent, autonomous building modelling system.

The ‘sustainable development’ dimension of his job is one of the engineer's leitmotivs:

"?AI will eventually help save energy by reducing the time spent on the computer design of a BIM model to a few hours or even minutes. The process currently mobilises several people at their computers sometimes for more than three years, depending on the size of the project. It will eventually also help save raw materials by quickly being able to optimize the design and use of materials within the BIM models."

It is no wonder then that, since the end of 2022, Tjerk has been part of the in-house project launched by Bosman Bedrijven to reduce its own carbon footprint. Six groups of Bosman Bedrijven employees are working on the three scopes of CO? emissions at their company. Tjerk is dealing with scope 3 relating to indirect emissions, particularly those generated by suppliers.

Alongside this internal task and the BIM project, Tjerk works on a daily basis to improve Bosman Bedrijven occupational safety, quality and sustainability processes. His job is also to explore ways to optimise the company’s organisational system in order to make it more efficient, again using data as the main lever.

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