Dee Moreau
Mechanical Engineer
Montreal, QC
Mechanical Engineer with over 12 years of experience in the chemical manufacturing industry, currently a Senior Mechanical Engineer at a leading Canadian producer of specialty chemicals and industrial polymers. Born and raised in Montreal’s vibrant Plateau-Mont-Royal neighborhood, I developed an early fascination with how machines and systems operate under demanding conditions. I have Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Polytechnique Montréal in 2012, graduating with distinction, and later completed a Master’s in Industrial Process Optimization from McGill University in 2016. Currently leads the design, maintenance, and optimization of critical mechanical systems that support high-volume chemical production. My expertise spans packaging machinery, rotating equipment (pumps, compressors, and agitators), pressure vessels, heat exchangers, and piping systems operating in corrosive and high-temperature environments. Main focus is implementing reliability-centered maintenance programs that have reduced unplanned downtime by 28% across multiple production lines while improving safety performance. I am passionate about mentoring young engineers and promoting sustainable manufacturing practices.
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Juniors keep asking which cert to chase. If your day is HMI faults like mine, pick the ones that stop trips. PMP and Green Belt have value, but they did not stop the last compressor surge or save that PSV lift. The certs that moved the needle here taught failure physics and codes.If you are mechanical in a process plant, look at API 510 or 570 basics, vibration analysis Cat II, thermography Level I, and CSA Z460 lockout. Add a real MOC and PSM short course so you stop changing things without a c...
We dropped 2 MW of PV and a 3 MWh BESS onto a solvents plant. Week one the HMI lit up like a pinball machine: VFD DC-bus overvoltage, air compressor trips, tap-changer hunting, relays chattering. Variable sun plus an overzealous peak-shave controller swinging MWs in seconds. Well, there’s your problem.Lesson learned: if your inverter plant can move faster than your process, you’ll ping-pong. Interlock it. Set PV/BESS ramp limits tied to process states, not just grid signals. Deadbands big enough...
Last week a compressor train tripped and everyone wanted a new smart alarm and a faster trend. The HMI fault log showed 600 chattering events from one oily, vibrating lube oil transmitter. Meanwhile the header pressure actually sagged below the bearing spec for 4 seconds. Well, there is your problem.Alarms are for awareness; interlocks are for physics. If a condition can eat bearings, spin a seal, or flash a film in seconds, you do not page an operator, you block the start and trip the equipment...