SENER Names New General Manager in South America

Miguel Méndez, current Country Manager of SENER in Argentina, has been appointed General Manager of SENER in South America, an engineering and technology group that has a workforce of more than 5,000 professionals, with offices on four continents and a turnover of 1,160 million euros (2011 figures).

Miguel Méndez assumes his new responsibilities in addition to his current role as SENER’s Country Manager in Argentina, a position he was already holding before assuming the position of SENER’s General Manager for South America, and from which he will address the business and operational coordination challenges arising in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and other countries in the region.

Méndez joined SENER in 1989 and, since 2002, he holds the position of SENER’s Country Manager in Argentina, a position in which he has been responsible for supervising all activities of the company in the region and for establishing its strategic plan.

As aeronautical engineer, graduated from the National University of La Plata in Argentina, Miguel Méndez also holds an MBA from CESEM Institute of Company Directors in Madrid (Spain). Furthermore, Méndez has followed a program of Senior Management at the Argentinian IAE Business School of the Austral University.

SENER’s Division in Argentina is operating since 2001 and, to date, it has carried out several emblematic projects such as the combined cycle plants of San Martín and Manuel Belgrano, located respectively in Santa Fe and Buenos Aires, as well as the Bicentenario plant, in the province of Córdoba, and also various projects in YPF and ANCAP refineries in Uruguay, the combined cycle plants Termozulia II and III in Venezuela, or the repair and modernization of Argentine Navy’s flagship icebreaker Almirante Irízar (RHAI).

Recently, SENER’s Division in Argentina has won a contract to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Bolivia, awarded by YPFB to a consortium led by SENER.

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Press Release, March 27, 2013