Recruited just a few weeks ago, Yoann Kieffer is already playing a key role in Seawards\u2019 development. He is contributing to the mechanical design and industrial architecture of the company\u2019s future demonstrator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now in his forties, this trained mechanic with an unconventional career path describes himself as largely self-taught.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After graduating in motorcycle mechanics, he spent twelve years first as a team leader and then as a workshop manager before moving into the nuclear industry near Marcoule, in southern France. \u201cI\u2019ve always learned by doing. Nothing is impossible if you\u2019re willing to put in the effort.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over the next twelve years in nuclear engineering, he worked extensively with Japanese clients and became a dedicated point of contact within his company. He was also deployed to the Fukushima site following the 2011 nuclear disaster. The mission: to develop specialized machines capable of operating in complex and hostile environments for emergency response and maintenance operations, while also training future operators to use them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is precisely this ability to combine technical expertise, intuition, and pragmatism that attracted Seawards. \u201cThe startup mindset fits my profile perfectly. You always have to push boundaries,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His role at Seawards is to structure the mechanical and architectural foundations of the demonstrator, helping turn the technology into an industrial and commercially viable solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today, Yoann Kieffer is working to bring together multiple engineering disciplines to transform innovation into an operational machine. A challenge being tackled from Seawards\u2019 offices in L\u2019Estaque, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, as the company prepares for its first industrial phase by 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Recruited just a few weeks ago, Yoann Kieffer is already playing a key role in Seawards\u2019 development. He is contributing to the mechanical design and industrial architecture of the company\u2019s future demonstrator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[413,742,639,56,747,749,712,743,745,748,746,61,741,744,750,751,170],"class_list":["post-10089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-to-know-to-take-action","tag-blue-economy","tag-cleantech-2","tag-deeptech","tag-desalination","tag-employee-spotlight","tag-industrial-architecture","tag-industrial-innovation","tag-industrial-mechanics","tag-industrial-startup","tag-industrialization","tag-lestaque-2","tag-marseille-2","tag-nuclear-engineering","tag-seawards-team","tag-specialized-machines","tag-technical-expertise","tag-water-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seawards.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seawards.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seawards.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seawards.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seawards.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.seawards.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10090,"href":"https:\/\/www.seawards.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10089\/revisions\/10090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seawards.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seawards.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seawards.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}