Our people

The Sala team is built around the long term retention of highly skilled and experienced people who know how to do their jobs well. Our ability to deliver excellent outcomes on construction projects is most definitely a function of the high calibre of the people in our employ that make up our business.

 

Khoa Ly Van

Managing Director

Khoa has 26 years of experience in strategy, leadership, management, project delivery, operations, business development and estimating. He has held multiple directorships and executive roles in companies of varying size, geography and diversity, both in Australia and internationally.

Predominantly having worked within the Oil and Gas Industry, Khoa also has worked in complimentary industries including Petrochemical, Power Generation, Processing, Mining & Mineral.

Khoa’s management knowledge and experience is underpinned by practical multidiscipline engineering design and construction management works, including EPC delivery models, and extends through whole of life service and maintenance businesses including packaged compression, power generation and Oil and Gas processing equipment.

Khoa holds a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Masters of Business Administration.

Nguyen Van Dong

Civil & Structural Senior Engineer

Dong holds a Bachelor in Civil & Structural Engineering and has over 14 years’ experience in Civil & Structural Engineering. His project experience ranges from Oil & Gas Off-shore packages, on-shore processing plant facilities and mining & Mineral processing projects.

Dong started his career as a Project Engineer and has progressed through his experience and knowledge to become a competent Project Manager.

Nguyen Van Toan

Mechanical Manager

Toan is the responsible SME for all mechanical services from Oil & gas, through to Minign & Mineral processing and other industrial processing plants.

For the past 16 years, Toan has held the position of mechanical lead on a number of major, high-profile oil & gas projects both nationally and internationally, such as Gallaf, Daman Development, Heera Development, Maharaja Lela South . He is a mechanical leader and provides Sala with comfort that our client’s mechanical needs are well serviced.

Dao Van Loi

Processing Manager

Loi has in excess of 20 years of experience within the Oil & Gas, Mining & Mineral and processing plants dealing with the cilents and end-users in both Vietnam and internationally.

Loi has an in-depth knowledge of process & sizing equipment such as multi phases gas separators, gas filter coalescer, dehydration package, fuel gas heater, heat transfer system.

Tran Van Tuan

E&I Lead Engineer

Tuan has extensive experience in electrical and instrumentation works, with over 26 years in construction contracting predominantly within the oil and gas, infrastructure and mining sectors.

After successfully operating his own E&I contracting business for over 12 years, specialising in high pressure gas installations, he joined Sala and leads the Electrical and Instrumentation Services Department which operates both Vietnam and internationally.