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EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION
Bachelor of engineering degree in Electrical (4 Years) passed in the year 1991, from University of Bangalore-India.
OBJECTIVE
Looking forward to work as an electrical Engineer, in an organization where objectives, activities and targets can be defined and execute them with perfection to achieve maximum safety and reliability of plant and personnel.
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Over 13 years of extensive experiences working as an electrical Engineer, in Oil & Gas, Petrochemical and Project Engineering.
Have worked with Shell Petroleum (Brunei), SABIC (Saudi Arabian Basic Industries Corporation), KNPC (Kuwait National Petroleum Company) and Randhir Engineers (India)
Highly focused, results–driven, successful track record with visible achievements in large-scale Industry working with multi-language, multi-culture teams, recognized for team co-ordination and team motivation.
Proficiency in designing maintenance strategies, procedures and methods, diagnosing breakdowns, planning, implementing, monitoring and controlling preventive and predictive maintenances, shut-down maintenance / turnaround planning and monitoring.
Project management, basic and detail engineering, start up and commissioning of equipments, preparation of procedures, check and test sheets to the design and engineering practices standards.
Significant experience in material management, planning, spares parts interchangeability record (SPIR) and contract management. Strong analytical and organizational abilities, skills in enhancing systems to bring greater cost efficiency.
Qualitative experience in SAP (PM module) implementation, master data building and strong functional experiences in PM, MM and PS modules
Conversant with technical audits and keen understanding of the facility and HSE audits, implementation and documentation formalities for quality system.
Organizational Experience
Since May 04, Shell Petroleum Brunei (Oil and Gas) as Electrical Engineer, support Maintenance
Jan 03 – Feb. 04, Petrokon Utama Sdn. Bhd. Brunei, for Shell Petroleum, as Engineer
Nov 98 – Jan 03, Ibn Rushd – Petrochemicals Saudi Arabia (SABIC) as Electrical Engineer
June 92 – Feb 98, Mina Al-Ahmadi, Refinery & LNG Plant Kuwait, as Electrical Engineer
Oct 91 – May 92, Randhir Engineers - India as Project Engineer
Training and courses
* Managing hazard at the work place – 1-day course
* Certified equipments in hazardous area – 3 days
* Permit to work for Supervisor – 2 days course
* HSE familiarization for senior staff – 1-day course
* Supervising HSE – 2 days course
* Electrical safety rules – 2 days course
* Incident investigation – 1-day course
* Plant fire & safety - 1 day training
* Senior first aid course (St Johns Ambulance Australia) – 3 days
* Electrical maintenance and problem Analyzing - 5 days course
* Effective material management - 5 days course
* Crash course on life saving – St John Ambulance Australia
* Competence assurance system (CAS) assessor workshop – 3 days course
* Relationship awareness and team development workshop – 2 days
* Root cause analyses workshop – 1 day
* Boiler training – 3 days
WORK EXPERIENCES
* Shell Petroleum, Brunei
Job title Electrical Engineer, Maintenance Support
Duration May 2004 to till date
Principal Accountabilities
* Provide electrical specialist advice and services to support area field team and ensure that the line functions can effectively to manage the integrated hydrocarbon processing system.
* To formulate operability studies, maintenance philosophies, work instructions, procedures and implement electrical maintenance strategies and plans to safeguard the technical integrity of asset and establish equipment availability
* Initiates process optimization studies / services in order to maximize efficiency of installed process equipment in the area.
* Ensure availability of facilities through technical inspections and audits and advice field maintenance area team on equipment, procedures and systems.
* Monitor maintenance activities for certified electrical equipment and reporting adherence to performance and quality standards and ensure equipment repair / refurbishment for safety critical items meet acceptable standards
* Carry out strategy reviews and improvement to reduce unit maintenance costs and / or improve equipment uptime.
* Provide input for the formulation of maintenance strategies and plan e.g. MRP/RCM/IPF appertaining to the medium and long-term development of areas.
* Provides technical expertise for FRPC's in consultation with operations technical authorities from operations services, manage FRPC prioritization.
* Carry out regular critical spares review advises operations services (OS) on minimum stock level.
* Provide input to Engineering projects and conceptual design, review front end designs and ergonomics, and participate in draft commissioning plan developments, construction and commissioning of new equipments.
* To prepare (PEP) for self initiated project,, cost estimates, budgets, schedules, initiate and manage construction activities, to co-ordinate commissioning and project close out
* Monitors and analyses service level agreements with service providers, maintain operations performance indicators.
* Participate in technical and HSE audits in line with AU audit as required and close out action items on time, initiates variances as required.
* Promote inter-disciplinary integration with asset and other AU's
* Apply, quality management and HSE principles in all activities
* Shell Petroleum, Brunei
Petrokon Utama Bhd. Sdn. Brunei
Job title Engineer, Plant Maintenance support SAP
Duration Jan 2003 to Feb 2004
Duties and Responsibilities
Providing technical support to migrate legacy MAIS to SAP system, (Plant maintenance – PM module), responsible for clean up of MAIS master data and conversion.
Preparation of SAP, PM module task list, (preventive maintenance work scope, operations sequence, defining maintenance frequencies and strategy's, identifying material requirement for maintenance activity, assigning man hours, work centers and Planner groups, identifying External services involvement, preparing Maintenance plan & scheduling details etc).
Well conversant with SAP – Plant maintenance module, Functional location and bill of material master data preparation and procedures.
Qualitative experience in SAP (PM module) implementation and master data building and strong functional experiences in PM, MM and PS modules
* Ibn Rushd - SABIC (Saudi Arabian Basic Industries Corporation)
Job title Electrical Engineer
Duration Nov 98 to Jan 03
Ibn Rushd is a SABIC affiliates new Petrochemical Plant, Producing Paraxylene, Benzene,
PTA (Purified Terapthalic Acid) and Polyester.
Duties and Responsibilities
As a project team matrix member, responsible to manage execution of start-up, pre commissioning and commissioning of Electrical equipment's, for substation and plants, preparing job procedures, checks & tests sheets, updating mark up drawings, preparing and recording test reports, arranging materials, and coordinating with the other project discipline engineers, vendor and contractors for technical matters.
After commissioning, I was assigned to work as Electrical Engineer – maintenance support, responsible for providing technical and material support to field maintenance which includes operations, maintenance and troubling shooting of Electrical equipment's for Substation and Plants, carrying out equipment failure analysis, up dating equipment history, preparation of preventive and predictive maintenance schedules, establish equipment's monitoring parameters, preparation of job procedures and switching procedures, executing, alterations and modifications, coordinating with vendors for technical and material queries. I am familiarized with study of electrical power system.
Additionally, I was leading a team of Engineers for identifying spare parts requirement and prepare spare parts Interchangeability record (SPIR'S) for the entire complex electrical system (16000 line items) review and revise of material quotations and inspection of materials.
* Mina Al – Ahmadi, Refinery (Kuwait National Petroleum Company)
Job title Electrical Engineer
Duration June 92 to Feb 98
Duties and Responsibilities
Responsible for Operation, Maintenance and trouble shooting (of Refinery 11 kV main substation and several down stream substations), Failure analysis, Modification and alterations, Weekly Fire alarm testing, material management, Preparation of job reports, up dating equipment's history, Implementation of equipment's monitoring and preparation of preventive maintenance schedules, Shutdown and Constructional works.
A certificate of appreciation is awarded for my works, during General Refinery Turn around (GRTA), carried out overhauling and testing of 11 kV, 3.3 kV and 440 V Switchgears, (Bus bars, Circuit breakers functional tests, Relay Current Injection tests) Transformers, Motors, MCC, UPS, De salters etc
* Randhir Engineers - India
Job title Project Engineer
Duration Oct 1991 to May 1992
Duties and Responsibilities
Randhir Engineers is a fully integrated Engineering Company, carrying out variety of Projects, offering services from basic / detailed Engineering to Commissioning of Projects. As Project Engineer I was responsible for preparations of drawings, detailed Engineering, quantity estimation, material procurement, planning and implementation of work execution, erection, testing and commissioning of Transformer, Switchgear, MCC, Motors, building electrification, Cabling work and Electrical related works.
Equipments Handling
The major equipments being handled are as follows,
Switchgears-115 kV (GIS), 34.5 kV, 13.8 kV, 11KV and below (SF6, VCB & ACB) Transformer-70/100/140 MVA 115/34.5 kV, Transformer on Load Tap Change System,
Motors-18.5 MW 13.8 kV (Water Cooled) Emergency Power Diesel Generator 3 MW 380 V, Un-interrupted Power Supply System (UPS) 250 kVA 3Ph, 380 V, Battery Chargers and Batteries, Capacitor Bank 3000 kVAr 3.3 KV, Under Frequency Load Shedding System, IS Limiters, Power Disturbances analyzers, Fire Alarms & Fire extinguishing system, Variable Speed Drives-Inverters, Annunciation System. Motor Control Center (MCC), Auto Change over System, Current limiting reactors, Motor Operated Valves (MOV), Dealters, Soot blowing system Elevators, EOT Cranes, Conveyors, Cathodic Protection, Mechanical W/S machines) etc.
Tests and checks for Start-up, pre Commissioning and Commissioning of Electrical equipment's, for substation and plants, {functional checks, Simulation tests, high voltage tests, primary and secondary current injection tests, CT testing, circuit breaker analyzing tests, Di-electric strength test, Relay parameter zing and testing etc}
Have worked in the following plants; CDU's (distillation), HP, ARD, ARDF, GOD, KD, Tank Farm, effluent treatment plant (ETP), Utilities, Incinerator, ETWP, LPG, PTA, Aromatics, steel plant, CDU's (dehydration), water treatment plant, gas plant, emulsion plant, acetic acid plant, slop and sludge treatment plant, etc.
Major Achievements
* Conducted failure analysis and root cause study for the first failed trial run test of 18.5 MW, 13.8 KV, Motor
* Timely action, prevented damage to the SF6, 1250A Circuit Breakers
* Designed a Relay testing kit; auxiliary sealed type relay with electronic circuitry
Commonly used in MOV for opening, closing & stop command from remote mode, (Rotork)
* Modification and up gradation of Fire Alarms and Halon gas discharge system, (Pyrotronics)
SAP
Qualitative experience in SAP (PM module) implementation, master data building and strong functional experiences in PM, MM and basic PS modules and training the team on PM module functionality.
Well conversant in preparing task list, (preventive maintenance work scope, operations sequence, defining maintenance frequencies and strategy's, identifying material requirement for maintenance activity, assigning man hours, work centers and Planner groups, identifying External services involvement, preparing Maintenance plan & scheduling details etc), conversant with Functional location, bill of material and procedures.
General
* Well conversant with HSE (Health. Safety and Environmental) standards and procedures
* Fully conversant of hazardous area classifications and working method of certified equipments
* Conversant with International Electrical Standards (Shell, NEC, BASEEFA, IEC Etc,)
* Familiar with Pre Shutdown, Shutdown and Post Shutdown activities
* Familiar with operation of SCADA System
* Computer literate in MS Word, MS Excel and Power point
* Fully Conversant for Identification of Spare parts requirement and preparation of
Spare Parts Interchangeability Record (SPIR) and evaluation of material Quotations.
Appreciations
* A certificate of appreciation is awarded in reorganization of work during General Refinery Turn around (GRTA), in Mina Al – Ahmadi Refinery Kuwait.
* Suggestions towards cost saving drive in Ibn Rushd (SABIC) was highly recognized which results in considerable Savings, the Company President Awards certificate of Appreciation.
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