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Objective
Seeking a growth oriented challenging career in Project and Plant Inspection Units with an organization of repute.
Summary of Experience
Total 12+ years of experience (8 Years in India & 4+ Years in Middle East) in Quality Assurance / Quality Control, Inspection and Welding Engineering from Raw Material stage to Final Stage in Fabrication, Construction, during Shut Down / Maintenance, Repair / Renovation work in Oil and Gas, Petrochemical, Refinery and Power Industries.
Professional Certifications
Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical
API 510 Pressure vessel Inspector Certificate No: 32993
CSWIP Level II Certificate No: 21344
Diploma of International Welding Inspector Certificate No: IWI-B/GB/04080
NDT LEVEL-II in RT, PT and MPT.
Nature of Job
Worked in various roles including In-Charge for QA/QC Team with EPC Contracting Companies, Client Representative and Third Party Inspector.
Working skills:-
Preparation / Review / Approval of Method Statements, Work Instructions, Inspection and Test Plan, WPS, PQR, Welder Qualification Documents, and Quality Assurance / System documents, Technical Delivery Conditions for Welding Consumables / Raw Materials and Controlling of Documents.
Raising Repair Recommendations during shut down inspection and preparing Repair Procedures and monitoring the same.
Inspection of Raw Materials such as Plates, Pipes, Fittings and Flanges and Bought out items like Valves, Piping Hanger supports, pumps and fans. Review of Raw Material Certificates
Inspection of Surface Preparation, Painting (including Piping Internal / External), Shrink Sleeve Application, Rubber Lining, Fusion Bonded Epoxy, 3 Layer Polyethylene by Visual, Adhesion Testing, Holiday Inspection etc.
Review of Radiographic Films of Welds and Witnessing / Interpretation of Ultrasonic thickness gauging, MT/PT of welds and Destructive Testing (Tensile, Nick-Break, Fracture, Bend, Notch Toughness, and Hardness).
Witnessing Welder Qualification and Welding Procedure Qualification
Preparation and review of test packages, system punch listing and final closure of systems.
Witnessing Hydrostatic Test / Pneumatic Test, Vacuum Box Testing, PWHT / Hot Forming.
Analysis of failures, solving the same and providing Technical supports for elimination / reduction of defects / distortion and improving the productivity.
Conducting Quality Audit, Evaluation of Vendors, Raising NCR and resolving the same.
Codes and Standards worked – ASME Sec. I, II, V, VIII, IX, B31.1, 31.3, API, ANSI Standards, AWS, IBR, IS Standards and Saudi Aramco standards.
Materials Handled – CS, LTCS, SS (Type 304, 316, 310, 321), Low Alloy Steels(C-1/2 Mo, 11/4Cr - 1/2 Mo, 21/4Cr - 1Mo, 5Cr - 1/2 Mo & 9Cr - 1Mo-V), Inconel and Monel materials.
Welding Process – GTAW, SMAW, FCAW, SAW, and GMAW.
Experience in Equipments / Systems:
Pressure Vessels (Process Equipments, Vessels, Columns, Heat Exchangers, Chlorine Storage Containers, LPG Bullets) as per ASME Sec. VIII Div. 1 & 2, TEMA, etc. and Shut down / Maintenance Inspection as per API 510.
Process / Power Piping Works for Oil and Gas Plants, Petrochemical Plants, Power Plants as per ASME B31.1, B31.3,and Shut down/ Maintenance Inspection as per API 570.
Worked for CS, LTCS, SS (Type 304, 316, 310, 321), Low Alloy Steels(C-1/2 Mo, 11/4Cr - 1/2 Mo, 21/4Cr - 1Mo, 5Cr - 1/2 Mo & 9Cr - 1Mo-V), Inconel and Monel materials.
FBC / CFBC / HRSG / Chemical Recovery Boilers and its components for Power Production and Process Utilities including Material Handling and Water Treatment Systems as per IBR,ASME Sec. I and VIII Div. 1 involved with Fabrication and Construction and Shut down Inspection.
Atmospheric Storage Tanks (Cone roof, Single Deck Floating roof, Internal Floating roof types) fabrication and alteration works as per API 650/653.
Structures and Duct works for Piping Rack, Gas Turbines and Boilers (Including Heavy Columns and Girder Beams of Boilers).
Experience with 1 mm sheet metal in Gas Turbine Inlet Silencer System to 105 mm thick material Pressure Vessels.
Inspection of Bought out Items (Valves, Pumps and Industrial Fans etc)
Work Experience
Period: From Sep' 2006 to till date Position: Senior Mechanical Inspector Project: Juaymah Gas plant expansion; Organization: Saudi Aramco (secondment) -Saudi Arabia
Juaymah Gas Plant: 275MBD Module-IV fractionation Unit for Juaymah gas plant expansion project, Rahima, Saudi Arabia.
The Juaymah gas plant Expansion Program is an Installation of New Fractionation Unit to Process a total Gas volume of 275MBD 1000 MMSCFD of high and low pressure associated sour gases along with their pipelines and industrial support facilities.
Responsibilities (Client side Inspection & monitoring of piping works):
Review & Approve contractor / Sub contractor's QCP, ITP, WPS, PQR, Method Statements or work procedures.
Review NDT matrix to check proper coverage of NDT & PWHT for various piping classes ('M' for example.)
Carry out Material inspection for Pipes, Fittings, Valves, Fasteners, Equipments, Electrodes, Gaskets, and Paints etc. and Review manufacture test certificate or Third party Inspection Release note and vendor inspection reports.
Shop Fabrication & Installation: Inspection of piping spools at CS, LTCS, SS, and Alloy steel fabrication shops. Total control & responsibility for all piping fabrication works at shops and all QC and welding related matters.
Coordinate Inspection status, review weld rejection rate and repair analysis, prepare weekly report with inspection status and submit to Inspection head.
Inspection and monitoring of Post Weld Heat Treatment (local, Induction coil & Furnace)
Surveillance of Hardness Testing. Witnessing NDT like LPT, MPT & RT.
Releasing piping spools for erection and painting and Coordinate for Punch list walk through., Loop check as per P&ID, Isometric & GAD.
Hydro test pack review and witnessing Hydro testing of piping loops.
Issuing NCR to contractor and follow up for closing NCRs. Review contractor's internal NCR.
Installation inspection of static /rotary equipments
Review and approval of Tie in packages and Tie in installation of pipe line.
MAJOR ACHEIVEMENTS
Inspection of 275 MBD fractionation unit and associated industrials facilities installation, testing and commissioning.
Inspection of repair and alteration of degassing drum and storage tanks-3nos.
Inspection of structural of fractionation unit during erection, fabrication and testing.
Inspection of Utilities and Process piping.
Inspection of fractionation Column Internals.
Period: From Aug'04 to Aug'06 Position: Inspection Engineer Organization: Fichtner consulting engineers India Ltd. Project1: Vedanta Alumina Refinery Ltd and Chemplast Sanmer ltd
2X125 MW power plants.
Worked as Third party Inspector for various clients like GE Energy Systems, Vedanta, Chemplast, EID Parry, BHEL, etc. Inspection of various Mechanical Equipments including Pressure Vessels, Gas Turbine Air Inlet and Exhaust Systems, Conveyor Systems & Industrial Fans from Raw Material Stage to Final Inspection as per ITP and Client Specification.
Project:-02
As a consulting Inspection engineer involved inspection of 8.6 MW Captive power plant Diesel engine and 9T/hour Waste Heat Recovery Boiler and Diesel power engine and auxiliary equipment installation and associated piping installation, testing and commissioning.
Period: FromMar'02 to Nov'03 Position: Mechanical Inspection Engineer Project: Saudi Electric company 2*60MW CPP expansion; Organization: Saudi Binledan Group - Bemco-Saudi Arabia
As a Mechanical Inspection engineer involved inspection of Raw materials/various stages of Fabrication, installation and commissioning of GE Frame 7EA Gas turbine and its auxiliary equipments, air inlet, outlet ducting works, fuel forwarding, fuel treating unit, and firefighting system.
Perform shutdown and maintenance inspection pressure vessels, pipe lines and gas turbine auxiliary equipments.
Period: From Feb'00 to Feb'02 and Feb'04 to Jul'04 Position: Lead QA/QC Engineer
Projects: 500 MW Super Thermal Power plant –NTPC Vizac, and Hydrogen Reformer Unit, IOCL, India. Organization: SPIC JEL engineering construction Ltd.
Period: From May'98 to Feb'00 Position: QA/QC Engineer Project: 4*30 MW HRSG, CPP, Reliance Refinery ltd, Jamnagar, India. Organization: Dodsal Ltd
Period: From May'96 to May'98 Position: Mechanical Inspection Engineer Project: Reliance Industrial ltd, Surat.Organization: L&T ECC (secondment)
Leading a Team of 6 Quality Engineers / Inspectors as a Head of Quality.
Preparation / Review / Approval of Quality Procedures / Quality Assurance Plans / Technical Delivery Conditions for Raw Materials and Welding Consumables and approval of supplier's WPS, PQR and Welder Qualification.
Performing Inspection on Raw Materials / various stages of Fabrication / Finished Components of Boilers, Pressure Vessels, Fired Heaters, Hydrogen reformer and Piping
Performing Inspection during shut down, Repair / Alteration and Renovation Activities and implementing the quality requirements. Witnessing Hydrostatic Test and Post Weld Heat Treatment Activities.
Preparation & Revision of Quality Management System documents. Conducting Internal Quality System Audit. Raising & Resolving Non-conformity Report.
Resolving Welding Related problems during Production / Installation and reducing the weld defects (Defect level reduced from 12% to less than 1% in Super Heater & Economizer coils welding).
Study of Welding related Failures for Equipments in service and establishing welding Procedure for rectification of the same (Work done for Heat Exchanger Failure and Super Heater coils failures)
Interpretation and Evaluation of NDT and Destructive Test Results.
Providing Technical Support for solving Technical problems / failure related issues during operation.
Strengths & Achievements
Codes and Standards worked – ASME Sec. I, II, V, VIII, IX, B31.1, 31.3, API, ANSI Standards, AWS, IBR, IS Standards and Saudi Aramco standards.
Adaptability to multinational environment, with wide exposure to various cultures and customs.
Good leadership and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work as a team member under project schedule pressures.
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