Profile
Self-motivated, results-oriented, pro-active Instrumentation engineer with an impressive track record of 19+ years (ME Gulf Experience of 5 years 9 months) in Project Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Functional Safety Engineering, Configuration, Installation, Commissioning and Maintenance of a wide range of Field Instruments , DCS, PLC, SCADA Control Systems, ESD system & MCMS in World Scale Petrochemical and Oil & Gas Projects & Plants.
Seeking a challenging position in the Oil & Gas and Petrochemical sectors that would provide a platform for synergistic utilization of experience and skills.
KEY TRAITS
Proven capability in Project Engineering & Management, Maintenance Management, Reliability Engineering, Reliability Centered Maintenance, Process Safety Management, Process Hazard Analysis, HAZOP, Management of Change, Failure Analysis, Maintenance Planning, Resource Planning & Cost-control for Instrumentation and Systems.
Proven capability in FEED, Detailed Engineering, Construction, Commissioning, Start-up & Maintenance of big petrochemical and petroleum projects instrumentation comprising of Field Instruments, DCS, Safety PLC, PLC, HMI, SCADA, MES, Machinery Condition Monitoring System along with Factory Acceptance Testing & Site Acceptance Testing.
Proven capability in development and deployment of DMCplus Advanced Process Control; Modelling of Soft Sensor; Asset Management System, Alarm Management System, Asset Life Cycle Management.
Strong communication skills effective in liaison with contractors, designers, team members and clients so as to complete project, maintenance task within stipulated timeframe.
Keen analytical acumen facilitating superior fault diagnosis and failure analysis that promptly overcomes operational bottlenecks.
Proven capability in Functional Safety: Safety Instrumented System & Function, SIL assessment & verification.
Conversant with International design standards, codes and best practices in Hydrocarbon Process Industry Instrumentation, Safety System & Quality Assurance.
Effective leader with excellent motivational skills to sustain growth momentum while motivating peak individual performances.
WORK HIGHLIGHTS
▪ Project Engineering & Management
▪ Maintenance Management and Planning
▪ Configuration, Installation, Commissioning and Maintenance of DCS, PLC, HMI & SCADA Systems, MCMS and Field Instruments.
▪ Development and deployment of Advanced Process Control (APC) System
▪ Development and deployment of Artificial Neural Network based Soft Sensor model
▪ FOUNDATION Fieldbus Engineering
▪ Asset Management with Honeywell FDM (Field Device Manager) & Yokogawa PRM
▪ Deployment of Alarm Management
▪ Monitoring maintenance activities and providing technical support to such activities
▪ Process Safety Management system
▪ Providing technical support to operation for plant issues
▪ Review of project documentation
▪ Reliability Risk Management
▪ Development and deployment of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
▪ Functional Safety: Safety Instrumented System & Function: SIL assessment and verification
▪ Identification of Failure Modes of Instruments and systems
▪ Fault diagnosis and Root Cause Failure Analysis
▪ Asset Life Cycle Management
▪ Manpower Management
▪ Materials and Resources management
▪ Cost Reduction
▪ Preparation of Standard Maintenance Documents e.g. Guidelines, Procedures, Work Instructions, Check List and Forms
▪ Identifying works for contracts, Preparation of Scope of work and other documents for Contract work
▪ Providing inputs for preparation of Capital and Operating Budget
▪ SAP PM Module Implementation
▪ Materials and Resources management
▪ Performance evaluation
▪ Training & Development
▪ ISO 9000, 14001, 22000
TECHNICAL ACUMEN
Installation, Configuration, Graphics Building, Database generation, Controls & Logic implementation, Commissioning, Maintenance & Troubleshooting on following DCS :
Honeywell Experion PKS
ABB Advant
Foxboro I/A series
Yokogawa CENTUM VP, CS 3000
Installation, Configuration, Programming, Commissioning, Maintenance & Troubleshooting of following ESD & Safety PLC Systems:
Triconex TRICON
Honeywell Safety Manager
Siemens S5-95F
Installation, Configuration, Programming, Commissioning, Maintenance & Troubleshooting of following PLCs & HMIs:
Siemens S7-400, S7-300 & S5 PLCs, Siemens SIMATIC NET networking Communication Processors, Siemens TELEPERM-M Process Control System, Siemens HMI Displays.
Allen-Bradley (Rockwell Automation) ControlLogix, 5/40 PLC & SLC 500
Modicon PLC, Square D SY/MAX 400 PLC
Installation, Configuration, Programming, Commissioning, Maintenance & Troubleshooting of following SCADA:
SIMATIC WinCC from Siemens
InTouch from Wonderware
Development & deployment of Advanced Process Control System (APC) on DMCplus from AspenTech; including activities like Control Loop Tuning, development of DMCplus model & controller, interfacing the controller with plant DCS system and tuning the DMCplus controller to achieve the optimum control of the process.
Development & deployment of Artificial Neural Network & Genetic Algorithm based Soft Sensor model for online prediction of critical product properties namely, Polymer Density, Melt Flow Index, Stress Exponent.
Honeywell Alarm Management System : Commissioning and Alarm rationalization.
Functional Safety: SIL assessment & verification for Safety Instrumented System & Function. Planning & Conducting Functional Proof Testing of Safety Instrumented System & Functions, Partial Stroke Testing of Emergency Shutdown System (ESD) valves.
Conducting Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), Site Acceptance Testing (SAT) for DCS, ESD PLC, PLC, SCADA, Package Instrumentation.
Reviewing and approving project documents such as P&ID, PFD, Datasheet, Sizing Calculations, Wiring Diagrams, Interlock & Logic Diagrams and their narratives, Functional Design Documents of DCS, PLC, SCADA, Machinery Condition Monitoring System, Package Systems etc., Installation, Operation & Maintenance Manual & Manufacturing Data Report of DCS, ESD, PLC, Package & Field Instruments.
Review of 3D Model for instrumentation.
Review, Development of Preventive, Predictive & Pro-active Maintenance Plan/Schedules of instruments, DCS, PLC, HMI, SCADA & MES systems.
Compiling the Lesson Learn for Instrumentation Engineering and Design for the project and communicating to instrumentation personnel of the company.
Commissioning & maintenance of Bentley Nevada Machinery Condition Monitoring System
Installation, Commissioning and maintenance of field instruments:
Fisher DVC 6000 & Samson Smart Positioners
Ohmart make Nucleonic Level Transmitters & Switches
Micromotion & Endress+Hauser Coriolis mass flow transmitter
Emersion Vortex Flowmeters
Control Valve sizing, Flow orifice & its sizing
Endress+Hauser make Ultrasonic level transmitters,
Krohne, Endress+Hauser & Vega make radar level transmitters
ABB, Endress+Hauser, Rosemount, Foxboro make process transmitters
Dynisco and ABB make polymer melt pressure transmitters
Fisher, Valtek, Masoneilen, Dresser make control valves;
Cipeg-Bettis & Neles-Jamesburry Fire safe ON-OFF valves
Biffi and Rotork make Motorized Actuator Operated Valves
Taylor and Foxboro make pneumatic pressure transmitters & field controllers
ASCO SOV
UE One Series smart pressure/temperature switches, Festo smart pressure switches
Markem Image make Bag Label Printer
Mectec(Domino) make Pallet Labeler
Packital, ThermoScientific, Mettler make Checkweigher
CEIA, Lock Inspection make Metal Detector
Installation, Commissioning and maintenance of On-line Analyzers:
Gas Chromatographs (ABB make)
Moisture Analyzers (Panametrics make)
Oxygen analyzers (Teledyne, Servomax & Delta-F make)
Flue gas monitoring oxygen analyzer (Rosemount make, Model Oxymitter4000)
Conductivity analyzer
Online Rheometer & NMR analyzer for online measurement of polymer quality product properties
Installation, Commissioning and maintenance of Fire & Gas detection systems:
LEL detector system from M/s Sieger & M/s Detection Instruments
Fire & Gas: Smoke detector, Manual Call Point system from M/s Apollo
Fire & Gas: Deluge system for Fire Safety.
Installation, Commissioning and maintenance of PLC based Control System for HVAC and process control:
Siemens S7-300 & 400 PLC based Control System
Siemens & Honeywell DDC controller based Control System
Developing & deploying Reliability Centered Maintenance Management System for field instrumentation, DCS, ESD safety systems, PLC, HMI, SCADA & MCMS.
Reliability improvement of instruments and systems through Reliability Engineering & Reliability Centered Maintenance. Working with Project Engineering to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations to improve reliability performance of instrument & systems.
Development of Engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations.
Development of Standard Maintenance documents such as Guidelines, Procedures, Work Instructions, Check List, Forms etc.
Monitoring maintenance activities for Field Instruments, DCS, ESD, PLC, SCADA Systems, MCMS etc. and providing technical support to such activities.
Monitoring maintenance activities performed on process safety critical instruments and systems & ensuring adherence to Process Safety Management system.
Providing technical support to operation for plant issues to ensure achieving solution for such issues within time frame.
Providing strong communication which is effective in liaison with contractors, designers, team members and clients so as to complete a project in stipulated timeframe.
Identifying jobs for converting into contract works, preparing Scope of Work and related documents for the contract works.
Monitoring adherence to quality systems and complying with quality standards of ISO 9000, 14001 & 22000 and maintaining requisite documents. Providing support for maintaining and improving compliance of asset to ISO and other quality systems.
Analyzing the production losses and abnormally high maintenance cost assets and finding ways to reduce those losses or high costs.
Conducting Root Cause Failure Analysis for Instrument and Systems & taking steps to rectify the same.
Working towards maintenance cost reduction by adhering to Reliability Centered Maintenance, maintenance schedules and achieving targets within allocated budgets.
Development of reliability, availability and integrity improvement plan to eliminate or reduce the losses, obtains approval of the plan and facilitates the implementation.
Development and implementation of reporting systems and scorecards to identify ‘bad actors’ and shortfalls in equipment and system performance.
Development of Asset Life Cycle Management process for new and existing instruments & systems, identifying obsolescence in instruments and systems, preparing action plan for replacement, upgrade of obsolete instruments and systems.
Identifying Failure Modes of Instruments and Systems with systematic approach by utilizing techniques like Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, Failure Mode, Effect and Criticality Analysis, HAZOP, Fault tree analysis.
Conversant with International design standards, codes and best practices in Hydrocarbon Process Industry Instrumentation & Process Safety.
Identification of Reliability, Availability, and Integrity risks; providing input to Risk Management Plan, providing improvement plan & Forward path for Critical Risks.
Conducting performance reviews of subordinates
Preparing development plan for subordinates
Imparting effective training to subordinates.