Hemendra Waghela

Address : ****, *** **** *****, ******* – Texas, USA, Zip :77521

Email : acrghj@r.postjobfree.com

Mobile Phone : +1-936-***-****

Education :

Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering (BE – Mechanical ) in 1990

Visvasvaraya National Institute Of Technology ( NIT ), Nagpur, INDIA

26 years of a rich progressive work experience of setting up & there after maintaining the green field or brown field steel projects .

Successfully converted the plant facilities into profit making unit by applying / implementing / introducing the world class work practices in safety management, human management, engineering management, projects management, operation & maintenance management, quality management, material management,contract management, vendor management, information technology & excellent internal/external customer services ACHIEVEMENTS

Headed project & plant operation / maintenance team in 2006 to 2013 and successfully commissioned state of art steel plate producing facilities & Billet manufacturing plant ( 500 million USD ) at WESLPUN, ANJAR in Kutchh – Gujarat

Successfully commissioned a world class HOT STRIPS MILL at ESSAR STEEL, HAZIRA in Gujarat & set the plant procedures within first year of operations .

Successfully commissioned a shutdown facility of US steel & put back into operation within first year of operation at Jindal in Baytown – USA

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

HSE practices - SOP Development - Project feasibility –Project Budget - Project engineering – Material management – Erection & testing - Project implementation -Budgeting & costing -Contract Management -Vendor management -Project tracking -Risk assessment – Define work of scope – Tender management – Gap /variance analysis – SOWT analysis – Data management – Plant operations – Maintenance practices development – Maintenance schedule – work order development – safe job practices – cost measurement – cost control initiative – cost control – human management – training & development – daily/monthly/yearly business plan review – implementation of corrective actions - plant shut down planning – coordination within & affected team /customers – plant development– continuous improvement – scheduling – time management – conflict resolution – mentor – leadership

Work Experience

Boomerang Tubes, LLC – USA August 2013 till Date

Manager Plant Engineering

It is a half million ton per year ( MTPY) ERW STEEL PIPE manufacturing facilities located in the state of Texas to supply the oil drilling casing tubes ( OCTG ) as per API standards . Plant has capacity to produce 2.375” to 10 “ diameter of casing pipes attached with heat treatment & finishing line to supply ready to use product .

Key job responsibilities includes but not limited to control the maintenance cost to produce a ton of steel pipe by studying equipment health & its effect on product specification. This derives & dig into development of maintenance practices, operational practices, modification of existing equipment, derive of capex project & implementation of solution.

This required a daily coordination with plant electrical, mechanical, utility, automation, instrumentation, safety, logistic, quality, accounting, maintenance & production team.

The key role is to organize & resolve inter department conflict to achieve business goal which includes mentoring & training of plant personnel.

Recently completed two brown field projects to improve the plant efficiency by removing bottle necks work of 10 Million USD .

Welspun, Anjar May 2006 to August 2013

Senior Vice President – Projects / Operations

Took over the challenging assignment to complete & put back Rs 2500 Cr project of 2MTPY PLATE & COIL and later the billet facility into operation successfully .

Key job responsibilities were recruiting a dynamic team for projects, feasibility study of project, technology finalization,lay out & plant building engineering, Equipment tendering document creations, Bill of material, Plant engineering, Design & drawing and document controls, land acquisition, contract management, project budget & scheduling, cost control, equipment ordering, vendor selection, quality control, Piping design, Controls system & instrumentation design, P&I Diagram, Power sub station, Power distribution, equipment foundation, equipment erection, machinery set up & commissioning by providing a leader ship role to all the site personnel ( 2000+ total employees / direct /contract )

After successfully commissioning of the project was responsible for plant operation & maintenance ( 600 + ) employees to bring the unit into profitable . Develop world class manufacturing & maintenance system to enhance plant capacity, efficiency & up time with lowest production cost .

Analyzing daily, weekly & monthly plant data, develop the strategy to fill the variance between actual & target results .

Key role was to develop & train the young dynamic team to fulfill challenges of plant requirement .

The deepest open foundation was dug minus 20 meter & highest pick erection were two chimney of 85 meter tall each .

Plant has 35 Nos, of EOT cranes in capacity of 2 Ton to 400 Ton for material handing .

Plant has various utiity systems which includes all the CLOSED LOOP & OPEN LOOP water system with cooling tower, Air compressors, Various hydraulics power units, Numerous PLC / Scada system, all the equipment connected with network connection for centralize operation from few control rooms .

A state of art laboratory was developed for 100% customer satisfaction .

Jindal, Baytown - USA March 1998 to March 2006

MANAGER – Projects / Maintenance / Operations

Took over the challenging assignment to restart & put back USD $500 mlliion project of 1MTPY PLATE Mill in USA .

Key job responsibilities were recruiting a dynamic team for projects, feasibility study of project, technology finalization,lay out & plant building engineering, Equipment tendering document creations, Bill of material, Plant engineering, Design & drawing and document controls, land acquisition, contract management, project budget & scheduling, cost control, equipment ordering, vendor selection, quality control, Piping design, Controls system & instrumentation design, P&I Diagram, Power sub station, Power distribution, equipment foundation, equipment erection, machinery set up & commissioning by providing a leader ship role to all the site personnel ( 300+ total employees / direct /contract )

After successfully commissioning of the project was responsible for plant operation & maintenance ( 200+ ) employees to bring the unit into profitable . Develop world class manufacturing & maintenance system to enhance plant capacity, efficiency & up time with lowest production cost .

Analyzing daily, weekly & monthly plant data, develop the strategy to fill the variance between actual & target results .

Key role was to develop & train the young dynamic team to fulfill challenges of plant requirement .

Plant has 35 Nos, of EOT cranes in capacity of 2 Ton to 275 Ton for material handing .

Plant has various utiity systems which includes all the CLOSED LOOP & OPEN LOOP water system with cooling tower, Air compressors, Various hydraulics power units, Numerous PLC / Scada system, all the equipment connected with network connection for centralize operation from few control rooms .

A state of art laboratory was developed for 100% customer satisfaction .

Essar Steel, HAZIRA JAN 1995 to MARCH 1998

MANAGER – PLANT COMISSIONING / MAINTENANCE /OPERATIONS

Took over the challenging assignment to complete & put back Rs 1000 Cr project of 5MTPY HOT STRIPS MILL into operation successfully .

Key job responsibilities were recruiting a dynamic team for projects, feasibility study of project, technology finalization,lay out & plant building engineering, Equipment tendering document creations, Bill of material, Plant engineering, Design & drawing and document controls, land acquisition, contract management, project budget & scheduling, cost control, equipment ordering, vendor selection, quality control, Piping design, Controls system & instrumentation design, P&I Diagram, Power sub station, Power distribution, equipment foundation, equipment erection, machinery set up & commissioning by providing a leader ship role to all the site personnel ( 2000+ total employees / direct /contract )

After successfully commissioning of the project was responsible for plant operation & maintenance ( 300 + ) employees to bring the unit into profitable . Develop world class manufacturing & maintenance system to enhance plant capacity, efficiency & up time with lowest production cost .

Analyzing daily, weekly & monthly plant data, develop the strategy to fill the variance between actual & target results .

Key role was to develop & train the young dynamic team to fulfill challenges of plant requirement .

Plant has 35 Nos, of EOT cranes in capacity of 2 Ton to 100 Ton for material handing .

Plant has various utiity systems which includes all the CLOSED LOOP & OPEN LOOP water system with cooling tower, Air compressors, Various hydraulics power units, Numerous PLC / Scada system, all the equipment connected with network connection for centralize operation from few control rooms .

SAUDI IRON AND STEEL, SAUDI ARABIA JULY 1993 to JAN 1995

ROLLER – FLEXIBLE ROLING MILL

Took over the challenging assignment to complete & put back Rs 500 Cr project of 0.5MTPY BAR & SECTION ROLING MILL and operation successfully .

Key job responsibilities were installing the equipment, coordinate with other team mates & other department for successful commissioning of new mill .

After plant commissioning was responsible for mill maintenance & production activities to enhance the profitability .

SUNFLAG IRON & STEEL, BHANDARA (MS) JULY 1990 to JULY 1993

JUNIOR PLANT ENGINEER

Took over the challenging assignment to complete & put back Rs 200 Cr project of 0.5MTPY BAR & SECTION ROLING MILL & operation successfully .

Key job responsibilities were installing the equipment, coordinate with other team mates & other department for successful commissioning of new mill .

After plant commissioning was responsible for mill maintenance & production activities to enhance the profitability .

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