Project Manager

Arun Kumar Pitchuka

Email: ************@*****.***

Ph:+232-**-**-****(Sierra Leone);+919*********(India)

Personal Summary:

Result oriented, hard working Mechanical Engineering professional with

excellent Engineering Planning and Project Controls skills. Highly

Motivated and ability to take up multi tasks to meet Organization goals.

Qualifications:

. M.E (Mechanical) from Osmania University college of Engineering,

Hyderabad., India.

. B.Tech (Mechanical) from Nagarjuna University, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Details of training undergone

Design

. Pro/E, ANSYS from Indian Institute of Technology(IIT), Chennai,India

. AutoCAD, CNC Programming Techniques from Central Institute Tool Design

(CITD), Hyderabad, India.

Quality

. Laboratory Quality System & Internal Auditing, ISO/IEC 17025, (IIQM)

Indian Institute of Quality Management, Jaipur, India.

Costing

. Activity based costing and Target costing from NISIET, Hyderabad,

India.

Project Management

. New Engineering Contract (NEC), Binning ton Copeland & Associates,

Johannesburg, South Africa.

. FIDIC, Binning ton Copeland & Associates, Johannesburg, South Africa.

. Delays, Disruption and Extension of Time, Binning ton Copeland &

Associates, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Planning

. M.S. Project 2007, Bytes Technology Group, Gauteng, South Africa.

. Primavera P6, Enterprises Project Solutions, Johannesburg, South

Africa.

. M.S.Project 2010,Hands on experience .

. Maintenance Planning and Scheduling,IDCON,Norway

Experience/Projects:

1. African Minerals Limited, South Africa Maintenance Planning

Engineer

From Jan 2013 to till date

Job Responsibilities:

Planning, Organizing, Directing, Controlling and evaluating the Maintenance

of the Processing Plant.

Develop Short term and long term Plans for the Plant Maintenance.

Generate Weekly Maintenance Plan. Ensure spare parts availability.

Create Monitor work orders on SAP.

Generate Short term and Long term shut down Plans.

Analyze Preventive, corrective and shutdown maintenance for the route

cause.

Develop maintenance strategy and check lists for Rotating equipment.

Develop process improvements with suitable materials.

Assist the Maintenance Team in achieving Project Targets.

Participate Lead regular Planning, Scheduling and shut down meetings.

Train and create awareness among team for the Maintenance related Planning.

2. Group Five Projects International Ltd, South Africa

From June 2007 to December 2012.

PROJECTS DETAILS:

1. Tonkolili Iron Ore Project, Sierra Leone, West Africa.30Mil USD-Project

Controls Manager

2. Central Ashanti Gold Project, Ghana, West Africa.70Mil USD - Sr Planner

&Contract Administrator.

3. Secondary Crusher Project for Gold Fields Ltd, Ghana, West Africa.2Mil

USD-Planner/Scheduler

4. Construction of Syama Gold Project, Mali, West Africa. 50Mil USD-Project

Planner

Responsibilities& Achievements:

. Supervise Projects Planning and Scheduling & Project Reporting.

. Review Clients and contractors programs and ensure they matched

expectations for all parties.

. Site establishment and Procurement; Equipment, Consumables and

Services.

. Subcontract management: Invoice Control procedure, correctness of cost

and Payment, resolve disputes/ claims.

. Cost estimates, budget control, cash flows, and in time payment of

Taxes, Govt regulations.

. Supervise site administration: Staffing, contracts, cash admin, Time

sheets and grievances. Cost controls.

. Supervise cost recording, monitoring and reporting practices for

compliance with applicable standards accuracy and consistency.

. Supervise Maintenance of Plant and equipment and control.

. Provides comments and recommendations for cost engineering and

scheduling requirements relative to staffing and project control.

. Create a good will among suppliers to timely deliveries and avoid

escalation costs risks.

. Motivating the teams within project to be more commercially astute,

leading to identification of savings.

. Trained personals for the organization requirements and made them

utilize in multi task environment.

. Utilised the skills to liaise with the govt departments to meet the

organizational requirements in immigration, RTA and Tax issues.

3. Dhafir Technologies, Abu Dhabi, UAE Project

Engineer

From Oct 2006 to May 2007.

PROJECT DETAILS: Structural, Piping construction, Installation of Bottom

Loading Systems and Maintenance works.

Responsibilities:

. Managing project from conception, preproduction through completion.

. Provide technical support to the project team.

. Responsible for overseeing the review, initiation and execution of the

contract.

. Managing project budget and keeping costs down.

. Responsible for the completion of all documentation. Prepare contract

documentation for procurement services and materials.

. Evaluating tenders and providing recommendations.

. Producing test plans and reports

. Carrying out effective client Liasion.

. Liaising with customers on regular basis to ensure the success design

and manufacture of products to agreed budgets and time frames.

4. National Institute of Ocean Technology, Chennai, INDIA Scientist

From Feb 2002 to Oct 2006

PROJECTS DETAILS:

1.Desalination Plant:

. Develop the technology for Low Temperature Thermal Desalination in

laboratory models.

. Design of Process plant,Piping,Pumps,Flash Chamber and Condenser,

Vacuum System,

. Procurement of Equipment and Construction, Commissioning of the Plant.

. Design of Process Plant of Sea water Desalination and construction on

Barge for Seatrials.

. Well Experience with Process Plant Equipment like Pumps, Static

Equipment,Vacuum systems, HDPE and Steel Piping, Commissioning of the

plants and Maintenance.

2. Design, Fabrication and Testing of tow body for Integrated Underwater

Survey System (IUSS) to accommodate side scan sonar, sub bottom profiler

and Echo sounder.Very Special Underwater vehicle to perform Ocean

Survey,deep sea resources exploration.

3.Experience in Establishment of Scale down model for developing

technology for Low Temperature Desalination Plants.

4. Establishing of Acoustic Test Facility (ATF) to test and calibrate the

underwater transducers & Sensors .

5.Design and establishing of calibration facility to test Acoustic Tide

Gauge, an US patented instrument.

6.Design of water tight encapsulation for the development of transducers

for Echo Sounder, Sub bottom profiler and Acoustic Pinger as per ASME

Procedures.

7.Establishing Quality Management System for Acoustic Test Facility for the

Standards ISO 17025.

5. Normak Fashions Pvt.Ltd, Hyderabad, INDIA

Asst.Manager-Production

May 2001 to Feb 2002.

Overall Responsibility of a Manufacturing Plant. Lead the team of 225 in

factory environment.

6. HBLNIFE Power Systems Ltd, Hyderabad, INDIA Asst.Manager-

Engineering.

Jan 1998 to Jan 2001

. Identify the process Improvement areas for Manufactuirng of High

Energy Batteries(Silver Zinc,Aviation adn Tarpedo Batteries)

. Engineering and manufacture for installation and develop the

production rate.

. Incharge for the production of Silver Zinc Batteries,

. Production planning, Methods improvement, Indigenization of

components, Planning, and procurement of equipment and services.

. Cost reduction, Inventory management, Productivity improvement.

. Introducing management information system documents for effective

control of the productivity.

7. Vybra Automet Ltd, Hyderabad, INDIA Senior

Tool Room Engineer.

Jan 1990 to Jan 1998

Responsibilities

. Design of Forging Dies,Press tools,Jigs,Fixtures and Inspection

Gauges.

. Well experience of Conventional Tool room machinery,including Double

spindle copying machines, CNC Milling and Copy machines,EDM etc.

. Maintenance of Tools and Dies,Trouble shooting.

. Condition settings, tool changeover times kept to an optimum level

without compromising product quality.

. lead a team of 100 employees in factory environment,

. Planning of multishift environment, ordering materials, scheduling

shift duties.

. Developed analysing and Problem solving skills to meet organisation

Goals.

Award:Won the prize for presentation on Desalination,at Department of

Ocean Development,Govt of India at New Delhi,India

Leadership Skills

1. Competency in Generic Management Qualification Level 4 SAQA I.D.57712

Personnel Details:

Name : Arun Kumar Pitchuka.

Nationality : Indian

Date of Birth : 03 August 1966

Marital Status : Married

Language Known : English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil

Passport No. : G 6864108

References:

Mr.Gavin October

Construction Manager

GroupFive Projects Ltd,

Contact no.: +243-*********

Mr.Clive Lance

Plant Superintendent

African Minerals Ltd

Tonkolili Iron Mine

Contact No.: 033256757

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