Engineer Maintenance

DINAL PATEL

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South Windsor, CT 06074

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OBJECTIVE:

. Seeking an opportunity in Plant/Industrial Automation and Control /

Electrical / Electronics field with interest in Maintenance Management

that includes action plan for the maintenance department considering

the budget.

. Exploration in preventive maintenance methods, fault-finding, trouble-

shooting steps and maintenance documentation.

. Seeking responsible position in minimize the down time, analysis of

repetitive and chronic problems in computerized controlled/critical

machines, referring machine manuals, feedback from maintenance team,

co-ordination with various cross functional teams, internal & external

contractors, machines suppliers/manufacturers, also consideration of

other reliable resources & factor affecting. Need the utilization of

15+ years of experience.

SKILLS:

. Quick learner and team player with strong trouble-shooting and

communication skills.

. Experienced in troubleshooting and developing better ways to maintain

machines considering the factors such as condition, cost, utility and

latest technology available.

. Experienced in managing trained team members on new equipment and

technology.

CERTIFICATES:

. RS logix 500 Software for ladder programming of Allen Bradley PLCs

with digital and analogue I/Os

. Siemens S7 programming for ladder logic along with function blocks

insertion for Siemens PLCs.

. AutoCAD 2010.

. Adobe Illustrator Certification (Creative concept to introduce new

products to customers/In-house Sign/Banner design).

. Adobe Photoshop Certification (Digital Image Editing Software).

EXPERIENCE:

Lear Automotive India Pvt limited, Halol Plant, India (Part of Lear

Corporation, U.S.A) [Sept'03 - Dec'09]

Lear Corporation is US based multinational in the business of Car Interior

and having international tie up with American Automotive giants General

Motors and Ford Motor Company. Lear Corporation is the leading JIT (Just

in Time) Supplier of products like Car Seat sets, Door Trims, Headliners

etc.

Senior Engineer - Maintenance / Plant Services

. Managing the entire plant utility services like Power, Air, Water

Supply and Fire Monitoring and Control System, Central Air

Conditioning System.

. Maintenance of plant utility equipments like Transformer, Power

Distribution Panels, D.G. sets, UPS, Screw type Air Compressors with

inbuilt Dryer and water pumping station.

. Communication with Supplier/Manufacturer for spares quotes, co-

ordination with purchase dept after prior Management Approval

documentations for spares.

. Responsible for trouble-shooting of Lectra, France made computerized

automatic Fabric/PVC Cutting Machine. This machine is controlled by

Electronic PCBs with SMD components mounted like mother board,

Interface card, IGBT fired drive Control Cards, d.c. servo motors for

X-axis, Y-axis, blade vibration, blade rotation, a.c. motor for

dispatch conveyor and pneumatic cylinders with proximity sensors for

blade up & down limits and VFD (Variable Frequency Drive).

. Managing machines by fault-finding, trouble shooting, spares

management and preventive maintenance with standard maintenance kit

replacement.

. Successfully installed Automatic Fabric and PVC cutting machine made

by Gerber Scientific Inc, USA.

. Familiar with Eastman, USA fabric cutting equipments.

. Specialty Machines exposure like Ultrasonic Plastic Welder, High

Frequency (Radio Frequency) 28MHz Oscillator valve based PVC welding

machines controlled by Mitsubishi FX Series PLC.

. Familiar with testing products in Climatic Chamber with Eurotherm

controller for Humidity with wet sensor, Compressor based cooling and

heating element with RTD.

. Responsible for Preventive and breakdown maintenance activities for

Material Handling Equipments like 3 Ton Capacity - Battery Operated

Forklifts with Curtis make Controller, 1.5 Ton capacity - Electric

Stackers, Josts make platform truck to dispatch finished goods up to

car assembly line at General Motors, Halol, India.

. Managed preventive maintenance procedure of more than 70 machines of

JUKI and PFAFF brand sewing machines implemented by few technicians

through resources of various utility sprays to do maintenance in

better and faster way to save man hours and in turn, manpower saving.

. Manage and monitor the purchasing, distribution and Inventory control

of maintenance material (include tools, subsidiary materials, oil).

. Responsible for assisting group leaders and team members with

repetitive and chronic equipment problems. Apart from that,

responsible for implementing and maintaining maintenance records.

. Co-ordination in the activities like ISO 14000, Six Sigma, Lean

Manufacturing, TS Certification etc.

Drury Industries limited, Nigeria

[April'02 -

March'03]

Drury industries limited is the multinational company with reporting

headquarter at Switzerland and Africa. It is one of the leading producers

of Acid and Alum. Drury Industries imports bauxite in bulk from countries

like Canada to produce Sulfuric Acid and Alum.

Electrical Engineer

. Looking after entire Alum Plant in the absence of director in which

major equipments are Phosphorous bronze coated crusher with feed

elevator, digestion chamber, steaming tanks and vibrators.

. Assisted with additional responsibility to monitor and control

silicate plant and pharmaceutical plant producing blood tonic.

. Responsible for procuring and maintaining minimum stock level of

ingredients and machine spares inventory through importing agents at

local shipping port in the city of Lagos.

PBM Polytex limited, India (Part of Patodia Group)

[Oct'00 - April'01]

PBM Polytex is 100% Exporter of the Indian Textile Industries.

Electrical / Instrumentation Engineer

. Erection and commissioning activities for Wartsila, Finland - Captive

Power Plant (CPP) Capacity: 4.2MW along with Wartsila Project Team.

. Managed maintenance activities of entire CPP consist of Fuel (LDO)

Tank Farm area and through heat tracer mounted piping and the fuel

passes to all auxiliary /standby booster units to support the power

generator. The control panel is mounted with temperature monitors

senses all channels connected via junction boxes with thermocouples

inserted on all cylinder heads.

. Maintenance activity of modicon PLC based controls with digital and

analogue Inputs/Outputs, electronic governor for control of speed and

voltage variations.

. Maintenance management of boiler and Reverse Osmosis (R.O.) plant for

raw water purification purpose which includes membrane unit, pressure

pumps, chemical dosing pumps for PH control by in - house water

analysis/testing kit.

. Responsible for electronic PCBs (Cards) repair for Schlaforst, Germany

make Textile Machines.

Netlon India limited, Palej, India

[May'96 -

Oct'00]

Netlon is the subsidiary of TI Group of companies. Netlon manufactures &

exports the Nylon nets for agriculture and various other applications.

Consulting Engineer (Electronic)

. Looking after entire plant automation including plastic extruder plant

fed by plastic raw material through hopper of the die extrusion

machine in which sectional heating element groups are triggered by

thyristorised firing pulses controlled by Eurotherm Temperature

Controllers.

. Responsible for troubleshooting of the PCB (Printed Circuit Board) in

the controller of rotary drive.

. Modification of controller by applying MOV (Metal Oxide Varistor) to

protect the electronic circuits and units against power surges across

the input power sources.

Ewac Alloys limited, India (An associate of Indian multinational L & T

(Larsen & Toubro) limited) [Aug'95 - May'96]

Ewac Alloys limited is the associate company of L&T group manufacturing

tool bits and Welding wire spools.

Plant Engineer

. Maintenance activities for CNC machines which consists of DRO (digital

read out) mounted on the hydraulic power press which is interfaced by

electronic servo controlled valve and (PLC) programmable logic

controller.

. Maintenance of digital comparator machine for welding wire quality

which senses the quantity of powder filled per inch and stops the line

if it unequaled.

. Maintenance management of vacuum furnace operated by vacuum pump.

Gujarat Steel Tubes limited, Ahmadabad, India

[June'94 - Aug'95]

Gujarat Steel Tubes limited produces reputed brand (GST) Galvanized Iron

(G.I.) tubes.

Junior Engineer (Electrical)

. Troubleshooting of steel strip slitter plant consists of drive and

control panel, tube bending and auto cutting machines.

. Preventive maintenance and breakdown maintenance of high frequency

induction welding machine.

. Looking after hot dip galvanizing plant to coat over the tube as a

finished product.

Panchmahal Steel limited, India (Steel Plant)

[Dec'92 - June'94]

Panchmahal Steel limited is the largest mini steel plant of state of

Gujarat, India, with steel melting shop & steel rolling mill. The company

supplies steel billets to Indian defense industries.

Graduate Trainee Engineer (Electrical)

. Familiar with steel melting shop (SMS), this includes Electric Arc

Furnace (EAF) receives power from Company premises power substation

through water cooled heavy duty cables via reactor to control power

factor.

. Responsibility of maintenance of EOT (electrically operated travel)

cranes of entire steel melting shop.

. Maintenance of convertor (gas mixing instrumentation station

associated with pollution control unit), with various micro processor

based batch mixing controllers, I/P convertors, pressure transmitters

and transducers etc.

TRAINING RECORDS AND ACHIEVEVEMENTS:

. Merit Certificate, School First

. Merit Certificate, National Scholarships Scheme (Ministry of Education

and Culture, Government of India)

. State Level Elementary Drawing Examination Certificate

. State Level Intermediate Drawing Examination Certificate

. Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)Training Certificate (Hi Tech Indo

- German Project)

. Short Term Course - Programming In C++

. Customer Training Course - Wartsila NSD Corporation - Power Plant

Operation & Trouble Shooting

. Certificate Course - Team Building

. Certificate Course - Aptech Limited (Asia's largest Multimedia

Institute) - Adobe Illustrator

. Certificate Course - Aptech Limited (Asia's largest Multimedia

Institute) - Adobe Photoshop

. Certificate Course - Prolific - Industrial Automation - PLC/SCADA

Software

. Certificate Course - AutoCAD - 2D Designing from Autodesk

EXPERTISE:

. Systematic training to technicians on Critical Machines. (To enhance

the machine capacity by understanding schematics and specifications of

various technical topics).

. Knowledge of fulfillment business.

. Enthusiastic and strong motivator and team builder.

. Interface with manufacturing, engineering, suppliers, and customers.

WORK STATUS: U. S. Permanent residence. (Green Card holder)

EDUCATION: Gujarat University, Ahmadabad, India

Major: B.E. (Elect) - Bachelors of Engineering degree.

REFERENCE: Available upon request

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