Ajay Kumar Singh

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Email: acck2n@r.postjobfree.com

Objective

To be in a responsible position of a respected organization and utilize my technical, conceptual, human and business

skills to help it excel in present business scenario

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (Metallurgy) BIT Sindri, Ranchi University 1974

First Class with Distinction

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Awards and Professional Activities

Jawahar Award for Outstanding performance as Best Executive of the year 1999 by SAIL, Rourkela and in

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2010 by SAIL, ISP Burnpur.

Member of Indian Institute of Metal and All India Management Association, Rourkela Chapter

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Member of BIS Technical committee and Steel making & Rolling Mills expert committees

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Written following papers for national seminars

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o Production and Testing of High diameter steel pipes for gas, oil and water sectors

o Conservation of heat energy in re heating furnaces

o Shape control of Hot Rolled strip

2 Diploma in business management under AIMA, New Delhi.

3 (Completed all theory papers of Part I and Part II).

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Work Experience

General Manager (SAIL Consultancy Division) June 2011 to JAN’2012

Head of operation, responsible for procurement and development of consultancy business in iron & steel

Industries for providing technical assistance & guidance for modernization of iron and steel plants &adopting

State of art technologies & practices, enhancing and optimizing process parameters & capacity utilization,

Monitoring & execution of projects etc.

General Manager (Iron, Steel & Services) SAIL ISP, Burnpur June 2010 to May 2011

Principal head of Blast Furnaces, Steel Melt, Refractories and Services departments

Responsible for production of hot metal & crude steel, refractories management, raw materials

management,prodn plan, logistics & traffic management as well as monitoring the preparedness for

commissioning of new 2.5 million ton production facilities of B Fce,Steel Making, Raw Materials &

Logistics.

General Manager (Steel Melt Shop) SAIL ISP, Burnpur March 2009 to June

2010

Responsible for production of crude steel and refractories management.

Achieved significant improvements in smooth working of Steel Melt Shop through some small small

innovations and change in work practices. Also associated with the preparedness for commissioning of

new 2.5 Million Ton BOF & CCM Complex in green field expansion project.

General Manager (Quality) SAIL ISP, Burnpur January 2008 to February

2009

Initially joined SAIL ISP as a General Manager (Quality) on promotion in Jan’2008

Responsible for coordinating and monitoring the activities right from the stage of Receipt of input raw

materials like coking coal, iron ores, fluxes, ferro alloys etc through coke making to hot metal production in

Blast Face to Steel making and rollings to finished structural steels & TMT bars.

Brought about improvements in efficiency of working through innovative and systematic approaches.

Head of Steel & Rolling, SAIL, Corporate Office, New Delhi January 2007 to December 2007

Worked as Head of Steel & Rolling in SAIL Consultancy Division, New Delhi for providing consultancy for

modernisation of Iron & Steel industries, enhancement of plant performance, analysis of constraints and

bottleneck, development of plan for adopting best operational and maintenance practices in tune with state of

art technology, improvement of process yields and optimising capacity utilisation.

Also performing time to time lending engineer’ assignments on behalf of SBI.

Deputy General Manager, Silicon Steel Mill, Rourkela Steel Plant August 2006 to December 2006

Worked as a Deputy General Manager (Head of operation)

Responsible for production, maintenance, quality and order services of CRNO silicon steel coils and sheets.

Learnt and acquired job experience of HCL pickling, cold reduction in 4 high reversing mill, decarburising and

annealing, insulation coating and packaging.

Supported by 25 engineers, 15 diploma engineers and 350 technical and non technical staff.

Hot Strip Mill, Rourkela Steel Plant September 1992 to July 2006

Joined in 1992 as a Senior Manager, gathered experience and knowledge of all areas of Hot Strip Mill

Elevated to Deputy General Manager as Head of operations

Responsible for production, quality and order servicing of customers of HR coils and plates.

Supported by 16 engineers, 50 diploma engineers and around 400 technical and non technical staff.

Highlights of Achievements

Acquired expertise of rolling of HR coils of mild steel and other special steel i.e. higher grade

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API (X 70), stainless steel, silicon steel (CRNO and CRGO), medium carbon, DD, EDD etc. through

tandem six stands finishing mill.

Continual improvement in production towards more than 100% capacity utilisation

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Associated with successful commissioning and stabilisation of state of art technology

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Walking beam type reheating furnaces

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Reversing roughing mills with heavy edgers

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Coil box and quick roll change

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New hydraulic down coilers and walking beam conveyors

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Optimised manpower resources by streamlining job responsibilities and redeployment of

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manpower after stabilisation of modernised facilities.

Implemented ISO 9001 quality management system and key accounts management system

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for servicing customers of HR coils and plates.

ERW Pipe Plant, Rourkela steel Plant 1989

1991

Worked as a Manager

Responsible for technical administration of production, quality, maintenance and servicing of customers of

ERW pipes (8 5/8” to 18” inch diameter)

Supported by 8 engineers and around 250 technical and non technical staff.

Highlights of Achievements

Involved with commissioning and stabilisation of high frequency welding and hydraulic internal

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bead trimmer.

Prepared and Implemented SOPs and procedures for complying with API Q 1 quality

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assurance system.

Acquired knowledge of executing line pipe orders for gas, oil and water and developed skills

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for interface co ordination with renowned inspection agencies (Lloyds Registers of shipping, American

Bureau of Shipping, Bureau Veritas, TÜV, EIL, ONGC etc.)

Spiral Weld Pipe Plant, Rourkela Steel Plant 1976 1988

Started as a graduate trainee and acquired knowledge of shift production.

Worked as a front line executive responsible for production, quality and dispatch of SAW pipes (16” to 64”

diameter).

Carried out responsibility of production, procurement of spares and consumables and execution of various

prestigious orders.

Elevated to the middle management position (Deputy Manager) in 1986.

Highlights of Achievements

o Erection and commissioning of Spiral Weld Pipe Plant’s production, testing and dispatch facilities.

o Execution of prestigious orders of Mathura Salaya oil line (915 Kim.) API X 52 line pipes from IOC

o Execution of HBJ gas pipeline orders from GAIL

o Prepared SOP and established procedures for complying with API Q 1 quality assurance system

TATA YADOGAWA LTD July1975 Mar1975

Worked as a Management Trainee having undergone general On job training in the operational practices of

25T EAF, Induction Furnace, casting & finishing operations for manufacturing of cast iron and steel rolls for

Hot Strip Mills, Skelp Mills etc.

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Language Proficiency

English, Hindi and German

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Skills summary

• Good technical, conceptual and human skills of operating BLAST FCES, Steel Melting Shop, Hot Strip Mill,

cold rolling(silicon mills) and SAW & ERW HFW STEEL PIPE MILLS

• Advanced Operation management Training of more than one year duration in Germany, Belgium and U.K. in

the area of operational practices of integrated steel plants.

• Good Organizational and Leadership Qualities

• Good Communication and customer servicing skills

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Advanced Management Foreign Training Course

1 month training inAUG’97 in following steel plants of Europe –

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o Krupp Stahl Werk Bochum, Germany

o British Steel Port Talbot Works, U.K. (Now CORUS)

o Boelworks, Belgium

Attended 1 year advanced training program (Apr’85 Mar’86) in the following institutions of the then

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West Germany:

o 7 months practical training on manufacturing of steel pipes through various routes (SAW spiral, 3 roll

bending, UOE, CAN), (ERW HFW) and pipe coatings in M/s Hoesch Rohrenwerk, M/s Mannessmann

Rohrenwerk, M/s BergRohr GmbH Germany

o *Ultrasonic testing in M/sKrautKremmerCologneGermany

o General Production Layout facilities of steel making, continuous casting, plate mill and hot strip mill in

M/s Berg Stahlwerk, Diligen, M/s Hoesch Stahlwerk, Dortmund and Klockner Stahlwerk, Bremen,

Germany

o 5 months German language course (including technical language)

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