Mechanical Engineer Manager

Kohil Kadakampally

Personal Profile:

I am a versatile, articulate, intelligent individual who is willing to take on new challenges and work hard to achieve best results in all undertaken tasks. In order to achieve this, I work in a dedicated and responsible manner being considerate and respectful to other team members.

I am a fast learner with creativity and enthusiasm, ability to maintain a good temperament and adaptable to changes.

I am a good team leader with transcendent organizational and communication skills with proven ability to manage and complete projects to the highest standard, with meticulous attention to details.

Core Skills and Expertise:

Project management

Team building, strategic planning,contract negotiation expert

Cost reduction and containment

Team leadership, organisational skills

Continuous business improvement

Strategic planning, risk evaluation

Designing Tools: CAD, AUTOCAD, Co-Create

MS Office

Visualisation tools: Photoshop, Flash

Programming Languages: C, C++

Career Profile:

OPERATION MANAGER - FACILITIES, MAINTENANCE AND MEP PROJECTS

AL-RASHDAN, GENERAL TRADING AND CONTRACTING COMPANY, KUWAIT

JAN 2014 – TILL DATE

Role: Working as operations manager (Engineering, MEP projects, Maintenance& Facilities)

Responsibilities:

Responsible for delivering the highest standards of TFM services within retail / F&B industry / construction Industry.

Provide day to day leadership and management to the on-site FM teams.

Act as the first point of contact for all the facilities management escalations, and deal with these in an effective and timely manner.

Help in building and maintaining excellent client relationships.

Monitor progress of al MEP works pertaining to operations, breakdown, rectifications and inspection of sites.

Manage PPM and Reactive maintenance delivered both direct and through supply partners.

Responsible for maintaining the highest standards of health and safety and statutory compliance across the portfolio.

Ensure a cost-effective maintenance program for all buildings, plant systems and equipment is in place whilst ensuring accurate asset list and essential customer site systems and equipment is managed.

Manage accurate asset inventory and Life Cycle assessment, including identification and support of Capital replacement projects in conjunction with business goals.

Rigorous management / assessment of supplier KPIs adhere to all safety policies and maintains the work environment, practices and training of staff to avoid accidents and hazards ensuring a safe and comfortable work environment.

Oversee the annual budgets to highlight utilization against assigned budget in an accurate and timely manner.

Ensure that the team is adequately staffed as per business requirements and allocate work to subordinates.

Conduct goal setting activities and performance reviews.

Plan work and organize the site facilities in order to meet the agreed deadlines.

Supervised the mechanical work of the contractor to ensure adherence to the drawings and technical specification.

Administer and ensure that the contract clauses are executed in accordance with its tender specification in quantity and quality.

Conduct periodic review meeting with the contractors at site regarding work progress and site issues, if any.

Provide general guidance and technical interpretation of design drawing and specification requirements to subcontractors.

Monitored and supervised the day-to-day activities the undertaken project.

Maintain records and responds to Contractor Information Requests (CIR) within discipline or as assigned.

Prepare and issue concerned departments, extra work authorization requests (RFMPs/WAs) with the approval of the Project Field Manager.

Assisted Field Quality Assurance Manager in performing inspections and verification tests.

Directed site document control activities for design documents.

Manage and direct projects from development, conceptualization, design, procurement and installation to commissioning.

Ensure that the projects are planned, executed and monitored, adhering to the timelines.

Work in liaison with the safety Engineers to ensure the proper assistance and surveillance of safety procedures.

Ensure the subcontractor duties are performed by competent and experienced personnel and in a sufficient numbers.

Appointed technical staffs and supervisors for related projects.

Implement new outreach programs, aimed at post hand over – feed backs and new business developments

Identify, evaluate and record actual and potential construction problems.

Organize and hold weekly briefing with staff for site operations.

Effectively controlled cost and kept projects on schedule

Maintained timely and accurate reporting to management.

Prepared various reports to successfully manage the projects such as billings and status reports.

Authorize managers to work in collaboration to ensure projects are procured and constructed within the boundaries of the company’s best practices while conforming to technical requirements.

Maintain a thorough quality control of the undertaken projects.

Work in collaboration with senior management and clients, to define the scope, goals and deliverables for successful execution of projects.

Maintain full project responsibility and underwriting authority also being the prime contact with the Director.

Direct pre-construction services and activities.

Provide modifications for projects as per client’s requests, in consultation with the management if it involves change in the design.

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER (MECHANICAL)

AL-JAMEH GROUP, GENERAL TRADING AND CONTRACTING COMPANY, FAHAHEEL, KUWAIT

JAN 2011 – JAN 2014

Role: worked as mechanical engineer gaining experience in technical and financial elements, supervising the implementation of approved projects.

Responsibilities:

Supervise the implementation of approved projects including testing balancing and commissioning.

Verify the documents; materials received are in accordance to standards, manufactured.

Coordinate and interface with clients and sub-contractors.

Review the mechanical documents (plumbing, electrical, HVAC, and firefighting disciplines).

Designs, development and implementation of new technologies and ideas for improvement of existing facilities and conditions.

Develop time critical documents following copyrights and trade mark procedures.

Analyze, review, plan, design and understand design drawings (AutoCAD) to clearly interpret to workers.

Plan and monitor progress of mechanical works.

Issued sketch/shop/as built drawings to construction sites.

Conduct weekly site coordination and progress meetings with sub-contractors.

Preparation of tenders including production of specifications, drawings and commercial drawings.

Responsible for quality control operations.

Prepare design documents (P&IDs, layouts, routing/space management drawings).

Managed a team of thirty workers supervising their works.

GRADUATE ENGINEER

DELTA CONTROLS LIMITED, West Molesey, UK AUG 2008 - AUG 2010

Role: Worked as graduate mechanical management trainee, gaining experience in engineering, quality control, production, purchasing, sales and marketing undergoing a committed program of graduate development.

Responsibilities:

Worked in a dual role as a Quality engineer and as mechanical engineer

Helped to maintain the Quality Management System by ensuring that all procedures are up to date and are being followed by production staff

Managed the internal audit system and performed internal audits as part of ISO 9001:2008 requirements

Managed the inspection team and introduced a new supplier rejects system to deal with all non-conforming parts

Helped to maintain TLR register, MTMS part data modification and BOMS creation on work manager.

Worked as part of the procurement team to source new or alternative suppliers

Worked with minimal supervision as part of engineering team in analyzing mechanical failures and weld replicas.

Helped in designing updating and maintaining QCI database.

Worked on Co-create in updating 2D drawings of parts and assemblies.

Interacted with customers, suppliers and external auditors from approval bodies on a regular basis.

Key achievements:

Successfully completed rotations in engineering and production

Worked in inspection and helped clear major errors.

Tools Used:

CAD, AUTO CAD

Co-Create, MS office

Mechanical project engineer

Southfield trading and Construction Company, Kuwait summers 2002-- 2006

Role: Worked as a management trainee gaining experience in project engineering, management and understanding the commercial and conceptual aspects of business.

Role and Responsibilities:

Project engineering:

Establishment and responsibility for project communication with client, subcontractors

Development and review of project planning and programming

Preparation of weekly and monthly reports to clients and management

Co-ordination and preparation of project closeout reports

Responsible for overall management of projects from conception to completion

Project Management

Supervised up to 40 craft workers at all stages of hotel construction projects.

Interpreted technical drawings, made day to day tactical decisions.

Worked from boyhood for this family owned business and have gained detailed working knowledge of building trades, tools and construction techniques.

Ensure all operations are undertaken in a safe manner in accordance with country law and Project Company H&S policy Management of project team functions

Contractual/ Commercial

Ensure project teams have clear understanding of contract and applicable obligations.

Close liaison with Q.S / commercial management

Review and agree project measurement, cost assessments and monthly valuations.

Review variation schedule and assess entitlement and income

Tools Used:

CAD, AUTO CAD

Co-create

Information Analyst

Siemens IT Solutions, Nottingham, UK (employer: ADECCO) Aug 2007 – July 2008

A globally diversified company and leading provider of IT solutions and one of UK leaders in outsourcing IT managed services, with its comprehensive know-how, catering to varied businesses.

Responsibilities:

•Provided functional and requirement analysis for the operations division i.e., High-level process charts, data and workflow for input to the software development team.

•Assisting in disaster recovery position. Completing the case load within target and maintaining SLA in all other areas.

•Using problem solving skills to deal with complex customer queries

•Actively participant within a LEAN office

•Analyzed costs and benefits of proposed solutions and working with project and work stream managers to identify delivery options, costs and timescales.

•Training the new team members in relevant process.

•Provide support for the Quality Assurance (QA) department in rectifying & minimizing errors and adhering to company’ s standard Bureau reporting

•Update weekly KPI’s, scorecard for the senior management.

•Developed data flow charts for various business processes.

•Actively involved in daily work group meetings encouraging open ended communication throughout the whole team.

Project Engineer

Fertilizers and Chemicals Travancore Limited (FACT), India Aug 2005 – Mar 2006

FACT a government of India enterprise with business interest in manufacturing and marketing of fertilizers, caprolactam, engineering consultancy and fabrication of equipment’s

Role: Worked as a project engineer in the design department while pursuing the bachelor’s degree

Responsibilities:

Establishment and responsibility for project

Organize and implement design of agitator system for capacity enhancement

Development and review project planning and programming

Assessing design procedure and power requirements according to industrial norms

Preparation of weekly and monthly reports to guide and senior management

Co-ordination and preparation of project close out reports.

SKILLS AND ACHIEVEMENTS:

Volunteered and helped implementing fund raising program for tsunami relief, which helped in building more than 250 houses for the affected people.

Strong planning, analytical, organizational, communication and interpersonal skills.

Through giving oral presentations and group discussions for undergraduate and post graduate studies I have acquired a confidence in public speaking.

Highly motivated team player with excellent analytical and technical skills with an ability to ensure optimum output.

Good leadership skills attained as house captain at school leading my team to success in sports and cultural competitions.

Developed negotiation and persuasion skills whilst working on team projects during my course.

Education:

•MASTERS IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (2006 -2008 )

University of Wales institute, Cardiff, UK

•BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING MECHANICAL ENGINEERING (2002 -2006 )

Sathyabama institute of science and technology, Chennai, India

•PRINCE 2 FOUNDATION (2008)

APM Group, UK

Personal Details:

Name: Kohil Varughese Kadakampally

D.O.B: 02/08/1983

Marital Status: Married

Address: P.O.Box- 43892, Hawally, Kuwait

Mobile: 66119300

Visa Status: Transférable

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