Electrical Power Plant

A.SASIKUMAR

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Reliability approach Maintenance & project professional around 10 years of experience; targeting assignments in Electrical & Instrumentation Maintenance/Project with organization of high repute

PROFILE SUMMARY

Skilled in planning & implementing the preventive, predictive & breakdown maintenance schedules for improving overall reliability of plant electrical equipment & machinery and incorporating Safety standards & procedures

Skilled in project management activities encompassing project planning, scheduling, project costing, finalization of schedules and progress monitoring for maintenance activities in Electrical power distribution of HT/LT, Electrical switchgear HT/LT, maintenance of HT/LT AC & DC Motors, Electrostatic Precipitator and Industrial lighting

Proactively identified, analyzed & resolved problems using various Condition Monitoring techniques, ramped up strategic maintenance activities with on time deliverables and maximized the overall productivity

Proactively identifying areas of obstruction / downtime and taking steps to rectify the equipment through application of troubleshooting tools. Having knowledge on Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) technique

Resourceful in ensuring Electrical Safety at site/Electrical Protection tests/ equipment changeovers are performed in accordance with their schedules; providing cost effective diagnosis and repair of plant and equipment malfunctions

Ensured prompt & accurate recording and reporting of preventive, predictive maintenance activities, malfunctions and corrective actions and ensuring compliance of Integrated Management System -ISO

An effective presenter,communicator with excellent relationship management skills and strong analytical, leadership, decision making, problem solving & organizational abilities

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Electrical Operations & Maintenance Project Management Troubleshooting/ Technical Support

Energy Conservation & Management Plant Electrical Safety & Audits Team Management

Erection & Commissioning Reporting & ISO Documentation Cross-functional Coordination

EMPLOYMENT DETAILS

Since Sep’2018: UltraTech Cement Ltd., Wanakbori Cement Works, Gujarat

Designation: Assistant Manager- Electrical & Instrumentation

Key Result Areas as Assistant Manager- E & I:

Heading E&I team with approx. 20 members including Maintenance/Project Engineers, Supervisors & Technicians, and oversaw reliability based maintenance activities of Electrical & instrumentation

Guiding & leading maintenance team in incorporating Safety as priority in maintenance tasks execution

Managing budget for maintenance of 66KV switchyard, 3700KW HT Motors, 21MVA Transformers, MCC/PCC panels, 3000KVA MV drive, VFD panels, IO panels, PLC, field instruments, CCTV Camera & PA system

Directing transformation of maintenance department from reactionary to proactive maintenance approach

Executing SAP PM based maintenance program with all documentation and training

Developing and implementing reliability based maintenance approach for critical functional equipment

Collaborating with inter department and govt. utility companies to maximum use of wheeling power through MTOA

Conducted internal Electrical Safety audit, ensuring compliance of ISO, Co-coordinating energy audit and implementing recommendations arrived from various audits

Accomplishments:

Champion-Electrical Safety and LOTO standard implementation and took corrective measures by executing gap analysis

Initiated & Co-ordinated Arc flash protection study using E-TAP with help of consulting and gained basics of E-TAP

Pivotal in implementing predictive maintenance techniques like Motor Current Signature Analysis (MCSA) to avoid unexpected downtime in 6.6KV Motors and further reduction in maintenance cost due to preventive maintenance

Successfully performed 3.7MW HT Motor high winding temperature issue root-cause analysis and resolved by typical problem solving techniques

Played a major role in reducing motor failure by 5% by Identified premature motor winding failure cause and resolved changes in protection relay system and implemented in-house reliability measures to avoid winding failure

Resolved critical maintenance and safety issue on DSL Aluminum bus bar damage by replacing with copper bus bar resulting in cost reduction for crane by 50% for spares inventory & annual maintenance

Executed CAPEX expenditure project of RFID weighbridges and expanded knowledge on the same

Since Sep’2010 to Aug’2018: UltraTech Cement Ltd., Reddipalayam Cement Works, Tamil Nadu

Designation: Senior Engineer

Key Result Areas as Senior Electrical Engineer:

Planning, operations, maintenance, erection & commissioning of Electrical power distribution of HT/LT, Electrical switchgear HT/LT, maintenance of HT/LT AC & DC Motors, Electrostatic Precipitator, Industrial lighting, Cable Routing & scheduling, implementation of Energy conservation projects, Kaizen, Safety Standard

Directing and executing CAPEX electrical projects including material & manpower planning in SAP and implementing maintenance plan as per SAP PM orders

Planning preventive & predictive maintenance, breakdown repairs, ensuring efficient operations of electrical/ electronic/remote control automations of equipment of following systems by escalating QCDIP objectives to maintain & improve the integrity of production and quality systems

oMaintenance of Double bus bar Electrical system of 6.6KV,2000A,360 MVA Fault level

oMaintenance of Electrical switchgear of 6.6 KV VRC, SF6 breakers & HT Feeders of ABB Make

oMaintenance & Overhauling of 2230 KW HT slip ring Induction motors in-house workshop

oMaintenance of Air Circuit Breakers up to 1600 A of LT & Siemens Make in PCC & MCC

oMaintenance of 110KV switchyard and its safe operating procedures with TPP & Grid System

oMaintenance of Different Protection Relays used in HT/LT systems

oMaintenance of PCC & MCC of Siemens Make

oReplacement of normal bearings with Insulated Bearings for VFD fed Motors

oMaintenance DC Motors & Drives up to 650 KW of BHEL, Kirloskar Make

Conducting harmonic analysis and sharing knowledge of VFD up to 200KW, SPRS of LT make

Overhauling LT Motor from 0.37KW to 180 KW of BBL, CG & Siemens Make

Creating SOP, SMP, HIRA & SWP for various activities

Generating daily power consumption report of the plant and uploading in SAP-EMS

Performing & coordinating:

oHarmonics study in total plant for improving quality of power and energy audit in total plant for efficient utilization of system

oCase Study chronicle issues in HT Feeder & Power factor improvement

Implementing World Class Manufacturing (WCM) culture in Electrical O&M practices

Acting as In-charge for Training & Development on safe electrical O&M practices for assigned department

Monitoring 12.5 MW Generator overhauling performed at Captive Power Plant

Executing Kaizen, one point lessons and organizing brainstorming sessions with team members

Liaising with unit safety standards champions for gap analysis & deviations for all standards

Imparting training on Electrical safety, provided permit to work safety standards on site/off site to employees & Technicians, calculating standards compliance and sending report to corporate safety every month

Case Study:

Title: RM FAN HT MOTOR 2230 KW HT FEEDER UPGRADED/RETROFIT BY SF6 CIRCUIT BREAKER using ETAP

Conducted:

oCase study on frequent HT contactor VRC fuse blown issue and arrived at solution to resolve the issue

oRoot cause analysis by calculation of apparent power & power factor of electrical system in ETAP

Upgraded existing VRC by New SF6 Breaker

PROJECT 1

Title: Preheater Upgradation & New SF Cooler in Plant

Role: Electrical Project engineer

Worked as Project Engineer; coordinated erection & commissioning of Add-on PCC, MCC & electrical Motors, VFD & Parameter Testing of New Electrical Motors

Updated all motor specifications and documents of equipment

Performed system Load analysis and analyzed bottlenecks of the project execution

Conducted relay co-ordination study & harmonics analysis in all drive systems and prepared mitigation technique

PROJECT 2

Title: ESP TO Bag house Conversion Project

Role: Electrical Project Engineer

Coordinated erection, commissioning of 750KW MV drive, transformers and motors

Ensured timely completion of modification and commissioned electrical equipment for Bag house

Troubleshot MV drive commissioning issues and learnings from the bottlenecks & challenges

Implementing Pre Start up Safety review (PSSR) checks before commissioning of the Electrical equipment/machinery

Accomplishments:

Conferred with Best Safety Trainer Award-2016 UltraTech cement Business level competition held in HCW- Chhattisgarh

Reduced downtime by 15 % through incorporating why why analysis concept to identify root cause for failures and arriving recommendations and changes in Maintenance tasks

Escalated Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) by 5 % through measures such as scheduled motor overhauling, condition monitoring techniques i.e. Transformer & OLTC oil testing analysis, scheduled Thermography analysis, and periodic Circuit breaker testing.

Attended induction training at 96MW power plant at Gujarat Cement works

Created safe working environment by adopting safety standards like Electrical Safety, PPE, LOTO, PTW, Hot/cold Work Permit, Height work permit, and ensured usage of proper tools & tackles to achieve zero incidents & accidents

Worked as active co-coordinator of unit Standards, Rules and Procedures (SR&P) Subcommittee

Successfully identified, analyzed & resolved issues by developing Kaizen

Analyzed issues of HT Feeder, TPP PLF enhancement, Centralized Air Conditioning systems and resolved problems with mitigating techniques like upgradation and modification

Made MCC, Chiller Plant area, Air Handling Units and Cooling Tower as a Model Area Development

ACADEMIC DETAIL

B.E. (EEE) from PSNA College of Engineering & Technology, Dindigul in 2010

TRAININGS/CONFERENCES ATTENDED

Attended trainings on:

oElectrical Safety for Maintenance Personnel by USHA Fire Safety Equipment Pvt. Ltd.

oReliability Centered Maintenance by Reliasoft, Bangalore

oInternal Auditor Training on IMS as per ISO 9001:2015,ISO 14001:2015 & OHSAS 18001:2007 by DNV.GL

oOperations & Maintenance of Pollution control equipment” by IFI Pvt. Ltd.

oLeadership Training Program organized by Directorate of school education in Theni, Tamil Nadu

Partook in conference on Total Power Quality Management organized by FICCI & APQI

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Won Madurai Educational District Softball Competition in Republic Day Sports 2004-05

Acted as Secretary of SEEE Society of Electrical & Electronics Engineers in College

CERTIFICATION

“C” License Number: C 43462 issued on 24th Jun 2014, valid till 23rd Jun 2021, issued by Tamil Nadu Electrical Licensing Board

IT SKILLS

SAP-PM & EMS Module End User, MySethu, Online PTW & LOTO, Confluence System and MS Office 2016

PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of Birth: 28th September 1988

Languages Known: English, Hindi and Tamil

Address: 298/63, V.O.C. 3rd Street, P.P. Chavadi, Madurai-625016, Tamil Nadu, India

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