NDT inspector

Suresh Balaji Sivaraj / Lead NDT Engineer / Onshore & Offshore / Major HUC’s

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Objective

Career-focused NDT Manager with strong attention to detail and is focused on ensuring product integrity through nondestructive inspection and testing. Broad experience utilizing numerous NDT methods including weld quality testing and applications in O&G, Power, Refinery and Marine. Highly educated with a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering as well as Level III per ASNT/PCN/EN ISO9712 certification and hundreds of hours of practical applications experience.

Certifications

PCN Level III – PAUT (PCN No : 326889)

ASNT Level III – MT, UT (ASNT ID : 191228)

ISO9712 Level III – PT, RT, ET

Certified Welding Inspector, CWI (AWS) – 738442

ASNT Level II – ET, VT, PT, MT, UT, RT, RTFI, CR, HT, PMI Auditor – ISO 9001:2008 (Intertek)

Computed Radiography – DÜRR Technik, UK

FOET (OPITO) – Further Offshore Emergency Training (Tropical) - # 9314 561*-******-*** Skills Tendering/Budgeting/Costing

Technical Meeting (Internal / External) Project Management

Customer / Client Coordination

Audit (Internal/External)

Procedure Preparation

Training & Certification

Technique Validation

PAUT & ToFD Image Interpretation

Weld Inspection

Suresh Balaji Sivaraj

Lead NDT Engineer (ASNT, PCN, EN ISO9712 – Level 3 / CWI) Address: #5A, Saravana Bhavanam, Chairman Karupanna Thevar Street, Sulur, Coimbatore – 641402, Tamil Nadu - India

e-mail : ***************@*****.***

Mobile : +974-****-****, +91-994**-***-**(Whatsapp) Skype : sureshmechrules1

Suresh Balaji Sivaraj / Lead NDT Engineer / Onshore & Offshore / Major HUC’s Experience

Feb’ 21 - Present

May’ 15 – Feb’ 20

SGS, QATAR

We provide specialist knowledge to the international oil and gas, petrochemical, inspection, refinery, LNG, pipeline, shipbuilding industries and our clients are predominantly major operating companies, subsurface consultancies, international EPC and engineering companies. NDE Lead (NDE Level III)

Shutdown at Qatar Petroleum Refinery, QP (Mesaieed, Qatar) of Unit 61, 62, 63, 64

& 65, Engaged upto 50+ conventional technicians, 12 Advanced NDT technicians under 4 Team Leads

Shutdown at Qatar Petrochemical Company, QAPCO which is one of the world's largest and most successful producers of low-density polyethylene (LDPE) High Pressure (2700 bar) - a basic plastic polymer that is derived from oil and natural gas. PACIFIC HIGH TECHNOLOGY SERVICES CO. LTD., MYANMAR We Pacific High Technology Services Co.,Ltd is a 100% Local Company and is well established in Myanmar Oil & Gas, Marine, Construction and Power Generation Industries. We are the only company in Myanmar with all state of the heart technologies for both onshore and offshore Technical Manager

Projects Involved;

ZAWTIKA PROJECT (Offshore & Onshore) – PTTEP, Myanmar

SHWE PHASE 2 (Offshore) – McDermott / Posco Internation Corporation

YETAGUN PROJECT (Offshore & Onshore) – PETRONAS

SHWE PHASE 1 (Offshore & Onshore) – POSCO DAEWOO CORPORATION

YADANAR PROJECT (Offshore) – TOTAL

BADAMYAR PROJECT (Offshore) – TOTAL / Hyundai Heavy Industries

HULL DAMAGE REPAIR – BRATASENA, FSO (In-Situ)

PADAUK SHWE WAR TERMINAL PROJECT, THAI ROTARY (Tank Farm)

TRANSFAME, PETRONAS (PCML) AGRU PROJECT

Suresh Balaji Sivaraj / Lead NDT Engineer / Onshore & Offshore / Major HUC’s

• RT, MPI & PT Inspection for the Modification Services of Zawtika ZPQ Platform 14006 & 14022 under Zawtika Development Project in Apr/May 2015

• PMI Inspection at Zawtika Offshore in July 2015

• Computed Radiography Inspection (CR) at Zawtika during July 2016

• Pipeline project using Phased Array Ultrasonic Testing (PAUT) for Ministry of Oil & Gas Enterprise (MOGE).

• Phased Array Ultrasonic Testing (PAUT) for onshore avaition fuel storage tanks of Meyer Asia, 2million gallons each.

• Pipeline project using Radiography (Crawler) Testing for CPPEC for Power Plant.

• NDT Contract with offshore operators like PCML, DAEWOO for consecutive periods including advanced and API inspections.

• Working with International Standard and Client Specification.

• Maintaing required Equipment up-to-date for project.

• Preparation and Validation of NDT Procedure.

• Project management with Offshore & Onshore clients like PTTEP, TOTAL, PCML, Daewoo, ABS, Thai Rotary, NEPAS Puma, JFE, J&M, APEX, Triangle Links, IGT.

• Technical & Project Kick-Off meetings with clients.

• Costing & Budgeting for NDT activities including Tenders & Contracts of major client.

• Witness & Crosschecks of NDT Inspection at onshore/offshore.

• Experienced in Interpretation of PAUT & ToFD Data Acquisition, Advanced NDT, PMI, Hardness Testing, Ferrite Test, Radiographic Film Interpretation, Hull Gauging, Computed Radiography and Heat Treatments.

• Due Diligence for Tank Farm for NEPAS Puma, Aviation Tanks.

• Accomplished ISO and OHSAS within company

• Corporate Training and Certification.

Suresh Balaji Sivaraj / Lead NDT Engineer / Onshore & Offshore / Major HUC’s May’ 14 – Dec’ 14

Jan’ 13 – Apr’ 14

KEPPEL SHIPYARD LIMITED, (HASK ENGG & MGMT), SINGAPORE Leaders in the conversion of Floating Production Storage Offloading (FPSO) units, Floating Storage Offloading (FSO) vessels and Floating Storage and Regasification Units (FSRU). NDT Level III Management

Knowledge in Classifications like DNV, ABS, BV, LRS

Coordinating with Customer end like Bumi Armada, Shell, SBM, Apache, etc.

Preparation of NDT procedures satisfying customer requirements and meeting Standard requirements on Class Rules

Managing upto 4 NDT Service Providers (Sub-Contractor)

Facing Audit with Customer end and Classification Bodies.

Verification of Equipment calibrations for PAUT & ToFD.

Interpretation of PAUT & ToFD data acquisition.

Report generation in all NDE examination formats.

Meeting out the regular targets and updating with Customer / Client regularly.

ARABIAN BEMCO CONTRACTING CO. LTD., SAUDI ARABIA

BEMCO was formed in 1968 and has developed into a world-class EPC Turnkey Contractor in Industrial and Power Projects including Co-generation, Combined Cycle and Steam Power Plants - Riyadh Power Plant No.12 Combined Cycle (2,175 MW), Qurayyah Combined Cycle Project (4,600 MW), Riyadh Power Plant No.10 Combined Cyle (4,600 MW), Riyadh Power Plant No.9 Combined Cycle (5,980 MW), etc..

NDT Level III

Fullest Technical support for the construction of 4600MW Combined Cycle Power Plant

NDT Level I & II certification program for company inspectors

Written Procedure as per SNT-TC-1A, CP-189

Project Management with Saudi Electricty Company (SEC) and with Worley Parsons (WP)

Suresh Balaji Sivaraj / Lead NDT Engineer / Onshore & Offshore / Major HUC’s Oct’ 10 – Oct’ 12

Method and Technique validation process internally and per Customer requirements

Route Cause Analysis, RCA

Preparation of Standard Operation Procedures, SOP on MT & UT

Verification of Equipment calibrations PAUT & ToFD

Interpretation of PAUT & ToFD

Report generation in all NDE examination formats

Corrective Action Report closures

Working for the International Standards like B31.1, B31.3, Nems, ASME Sec I, II, V, VIII & IX

Managing up to 28 co-workers under NDT function of Quality Assurance Department

NDT Supplier Audits

Forecasting budgets, Cost estimation and Reduction

Positive Material Identification-PMI, Hardness Testing and Thickness Gauging as per ITP requirements/Customer requirements apart from regular NDT methods

G.T.N. ENGINEERING INDIA PVT. LTD., INDIA

An ISO 9001:2000 API Certified, Oil and Gas - Valve and actuators manufacturing company having long term tie up with American MNC like FMC Technologies for Sub-Sea & Overhead Christmas Tree Assembly

Senior Engineer – NDT Level III

NDT Level I & II certification program

Corrective / Preventive Action Report, CAR, PAR closures

Route Cause Analysis, RCA

Equipment calibrations

Written practice preparation as per SNT-TC-1A

UT, MT, PT inspection on Petroleum Valves and its assemblies as per API 6A requirements

Suresh Balaji Sivaraj / Lead NDT Engineer / Onshore & Offshore / Major HUC’s Sep’ 08 – Sept’ 10

Cleared API Audit regarding Non Destructive Examination on PT, MT & UT by Dec’10 and surveillance API Audit by Nov’11

Supplier Audits for casting and forging suppliers like Samco, Harihar, CRI, Vinir and etc

Development of Standard Operating Procedures for PT, MPI, UT & RT

Working with international standards like ASTM / ASME / API-6A / NORSOK / EN / JIS

Report generation in all NDE examination formats

Working for the compliance of EMS & OHSAS activities

Member of Lean Manufacturing Team

Coordinating with Third Party Inspection bodies like TUV, BVQI, ICS

Coordinating with major projects like ADCO, ADMA – Abu Dhabi

Managing upto 12 co-workers under NDT function of Quality Assurance Department

B.I.T. TECHNOCRAFTS, INDIA

BIT Technocrafts has established in 2004 by a core group of eminent NDT, Welding Inspection and Material testing professionals, Engineers and technologists with rich 15 plus years of experience with many industrial verticals. BIT Technocrafts is an ISO 9001:2008 Certified company in India for Nondestructive testing, Material testing, Third party inspection, Consulting services and Training & Certification in NDT and Welding Inspection. NDT Engineer

RT inspection as per ASME Sec VIII at MALCO, Mettur

MPI on Wind Mill inspection of SUZLON, Baroda

MPI on Brake Disc’s of HYUNDAI at SAKTHI Group’s, Coimbatore

UT on Hydraulic arm of BULL machines, Coimbatore

Petroleum Valves, UT inspected as per API/6A of GTN ENGINEERING, Coimbatore

Valves with MPI(Fluorescent method) for FLOW LINKS

MPI & UT inspection of Automobile Pistons at RANE, Trichy

SAIL plates are UT inspected for customers

Suresh Balaji Sivaraj / Lead NDT Engineer / Onshore & Offshore / Major HUC’s

PT, MT, UT & RT courses are handled for qualified and corporate professionals

UT inspection of Valve castings at SRI RENGANATHAN INDUSTRIES, CBE

UT inspection at SRI ANGALAMMAN ALLOYS of Wheel Hub, Coimbatore Membership

British Institute for Non-Destructive Testing, BINDT - UK American Society for Non-Destructive Testing, ASNT – USA American Welding Society, AWS - USA

Saudi Council of Engineers – KSA

Society for Mechanical Engineers – India

Indian Welding Society – India

OPITO Member

Accomplishment ASNT NDT Level III – MT & UT

EN ISO9712 Level III – RT, ET & PT

PCN Level III – PAUT

AWS CWI

ASNT Level II - ET, VT, PT, MT, UT, RT, RTFI, CR, HT, PMI Internal Auditor

FOET (OPITO Approved) + CAEBS

Personal Detail Name : S. Suresh Balaji

Date of Birth : 20th April 1986

Marital Status : Married

Nationality : Indian

Present Location : India

Passport No : Z6364711

Expiry Date : 5th May 2031

Vaccination : Covishield – Fully Vaccinated

Place: Doha, Qatar

Date: 27.10.2021

Yours Truly

(S. Suresh Balaji)

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