Senior Mechanical Engineer

HARIHARAN RAMANATHAN

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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

●Professional Mechanical Engineer with 26 years of experience in the Oil & Gas /Petrochemical industry EPC projects, plant maintenance and reliability.

●Rotating/Fixed and package machinery design, fabrication, Installation, Pre-Commissioning, Commissioning & startup, Punch list / warranty claim resolutions, technical support for green field & brown field projects.

●Trouble shooting, repair, Maintenance & turnaround support of critical rotating equipment.

●Develop equipment criticality assessment, RCM/FMEA analysis & equipment maintenance strategies for green field & brown field projects. Generating Maintenance Plan, Preventive maintenance optimization & mitigated risk-based tasks. Conducting RCFA and implementing preventive actions.

●Strong analytical and practical field engineering background on rotating, static & package equipment.

●Handled turbo-machineries like Pumps, Gas turbines (Frame 5/6/7/9), Gas Compressors, Air & N2 Compressors, Steam turbines, Blowers, Fin fans, Motors, Gear Boxes, Centrifuges and Turbo-expanders.

●Handled Utility & Offsite package machinery equipment like Air/Screw & reciprocating compressors, Dryers, Nitrogen generators, Fire water system, Water treatment package, Steam Boilers, Emergency diesel generator, Centrifuge, MEG / dosing injection units, Slurry pumps, Dredge pumps, HRSG, Cooling water system, Lube & seal oil system, Fin Fan coolers, PSA units, electrical & control systems etc.

●Very good knowledge in pressure vessels, heat exchangers, process piping.

●Familiarity in API, ASME, Exxon Mobil, Shell, NFPA Standards and best practice.

●Good knowledge of machine condition monitoring/wear / vibration analysis, lubrication & sealing system.

●Strong computer literate, excellent interpersonal skills with leadership qualities and a good team player.

●Registered member with APEGS for EIT / P.ENG. & Member of Society for maintenance and reliability professional SMRP & RATS.

Very good management skills with diverse work groups & in the areas of health, safety and environment, change management, employee development, reliability and productivity/plant availability and performance management.

Strong LNG/NGL/Sales gas/Oil /Petrochemical / SRU, Power generation facilities operational and maintenance background with business acumen ability to drive short- and long-term goals and objectives

Experience with strong decision-making skills, conflict resolution, problem-solving tools and processes.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Project & Construction Management

Perform scheduling, resource planning for the project mechanical discipline team and ensure safety of all employees by providing HSE leadership.

Coordinate engineering work and technical input with other Discipline Leads/SMEs to ensure a complete functional project and reports on discipline progress to the management team.

Review mechanical data sheets / specifications, finalize sizing, layout, estimate capacity and power requirement for rotating equipment & systems involving rotating equipment.

Evaluate technical offers from bidders, review RFQs/Purchase requisitions, technical query sheets, Vendor documents and attend clarification meetings in co-ordination with project divisions on issues related to rotating & fixed equipment.

Participate in rotating/ fixed equipment detailed engineering design reviews, 3D models reviews, HAZOP reviews, HAZIP, feasibility & reliability RAM studies.

Reviews cross sectional drawings, BOM, EPL for spare parts requirement.

Review and verify QA/QC of all as-built project vendor documents data sheet, P&ID, IOM after MAC.

Assist contractor/vendor for the smooth and safe installation of equipment by reviewing the work method statement plan, JSA, lifting plan and GA drawing.

Inspecting machinery foundation and confirm readiness before equipment installation.

Witness machinery levelling, final shaft alignment before grouting. Review lube oil flushing, chemical pipe cleaning, steam blowing activities of pre-commissioning.

Participate in PSSR and provide punch list for nonconformance.

Review Startup procedure, duty run & performance test of rotating equipment.

Participate in motor solo run, turbine solo run, MTR, duty run, Performance tests including FAT/ SAT for acceptance of equipment based on Company requirements, project specifications and standards.

Prepare MOC, Warranty claims for new facilities.

Ensures compliances with storage, preservation and protection requirements of rotating and fixed machinery equipment’s at vendor facilities and at site.

Maintenance & Operations

Provide Proactive “health-care” and technical advice on the rotating/fixed equipment performance to various operating, engineering, projects & maintenance departments.

Preparing work scope for Striping, rebuilding, overhauling support for major rotating equipment centrifugal/screw/reciprocating compressors, steam and gas turbines, pumps etc.

Prepare & review maintenance work scope, coordinate with multidiscipline team and ensure safe completion of job within the scheduled time and budget.

Facilitate Criticality assessment and develop equipment maintenance strategy for all major critical machinery by providing risk mitigated PPM tasks to maintain plant reliability and availability.

Managing millwrights & maintenance officials for repair works. Scheduling the frequency of PPM tasks based on RCM & best practice.

Organizing reliability programs and training to maintenance department. Mentoring new staffs.

Execute, coordinate and support the maintenance activities related to the repair/overhaul, revamp, up-grade, troubleshooting and studies related to rotating and static equipment.

Develop annual/long-term budget for rotating/fixed equipment ensuring that effective utilization and control of operating and capital spare inventories by maintaining optimum levels.

To assess & review aged equipment and provide proper action plan that mitigates any risk associated with ageing to eliminate bad actor.

To assist plants in identifying solutions to the recurring chronic problems, RCFA investigation & liaise with OEM to ensure effective solutions.

Support preventive, predictive, long-term Maintenance of Rotating equipment as per industry best maintenance practice and improve rotating machinery MTBF/MTTR.

Analyse machine condition/vibration monitoring data to make recommendations for maintenance.

Specify fit-for-purpose lubrication and condition monitoring schedules.

Own machinery contracts, LTSA and relevant 3rd party relationships & provide specialist input to MOC.

Act as SME for the design and approvals for new or replacement rotating/package machinery.

Turnaround work scope

Provide leadership support to ensure execution of turnaround job scope is done in a safe, environmentally sound & cost-effective manner to support the long-term reliability of the asset.

Liaise with Operations, Engineering and other key stakeholders to review and validate scope of work order. Perform detailed planning, scheduling resources estimation and allocation, progress and performance reporting in complex process plant.

Prepare work packages for Rotating Machinery/static equipment/piping work in process units and participate in the development of the maintenance plans along with planner.

Integrate the safety reviews (JHA/FLHA/LMRA) of the work packages involving all disciplines for safe completion of jobs. Comply with all Health and Safety regulation requirements establish within the Safety Management System

Provide field and technical support to Turnaround and area teams including operations management, technical management, maintenance management, tradespeople, contractors, etc.

Respond to day-to-day / turnaround execution queries from cross-functional teams and provide updates to the Maintenance Engineering Group Leader.

Provide input and continuous improvement of the maintenance, planning, scheduling and data integrity processes and standard.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

QATAR GAS Contract Employee, (NES Fircroft) Mar 2014 - Dec 2021 As Senior Rotating Equipment Engineer (PMC/Commissioning/ Startup/Maintenance of Barzan Sales gas, LNG, NGL, Helium3, TIPW projects)

SAUDI ARAMCO, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Sep 2012 – Mar 2014

As Engineer -1 Mechanical Rotating for Shaybah NGL Project

Emirates Petrochemicals Services, Abu Dhabi, UAE Aug 2010 – Jul 2012

As Project Manager (For GASCO Project)

METL Group, Morogoro, Tanzania, East Africa Jun 2005 – Jul 2010

As Chief Engineer / Project Manager (Petrochemical / Oil & Soap)

Sun flag Nigeria Ltd, Lagos, Nigeria, West Africa Nov 2002 – May 2005

As Chief Engineer (Petrochemical / Textile Industry)

Atlantic Textile Manufacturing Co. Ltd; Lagos, Nigeria Oct 1999 – Oct 2002

As Maintenance Engineer (Textile industry)

Mather & Platt India Ltd, Chinchwad, Pune, India Jan 1995 – Sep 1999

As Senior Service Engineer (Fire water Pumps/ Process machineries)

EDUCATION HISTORY

Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from Kerala University, College of Engineering, Trivandrum,

International MBA in Operations from United Business Institute, Brussels, Belgium.

Computer Proficiency

Packages Used : MS office, SAP-PM/MM, CMMS, MERIDIUM V3, PRIMAVERA P-6, MS Projects,

AutoCAD.

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