DEEPAK A. P
Contact No.: +91-702******* E-Mail: **********************@*****.***/**********@*****.***
MIDDLE TO SENIOR LEVEL ASSIGNMENTS
~ QA/QC Welding & Mechanical Operations ~
Industry Preference: Petroleum, Storage Tanks & Heavy Manufacturing co.
Location Preference: India & Abroad
PROFILE SUMMARY
·Result-oriented professional with over 17+ years of experience in QA/QC Welding & Fabrication Operations, Liaison & Coordination Documentation, Quality Assurance & Control and Team Management across Construction Earth Movers Equipment, Aerospace, Heavy manufacturing of Axial & Centrifugal Fans, Gas industry and Above Ground Storage Tanks
·Hands-on experience in welding process like SMAW, SAW, GTAW, FCAW GMAW process, EGW (Electro gas welding M/C), NDT Methods like Radiography, Ultrasonic, Dye Penetrate & MPI.
·Inspection of raw material at the Mfg, receiving material inspection of bought out like bearing, valves & maintaining documents & release at place & dispatch clearance, Conducting welding procedure qualification and welder performance qualification
·Expertise in creating and sustaining a dynamic environment that fosters the development opportunities and motivates the high performance amongst the team members
·Proficient in code standards ASME Sec, II, VIII V, IX, and ASME B31.1 power piping, API 650 & 620, ISO3834. Saudi Aramco standards (SAMSS, SAES, SATIP, SAIC, EN codes and standards An enterprising leader with skills in leading personnel towards accomplishment of common goals
SKILL SET
Welding & Fabrication Operations
Quality Assurance & Control
Documentation
Team Management
Training & Development
Performance Management
NDT Engineering
Liaison & Coordination
WORK EXPERIENCE
OCT 2019 to Till date With Boldrocchi India pvt ltd. Chennai
MANAGER (HOD WELDING DEPARTMENT)
. Receipt of Order Transfer documents from Project department.
. Attending Kick of Meeting for received order transfer documents along with customer and other departments.
. Submission of revised documents to customer if received with comments for final approval such as ITP, Procedures, WPS, PQR, WPQ etc.
. Ensure Receipt of Approved GA drawings, Customer PO, ITP etc from Projects.
. Ensure Receipt of manufacturing drawings from Engineering department for Inspection purpose.
. Maintain the records of Instruments calibration and its status
. Incoming Inspection for raw materials & bought out components
. Release GRN to Stores. Ensure completion of inspection within one week of receipt of material in stores
. Review of material test certificates and quality documents and providing dispatch clearance for bought outs
. Maintaining records for raw materials by providing Unique number and punch on received plates for traceability.
. Maintaining records of R.T, U.T & Other lab test reports.
a) Stage-wise Inspection in house and at vendor places
b) Impeller – Disc/Shroud R.T offer. Film review with report, Disc / Centre plate Layout, Blade profile checking, Blade fit up, Shroud fit up, Welding, Visual Check before S.R, Dimensional & Visual Check before Dynamic Balancing, DPT after PWHT
c) Shaft – U.T & dimensional / visual check before machining; Dimensional / visual check after machining.
d) Rotor Dynamic Balancing.
e) Inlet Cone – Dimensional & Visual check.
f) Casing – Layout, Horizontal concentricity, Vertical concentricity & final visual check before painting.
g) Other fabrication parts (Evase, transition piece, Air Intake systems etc) – Fitup, final dimensional & visual check.
h) Dampers/IVG/Slide gates – Fit up, final dimensional, visual check & manual operation of dampers
j) Final Assembly check at shop floor.
k) Performance test, Mechanical Run Test & Over speed test as per ITP / Procedure / International standards
l) DPT after over speed test
. Prepare inspection reports for above mentioned stages
. Coordinate with customer / TPIA for the witness as per customer approved ITP
. Arrange TPIA for Inspection at supplier place
. Conduct weld test coupons for new welders and preparing WPQ documents.
. Preparation of WPS, PQR & WPQ.
. Preparation / Updating of Boldrocchi procedures, Specification, Work Instructions.
. New vendor Evaluation and development.
. Preparation / maintenance of Quality System Manual (QSM).
. Taking care of ISO 9001 Audit Activities with External Certification body
. Perform Internal Audits of quality system.
. Manage and collect data related to NCs, CARs, PARs. Analyse and suggest improvement actions
. Implementation of updated Inspection report formats
. Site complaint analysis and improvement in Quality control accordingly
. Provide data for Fan testing to Project and Production for planning preparation
. Support carrying out Fan testing
. Prepare Fan testing report, get customer approval and submit the same for final documentation
. Conduct Quality review meeting in presence of senior management
Dec 18 to June 19 with ICS INDIA PVT. . Ltd. Bangalore
QC Engineer (TPI) FREELANCER
Inspection of Pressure Vessels, Reactors, Columns, Heat Exchangers,Piping, Structural, Heavy Equipment’s for Various National & amp; International Customers all over India and abroad.
May 16 to JuI 18 with HIDADA CONTRACTING COMPANY Pvt. Ltd., Saudi Arabia Jeddah (HCCL)
QA/QC SUPERVISOR/ NDT CO-ORDINATOR
Projects Managed:
·SEPCO III Riyadh Power Plant 14-Storage Tanks (AWWA & API Tanks), Saudi Electric Company project.
·PETROFAC Jizan Refinery- Storage Tanks 81 (API Tanks), Saudi Armco project.
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Role:
·Directing productive cross-functional team using interactive and motivational leadership that spurs people to willingly give excellent results
·Controlling projects with respect to resource deployment, time over-runs and quality compliance to ensure satisfactory execution of projects
·Resourceful at maintaining relationship with clients to achieve quality service norms by resolving their service related critical issues
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·Managing:
oMaterial purchasing specifications, including the type of inspection document for the material
oWelding consumable purchasing specifications, including the type of welding consumable inspection document
oAssist the site QC manager in the organization, maintenance and control of the quality system
oCoordinating fabrication and erection activities for the tanks.
oCoordinating shell course shifting from fabrication yard to tank area
oCo-ordination with sub-contractors, group engineers and other discipline engineers for achieving objective
·Preparing:
oProcedure /work instruction storage, conservation, manipulation and utilization conditions for consumables in order to avoid any damage, degradation and error of utilization, according to the instructions of the consumable supplier
oProcedure/work instruction storage and handling of parent material
oProcedure for Identification & Traceability of material
oList of Qualification/validity of welders’ and welding operators’ & documenting qualification certificates of welder & Welder operator
oEnsure Welding sequences to avoid/control distortion
oEnsure Repair Procedure /WPS for Repair Procedures
oProcedure for method and process straightening
oPreparing punch list and test packages prior to execution of testing
oPreparation of QA/QC Dossier as per client requirement.
oPreparing RFI for mechanical works raise to QMIS system
oPrepare deviation reports to document nonconforming conditions as required
·Maintaining documents:
oWelding-procedure specifications/ welding-procedure qualification records (WPQR)/welder or welding-operator qualification certificates
oRecord / report of post weld operation
oRecord necessary measures and actions weld repairs, re-assessment of repaired welds, corrective actions
oHeat-treatment procedure specification and records & records of repairs and non-conformance reports
oWelding plan/welding sequence plan/weld map
·Monitor performance of the welders on the basis of radiographic inspection and promote corrective action where necessary
·Ensure/Monitoring of welders /Welders operator following WPS, either they following the parameters mentioned in WPS such as correct welding consumables, preheat,Interpass & welding parameter
·Traceability of welding-procedure specifications to specific welds
Contributing towards:
Monitoring Non Destructive examination of welds (RT/UT/MT/PT), in accordance with approved procedures and QC plans
·Arranging and coordinating NDT tests including reviewing and interpretation of the radiography films.
·Managing and checking final dimension, material traceability, orientation and cleanliness after completion of pipe spool fabrication/ structural members
·Review the isometric drawing as per plan and PID inspecting of the fabrication and erection of Piping and modify the isometric as per site.
·Review test packages prior to execution of test; confirm that all related documents prior to testing have been present in the test packs
·Responsible in closing the category A/B punch list
·Monitor and control the status of punch list and exception lists relevant to quality dossier
Highlights:
·Reduced wastage of flux in SAW process
·Monitored Optimum usage of welding Consumable
·“Welding development Centre” Trained welder, WPQ As per ASME welder, WPQ As per ASME SEC IX welders.
PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE
Sep’ 14 to Mar’16 with LINDE GROUP OF COMPANY Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad
Welding Specialist/Deputy manager
Client: BHEL, HAL, BEML, NTPC, Jaypee, and so on
Customer Managed:
·Customer plant In charges, Weld Shop In charge, Weld Shop Supervisor. Welders, Weld Shop quality personal.
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Role:
·Visit along with sales team to prospective customers, understand the technical requirement
· Prospective customers (Visit weld shop, understand weld quality procedures, understand WPS) Asses if product demonstration / trial is required or not. If trial / demonstration is required, explain the demonstration / trial methodology to customer.
· Coordinate with customer & internal stake holders for demonstration / trial readiness.
· Demonstrate LIL product at customer place. Witness the product trial with ATS team. Explain trial report prepared along with ATS team. Trouble shoots problems during mass scale product implementation.
Preparing:
·Presentation and explaining the technical benefits of products to all the stake holders at customers Welder, Weld Shop Supervisors, Weld Shop In charge, Customers senior management team
·Product Demonstration (Weld) GMAW, GTAW welding process safely & effectively as per Linde India Guideline.
·Should be able to identify customers for existing applications as well as should be able to provide inputs to Application Technology sales team fo new application development.
Highlights:
·Hands on expertise in various welding processes like GMAW, GTAW, SMAW EGW Welding.
·Identifying & trouble shoot various welding defects with understand of root cause of the defects.
·Should be conversant with different types of welding power sources of different manufacturer & should be able to set the parameters as per the requirement.
Oct’10 to Jul’14 with TLT BABCOCK INDIA PVT Ltd, Bengaluru
Welding Inspector/ NDT Co-ordinator
Client: Howden, Cetar, Doosan, and so on
Project Managed: AWS D1.1 Welding Structural Steels, Qualification and manufactures of Heavy Industrial Axial, Centrifugal fans and customised jet stream fans
Products: Jet stream fans, Ash handling equipment, Industrial centrifugal & axial fans &Tunnel and mining jet stream fans.
Jan’08 to Sep’10 with IMAGE QUALITY INSPECTION, Bangalore
NDT Supervisor/ NDT Technician
Client: Hindustan Aeronautical limited.UTC Aero Space Pvt Ltd., Bangalore.
Oct’05 to Oct’07 with Bharath Earth Movers Ltd, Kolar gold field
Sheet Metal Welder Trainee
LEAN & QUALITY TOOLS
·ISO 9000 lead Auditor Seminar Quality Management Systems
·Lean, Kaizen, 5S, TPM & Kanban
·FMEA,
·7QC Tools, SPC & TQM
·SMED, Pokayoke, JIT
PROFESSIONAL ENHANCEMENT SCHEDULES
·International Welding specialist Diploma no: IN/IWT/51000263
·International welding Inspector-Comprehensive level - Diploma no: IN/IWIP/51400016
·Certified Welding Inspector-CSWIP 3.1 certificate no:347738
·Advanced Welding Technology - Fore man training Institute (Govt of India)
·Gas welding- Fore man training Institute (Govt of India)
·TIG Welding- Fore man training Institute (Govt of India)
·SMAW - National council for vocational Training Govt of India)
·Holder of Welder’s Performance Qualification Certificate (Process FCAW, MAG, SMAW) from parent Co.TLT Babcock Inc.USA
·Attended AWS CWI Seminar in Cleveland OH USA.
·Dye penetrate testing-II ASNT SNT-TC-1A
·Magnetic particle testing II ASNT SNT-TC-1A
·Radiography testing – II ASNT SNT-TC-1A
·Ultrasonic testing level –II ASNT SNT-TC-1A
·Calibration of Mechanical Measurements Instrument and Gauges- Foreman training Institute (Govt of India)
·ISO-9001 - Foreman training Institute (Govt of India)
·Lead Auditor Seminar (Quality Management System ISO 9001:2008) - British Standard Institution
ACADEMIC DETAILS
·Diploma in Mechanical Engineering
·Diploma in International welding specialist(IN/IWT/51000263)
·Diploma in International welding inspector Comprehensive level (IN/IWIP/51400016)
·Certified Welding Inspector-CSWIP 3.1 Certificate no:347738
·I.T.I in Sheet metal Welder
·National Apprenticeship Certificate in Sheet Metal Welding from BEML KGF in Oct 2007.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
·Preactor Process Planning Software, PeopleSoft (ERP System), AutoCAD, MS Office and Internet Applications
PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of Birth: 26th Feb 1986
Contact Address: #1502 4th Main 2nd Cross, 5th Stage 1st Phase BEML Layout, Raja Rajeshwari Bangalore – 560098,
Karnataka, India
Passport No.: S4865749
Languages Known: English, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, and Telugu.