Ali Raza Qureshi
PO box ***** Sharjah UAE
Cell: +971-**-*******, +971-**-*******
Res: 06-5394230, email:***********@*******.***
PERSONAL:
Gender: Male, married Current visa: Employment Date of Birth: 3rd Jan1978
OBJECTIVE:
To progress to the next level by succeeding in a customer support engineer senior specialist position that carries greater responsibility and challenges; to maximize potential and use of natural strengths as a problem solver; to enhance experience.
PERSONAL PROFILE
& KEY SKILLS:
A well-qualified Chemical Engineer with sound process control implementation & operational management experience based on Zimmer AG chemical Plant.
Sound experience in production scheduling, time line management, MS project grant chart for planning resources and excel 2003& 2007.
Good analytical and problem-solving skills to recognize process efficiency and calculate power savings and performance benchmarking with (SPC) Statistical Process Control, Ishikawa diagram, control charts.
Process Efficiency design and calculation for heat and mass transfer, water circulations, side stream filtration and machine through put calculations.
Product quality grading as per international standard and inline communication with production sales team followed by a controlled documents.
Effective communicator with management and with various functions related authorities, with a proven capability to lead team and solve the problems.
Data Management skills for customer satisfaction standards to be used for feedback to sales for most appropriate sales target.
In Depth knowledge in health and safety for industrial environment with NEBOSH international General Certification.
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JOB EXPERIENCE:
o Sr.Process Control Tech (Cast House). At Emirates Aluminum Abu Dhabi, UAE from October 22nd, 2009 to present.
o Customer support for technical queries.
o Process and Plant audit and SPC Executive summery
o On plant operational support and trouble shooting
o Safety Audit and inspections
o 100% EPMS configuration for alloys addition, packing pattern and set point details.
o Team building and training for EPMS related enhancements
o SAP Operations for COA generation and PR creation.
o Preparation of all Casting Alloys certificates for sheet ingot customers
o Inspection of SOW and standard ingot, plant and process
o Co ordination with production and HMC
o Co ordination with production for special production tasks
o Co ordinate with IT for process control related system improvements in EPMS
o Preparation and revision of procedures for raw material and SRSS weighing.
o Inspection for raw material quality
o Vendors Evaluations
o Raw material inspections and quality monitoring , reports of performance and recoveries
Plant Engineer (Process & Operations). At Nimir specialty chemicals sharjah, UAE from July 30th, 2006 to 22nd August 2009.
o Additional Responsibilities :
o Responsible for both internal/external demand and forecasting requirements, development/maintenance of bills of material (BOM), price negotiation, and master schedule.
o Managed daily work schedules for the operation production team; planned and controlled the flow of materials into, through, and out of our third party manufacturers.
o Reduced inventory storage fees by 20% over a six-month period; accomplished this through investigating outdated inventory items and attaining approval for recycling of materials.
o Lead Engineer for Project management for increment of 2.5times current production capacity of worth 5.1 million USD.
o To check and negotiate with multi engineering disciplines for engineering drawings, BOM, instrumentation required on basis of various plans for a job to finalize on basis of best possible execution plan coinciding with lead time.
o To review and revise the designs ,verify the vessel codes and detailed schedules of inspections for plant equipments
o To calculate and verified the heat loads and reviewed the PID to meet with expansion phase requirements, piping layout isometric drawings and pumps, instrumentation selection etc
o To negotiate with various vendors and to review and revise the contracts on optimized basis.
o To cut down capital and operational cost by utilizing engineering solutions.
o Key Job Responsibilities in Process & Operations
o To monitor machinery, Tank farm, Production lines and maintain control charts.
o To identify potential areas of machine automation and responsible to successful implementation for data acquisitions for SPC.
o To classify and implement production grades to meet various product grades comply with international standards in optimized time and to minimize over all operational cost
o To carry out Process control and data acquisition implementation and to define procedures for emergency handling at malfunctioning of any equipment.
o To set and maintain benchmarks for QC standards in production stages.
o Pro-actively monitor operation of the process unit, promptly assess need for and promptly implement appropriate corrective and preventive actions
o Monitor the plant operating parameters and log values of different process variables to maintain required performance trends and to predict the models.
o Ensure uninterrupted, safe and efficient operation of the assigned unit, to include responsibility for emergency handling, startup and shutdown in batch processes
o To ensure consistency of high product quality.
o To co ordinate with Production department for critical operation.
o To select and finalize procedure as per process need in every new development.
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Chemical Engineer (polymer plant operations). At Ibrahim Fibres Ltd (polyester plant). Faisalabad, Pakistan from 2005 to July 29th, 2006.
o Key Job Responsibilities
On plant operational support and trouble shooting
To maintain Production record and track pending jobs on Intranet Oracle ERP web portal .
Maintain and track energy consumptions.
Monitor and maintain combustions with optimized excess air by flue gas analysis.
Trouble shooting of Flow, temperature & level recorders and controllers malfunctioning to maintain required quality of production by Minitab.
Ensure uninterrupted, safe and efficient operation of the assigned unit, to include responsibility for emergency handling, startup and shutdown.
Ensure consistency of high product quality PET Production by PTA feed.
Pro-actively monitor operation of the process unit, promptly assess need for and promptly implement appropriate corrective and preventive actions.
Monitor the plant operating parameters and log values of different process variables.
Manage the administration of production staff assigned to shift.
o Specialties
Implementation of Fisher Rosemont DCS with Simentic S7 Plc with SPC interface.
Vessel calibrations with nitrogen bubbler, capacitance indicator & radio active level indicators.
Control loop tuning with turbine flow meter and micro motion flow meters (T,Elite,DL series)
Production quality control by reaction parameters
Operations on PlC based process polymer by condensation (Simantic S7)
Trouble shooting of VFD pumps operations.
2x35.5MJ Konus furnaces in operation
Working knowledge of simovert invertors,plc dcs and profibuss structure .
PFD , P& ID through Visio ,flow measurement and calculations by Fluid flow piping systems (2.36), process simulation by chemcad (5.2)
DCS System handling and monitoring (Fisher rose mount)
0.1bar vacuum glycol distillation column system in operation
ORGANIZATIONS:
Member Pakistan Engineering Council
Life time membership #chem. /4660
EDUCATION:
Bachelor’s degree in. Chemical Engineering, At National Fertilizer Corporation institute of engineering and technology Multan, April 1998 to December 2002.
ADDITIONAL
PROFESSIONAL
TRAININGS:
Rockwell Historian at Abu Dhabi 5 days
Aspentech Process Workbook at Dubai 3 days
Integrated Production Management 5 S & Six Sigma at Dubai 2 days
Heat Transfer in cooling circuits and water treatment strategy at ifl 1 week
Process control in combustion and furnace operations at IFL 1 week
Plant Safety Training Course at Ifl 5 weeks.
Fire Fighting Course at IFL 4 days.
Professional skills development course at IFL 3 weeks.
ACHIEVEMENTS:
Successful UPR Plant expansion design, commissioning and start up for 1.8 million US dollar, Jan 2008
Successful cooling towers and furnace design ,Commissioning & Start up for 0.45 million US dollars new installations july,2007
Successful Plant Automation plan approval for 0.8 million US dollars at Nimir Specialty chemicals 2nd April, 2007.
Production achievement 116% increase at Nimir Specialty chemicals without major installations to system feb2007
Cash prize from AES Lalpir power Plant, 06/2000
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:
Skill Skill Level Years of Experience
Microsoft Project, Grant chart ,Time lines Expert More than 6 years
Supervisory control/Men Management with more than four supervisors direct and 24 people indirect reporting. Expert More than 7 years
Ability to work in Physically and Mentally Demanding environments, IT skills(MS-office, Internet app Expert More than 7 years
Communication & Interpersonal skills, Strong Analytical and Problem Solving Skills Expert More than 6 years
Implementation of policies and regulations, Team Building, Leading & Motivational skills Expert More than 5 years
Project Management, Costing, Risk Analysis, Budgeting, Contract & Vendor Negotiations Expert More than 3 years
Implementation of operation procedures, Layout Design, Safety practices Expert More than 3 years
REFERENCES: will be furnished.