Mechanical/Project Engineer

VIJOY NAIR

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Houston, TX - 77099

USA

Ph: 281-***-**** begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              281-***-****      end_of_the_skype_highlighting (Cell)

E-mail: xsv1xg@r.postjobfree.com

Objective: Lead or Senior Mechanical / Piping Designer position to execute engineering projects as a team leader with increasing supervision responsibilities.

Work Experience: Over 14 years experience in the field of Mechanical, Piping Engineering Design / Drafting and Construction. A variety of successful projects for power, industrial, chemical, petrochemical, refinery, and desalination plants. Design, Drafting, CADD, and Checking experience that includes supervision, training, field surveying, estimating, conceptual layout, detailed piping design, pipe supports, 3D modeling, fabrication drawings, material take-off, and troubleshooting in the field for construction. Also has extensive computer related experience. Proficient in the use of Microstation, PDS, Auto CAD, OMNI, 3DM, Plant Vision, Microsoft Windows and NT, Microsoft Office, and many other software programs. Team player with excellent organization, presentation, communication, and leadership skills.

ASE Global Systems Inc., Houston, Texas (Mar.2009 – Present) Design Engineer

• Estimation for small scale engineering projects.

• Scheduling and prioritizing of tasks based on Project Management goals

• Supervising design team of 3 designers for Rigs & Material Handling equipments.

• Assisting in Crane design and Crane CAB designs.

• Coordinating Engineering activities with the Fabrication department

• Conducting design review meetings to keep the management apprised of the progress

• Performing quality checks for the Design department

Black & Veatch (April 2005 – February 2009) Sr.Engineering Technician

OPPD – 750 MW Coal Fired Power Project, Omaha, NE

JK SPRUCE – 750 MW Coal Fired Power Project, San Antonio, TX

Plum Point Energy Station–665MW Net Coal-Fired Electric Generation Station-Osceola, AR

ESKOM Power Project, South Africa (4800 MW Supercritical Coal fired generation)

• Worked on General Arrangements, Plot plans, system study and plant unit layout

• Planning schedule and budget for piping activities (Unit Wise)

• Checking and reviewing of GA & Isometrics.

• Supervised a team of four designers/drafters

• Performed hot system piping layout

• 3D modeling, Equipment & Pipe Layout, Pipe supporting using Plant vision (Hot & Cold systems)

• Isometric Extraction, material take-off & Interference Checking

• Checking & Reviewing inter-disciplinary documents & vendor documents

• Site coordination activities

Piping Technology & Products, Houston, Texas (Oct.2002– Mar.2005)

Engineering Consultant

• Designing of special pipe supports and various piping related components.

• Review pipe supports of client models in Microstation.

• Responsible for scheduling the jobs in the plant from the order stage to the ship outs.

• Resolve product issues with Engineering.

BECHTEL (September 1997 – September 2002)

3D PDS Piping Designer / Field Engineer

• Study work for the General Arrangement of the plant.

• Conversant with ASME, ANSI, API, NFPA, OSHA codes.

• Finalized equipment locations and general arrangement drawings for assigned units.

• Carrying out the study work for equipment layout and modeling activities.

• Delivered nozzle orientation drawings.

• Performed Piping study for layout of above ground /underground piping.

• Performed critical steam system piping on Power Projects.

• Studied the unit piping layout and performed modeling using different 3D software.

• Finalizing the underground bay for laying out underground pipes.

• Performed study and done the conceptual design for underground piping.

• Finalized floor drains and cleanouts for various buildings.

• Generated composite/stringing drawings for the Construction group.

• Designed supports for above ground piping.

• Generated and cleared interference reports for the 3D model.

• Extracted isometric drawings using ISOGEN software.

• Reviewed vendor documents & inter-disciplinary documents.

• Worked on activities such as field change notice (FCN), field change requests (FCR)

• Reviewed inter disciplinary clashes, model tracking, isometric index, and design reviews.

• Generated material take-off reports for the Materials group using Intergraph’s PDS system.

• Assigned to site for a short period and performed site activities such as supervision of fabrication; erection activities; check lists preparation; hydro-test for pipelines and startup/commissioning activities.

Activities Performed as Project IT Lead: (Bechtel)

• Project IT co-ordination between New Delhi and Maryland Office

• Provided technical support and trouble shooting for users of PDS, 3DM, IPE, CAEMTO, Project Works, and other project deployed applications in Bechtel

• Worked with various disciplines (Civil, Mechanical, Process, Controls, Electrical) for work process improvements and automation of manual activities pertaining to CAD related software’s (PDS, 3DM & OMNI).

Projects handled in Bechtel

PDS Piping Designer

EQUIVA (MOTIVA Convent, Lousiana Refinery, ULSG Project)

Bechtel Corporation, Houston, Texas (March 2002 – September, 2002)

Project IT Lead

Information Systems & Technology (July 2001 – February, 2002)

In coordination with Frederick, MD IT Office

Field Engineer

Al-Taweelah Extension Proj, UAE (Bechtel – Abu Dhabi) (October, 2000 – November, 2000)

Designer, Plant Layout and Piping (Power Projects):

Araucaria Combined Cycle Power Plant, Brazil (December 2000-June 2001)

Bajio Combined Cycle Power Plant, Mexico (January. 2000 - September. 2000)

Coryton Energy Project, UK (International Assignment) (Bechtel – Maryland)

Assigned to Bechtel Power Corporation, Frederick, MD, USA (January. 1999 - December. 1999)

Reliance Petroleum Limited, India (Bechtel – New Delhi) (September 1997 - December 1998)

TECNIMONT ICB LTD,INDIA (November 1995 – August 1997)

Designer – Piping

IPCL, 75000 TPA Polypropylene Plant (April, 1996 - August, 1997)

GSFC, Ammonia Plant (November, 1995 - April, 1996)

• Got trained on Piping activities & Equipment Layout

• Got trained on Microstation and Autocad softwares

• Performed Layout on drawing board manually

• Performed layout on Microstation (2D)

• Deputed to site on a short term for exposure to piping related field activities

Computer Acquaintance:

MSWord, MS Excel, Power Point

Operating System : MS DOS, WIN’95, WIN’98, Windows NT, Windows 2000

Drafting/3D-Modeling: PDS-Ver6.3.1&6.4, 3DM, OMNI Series, MICROSTATION, AutoCAD, Plant Vision

Special Recognitions (Plant Design and Piping Department, Bechtel):

• Nominated and chosen as the “High Potential Candidate” (High Pot)

• Assigned as the “Super User” for PDS CAD software

Education:

• Mechanical Engineering Diploma in 1995.

• Diploma in QCM & ISO 9000 in 1996.

Training:

• Received training for Intergraph’s PDS which included Project Creation, Reference Data Management, Eden, Interference Checker, P&ID, Piping Designer, Equipment Modeling, Support Modeling, 2D Project Creation and its Reference Database Management.

• Received on the job training for Plant Design System (PDS Ver.6.01), Microstation (Ver 5.95) and OMNI (OMNI-PIPE, EQUIP, ISO)

• References can be provided upon request

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