Electrical Coach
Petrofac Training International (UAE) LLC
Total years of experience :34 years, 8 Months
Electrical Coach working for Petrofac Co, seconded to Basrah Gas Co (BGC), Basrah-IRAQ. Major duties are:
• Supervising BGC maintenance engineering and technical staff.
• Planning and undertaking scheduled maintenance, assist management in preparing small tenders for maintenance projects. Constantly coordinating to related Authorities.
• Demonstrated safety leadership and excellent safety behaviors
• I have constantly ensured safe, reliable and efficient planning of site activities.
• Creating Equipment maintenance procedures, especially for new installed equipment.
• Managing stocks of supplies and equipment at store and initiates orders if necessary.
• I used to assist management in developing Operations Expense (OPEX) and Capital (CAPEX) budget for maintenance related projects.
• Reviewing quality of defect elimination efforts and making the appropriate intervention for continuous improvement.
• Complex Problem Solving - Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• I participated in Systems Evaluation - Identifying measures or indicators of electrical and Instrumentation systems performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system, example for what we have done, changing of relay system control of couple of separation towers to PLC control and connect these systems to be observed remotely at control room.
• Quality Control Analysis - Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
• Lead maintenance team assigned for performing Ex equipment corrective maintenance based on bench list as an outcome of visual inspection.
• Help maintenance staff in determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job also Managing our maintenance staff time to suit planned schedules
• Responding to breakdowns and to shift and 'on-call' work that may be required.
• I do manage of personnel resources, motivating, developing, responsible for delivering Electrical Safety Rules ESR to the electrical and Instrumentation staff.
• Finally, as I am assigned as a focal point to follow up individual OJT training achievement, assessment and technical Interview, also reviewing training material developed by the trainers to ensure their compliance to our site needs.
• Electrical OJT Trainer & Assessor working for Anton Oil DMCC, seconded to Lukoil Middle East (LMEL), Basra-IRAQ, Learning & Development _ HR Department. Major duties are:
• Assist Maintenance department at Lukoil Middle East to implementing OJT training program.
• Practically, train and Electrical Maintenance Technician,
• Develop necessary site-based training material.
• Coaching the technicians while performing daily scheduled Preventive PM.
• Demonstrate and assess technicians on performing maintenance procedure and Testing protocols for LV/ HV equipment including visual inspection, cleaning and winding insulation testing ( PI, DAR and Tan Delta methods), winding resistance testing, measuring earthing joint resistance, measuring installed earthing rode resistance, Transformer Oil sampling, Transformer Oil Breakdown Voltage test, Buchholz relay test, Transmission line Sag values, Installation Loop resistance, DC Hi-pot test and VLF Hi-Pot test, these tests are made as relevant to the procedure used for maintaining the following site and power station equipment:
• Transformers (0.4KV, 6.6KV, 33KV and 132KV) rated up to 30MVA.
• Three phase Induction Motors (0.4KV and 11KV) rated up to 400KW.
• 11KV generator set rated 1MVA including testing of excitation system.
• 33KV and 132KV OHL Overhead transmission lines
• HV disconnect switches & GIS SF6 Isolation switchgear system
• LV/HV cables and LV electrical installations integrity.
• Demonstrate and assess technicians on performing maintenance procedure and Testing protocols for LV/ HV switchgears and Vacuum Contactor including:
• Visual inspection, cleaning and greasing
• Pole to Pole and Pole to earth Insulation resistance measurement
• Pole Contacts transition DC resistance measurement using DRLO10x.
• Charging motor and related mechanical interlocks integrity.
• Demonstrate and assess technicians on performing maintenance procedure and Testing protocols for LV/ HV Motor Control Centers MCC cubicles:
• MCCB short circuit setting verification through current injection method.
• Contactor Coil Pickup and release Voltage measurement
• Contactor Coil and release Time measurement.
• Cubicle terminal to terminal and terminal to ground insulation resistance.
• Contact and joint low resistance measurements using DRLO10x
• CT/PT/ZCT test through primary and Secondary current injection and checking Saturation characteristics and ratio verification.
• Demonstrate and assess technicians on performing maintenance procedure and testing protocols for UPS system:
- Visual inspection, electronic boards and cooling fan cleaning.
- Input and output cables insulation resistance measurements
- Software checkup and UPS mode operation using dedicated switching cards.
- Battery bank Full discharge test and bad battery removal and replacement.
- Checking UPS redundant system Functionality.
• Participate technicians in maintaining EX equipment integrity.
• Observing Technician while Inspecting EX deficiencies at working site under different of inspection types and grades (TYPES: Initial, Periodic, Sample and Continues / GRADES: Visual, Close Details).
• Help trainees in building well-organized and standardized portfolios.
• Liaise with the site supervisors .
• Performing site observation, Gap closing and final assessments.
• Attending standardization meetings and implement qualification matrix performance criteria using Observation assessment, Witness Testimony and RPL if necessary.
• Perform Portfolio verification and evidences cross-referencing.
• Daily Reporting to OJT supervisor.
Electrical OJT Trainer & Assessor working for Petrofac Co, seconded to PetroChina International FZE (PCH), HALFAYA -MISAN- IRAQ, Learning & Development Department_ HR department, assist to implement OJT phase training. Major duties are:
• I have assessed Iraqi maintenance technicians belong (MISAN Oil Company MOC) throughout their OJT training phase based on Petrochina approved performance criteria.
• Mentoring daily scheduled maintenance activates.
• Train performing accurate electrical tests/measurement, and using modern instruments like:
- Current Transformer CT Tester MCT1605
- Transformer Oil Breakdown tester OTS100AF
- 12 kV Insulation Diagnostic System DELTA4000
- 4-Terminal Earth/Ground Resistance DET4
- Very low frequency HV Insulation tester KPG 38KV VLF
- Battery Impedance Test Equipment BITE 3
- Portable digital oscilloscope 2 channels 60MHz OX 7062
- Relay Tester SVERKER750
- HV Phase identifier DETEX CL-8-36 CATU
• Performing Gap closing in case any default in knowledge or skills is observed.
• Keep maintaining collected evidences to be authentic, current and valid.
• Ensure trainees are following organization Safe work practice and safety rules.
• Observing technician while participating in maintaining of EX integrity of site equipment during 3-year periodic inspection done by third party.
• Daily reporting to OJT coordinator and update OJT system.
Electrical Maintenance Instructor working for Petrofac Co, seconded to Exxon Mobil (EMIL), Basra-IRAQ, Learning & Development Department. Major duties are:
• Train Iraqi technicians employed by Exxon Mobile based on Training Road Map and Individual Development Plan (IDP) program.
• Write and develop more than 15 electrical training courses approved by the client.
• Preparing lesson plans /Work task and competency assessment for all practical workshop skills and site standard procedures.
• Assessing technician’s performance of implementing site approved maintenance procedures.
• Mentor trainees during their visit to Petrofac Training Centre (CPTC) in Singapore for practical training on performing electrical maintenance on refinery simulator.
• Daily reporting to Training supervisor.
• Conducting customized theory & practical courses at the site learning how to interpret signals when act to find buried cables and pipes finding techniques using cable and Pipe locator type:
- RD 8000 (Receiver & Transmitter) 5 days
- SCHONSTEDT XTpc (Receiver & Transmitter) 5 days
Electrical Inspector working for Craddock, seconded to HAROUGE Oil Operation (HOO), Ghani Field -LBYA, Engineering Department. Major duties are:
• Perform QA/QC and inspection over electrical site work activities executed by contractors contracted by HOO (Harouge for Oil Operation Company).
• I was a member of Inspection team responsible to perform inspection and follow up day to day all activities done or to be done by the contractors, following are the most important projects that I have performed inspection on:
- Telemetry System Upgrade-Scada System connecting three remote oil Processing Station (Ghani, Zenad and Tagrift stations) to the control room at base life Camp of Ghani oil field. This job included running of almost 150 KM in total of buried fiber Optic cables FOC.
- Upgrade of Control Building for 3 oil stations.
- Construction of New Dark Room (NDT GAMMA Ray processing films)
- Turbine rehabilitation of damaged Control cabling installation due to fire event.
- CCTV system installations at all oil processing stations.
- Unmanned sewage treatment project.
- Oil Storage Tanks bottom plate replacement and Painting projects: Renewal of electrical installations, lighting system, CP installations, grounding system and measuring instruments and transmitters.
• Participating in Inspection of Airport fence grounding system installation.
• Participating in FEED (Basic design) of small size projects
Electrical Maintenance Consultant working for ISS International, seconded to ENI-IRAQ, Basra-IRAQ, Learning & Development Department. Major duties are:
Participating in raining which is established to cover the expected man power demand scheduled for the Zubiar field as a result of signed development contract with ENI BV to rise oil production up from 180, 000 BOPD to 1200 000 BOPD in 2016.
• Deliver Classroom training to ENI-IRAQ electrical technician and engineering staff.
• Classroom teaching covered 43 Training Modules prepared by ENI Corporate University (ECU) delivered over 9-month cycle.
• Reporting / Revising / suggesting as much it needs for all discrepancies in training process / Materials to the concerned training authorities.
Electrical Maintenance specialist working for MM Muehringer, seconded to HAROUGE Oil Operation (HOO), AMAL Field -LIBYA, Training Department. Major duties are:
• Planning and performing the necessary maintenance activities in order to keep electrical machines within the scope of their duties ready for production.
• Achieves electrical maintenance operational objectives by contributing information and recommendations to maintenance team and to the management.
• Implementing daily electrical Preventive maintenance plans, ensuring quality and customer-service standards, resolving problems and completing audits.
• Perform all work in accordance with established safety procedures, including lock-out/tag-out and permit to work system.
• Coaching the maintenance team on daily bases, ensure good work practice.
• Assist in performing troubleshooting and fault finding for some Electrical Driven Gas Lift Compressors. Generators, UPS systems, Motor starters, LV &HV distribution systems.
• Redesign and implement modifications on control panels of 2.4KV Gensets,
• Redesign and implement modifications on control panels of 350PSI Station Air compressors.
• Performed Modifications on a control panel of 120PSI Instrument Air compressors.
• Provides engineering support by responding to requests of management based on MOC or in term of certain maintenance extension projects.
• Performing the necessary spare parts management for all technical works
• Involve in audits of supply inventories along with bench stock to assure usage is constant with programmed work activities and keep MAX/MIN stock under supervision.
• Install new electrical equipment and modify existing equipment.
• Ready to support for equipment changeovers, shutdown and start-ups and on-call needs.
• Maintain equipment documents for every single equipment and review on every modification.
• Inspect periodically electrical equipment to assure it is operating correctly.
• Utilize precision measuring tools/devices, hand tools and testing instruments (ammeter, ohmmeter, megger, Power quality logger, relay tester) for testing electrical equipment.
• Acting on behalf Electrical supervisor as per official delegation procedure.
• Electrical systems worked with:
- LV three phase motors 415V/60Hz used to run Oil booster pumps, sump pumps, Fire pumps, oil skimming pumps or water ESP pumps related to water station.
- HV synchronous motor 13.8kV, 2.3MW used to drive gas lift compressor
- HV induction motors 6.6KV 900KW, used for water injection project
- Instrument air compressors 120psi (Lead /Lag system)
- Electrical Generators 2.4kV, 60Hz
- LV/HV Transformers (Outdoor and Indoor types)
- Transformers for Oil desalting units.
- Transformers-Rectifier for Cathodic protection system
- HV SF6 switchgears 17.5kV and their relay protection system.
- HV 6.6kV Vacuum contactors
- LV MCC rooms, switchgears, motor starting cubical
- Cable system, conduits, cable tray installations.
- UPS system and battery banks.
- Battery charging systems for running emergency diesel fire pump
- Bridge crane up to 20 tones
- Power feeding system and lighting systems.
- HV OHL, Insulators and Oil well Rocker disconnecting devices.
• I have been employed as an Electrical Inspector at ECOU in scope of Al-Jufrah infrastructure projects related to the client ODAC (Office of Developing the Administrative Centers).
• I have executed electrical inspection up to the approved standards and designs.
• Within my short assignment with this office, I have carried out a complete full submitted feasibility studies on the existing electrical network related to three small cities. This study was aiming to comply with upgrading plan. This study was including recalculation and justification of load flow figures and voltage drops in the network.
• I was participating in performing revision of electrical drawing related to projects of potable pump stations and water treatment plant.
• I have been the head of electrical department for multi - millions project.
• I have been responsible of Installing of 2 substations, each of 3 MVA capacity in addition to 1 MVA emergency generator system for each including HV gears and feeding network.
• I have been responsible of Installing:
- All lighting, power feeding network, Lightning systems.
- 7 Traction lifts, 1 Hydraulic elevator and preparing for test certificates.
- Automation system for controlling and monitoring all Project facilities.
- Telephone network system and MDB’s related to MD110 Ericson PABX.
- 14 Fire Alarm system including cabling, heat and fire detectors, Break points.
- Cabling of more than 300 A/C split units , 8 AHUs, three 60 ton capacity chillers.
- Lighting and power panels of more than 40 MCC rooms.
- TV and Broadcasting system
• I have performed a final revision of As-built drawings according to final installation.
• I have performed final approved estimation in compression to the approved BOQ.
• Member of committee in both of preliminary and final project handing over.
• Full time Instructor, teaching employees of Man-Made river project .
• Subjects taught included Electronics, AC and Power Electronics.
• Put together course materials, which included theory, and laboratory work.
• Assessing progress of students and setting tests
• Delegated as a member of maintenance team, in order to do rejuvenating Production lines of the company and put them on line.
• Assess, implement and study feasibility of new projects.
• Implementing new maintenance schedule tables and forms.
Maintenance team Supervisor.
• Design and Carried out maintenance programs for two tile factories.
• Experienced in problem solving and rectification of daily maintenance tasks.
• Reporting daily maintenance activities and future programs.
• I was a member of HV Triggered Spark Gap design team.
• I have designed and executed a sample of H.V 50KV fast rise time 1Kv/nS Pulse Transformer.
• I have designed Electronic triggering circuit of 3 electrodes H.V spark gap assembly.
• I have participated in building multi- branch coaxial discharge module
13th out of 125 graduates Frim first quarter