Ahmed Abdelraouf, Automation General Manager

Ahmed Abdelraouf

Automation General Manager

Abu-Qir Fertilizers & Chemical Industries Co.

Location
Egypt - Alexandria
Education
Bachelor's degree, Communication & Electronics
Experience
19 years, 9 Months

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Total years of experience :19 years, 9 Months

Automation General Manager at Abu-Qir Fertilizers & Chemical Industries Co.
  • Egypt - Alexandria
  • My current job since May 2005

• Managing Instrumentation Department Team (Team Leading).
• Planning Training needs and establishing training plans for team members.
• Planning and implementing the Annual Maintenance Plan (AMP).
• Conduct reliability studies for critical equipment.
• Develop & execute strategic plan and procedures using sustainability practices.
• Instrumentation procurement plan management including invitation to bid ITB, technical bid evaluation, purchase order preparation, etc.
• Oversee the work carried out by the EPC Contractors of Projects.
• Review and authorize instrumentation and control drawings as well as be a site presence to oversee construction work being done in projects.
• Report to the higher Management Suite on all related activities.
• Coordinate and handle general technical communications at peer level and below and lead key persons with proper communication to work as a team for facing plant challenges.
• Coordinating and Linking between Department Technical Stuff and Higher Managerial Levels.

I & C Senior Maintenance Engineer at Abu-Qir Fertilizers & Chemical Industries Co.
  • Egypt - Alexandria
  • October 2007 to June 2012

• Organizing and implementing the Annual Maintenance Plan (AMP).
• Implementing and controlling maintenance assignments on daily basis.
• Trouble-shooting analysis for all maintenance issues under Instrumentation dept., that includes failure analysis report & designing solution to reduce operational costs.
• Preparing monthly downtime analysis & checklist.
• Implementing an effective & preventive maintenance job orders specifically designed to eliminate downtime hours of machines.
• Prioritizing job orders under Maintenance department, that includes repairs, installation & maintenance of machines & equipment.
• Maintaining an adequate supply & preparing of critical spare parts list & manage materials, able to arrange & carry-out new modifications once required (including follow-up with concerned departments).
• Following-up & implementing job orders under projects, that includes coordinating to other Maintenance departments.
• Organizing & managing existing manpower during shutdowns and breakdowns.
• Implementing practical teamwork discipline and collaborating to team members & other maintenance engineers (includes instrumentation’s internal trainings to subordinates).
• Collecting statistics and preparing reports (as and when needed for analysis) for critical issues requiring an immediate attention.

Instrumentation & Control Head Shift Engineer at Abu-Qir Fertilizers & Chemical Industries Co
  • Egypt - Alexandria
  • December 2005 to September 2007

• Trouble-shooting analysis for all maintenance issues under Instrumentation dept. in all factory sections during shift period.
• Implementing practical Shift team discipline and collaborating to team members.
• Participating in all maintenance shutdowns of plant including Annual Shutdowns.

Instrumentation & Control Shift Engineer at Abu-Qir Fertilizers & Chemical Industries Co.
  • Egypt - Alexandria
  • May 2005 to November 2005

• Trouble-shooting analysis for all maintenance issues under Instrumentation dept. in all factory sections during shift period under supervision of Shift Head Engineer.
• Participating in all maintenance shutdowns of plant including Annual Shutdowns under supervision of Shift Head Engineer.

Sales Engineer at ITplusWEB
  • Egypt - Alexandria
  • August 2004 to May 2005

Technical Description of new Services & Products.
Responsible for Customer's notification of new services, products & offers.
Participating in Market surveys.
Also, setteling agreements with customers.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Communication & Electronics
  • at Faculty of Engineering - Alexandria University
  • June 2004
High school or equivalent, علمي-رياضيات
  • at Victoria College
  • July 1999

Specialties & Skills

Instrumentation
Training
Photovoltaics
Bently Nevada Systems
Technical Description
Adobe Photoshop
Skilled in calibration of instruments like flow, pressure, level, temp. etc.
Networks (LAN and WAN), computer interfaces and communication protocols use in automation industries
Skilled in MS Office
Ability to read P&IDs and wiring diagrams, Develop/Configure HMI/SCADA graphics, Alarm and Trend con
Knowledgeable and experience in hydraulics
Project Management
Bently Nevada 3300/3500 Systems
Woodward 505/505E Steam Turbines Electronic Governor
Autocad
Training
Photovoltaic Projects
Entrepreneurship
Marketing
Management

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

ABB System 800xA Safety – AC 800M High Integrity Configuration and Maintenance (Training)
Training Institute:
ABB University – Stone, Staffs, UK
Date Attended:
July 2014
Duration:
32 hours
AC 800M/C using Control Builder M Professional (Training)
Training Institute:
ABB University – Cairo
Duration:
40 hours
SIMATIC S7 Programming (Training)
Training Institute:
Siemens - Giza
Date Attended:
November 2007
Linux Fundamentals (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizons
Date Attended:
May 2012
Bently Nevada System 3300 (Training)
Training Institute:
Abu-Qir Fertilizers Co. Training Institute
Date Attended:
August 2005
Turbo-machinery Control (Training)
Training Institute:
Comex
Date Attended:
April 2011
DCS & SCADA Systems (Training)
Training Institute:
Target Engineering – Cairo
Date Attended:
December 2011
Woodward 505/505E Steam Turbines Governor (Training)
Training Institute:
Target Engineering – Cairo
Date Attended:
February 2013
SAFEGUARD 400 SERIES Configuration, Programming and Maintenance (Training)
Training Institute:
ABB University – Oslo, Norway
Date Attended:
November 2008
Problems Solving & Brainstorming (Training)
Training Institute:
American University Cairo
Date Attended:
May 2013
Project Management Professionals PMP (Certificate Preparation Course) (Training)
Training Institute:
CMCS
Date Attended:
April 2013

Hobbies

  • Reading
    I've reached a rate of 15 Books/year
  • Travelling for Sightseeing
    I've travelled to Oslo-Norway for 6 Days, Frankfurt-Germany for 4 Days, and to Istanbul-Turkey then Bursa-Turkey for 8 Days. Also, I've made some interior tourism in Egypt to cities of Luxor, Aswan, Matrouh, Sharm El-Shiekh, Giza, Bahareyyah Oasis and Siwa Oasis.