Engineering Manager
Jacobs Zate
Total years of experience :36 years, 8 Months
• Driven Engineering and Project Management with a proven track record of working on conceptual, FEED, and EPC phases for major Petrochemicals, Refinery, Gas and hydrocarbon projects (small, medium, large) including transmission pipelines Gas and Liquids, NGL Recovery, Utilities, wastewater treatment units in Middle East (Saudi, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar etc.), Korea, China, Canada, Asia, and US. Focused and seasoned Engineering Manager with strong record of cost-effective engineering project completion. Adept at fostering and sustaining professional and productive business relationships across a variety of industries. Exceptional project engineering management skills to direct projects during the PMC, conceptual, FEED, detail engineering design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and start-up phases. Possess business communication and interpersonal skills to build partnerships with key stakeholders and to foster consensus among conflicting parties. Provide clear Guidance to the EPC to close out appropriate actions associated with case studies, risk assessments, HAZOPs etc. Always focused on safety and security management. Skilled in problem solving and conflict resolution. Upholds high ethical standards and is honest with supervisors, employees. Widely experienced in leading and motivating multi-disciplined engineers’ team’s workforce with diverse national, lingual and cultural backgrounds on a wide range of projects execution. Experience in managing project’s Brownfield and Green field design complexities from asset stage onwards till final handover to operations.
Jan 2012 - Till Date: Working as a Project Manager / Engineering Manager / Work Share Engineering Manager for the Jacobs Canada Inc., Calgary, Alberta, Canada
•Working in CNRL KIRBY NORTH PHASE-1 SAGD project.
•Project - EDS and DE Phases
•Working as a Project Mumbai Work share Engineering Manager / Engineering Manager
•Coordinating, managing all disciplines engineering activities to meet the schedules.
•Managing progress and productivity for all disciplines to meet the Client’s schedule, cost.
•Plan and prepare accurate project estimates. Establish cost reports for control of projects. Monitor and control all cost aspects of the project including forecasting costs, obtaining approvals, identifying trends and taking action to avoid cost overruns and identifying opportunities. Continual assessment of performance of cost control system and personnel.
•Define the project quality requirements. Ensure the right systems are in place and applied on the project. Develop a project schedule which allows work to be executed in logical sequences. Ensure compliance with IMV Projects policies and procedures.
•Ensure compliance with all HSE procedures and that HSE requirements are documented and understood by all project participants.
•Identify, document and communicate client requirements. Effectively manage multiple stakeholders and maintain / develop healthy client relationships throughout the project. Proactively resolve performance, scope, cost and schedule issues with the Client as they arise.
•Manage the planning of all scope elements of the project. Develop resource and financial requirements from the project plan. Manage the design, procurement and construction activities to meet the project schedule.
•Ensure accurate and timely progress reporting to the client and internally.
•Set clear objectives for the design team. Ensure design team is aware of, and complies with client’s Basis of Design and applicable regulations and codes. Monitor design activities, inter-discipline data flow and communications.
•Provide clear and focused leadership for the project team to create a vision for project success and a strategy to fit that vision. Focus on achievement of milestones and other key project objectives. Provide mentoring and participates in staff performance evaluations
•Lead and control joint projects execution in terms of budget, costs, schedule, and quality.
•Coordinate with all Disciplines to execute the work with safety, cost and schedule.
•Planning and Managing the project in EDS and DE Phases.
•Developing necessary work procedures
•Schedule reviews and Gate Reviews
•Estimate and allowances reviews
•Risk and Value plus Management and Lessons Learned
•Interactive planning sessions
•Preparing ROM cost estimates
•As workshare Manager coordinating all engineering, project activities to meet the schedule and quality.
•Developing scope and execution strategies.
•Review and evaluate project management process, system and procedures. Schedule and manage resources to attain project and/or program objectives.
•Develop and get coordination of Project Decision Notices and Trends until complete implementation.
•Coordinate Multi office Execution of Engineering activities.
• Emphasis is on conducting the projects execution subject to budget, schedule and quality, in respect of best project management practices. The position embraces the whole project lifecycle; it specializes in technical areas, although it coordinates with all other functional areas. As such, it supports the department's leadership and accountability in developing these projects.
• Principal Accountabilities Support the department's effort to implement the corporate downstream strategy and business plan. Ensure the implementation of Company policies, project management processes and procedures throughout the project implementation.
• Lead and control joint projects execution in terms of budget, costs, schedule, and quality.
• Responsible for providing primary analytical support to the department. Evaluate downstream opportunities with foreign investors.
• Assess the financial strength and industry status of the potential JV partners. Evaluate the economic and technical feasibility of the proposed ventures. Evaluate economic costs, project benefits and economic aspects of projects. Lead the profitable implementation of downstream opportunities by recommending cash/capital management and risk management approaches.
• Protect QPI's interests in dealing with foreign partners. Participate in the implementation of projects monitoring systems and assess projects performance.
• Capture, analyze and integrate project information in order to support decisions Collect and gather business information in relation to other QP departments and Affiliates.
• Forecast supply demand balance availability of feedstock and other raw materials. Participate in the long-term departmental development program in coordination with the other departments.
• Prefeasibility scope development, ITB preparation etc.
• New Booster Station Facility project.(BS-132 in North Kuwait)a and Enhancement to BS-131. Also including replacement of TV Compressors in GC-15/23/25. Working in Contractor’s office as Resident PMC Lead Engineer. The new BS-132 will comprise single LP-1 compression, LP2 compression, HP compression and gas dehydration. There are few long pipelines with Launchers/Receivers to be provided. It has its own Fuel Gas package to supply fuel gas for consumption.
• This new Gathering Centre will build. It is situated in North Kuwait and is planned to process the crude, gas and water production from the Sabriyah and Bahrah fields of the North Kuwait area. The technical processes involved are: Two stage stabilization and separation of oil, gas and water, oil stabilization to stock conditions and despatched to the Central Mixing Manifold in North Kuwait. Separated gas and water will be transferred to the new Booster Station BS131 and the Central Water Injection Plant respectively. The process capacities of the new Gathering Centre will be Oil 165 MBOPD, Water 165 MBWPD, and Gas 240 MMSCFD. The project life is based on 25 years and the design brief includes the latest data for reservoir characteristics which provides for increased water cut and the gradual souring of the NK fields.
• As Project Management team member responsible for coordinating the Project Engineering function with EPC contractors.
• Following Project Practices. Having working knowledge of Shell IPMS and HSSD Management system. Closely following schedule control. Also having knowledge of field and plant facilities. Having very good project management skills.
• Coordinating and interfacing with process engineering and discipline engineering counterparts as well as functional counterparts with the EPC contractors. Facilitate management by communicating upwardly any emergency issues.
• Facilitate the early incorporation of construction input into home office engineering design and project scheduling
• Interface with EPC contractor counterpart(s) with focus on decision making and progressing the work, ensuring the design meets Shell standards.
• Drive key work processes such as HAZOP, Design Class review, model reviews, scope cut-offs and estimate and schedule updates
• Participated in Shell’s Engineering and project management 5 day training.
• Closely follow Safety in work place and Quality procedures.
• To ensure the systems designs for the Oil Sands Debottlenecking Project (Upgrader and MRM) is developed optimally & consistent with the project’s objectives.
• To ensure the Utilities & Off sites (U&O) systems design for the Oil Sands Debottlenecking Project (Upgrader and MRM) is developed optimally & consistent with the project’s objectives.
• To work with the project’s EPCM contractors in the project’s development (FED) phase to create a conceptual design of the required Utility & Off sites systems’ modifications
•Worked on BA Energy Heartland Upgrader project EDS phase as a lead for Steam and Condensate unit, Natural gas /Fuel gas units, Flare system.
•Front End Engineering Design of Aramco’s Hawiyah NGL recovery project as a Lead for Inlet facilities, Gas treating units (DGA), TEG dehydration, Molecular Sieve Dehydration, Mercury removal units and Cryogenic, HP and LP Flare system. Designing of Contactors, Separators, heat exchangers, filters, dehydrators, compressors, filter-separators, flare stack and header, propane chillers etc., also developing cause and effect diagrams.
•Acid Gas Flare system and Sulphur loading system basic design of Petro-Canada Edmonton Refinery conversion project. Petro-Canada Big Ed project BEP package preparation. Working in Sour Flare system design and Sulphur Loading system design. Sour Flare header sizing, KOD/Seal pot sizing, pump hydraulics and issuing data sheets. Sour flare is handling combined acid gases from SWS and Amine units. Prepared and submitted to client a Conceptual report on Sour Flare system. Participated in SIL review of the project and implemented the recommendations.
•RAS LAFFAN ACID GAS INJECTION FEED Phase II study. Simulation is being updating with new feed composition conditions. Updating and resizing of Vessels, Heat Exchangers and pumps is being done. Exxon Mobil Ras Laffan Acid Gas well Injection project DBM preparation. The work consists of developing compressor simulation with various scenarios and issuing data sheets. Also developing cooling water system simulation and issuing equipment data sheets.
•Exxon Mobil, Labarge ACID GAS INJECTION Project: Involved in DBM preparation. Developed P&IDs for Cogeneration and Plant Integration. Study was completed and submitted recommendations for existing plant de-bottleneck to increase production. Approved and being implemented the scheme of cold recovery planned to increase the production. Exxon Mobil, Labarge Acid Gas Injection and De-bottleneck of existing Gas treatment units project. Work involved to do complete hydraulic study of two gas treatment units of Selexol process for H2S and CO2 removal, consisting of filters, Absorbers, Pre-saturators, Stripper, Flash drums, pumps and exchangers. Also checking of PSV and Flare systems including Refrigeration and cooling water systems.
•Strategic Petroleum reserve Project - USA Government - Work carried out to check the Project proposal prepared by selecting and simulating the process by HYSIS. Recommendations prepared and submitted.
Saudi Aramco Projects Yanbu Gas Plant, Yanbu Crude Oil Terminal and East/West Pipeline Control Systems Replacement, Conceptual and Project Proposal Document Preparation. Reviewing the cause and effect diagrams and sequence logics. P&ID review for HAZOP. Process planning was done for hot switch over of the units. Participated in value engineering studies and prepared reports.
• Detail engineering of Oil and Water Separation Units of Canadian Natural Resources
Limited Primrose and Wolf Lake upgrading project. Detailed engineering of CNRL Prime-
Rose and Wolf Lake expansion project which is based on SAGD technology. This project
consists of Oil/Gas/Water separation, Oil treatment, and water treatment. Worked on
Produced water treatment, which consists of Skim tank, Desand tank, Induced Gas
Floatation units, Hot lime Softener, Pressure Filter, Weak Acid Cation exchangers,
polisher, regeneration vessels, Brackish water treatment system, Neutralizer system.
• Shell Canada Scot ford refinery project off sites and Utilities hydraulics calculations review and checking was carried out. (based on Shell standards)
• DBM preparation of SUNCOR Oil-Sands/Firebag (OS3) project having capacity of 240
KBPCD processing of bitumen in phase 1 and 2 covers the Up-grader, which includes
the two new Diluents Recovery Units and single VACUUM tower provided. The design
DRUs are based on high recovery of side-draw distillate (kero & HAGO) and minimize
losses of distillate to vacuum gas oil. This will also reduce vacuum tower load. Worked
on three stage diluent stripper, diluent tower, diluent tower, heater, vacuum furnace and
vacuum tower area hydraulics, PSV sizing pumps sizing, developing P&IDs and
equipment data sheets.
• NOVA Chemicals E1-Amine modifications and Poly wash dry projects basic engineering
and detailed engineering done.
• As a Lead Engineer Organised, Handled and Completed Detailed Engineering of
Union Carbide LLDPE project (at RED DEER) and provided assistance during project
Commissioning.
• Operation support and troubleshooting PE Plants as Reaction Engineer
• Equipment sizing and specifications, Preparation of equipment data sheets
• Preparation of process flow diagrams and Mechanical flow diagrams/P&IDs
• Preparation of mass and energy balance and P&T Diagram
• HAZOP reviews and ISO 9002 audits
• SAP end users programme implementation
• Co-ordination with EPC Contractor and Licensor
• Trouble shooting and Operation support to the plant
• Co-ordinate and participate annual turn around maintenance
• Handling of Insurance claims and Mentor for the Junior Engineers
• Provided Project Management to complete the Turnkey Project by Technip,
France
• Pre-commissioned and commissioned two project/ plants
• Conducted Project Safety audits and project HAZOP as part of PSM
• Operation training provided by BP Chemicals, UK
• Attended Design review meetings and participated in Technology selection
• Design documents, Vendor Drgs., PFD and P&ID reviews
• Involved in TDC-3000 Honeywell system configuration work and trained
• Trained junior engineers and operators
• Planning, directing and participating in process engineering support for the plants
• Initiating studies, conducting process audits and recommending controls
• Facilities modifications to improve plant efficiencies, production and cost saving
• Closely day to day monitoring of plant key performance indices
• Design and Commissioning of water reuse scheme
• Plant operation and technical schemes budget preparation
• Handling of equipment damage and operation Insurance claims
• Trouble shooting the plant operation problems
Plants/Projects
• Linear Alkyl Benzene plant/project and Acrylates project
• N2/O2 separation unit and Air/Solid disposal systems
• Centralized Waste Water Treatment unit
Five years course. B.Tech in Chemical Engineering. 65 % grade obtained.