Mechanical Engineer
Jordan India Fertilizer Co. (JIFCO) L.L.C.
Total years of experience :13 years, 6 Months
Job roles:
- Supervision for construction of sulfuric acid plant and utilities.
- Commissioning and maintenance of utilities.
- Maintenance and planning engineer for utilities.
- Workshop Engineer. (Current role)
Responsibilities and Technical knowledge:
- Supervision of construction and installation activities mainly for Sulfuric acid plant, and its related utilities (steam power plant, industrial water treatment, steam generation, compressed air, firefighting network, etc…), including all the mechanical works and equipments.
- Workshop engineer for machining activities and services for all maintenance sections in the plant.
- Site engineer for utilities area; raw water pond and pump station, water treatment plant, steam boiler, diesel storage, air compressors and cooling towers.
- Preparing purchase requisitions for spare parts/equipments - review offers received from manufacturers or suppliers - receiving and inspection of materials for approval.
- Commissioning and maintenance of water treatment plant which contains softening plant, RO unit and demineralization units, with production rate 75 m3/hr of demineralized water.
- Commissioning and maintenance of steam boiler with production capacity 84, 000 kg/hr of steam.
- Ensure the work is performed in accordance with the relevant codes and standards from the regulatory agencies and institutes, such as ANSI, ASTM, ASME, ISO, Welding standards (API 650, ASME IX, AWS), ASME B-13.3 for Piping, OSHA…
- Follow-up and studying engineering documents related to the project including Data Sheets, Technical Specification for Equipments and Materials, Piping Isometrics, P&ID’s, General Plot plans, General Arrangement (GA) drawings,
- Follow-up with the RFQ’s, purchase orders, receiving of materials and mechanical equipments.
- Ensure the mechanical works to be done according to the GA drawings, method statements and installation manual.
-Receiving monthly invoices and change orders of the contractor and sub-contractors for auditing, and ensure its correspondence to the BOQ and the actual progress on-site.
- Finding a solution for any technical problems that appears at the project's work area in cooperation with the project manager.
- Supervision on mechanical works for non-process buildings (technical, residential and administration buildings), and preparing snag-list at the handing over phase.
Sanam Glass is a new Jordanian facility for producing low-E glass that has a single production line contains 10-chambers with its target cathodes and vacuum pumps, at production rate of 45-seconds of coating a glass sheet.
I joined them during installation the machines and the production line. I was involved in all steps and stages of installation, checking and commissioning the mechanical equipments with a commissioning team from Leybold Optics GmbH- as it is the vendor company.
The commissioning stage consists of starting the vacuum pumps and checking for any leakage on the production line by using Helium gas detector.
In a 6-month training program at the maintenance department which covers the maintenance works at the 5 plants; SAP, PAP, DAP, Aluminum Fluoride and the utility facilities, in the industrial complex.
During my training I was involved in the annual shutdown for overall mechanical maintenance at the phosphoric acid plant, including replacing mechanical equipments such as gear system of the phosphate mill, fans, pumps and dealing with its related works (alignment, bearing replacing... etc), and that gave me a strong practical engineering base to start my career from.