Lead Materials Engineer
Jaocbs Zate
Total years of experience :16 years, 7 Months
Design Engineering, Material Procurement & construction support for MPP (Maintain Potential Projects for Oil and Water Wells - Northern / Southern / Miscellaneous Areas)
Responsibilities:
• Lead Materials Engineer for MPP Oil.
• Handling a team of 8 members.
• Responsible for all materials related work.
• Responsible for Direct Cost Purchase Requisitions (DCPR’s) & Catalogs.
• Review/approval of NMR documents from vendor
• Performing of Technical Bid Evaluations (TBE’s) for the received vendor offers
• Technical support & trouble shooting for construction site by resolving technical queries.
• Meetings & Co-ordination with ARAMCO Project Management team (PMT)/ Vendors.
• Providing technical support during different phases of material procurement.
• Man-hour estimation, maintaining DCL / man-hour consumption / work progress / Staffing plans.
1. Title: Clean Transportation at Riyadh Refinery Project
Owner: Saudi Arabian Oil Company - Saudi ARAMCO
Licensor: Axens & UOP.
Highlights: Challenging experience working on this very old brown field project that has multiple units built by various EPC contractors & licensed by diverse process licensors.
Currently working as the main Piping Material Engineer for this project.
Thorough exposure in working with Aramco Standards- SAMSS, SAES, SAEP, IR 175 inspections, NMR’s and other Armaco project specific requirements.
Preparation of Piping specification, taking into consideration the existing multiple specifications already in use in the existing plant. The new specification is developed very carefully to take into account tie-ins with existing plant.
Tie-in works done in very compressed schedule with spec preparation, material take-off, MR floating, TBE, PO placement done in a very short span of time.
2. Title: Wasit Co-generation & Steam generation Project
Owner: Saudi Arabian Oil Company - Saudi ARAMCO
Licensor: Axens, IFP Group Technologies.
Highlights: Deputed to Seoul (South Korea) at the Samsung Headquarters as a materials engineering specialist for a span of 3 months (Nov’11-Jan’12).
Prepared the piping specifications for this project and carried out all other piping materials related work.
Carried out the technical bid evaluation of all the piping bulk items.
Resolution of technical issues with the client (ARAMCO) and with the respective vendors.
-Excellent time management skills with proven ability to work accurately and quickly prioritize, coordinate and consolidate tasks, whilst simultaneously managing the diverse range of function from multiple sources
-Adept at industry piping design codes, pipe fitting codes, flange codes and valve codes, such as ASME, ASTM, API, BS, MSS-SP and IBR.
-Experience in pipe wall thickness calculations, branch connection reinforcement calculations, and vacuum thickness calculations. Expertise in the preparation of PMS & VMS; SAP Coding for MTO; MTO processing & consolidation; floating MR’s & PR’s for procurement, etc.
-Experience in technical evaluations of Piping Vendor quotations. Capable of giving technical recommendation of suppliers for the bulk piping materials, valves and special piping items.
-Experience in producing Piping Standard Details for the Piping Layout group. Core competency in process/utility P&ID’s and plant layouts.
- Adequate exposure to adopt a practical approach to piping material problems with familiarity of the requirements/interactions with other engineering disciplines and site.
-Fine exposure in holding techno-commercial meetings with national & international vendors of repute.
Projects Undertaken:
Client: LOBS HPCL, Mumbai - Detail Engineering
Owner: Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd (HPCL).
PMC: Jacobs
Licensor: Exxon Mobil
Title: EPCM-4, INDIMAX (FCC), PRDP Project- Detail Engineering &
Proposal Engineering
Owner: Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL)
PMC: Foster Wheeler
MPMC: Toyo Engineering Corporation, Japan
Licensor: CBI Lummus
Title: BA Energy Heartland Upgrader Project
Owner: Value Creation Group, BA Energy
Location: Calgary, Canada
PMC: Jacobs
Proposal Engineering Jobs:
Title: Northern Oman Gas Project - Oxy Oman - Proposal
Owner: Occidental of Oman Inc.
PMC: Worley Parsons
Title: Saudi Aramco Shell Refinery, Al Jubail - Proposal
Owner: Saudi Aramco Shell Refinery
PMC: Shell Global