Farhan Baig, LEAD INSTRUMENT ENGINEER

Farhan Baig

LEAD INSTRUMENT ENGINEER

FARABI PETROCHEMICALS

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Master's degree, Electrical And Control Systems Engineering
Experience
20 years, 10 Months

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Total years of experience :20 years, 10 Months

LEAD INSTRUMENT ENGINEER at FARABI PETROCHEMICALS
  • Saudi Arabia - Yanbu
  • My current job since September 2021

- Leading the maintenance team whole complex 2 Engineers, 1 supervisor and 17 technicians.
- A leadership role in promoting, demonstrating the company core values, ethics policy and leadership framework.
- Design Optimization of Plant safety and instrumentation system to increase Plant availability.
- Identification of plant issues and necessary improvements through MOC procedure.
- Budget requisition for OPEX and CAPEX expenses.
- Weekly Schedule review and schedule compliance.
- Job allocation to engineers and necessary workflow improvements.
- Material and stocks review and optimization.
- Review and optimization of PM program.
- Resolution for the recurring issues at plant.
- Benchmarking the SOPs for routine jobs and team awareness.
- Leadership role during commissioning and startup activities for plant expansions.
- Setting the workflow for managing the field inspections, punch listing, and resolution of disputes with contractor for the expansion projects.
- Job tracking, scheduling, close out, update and controlling of the manpower.
- Self-awareness of relevant regulatory framework, legislation changes, initiatives and industry technology developments reports.

LEAD INSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL ENGINEER at SAUDI ARAMCO BASE OIL COMPANY (LUBEREF)
  • Saudi Arabia - Yanbu
  • February 2017 to September 2021

- Leading the maintenance team for the 2000MTPD (Group II) and 767MTPD (Group I) equipped with 3 Engineers, 4 foremen and 17 technicians.
- Review and optimization of PM programs.
- Review of blanket agreements for maintenance support with vendors.
- Field troubleshooting support and setting the guidelines for team.
- Preparation of maintenance procedures in order to achieve uniformity of skills among the team.
- Review of spare parts data package and add to stock items.
- Schedule Compliance and performance monitoring (KPIs).
- Participation in audits and leading the incident investigations (RCA).
- Identification of training needs and development of Personnel Development Plan for the team.
- MOC (management of change) Organization and necessary document updates.
- Leadership role during commissioning and startup activities for plant expansions.
- Management of resources, managing the field inspections, punch listing, and resolution of disputes with contractor for the expansion projects.
- Provide leadership in promoting, demonstrating the company core values, ethics policy and leadership framework.
- Resolution of technical queries raised / received from contractor.

MANAGER ELECTRICAL AND INSTRUMENT(E&I) at ARABIAN BEMCO
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • February 2014 to November 2016

- Managed the E&I team of 70+ Personnel which include 5 Engineers for the commissioning and maintenance activities.
- Commissioning and maintenance of Control Systems equipped with DCS, PLC, SCADA implemented for 40 Dual pressure HRSG Units - NEM, 10 Units of Steam Turbines - GE, 32
Units of Frame7EA Gas Turbines - GE and Water Treatment Plant with 180 m3/h capacity.
- Management of commissioning activities for 10 x 380KV Feeder Substation Extension which consists of cables and related accessories.
- Commissioning and maintenance for 1500MW, Combined Cycle extension, which consists of 10
BRUSH Generators Units, 10 ALSTOM FKGA GCB Units, 10 sets of ALSTOM 196MVA GSU
transformers, ISO phase bus duct, MV/LV SWGRs, Aux. transformers, UPS/Chargers and
MCCs.
- Conducting the daily/weekly progress meetings and walk downs with site teams and assignment of the related targets.
- To maintain comprehensive project documentation and red mark ups.
- Preparation of warranty claims, making defect reports and follow up with vendors for spare parts.
- Co-ordination with all parties in the project i.e. consultants, contractors, sub-contractors.
- Maintain strict adherence to the budgetary guidelines, quality and safety standards.
- Review of subcontractors’ contract documents and scope of work.
- Identification of elements at project design stage and construction likely to give rise to disputes and their resolution.
- Preparation of Histograms for manpower and equipment usage.

SR. ENGINEER ELECTRICAL AND INSTRUMENT(E&I) at ARABIAN BEMCO
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • April 2012 to February 2014

- Commissioning and Maintenance of MARK VIE DCS - GE, SIEMENS-S7 300/400 PLCs and
Relay logic based Control systems.
- Lead the testing and commissioning activities for 3200 I/Os GE MARK VIE DCS system.
- Commissioning supervision of SCADA System-SIEMENS and GE Multilin Communication equipment.
- Commissioning of fuel treatment and forwarding plant extension with the capacity of 60m3/hr.
- Commissioning and maintenance of 40 Continuous Emission Monitoring System Units including
Moisture Analyzers - MACH INSTRUMENTS (MAC155H), Dust Monitors - SICK MAIHAK OMD
41, Gas analyzers-SICK MAIHAK S700 and SCADA-SIEMENS Controllers.
- Resolution of Configuration and measurement issues with DP Type Level transmitters.
- Expert Level Configuration of Coriolis Flow meters via Prolink-III software.
- Maintenance of Instrumentation network.
- RCA of recurring issues and trip investigations.
- Reports writing of plant faults, management of warranty claims and spare parts.
- Shutdown job planning and co-ordination with client

ENIGNEER ELECTRICAL AND INSTRUMENT(E&I) at ARABIAN BEMCO
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • May 2009 to April 2012

- Commissioning of SCADA System - ABB.
- Commissioning and Maintenance of 32 Crude Oil Heaters units - Exheat 1250KW each.
- Commissioning and Maintenance of 10 Bleed Air Coolers Units.
- Lead the calibration and configuration activity of various field devices like pressure / temperature level switches and transmitters, control valves, analyzers and pneumatic equipment.
- Commissioning co-ordination with GE for 16 GTG frame 7EA gas turbine units.
- Lead the Verification of safety and interlock test for GTG units with MARK VIE Control.
- Supervision of commissioning, vibration monitoring system - BENTLEY NEAVADA 3500.
- Commissioning supervision and Maintenance of CAT 3616 BSDG unit.
- Preparation of comprehensive project documentation such as red markups and as built dwgs.
- Lead the close out team i.e. punch list, NCRs and WDRs.

MANAGER ELECTRICAL AND INSTRUMENT(E&I) at NESCOM
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • December 2007 to May 2009

- Design Review and Audits of various Systems Design
- Furnishing of Design guidelines for Various Systems.
- Design Optimization and necessary upgrades.
- ISO audits and
- Automation System Design and Integration.
- Implementation of ISO 9001:2000 procedures in the department.

ASSISTANT MANAGER at NESCOM
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • May 2003 to November 2007

- Design and Engineering of Electronic and Electrical Systems.
- Actuator Controls and DC drives.
- PLC Programming
- Automation System Design and Integration.
- Commissioning and Functional Testing of a CT winch System at PN Ship.
- Precision Engineering Circuits Design and Implementation.
- Design of Cabling Scheme and material Selection.

Education

Master's degree, Electrical And Control Systems Engineering
  • at Sir Syed CASE University of Engineering and Technology
  • June 2023

Under Thesis

Bachelor's degree, INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS
  • at Institute of Industrial Electronics Engineering (IIEE), N.E.D University of Engineering & Technology
  • December 2002

B.E. with Majors in Industrial Electronics (Instrumentation and Control)

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Instrument Control
Gas Turbines
Networking
Optimization of plant SIS
Project Planning
PM Optimization
Field Instrumentation
SIL Risk assessment, Functional Safety System Design and Engineering
Total Quality Management(TQM)
Contracts Management
Plant maintenance and Reliability
RCA Leader
Control System Technologies-SCADA,PLCs, DCS, Signaling and Data logging
Control System Design and Optimization
Optimization of documented workflows
Tank Gauging System

Languages

Arabic
Intermediate
English
Expert
Urdu
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

Gas turbine Control System Design (Training)
Training Institute:
Cranfield University UK
Date Attended:
March 2008
Duration:
40 hours
Root Cause Analysis(RCA) and Incident Investigations (Training)
Training Institute:
PII,USA
Date Attended:
January 2019
Duration:
40 hours
AMP STRATEGY RCM_FMEA (Training)
Training Institute:
GE
Date Attended:
August 2022
Duration:
8 hours
7005_RCM CONCEPTS (Training)
Training Institute:
GE
Date Attended:
August 2022
Duration:
16 hours
Functional Safety Engineer (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2023
Advanced Control System Design (Training)
Training Institute:
CASE
Date Attended:
August 2008
Duration:
100 hours

Hobbies

  • Reading books, microprocessor programming
    Won Ist prize in the E-Indus'03 conference