Kumaraswamy Krishnan

Head of operations and Maintenance for Ras Abu Fontas 168MLD Desalination (Intake, DAF, DF, UF, RO, Remineralisation,
Sludge treatment, Clo2, CO2 Plant, Electro chlorination) plant Admin, Operations and Maintenance activities.
Resolving disputes with client as per O&M contract, Supplier and vendor dispute management and ensure the OM and project
activities on specific schedule.
Manage the Operations and Maintenance team (85+ employees) and developing skills and plant performance.
Plan and Implementation of Asset Replacement, Refurbishment and Improvement projects, Mobilization and Demobilisation
of manpower for specific tasks
Implementation of Digitalisation for HSE, Operation and Maintenance process to improve the performance.
Incident controller and reporting as per the o&m agreement, Implementation of Tools for PTW, with Intelex, CMMS
Hazards and Incident Management and Budget control
Key Achievements:
99% of Plant availability achievement against the target of 97%
Optimisation of Chemical and Energy within the budget limit, Maintained the Budget within the target set by the Management.
100% Customer Satisfaction was achieved Internal since 2020

Plant operations maintenance, mobilization and demobilization Rehab and Improvement projects of Municipal Waste water treatment plant pf 40MLD; Setting Operations, maintenance KPI: Control and monitoring of KPI within the Contractual limit; Budget and Manpower control to run the plants with Optimum production and quality. Maintain profit margin for o&m and Projects.
Biding for New Waste water plant Operations and Variation orders etc.
Communicate with client and Supplier resolve the Day to day activities.
Co-ordinate with EPC team for construction and installation, testing and Commissioning

Overseeing commissioning of 240MLD Mirfa Desalination Water plant, UAE one of the highest capacity desalination plant with 1600MW power plant, Management operations and maintenance team, contractors, vendors to achieve targets of the O&M and water purchase agreement. Responsible for plant budget, seeking approval from management and controlling; approving and seeking management approval for improvements, attending client, owners, client meetings and resolving the disputes.

Handling commissioning of 500MLD Magtaa Desalination Water plant one of the World’s highest capacity plant and 318 MLD TUASPRING Desalination Water plant Asia’s highest capacity plant.
Monitoring operations and maintenance of 500MLD, 318MLD Desalination Water plants, communicating with top level management on day to day critical issues, operations and maintenance team, contractors, vendors to achieve targets of the O&M and water purchase agreement.
Reviewing budget with managers, taking approval from management and controlling; approving and seeking management approval for improvements, attending client, owners, client meetings and resolving the disputes.
Overseeing water safety plan/HACCP certification, Emergency Response plan, and establishment of operation and maintenance team from commissioning phase of Desalination plant.
Ensuring continual improvement activities like saving of SGD625K/year by replacing fixed speed filter water pump to VFD with optimum production and operation reliability and process optimisation.

Involved in the activities of installation, modification, continual improvement and maintenance of facility/utility equipment, ensured 100% availability of facilities to production departments.
Coordinated with management, department staffs and vendors to achieve the goal, maintained Quality Management System, Environmental Management System and ISRS (International Safety Rating System) level 8.
Implementation of Maintenance Defect Management Information System, involved in planning of budget for maintenance and for operation department (Approx.12-25million per annum) and controlled the budget in MARS/SAP System.
Monitored installation and commissioning of Blasting Chamber and 4000KVA diesel engine Test Bay; Yard production facility extension of Air bus vessel Ropax, RORO615, 616 and Ropax, Anchor Handling Tug, and Utility/facility for commissioning for Swine Rescue and Diving Support vessels RO and DM plants. Implementation of real time power monitoring for critical equipment and AHUs and MSBs and Real time monitoring on critical substation and Trip alert system via SMS.

Planned project implementation, installation, modification, continual improvement and handled responsibility to co-ordinate for construction/modification drawing approval and adopting Environmental Health and safety at worksite.
Involved in activities like installation and commissioning of 9 numbers of Common Effluent Water Treatment plant ranging from 4.5MLD to 12 MLD (Total of 52MLD) with professional construction sub-contractors like Tata projects Co. Ltd., Windsor Satyam Co. Ltd., Metax Engineering Co. Ltd., Doshion Co. Ltd., UEM India Limited, Nuchem Company Ltd.

 Planned installation, modification, continual improvement, project implementation and annual shutdown.
Prepared drawing, process flow, P&I diagram for Chemical and water plants and Adopting safety, working instructions for operating critical equipment, submitting the technical documents/bids to the customers.
As a Quality Management Representative, Internal Auditor implemented ISO90001:2000 for chemical industries.
Monitored installation of chemical plants like Sulphuric Acid Plant (98.5%)-150TPD, Oleum Plant (25%)-25TPD, Sodium Hypo plant (12%/13%)-120 TPD, Surface metal treatment Chemicals Plant), Detergent Chemical Plant like Linear Alkyl Benzene Sulphonic Acid (LABSA) Plant-50TPD, Sodium Laurel Ether Sulphate Plant (SLES)-50TPD) and Water Treatment Plants-200TPDx3.

Project and Maintenance of VSF plants

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