Maher Hasan  Al-Ahmadi, Principle Reliability Engineer

Maher Hasan Al-Ahmadi

Principle Reliability Engineer

SIPCHEM

Location
Saudi Arabia - Dammam
Education
Bachelor's degree, Applied Mechanical Engineer
Experience
26 years, 2 Months

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Total years of experience :26 years, 2 Months

Principle Reliability Engineer at SIPCHEM
  • Saudi Arabia - Jubail
  • My current job since July 2019

Develop Asset Management Strategy, Develop Recommendations Management System, Enhance Meridium utilization, Manage RCM (Reliability Centered Maintenance) studies and Facilitator for RCM studies.

Sr. Reliability Engineer at TASNEE
  • Saudi Arabia - Jubail
  • December 2015 to June 2019

Define the criticality ranking for systems and equipment. Manage RCM (Reliability Centered Maintenance) studies. Manage RCA (Root Cause Analysis). Facilitator for RCM/FMEA and RCA studies. Participate in developing reliability department related procedure and workflow. Provide plants Reliability & Availability performance based on Reliability Modeling Analysis. Monitor work orders SAP history data such as spare parts, recourses cost, MTBF and MTBR.

Manager, Principal Reliability at Crsital
  • Saudi Arabia - Yanbu
  • June 2014 to December 2015

Monitor reliability and maintenance performance KPI’s and data. Identify improvement opportunities and actions. Analyze MTBF of critical equipment and identify improvement actions. Analyze maintenance cost data and identify improvement actions. Review and update OE Model Documents. Participate in site OE audits. Develop new and updated Global Standard documents. Collaborate with sites to implement global reliability and maintenance improvement programs. Write monthly reports with actions completed and future focus, reviews maintenance and reliability scorecards monthly. Provide reliability and maintenance support at sites as assigned to resolve specific technical issues. Lead Global Reliability and Maintenance improvement projects as determined to resolve key global issues. Accomplish yearly assigned goals to meet the yearly strategic reliability and maintenance improvement goals. Performs/review equipment integrity analysis and ensures remediation actions implemented.

Manager, Planning and Reliability at Cristal
  • Saudi Arabia - Yanbu
  • February 2012 to June 2014

Planning all type of maintenance activities for the entire plant. Manage materials and resources for maintenance division. Providing inspection support and reliability solutions for the entire plant. Sponsor for Mechanical integrity Program. Team member in global maintenance improvement initiatives; (MBPT) Maintenance Best Practice Team, Shutdown, SAP and (RIT) Reliability Improvement Team. Duties covers ensure alignment with the best maintenance practices in other sites and participating in developing unified company maintenance procedures.

Superintendent, Reliability Studies and Support at Saudi Kayan Petrochemical Company - SABIC Affiliate
  • Saudi Arabia - Jubail
  • October 2010 to February 2012

Define criticality ranking for systems and equipment. Manage complex RCM (Reliability Centered Maintenance) studies. Manage complex RCA (Root Cause Analysis) studies. Identify complex Bad Actors. Monitor plants Reliability & Availability based on Reliability Modeling Analysis. Monitor work orders SAP history data such as spare parts, recourses cost, MTBF and MTBR. Provide support in condition monitoring and preventive programs for Lubrication and Hydraulics systems. Analyze lubrication and hydraulic oil laboratory reports and advice on the corrective recommendations. Support the Central Workshop Department during rotating equipment overhauling. Support Maintenance Departments during major rotating equipment turnaround. Provide the technical support during incident and repetitive failures of major rotating equipment. Provide the required support on Meridium software (Reliability methodologies software) and Proact system (RCA methodology software).

Commissioning and Start-Up Technical Leader, Utility & Offsite Plant. at Saudi Kayan - Sabic Affiliate
  • Saudi Arabia - Jubail
  • September 2008 to October 2010

Ensuring accurate standards, procedures and specifications are in place for the maintenance of the plant. Liaison with Third Party regarding NDT inspection and witness activity. Ensure adherence to statutory and internal industry standards and specifications. Keeping records of statutory requirement and submit at the time of internal or external Audit. Provide technical inspection input to various other disciplines (i.e. coatings, civil, QA). Provide draft of Mechanical Equipment work scopes and review existing work scopes. Supports the Operation team during Commissioning and Start-up in developing Standard Operation Procedure. Responsible for the Key Performance elements like Static mechanical integrity, mechanical Rotating machinery integrity and Civil Integrity. Identification of Non Conformance of materials, activities which may affect product quality and record. Conduct field surveys and recommend remedies to solve pressure, flow, and contamination problems.

RCM Champion Engineer at Saudi Kayan - Sabic Affiliate
  • Saudi Arabia - Jubail
  • August 2007 to September 2008

Lead the implementation of RCM methodology in Saudi Kayan Project prior to start-up of each plant. Coordinate RCM, RBI and RIS methodologies implementation in Saudi Kayan plants with STRP4 (SABIC Total Reliability Program 4) team. Plan and coordinate methodologies training and facilitation workshop for each team member with 135 members. In addition, facilitation workshop related readiness check list for each methodology. Coordinate develop and implementing RCA and PMP/KPI (Plant Management Production / Key Performance Indicators). Facilitator for Utility and Offsite plant RCM team. Created the equipment criticality ranking for U&O plant. Develop mechanical rotating equipment maintenance strategy for U&O plant. Benchmark with other SABIC Affiliates to utilize and share the history and experience in running similar equipment. Developed RCM and RCA procedure. Participated in developing reliability department related procedure and workflow.

Section Head - Madina South Facilities Maintenance at Saudi Electricity Company (SEC)
  • Saudi Arabia - Medina
  • October 2004 to August 2007

CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) Coordinator and Administrator for West Region. Call Center supervisor (customer's request). SLA coordinator (Service Level Agreement) in Madinah Facilities Division. Prepare section's annual operational and capital budget. Follow up daily maintenance work orders as well as replay clients' complaints. Prepare maintenance contracts for Madinah Facilities Division. Prepare the scope of work, the cost estimation and supervise the execution for section projects. Prepare the weekly report of project progress. Plan and monitor the preventive maintenance work orders in Madinah Facilities Division. Monitor and update the Buildings Database for Madinah Facilities Division. Prepare the monthly report for SLA performance.

Unit Engineer ‘A’ at Saudi Electricity Company (SEC)
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • August 2003 to October 2004

Determine failure modes and provide the recommend improvements solutions for chronic plants failures. Prepare feasibility studies to improve power plants performance. Prepare and Manage Generation Sector contracts. Manage Mechanical Maintenance related generation standard and work procedure.

Maintenance Engineer at Saudi Electricity Company (SEC)
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • November 1998 to August 2003

Plan and carry out the annual maintenance which mainly contains three types of maintenance combustion inspection (CI) hot gas path inspection (HGP) major inspection (MI) for General Electric frame 7001E/EA Gas Turbine (55/65 MW). Carry out the routine maintenance work orders related to gas turbine auxiliary equipment. Experienced in gas turbine trouble shooting. Experienced in using MK-V operating control system as well as maintained. Member in the Strategic Hot Parts Committee and the intent of this Committee was to prepare and follow up Hot Parts Reverse Engineering and Maintenance contracts. Inspect and evaluate repaired and new Hot Parts material delivered to PP7 store. CMMS System administrator (Computerized Maintenance Management System). A member of the commissioning team for gas fuel conversion project. The intent of this project was to convert the type of fuel used by gas turbine from crude oil to natural gas. A member of the team in charge for the preparation of the annual budget.

Co-op trainee at Saudi ARAMCO
  • Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
  • June 1997 to January 1998

Division is mainly responsible for maintenance of valves and the hot tap and stopple operations. Attend & participated in several hot taps operations. Attend valves maintenance and testing which is mostly concerned about relief valves. Participated and prepared some engineering hot taps operation requirements. Wrote a Co-op Report about maintenance and testing of relief valves.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Applied Mechanical Engineer
  • at KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLOEM AND MINERALS
  • August 1998

Relevant Courses: Machine design, Fluid power system, Heat exchanger, Optimization Social Activities: - A member of KFUPM football team for 5 years, a member and then a president of KFUPM Sport Club, a residence president in the student housing and worked for 4 months in students affairs of KFUPM.

Specialties & Skills

Root Cause Analysis
Management Planning
Problem Solving
Team Management
Reliability Analysis
AutoCAD2004
Implementation of policies and regulations, Team Building, Leading & Motivational skills
Project Management, Costing, Risk Analysis, Budgeting, Contract & Vendor Negotiations
MS Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, Outlook and MS Project
Microsoft Office software & the Internet
Communication & Interpersonal skills, Strong Analytical and Problem Solving Skills
RCM (Reliability Centered maintenance) certified facilitator by Aladon LLC
Machinery Diagnostic Using System1
CMRP, Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

SMRP
  • Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional
  • March 2017

Training and Certifications

Certified Reliability Leader (CRL) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2017
Valid Until:
November 2020
Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2017
Valid Until:
March 2020