Engineering Consultant in ABB
ADECCO
Total years of experience :27 years, 4 Months
Providing consultancy/leads to clients, in designing, engineering, installation, commissioning process and start-up services. Lead system designing and production teams and provide system expertise.
Direct designing, engineering, installation, commissioning and start-up services on turnkey basis to ABB Canada and customers such as Chevron Refinery, Spectra Energy Transmission, Metro Vancouver and Canexus Chemical.
•Collaborate with senior management to outline project objectives to realize maximize benefits.
•Successfully delivered more than 10 service projects with upwards of $10M budgets on time and within constraints.
Achieved direct or bottom-line cost savings and efficiency savings in engineering of $1M with lean strategies.
•Eliminated wasted resources and time by analyzing existing processes and applying new methodologies.
•Championed and led change initiatives and identified best approach for implementing new processes.
•Encouraged informed risk-taking and acted as a catalyst for innovation.
•Generated practical and sustainable options to solve problems and create opportunities, while maximizing resources.
•Offered necessary administration along with proper quality control measures, coordinated between end user and ABB Global Center India, for ensuring the entire service job finished on time and due budget.
•Improved site launch by conducting in-depth customer training on the operation and maintenance of equipment and systems.
•Increase system reliability by performing System Healthiness Audits and recommending maintenance solutions.
Sample Projects:
•Metro Vancouver, HMI upgrade to 800xA Systems for Waste Water Treatment Plants, Greater Vancouver Area.
•RIO Tinto Alcan, Generator Overhauling of Hydro Power Gen. Station, Kemano.
•Canexus, Effluent Management System/Acid Growth 2/Railcars Loading, Vancouver.
Improved quality assurance by administering control measures for ensuring finish on time and within budget.
•Negotiated purchase orders, designed contracts and coordinated subcontractors.
•Headed responsibility for both commercial and technical deliverables to customer.
•Acknowledged for cost improvements, cash management and attainment of project profitability.
•Decreased delivery time by providing tech-support to proposal department to finalize solution offered, re-validating bill of material, and engineering and production man-hours calculation against offers before submission to customer.
•Achieved project completion on average of $50M within triple constraint and 8-15% gross margin improvements by proactively monitoring and controlling costs.
•Streamlined production control processes and introduced planning improvements that enhanced productivity for the performance monitoring, labor management and long-term forecasting.
•Executed a range of continuous process improvement tools to reduce waste, eliminate steps without value, minimize process variations, and reduce bottlenecks.
•Improved workflow and reduced waste by studying process flowcharts and recommending modifications.
Sample Projects:
•Telvent, SCADA RTU Replacement, ADMA OPCO, UAE.
•NPCC, Update and tie-in of DCS and ESD for GPF, ADMA OPCO, UAE.
•Technip, Gas Processing Facilities-GPF Project, ADMA OPCO, UAE.
Identified Project scope, assisted PM to developed execution, helped with quality assurance and the resource plan.
•Established functional design software and hardware specifications based on requirement documents.
•Reviewed technical progress and outcomes of assigned project and provided supervision to team.
•Produced weekly report for project manager to report the higher authority and the supporting staffs.
•Formulated various operational features, defined logic typical, defined graphical model attributes based on FDS & Contract requirement documents for bulk engineering and conducted FAT & SAT.
Sample Projects:
•Technip, Zakum Crestal Gas Injection Project, ADMA OPCO, UAE
•NPCC, Gas Gathering Modernization Project ADMA OPCO, UAE
•HMI Upgrade Project, Qatar Petroleum, Qatar
Installed and commissioned activities of designated projects throughout the Middle East.
•Improved disaster recovery efforts by upgrading software and firmware throughout Middle East for Y2K issue.
•Conducted site acceptance test and provided technical assistance and troubleshooting to install bases.
Sample Projects:
•General Electric, Power Plant 8 Project, SCECO, Riyadh, KSA
•KHD Germany, Yanbu Cement Project, Yanbu, KSA
(SIEMENS), Pakistan
courses: Certification, PMP (#1302936), Project Management Institute CCNA-Security, CISCO certification (In-progress) Workshops, Project Negotiation, Planning & Control, Risk Management & Mitigation, Contract/Commercial Management