محمد فاروق

Working as a Lead Project Engineer as a Consultant at Smart Equipment (Automated) Replacement Project at SEC Existing Distribution Equipments for Installation & Testing of Distribution Network Smart Equipment \{MV Automated Smart Ring Main Unit (SRMU), MV Automated Smart Metered Ring Main Unit (SMRMU), Smart Automated Overhead Load Break Switch (OH-LBS), Smart MV Auto-Recloser & MV Smart Line Sectionalizer\} with Automation of Distribution Network Division Smart Grid Department of SEC Distribution Department.

Worked as a Senior Project Engineer at 07 Wells Tie-in to NA System A&B Project.
Supervision and monitoring the project teams overall construction and commissioning from conceptualization until completion, ensuring the adherence to the clients specifications, within the budgets goals, and the required deadline.
Construction, Testing & Commissioning of OHTL, Flow-Line CP and the Equipments of inside the Well-Head.

Shuqaiq-3 IWP desalination plant located on the coast of the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia and one of the largest reverse osmosis desalination plants in the world, with a production capacity of 450, 000 m³/day. Project Value is 610 million US$ and supply drinking water to more than 1.8 million peoples. The project is being developed under a 25-year BOO (Build-Own-Operate) contract model and ACCIONA involved throughout the project structure: as an investor, sole EPC (turnkey) contractor, leading and majority partner in operation and maintenance.

Worked as a Lead Commissioning Engineer / Warranty Engineer under Acciona Agua and Manage smooth commissioning of the project by coordinating between the vendor and client.
• Siemens 13.8kV MV Switchgear NXAIR, Protection Relay (SIPROTEC 7VU68, 7SJ82, 7SJ85)
• Siemens MV VFD Drive (Perfect Harmony Drive GH180) - (from 655KW up-to 1950KW)
• Schneider LV VFD ATV6B0 & ATV600 (APM) - (from 90KW up-to 400KW)
• CIRCUTOR Capacitor Banks LV & MV (from 375KVAr/480V/451A up-to 4545KVAr/15.18kV/172.86A)
• WEG Motors up-to 7.2MW.

SWPC/SWCC awarded Eight (08) Satellite Desalination RO Plants to ASRF in the west coast of Saudi Arabia.
The plant capacities vary from 8, 500 m³/day up to 51, 000 m³/day. All plants design and construction under same technical specification. total plants capacity 238, 000 m³/day. plant’s location and capacities as listed below.
1- Haql Plant: 17, 000 m³/day 2- Duba Plant: 25, 500 m³/day 3- Wajh Plant: 25, 500 m³/day
4- Umluj Plant: 25, 500 m³/day 5- Rabigh Plant: 42, 500 m³/day 6- Laith Plant: 42, 500 m³/day
7- Qunfudah Plant: 51, 000 m³/day 8- Farasan Plant: 8, 500 m³/day

Worked as a Lead Commissioning & Process Engineer under Tractebel Engie, perform and witness commissioning activities as per SWPC/SWCC specification and standard.

The Shuaibah-3 Expansion II Project is a 250, 000 m3 per day SWRO desalination plant next to existing Shuaibah-3 IWPP and Shuaibah-3 Expansion IWP projects in Shuaibah. Project Value is 314 million US$.

Worked as a Lead Commissioning Engineer & look after the Commissioning Activities, work on VFDs (Schneider & Danfoss Vendors), Seawater Intake Pumps, Gravity Filters, IPS (Intermediate Pump Station) Pumps, ERD Booster Pumps, High Pressure Pumps, 2nd Pass Pumps, CIP Flushing Pumps, 13.8kV Switchgears, Schneider 2000KVA Dryer Transformers, MV MCCs, RO Trains (1st and 2nd Pass), DCS Process System and LOTO (Lock Out Tag Out) Activity.

Worked as a Senior Project Engineer (Electrical) in Project Management Department (PMD) / Substation Projects Division-East (Project Department-East) of National Grid-SA, Dammam to Supervise all the Activities at Substation Projects as per the Company’s Requirement in Concern to its Fruitful Progress Complying with the Prescribed time Frame and Excellent work Quality under the Safety Measures, Controlled the Below mention Substation and Overhead Transmission Line Projects in Eastern Area.

Major Accountabilities Are:
• Lead the Projects and Coordinate with Contractors from Construction Stage to Testing & Commissioning until Energize the Substation to follow the Schedule and make sure to complete the Project on-time.
• Direct and Coordinate Construction, Installation, Maintenance, Support, Documentation Complying with the Company’s Requirements
• Design Review Comparison & Cross Check with Company Standards and other International Standards, Dealing with Comments Compliance, Contractual Awareness, Schedule-B and Approved Vendor Documents.
• Co-ordinate with Design Team in Maintaining and Update the Design Features of Plan & Profile, Key Route Plan with Sectional Detail, Sag & Tension Calculation, S&T Template Curve.
• Tower Assembly & Erection, Tightening and Cad weld Earthling Followed by Standards/Specification.
• Insulator Hoisting & Pave out, 120/70 KN OPGW Installation and Hardware Assembly.
• Conductor Stringing, Spacer/Dampers & Clipping way, Mid Span Joints & Repair Sleeve.
• Cable Cut Length, Snacking and Phase Identification in GIS, Management of FOC.
• Daily Site Visits and Look after the Status of Site Progress from Contractor Side.
• Inspect (RFI / MRI) Completed Installation and Observe Operations, to ensure Conformance to Design and Equipment Specifications (TCS, TES, TMSS & TSD) and Compliance with Operation.
• Coordinate with CSD (Commissioning Service Department) Engineer to complete all Testing and Commissioning Activities to ensure compliance with Specification, Codes and Company’s Requirements for Energize the Substation on-time.
• Punch List Clearance at Site and Approval.
• Daily Reports to NG/SEC Head Office of Site Progress and Site Activities.
• Attend Weekly, Bi-weekly & Monthly Meeting with Contractor for Checking and Balance Activities including Vendor/Manufacturer Action Plan and Track Supplier’s Shipments and Missing Items.
• Make Sure that Contractor must be follow the 5-Star Safety Procedure as per SEC Standard with Zero Incident, House Keeping & Quality.
• Check and Balance Substation & Transmission Line Equipment \[Power Transformer, Gas Insulated Substation (GIS), MV Switchgear 13.8kV, Capacitor Bank, DC Battery & Charger Units, Relay & Protection Panels, Station Service Transformer (SST), Insulator, OPGW, Main AC & DC Panels, Substation Automation System (SAS), Fire Alarm & Fire Fighting, PACU Units, Lighting Pole & Shielding Mast, Lighting Fixtures Include Conduiting & Wiring of AC/DC, HV/MV Cable Laying and Termination, LV Power & Control Cables Laying & Termination, Optical Fiber, MV/LV/LC Cable Trays & Channel Support, Communication Equipment, Surge Arrester, Automatic Meter Reading System (AMRS), Gantry for Overhead Transmission Line, Grounding & Etc.\]
• Check & Review Red-Markup Drawings and Sign for Submit As-Built Drawings By Contractor.
• Coordinate with Jubail Asset Maintenance Department (JAMD) in Jubail for Allow the Contractors to Perform the Activity in Remote End Substations.
• Study Technical Drawings, Specifications of Electrical Systems, and Topographical Maps to ensure that Installation and Operations Conform to Standards and Company Requirements.
• Add New CBs and AMI Panels in Energized Substations. (16BD 115/13.8kV Substation & 21BD 115/13.8kV Substation Recently going to Add new CBs)
• From Raft Foundation to Hand Over the Station, All Activities Supervise As a SEC/NG Representative.

Worked as a Project Site Manager on Sulfur Railcar Loading Facilities Project under Asyad International Company Limited for Khursaniyah Gas Plant (KGP), Wasit Gas Plant (WGP) and Berri Gas Plant (BGP) in Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia.

The Purpose of the proposed facilities is to support the Kingdom strategy of developing the Wa“ad Al-Shamaal Industrial City that will focus on phosphoric acid based industries. The Project will allow Transporting 10, 000 metric ton per day of Molten Sulfur from KGP, WGP and BGP to Ma“aden Facilities at Wa“ad Al-Shamaal and Ras Al-Khair.

Major Accountabilities Are:
• Managing and leading the Project Team and Coordinate with Client and Contractor, make Schedule of E&I work
• Detailed Project planning and Control including:
• Developing and Maintaining a Detailed Project Plan as per Saudi Aramco Engineering Standard (SAES).
• Monitoring Project Progress and Performance on Daily Basis.
• Make sure that Project is on-going as per Schedule and Providing status Reports to the Client
• Weekly and Monthly Meeting with Client and Prepare 3-weeks Schedule
• Manage Monitoring and Control Activities on Site as per Saudi Aramco Engineering Standard
• Daily, Weekly and Monthly work Progress Report submit internal top Management.

Worked as a Project Engineer (Electrical) as consultant. Riyadh PP-12 project is a greenfield combined cycle power plant. The project consists of GE Power 7F.05 class-F Gas Turbines of a nominal capacity of 140-170 MW each at rated site conditions capable of operating in a simple cycle mode plus appropriate Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSGs) Steam Turbine Generators (GE Power STF30C) & balance of plant auxiliary equipment to provide a complete combined cycle power plant from fuel & raw water receiving to high voltage interconnection. Total Capacity is 2, 170MW, Project Value is 1.25 billion US$.

Major Accountabilities Are:
• Direct or coordinate construction, installation, maintenance, support, documentation, or testing activities to make sure compliance with specifications, codes, or customer requirements.
• Undertake the professional management and execution of contract and project works including Observation of work to identify standards are applied
• Construction supervision of all activities performed by Contractor pertaining to Electrical.
• Inspection on various stages of the project as per QA/QC Plan and Inspection & Testing Plans.
• Review of Project Schedule and Follow up with Planning Engineer and Project Manager.
• Coordinate & participates in project discussions with departments.
• Attend weekly Project review meetings and report on Electrical work.
• Basic Design review, Contracts, Scope of Work etc
• Conducts sites visits and assessment, as required to execute design work.

Worked as an Electrical Engineer (Commissioning) under Samsung C&T Corporation (Engineering & Construction Group). World’s largest independent combined cycle natural gas-fired power project, Qurayyah-IPP comprises 6 identical groups of equipment, each delivering net output of 666MW. Each group comprises 02 Gas Turbine Generator (GTG), 02 Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) and 01 Steam Turbine Generator (STG). Siemens SGT6-5000F (F-class) Gas Turbine.
Total capacity of power plant 4, 000MW, its 100km south from Dammam, Project Value is 2, 717 million US$.

• Commissioning of power plant, main and auxiliary machinery.
• Coordinate with Commissioning & Warranty Engineers in Testing, Commissioning, analysis and performance evaluation of the engines & auxiliary machinery.
• Planning and Execution of Preventive and Breakdown maintenance activities of plant.
• Maintaining the minimum inventory for smooth operation of plant.
• Operation & Troubleshooting of SF6 CB, GE Protection relays (L90, D60, T35, etc.).
• Troubleshooting on rotating diode excitation system of generator.
• Troubleshooting & maintenance of LV/MV & HV Switchgear of plant keeping in view of all necessary safety precautions & SOPs.
• Troubleshooting on GEC Alstom Alternators & testing of transformers.
• Troubleshooting on different PLC based logic panels of GENSET & its auxiliaries.
• Troubleshooting on Schneider Electric Modicon Quantum PLCs, HMIs and Siemens S7-400 PLCs.
• Troubleshooting on transmitters, Switches, Temperature detectors & its controllers of GENSET & its auxiliaries.
• Worked on UPS system (AEG), 110V DC Battery chargers (AEG), 24V DC & 125V DC Battery chargers.
• Troubleshooting on exhaust gas Boiler & Reciprocating compressors.
• Plan, supervise, implement and evaluate the operation & maintenance of engines and auxiliaries.
• Liaise with Govt. departments, contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers.

• Coordinate with control room and other process units before any interconnected operation & Battery limits.
• Monitor the product and crude inventory through co-ordination with oil movement personal.
• Perform duties on these unites in case of department’s requirements on rotational basis.
\{Propane Recovery Unit, Hydro Treating (Hydrobon) Unit, Platforming Unit, Oil movement of Crude Oil Tanks, Furnace Area, Fuel Area, Lube Area, LPG & propane vessels area and other areas\}
• To carry out routine monitoring of all operations and ensure daily operating conditions are as per set standards.

The Powerhouse Installed Capacity 7.5 MW at MV rating 6000V, Hands-on experience on maintenance of Gas driven Gensets, Waukesha L-5794 (6 x 900KW) & GE-Jenbacher J-320 GS (2 x 1065KW)

Major Accountabilities Are:
• Planning and execution of routine maintenance work as per job request of operation department and response to emergency maintenance
• Planning and execution of preventive maintenance work as per schedule
• Managing time and manpower for executing the annual and major overhauls and prepare overhaul work reports
• Supervise and monitor the progress of all types of routine, breakdown and planned maintenance activities, so as to minimize down time for the equipment for increased plant availability
• Carry out engineering investigation of plant defects as necessary and undertake other engineering investigation and test work
• Ordering of plant spares and set track stock level so as to avoid shortage of spares during major overhaul and routine maintenance of the plant for increased plant availability
• Taking participation in the identification and correction of engineering problems as directed by instrument engineer
• Maintaining the calibration record as per ISO17025/9000 requirements.
• Managing the tools for technicians
• Providing software simulation through “engineering station ES680” as per the operation and maintenance requirement
• Arrangement of Toolbox talks, Risk assessments and Safety Tours of working areas.