Muhammad Arshad Majeed, Production Manager  at Hydrogen & Hydrogen Peroxide  Plant

Muhammad Arshad Majeed

Production Manager at Hydrogen & Hydrogen Peroxide Plant

Sitara Peroxide Limited

Location
Pakistan - Faisalabad
Education
Master's degree, Chemical Engineering
Experience
17 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :17 years, 4 Months

Production Manager at Hydrogen & Hydrogen Peroxide Plant at Sitara Peroxide Limited
  • Pakistan - Faisalabad
  • My current job since October 2016

Directs and coordinates activities of industrial organization to obtain optimum efficiency and economy of operations maximize profits.

 Implement process improvement methods to ensure non-stop operations in safe & environmental friendly manner.

 Direct activities of engineering personnel engaged in preparing plans, designs, cost estimates and specifications for experimental, maintenance and modernization programs to define most feasible approach to technical problems.

 Establishing short & long-range plant operations and production objectives and specifying the strategies & actions to achieve them.

 Plan & execute process improvements projects, reducing raw material consumption and improving plant operations by using Work-In-Process (WIP) methodology.

 Responsible for inventory management, staff & production efficiency cost controls.

 Direct the activities of production engineers, supervisors and work with planning to make sure production schedule is accurate; issues can be resolved & target dates can be met efficiently.

 Coordinate activities of workers engaged in testing and metering unit operations, and collecting interpreting processing records.

 Provide leadership to staff, assessing performance, scheduling and directing all operational activities to make sure product quality consistency.

 Plan, schedule & coordinates technical activities with services departments for
troubleshooting, preventive maintenance, startup & shutdown.
 Ensure workplace safety through implementation, adherence and enforcement of
company business standards, and safety development programs.
 Plan, schedule & meet business production schedules as per monthly, quarterly &
annually basis.
 Evaluate performance records of chemical processes & physical operations, submits
report of findings to management.
 Assisting in recruiting, interviewing, selecting, and promoting employees in an
organization.

Senior Engineer Technical /R & D /HSE at Sitara Peroxide Limited
  • Pakistan - Faisalabad
  • July 2012 to September 2016

Modification project of HP unit along with Director Projects and Operation foreign
technologist.
 Supervise, monitor and operate process plant to maximize production and
minimize production loss ensuring compliance with SOPs.
 Excellent communication, administrative and interpersonal skills with high
proficiency in computer skills
 Responsible for the safety, efficiency, productivity and overall performance Of
departmental activities. Fully conversant with Environmental Impact Assessment
 Validating Plant Processes Operational Health including Steam Methane
Reforming, Hydrogenation, Oxidation, and Extraction & Distillation & providing
technical opinion for any plant operational non-conformance. Ensure plant
performance audit in line with agreed parameters of energy utilization, other
inputs and yield levels etc.
 Ensuring for the implementation of Consultants (Akkim & Pan-American) provided
plant operational parameters & in-process and finished product Specifications for
achieving Operational Excellence.
 Keeping a record of technology/parts/equipment suppliers and performance of
their supplied material for future decision making.
 Manage the generation of plant performance report on monthly basis.
 Keep liaison with process, mechanical, electrical, civil, personnel and commercial
departments for successful completion of all assignments as and when assigned
by management.
 Ensure plant performance audit in line with agreed parameters of energy
utilization, other inputs and yield levels etc.

Production Engineer at Sitara Peroxide Limited
  • Pakistan - Faisalabad
  • July 2009 to June 2012

 To insure the plant run smooth and efficiently.
 Manage shift staff and make sure that all persons are in their respective areas.
 Coordinate with services departments to get all jobs done on time in order to keep the plant on stream.
 Help the shift supervisor to bring plant to normal operation in case of any abnormality.
 To make sure that raw material, chemicals and utilities consumption are at optimum level.
 Insure that all jobs and work being done as per standard procedures to avoid any hazard.
 Insure that all areas are clean and housekeeping of plant ok.
 Maintain log book and write in detail about plant operation, abnormalities and maintenance jobs.
 Participate in daily coordination meetings and discussed process, production and quality relate problems.
 Planning and arrangement of machine parameters to provide abnormality.

Planning & executing the detail production strategies.
 Achieved optimized performance for Reforming, HTSC, De-Sulfurizaton, PSA,
Hydrogenation, Oxidation, Extraction, Purification, Drying & Post treatment
sections for attaining maximum production outcomes.
 Delivering day-to-day, weekly, monthly & yearly production targets.
 Prepare, execute & monitor annual turnaround (shutdown) activities.
 Monitoring & controlling plant operational activities and responsible for preparing
operational budget.
 Responsible for plant advanced trouble shooting & training junior engineering
staff.
 Prepare, execute & monitor plant modifications in accordance with process optimization & cost effectiveness.
 Coordination with lab team to maintain excellent health of working solution-using HPLC, GC & TOC analyzers.

Project Engineer at Sitara Peroxide Limited
  • Pakistan - Faisalabad
  • December 2006 to June 2009

 Understanding of PFD's, PID's, Isometrics, Fabrication, GA, Piping drawings.
 Erection, Commissioning & startup of 1, 500 Nm3/hr Hydrogen Gas generation plant (using Steam-Methane Reforming (SMR) process), Pan-American (USA)
 Erection, Commissioning & startup 150 MTD Hydrogen Peroxide plant (using Auto-Oxidation AO process), Ak-kim Kimya Sanayi Ticaret A.S (Turkey)
 Erection, Commissioning & startup 90 MTD Concentration plant (using vacuum distillation). Sulzer- Chemtech (Singapore)
 Hands on experience & operational control via DCS systems of EMERSON DELTA V & SUPCON JX-300.
 Erection, Commissioning & startup of utilities Reverse Osmosis Units (34 m3/hr x 2), De-mineralized Unit (17 m3/hr), Nitrogen Generation Unit (60 Nm3/hr), Fire Tube Boilers (13, 5 & 3 TPH), Cooling Towers, Chillers, & Centrifugal pumps
 Erection, Commissioning & startup of 10, 000 Nm3/hr Multistage Turbo Centrifugal Air Compressor (Make: Cooper Inc. USA), Instrument Air Compressors with Dryer (650 Nm3/hr x 2) 910 Nm3/hr Natural Gas Screw Compressors (Make: GEA Grasso).
 Preparation, Execution & Monitoring of shutdown activities.
 Catalysts loading & Activation in Hydrogenation Reactor (Palladium), White Earth Alumina Beds (Alumina Oxide), Reformer (Nickel), HTSC (Copper Promoted
Iron Oxide), De-Sulfurizer (Zinc Oxide), PSA (Alumina + Activated Carbon + Carbon Molecula

Education

Master's degree, Chemical Engineering
  • at Univeristy of Engineering & Technology Lahore
  • September 2013
Bachelor's degree, Chemical Engineering
  • at Univeristy of Engineering & Technology Lahore
  • May 2005

Specialties & Skills

Process Manufacturing
Technical Project Leadership
Plant Commissioning
Production Management
Project Management
Health , Safety and Environment

Languages

English
Expert

Memberships

Pakistan Engineering Council
  • CHEM/5409
  • May 2005

Training and Certifications

Erection,Commissioning and start up experience of Hydrogen production unit from Natural Gas by USA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2007
NEBOSH International General Certificate in Health and Occupational Safety (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2017
Merit Certificate of Total Quality Management (TQM) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2002
Valid Until:
January 2003
Fire Fighting Technique and Fire Prevention Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2013
Valid Until:
August 2013
Certificate of Start up, Operation And Safety of Hydrogen Generation plant by Panamerican USA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2007
Valid Until:
February 2008
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt by The Six Sigma Certification Council USA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2020

Hobbies

  • Internet, Readings Books etc