Muhammad Shahid Ghani

-Reports to Country Manager, Power Systems
-Providing country wide engineering support to regional sales department for Electric Power Segment, Oil & Gas segment, Industrial and Marine segments, Air and Gas compressor division. Also liaise with Chiller division for engineering design activities of Co-generation and Tri-generation projects.
-Ensuring application compliance with principal requirements for maintaining higher operational availability of a power system by disseminating reference data/ acceptance criteria/ standards/ specifications.
-Establishing the specification of materials/equipment/systems and defining its acceptance criteria, conducting periodic verification and validation for the adherence to such acceptance criteria through technical audits in line with contractual provisions, standards, regulations and guidelines.
-Planning for design and project execution by conducting design reviews with A&I and project engineers
-Reviewing and understanding specific technical requirements in tenders and RFQs and transform the requirements by preparing and releasing engineering design data, drawings/ documents
-Coordinating with regional sales, Installation Execution and Commissioning Teams during the project life cycle.
-Part of vendor rating committee to improve upon the quality of receiving materials to meet customer specified output requirements.

Experience in innovative projects
- 7MW no-break power system at Tetra Pak comprising of 1 x 2MW high speed diesel gensets (C175) and 2500 kVA dynamic flywheel UPS for essential loads and 2 x 2.6 MW (3612) medium speed diesel gensets for non-essential loads with turnkey project cost of approx US$ 6 million. This project was one of its own kind among Caterpillar dealerships and presented as show case project to more than 80 dealers during Electric Power Dealer Conference at Malaga Spain in 2010.

Managed Oil & Gas segment of Power Systems department since Jan 2005.

- Reports to G.O Power System Manager.
- Business development for New Petroleum, Marine and Industrial segment in order of priority of anticipated sales forecast in each segments.
- Liaison and Coordination with Caterpillar EAME contacts for customer relationship management.
- Developing and Supervising Gas Compression Package Solution for Upcoming Gas Pipeline Projects.
- Developing and Supervising Repowering of marine engine with Remanufactured Engines.
- Developing and Supervising Repowering Projects of Petroleum Engines.
- Ensuring sales support for Power Generation and Cogeneration Projects in Oil & Gas Sector including quotations and bidding, follow up on technical and commercial queries.
- Supervise Project Management of Oil & Gas Projects with dedicated Project Engineer(s) reporting back for project controls.
- Providing feedback to Product Support department for developing product support in Petroleum, Marine and Industrial Segment.

Experience in some of the successfully done project
OGDCL - N3 SCR drill rig repowering Project for 4 x 3512 MUI Engines
OGDCL - N55 D353 land mechanical drill rig repowering Project with conversion of pneumatic controls to electronic governor controls by designing common electronic foot throttle system for 3 x 3412E engines.
OGDCL - F125 Romanian drill rig repowering project for replacement of Upetrum Engines with 2 x 3512 MUI engines package with NOV torque converter and lead the reverse engineering of locally designed custom spider for compound drive

Promoted to Project Specialist and appointed as first Black Belt for Six Sigma Implementation by the leadership of Allied Engineering after filtering out candidates based on past performance and skills required.
Six Sigma Process Improvement Projects:
1) Sourcing of 3500 Switchgear with Lev- I benefits achieved US$445, 000
2) Parts Hold & Transport cost with Lev-I&II benefits achieved US$45, 000
3) Reducing dead stock & slow moving parts - US$ 60, 000

Six Sigma DMAIC Black Belt Experience
Management and Statistical Skills using 6 Sigma
DMAIC process Improvement, Project Chartering, process mapping, Qualitative Process Analysis, Project Management, Change Management, Stakeholder Management and Communication, Business Risk Management, Determining Voice of the customer and Voice of the Business, Building Effective Teams and defining their roles for process/ quality improvement, Process Measurements, Process Capability Studies, Process Stratification, Root cause analysis, Gage R&R, FMEA/ EMEA, Statistical Techniques for process control, Correlation and Regression, DOE, Techniques for generating Improvement Ideas, Techniques for evaluate Solutions, Controlling the improvement process and process management, Inventory Management.

Team Dynamics.
Lead projects where the subject focus and solution are complex in nature, availability, and attainability. Lead improvement projects within the value center and effectively coordinate these projects with the Deployment Champion (Managing Director) and other improvement project teams.
Communication Skills.
Ensuring multi-channel communication throughout the organization. Provide quantitative data indicating the scope of the operation including current year and forecast sales, net income, total assets, controlled number of personnel, operating budget, and any other quantitative factors which describe the scope of the operation.

Five years and plus experience as Sr. Project Engineer (Special Projects) in the Power System department of Allied Engineering & Services Limited, sole dealer of CATERPILLAR Inc. (USA). Responsible as a Project Manager of international projects in the field of oil, gas and energy sector companies. Establish and maintain a full working knowledge of the project scope of work and commercial/contract conditions. Supervise project engineers and delegate responsibilities for areas of work to be undertaken. Developing work breakdown structure and produce project plans in MS Project/ Primavera P3. Undertake the role of both Cost and Planning Engineer on small or front end study projects and manage medium sized projects. Prepare comprehensive monthly project status reports in accordance with the project procedure. Prepare the projects documentation including data sheets, project quality plan, ITP, construction, installation and commissioning plan; and system performance testing.
Experience in major international projects in Pakistan includes:

-Mazarani Gas Field Development Project
-BHIT Gas Field Development Project for ENI-LASMO (Pakistan).
-Zamzama EWT Gas Facilities Project for BHP Petroleum (Pakistan)
-Ghazi Barotha Hydel Power Project, with WAPDA consultant Ewbank Preece Ltd (UK) and for the Dongfang Electric Corporation (China).

Lead the successful establishment and implementation of ISO 9002 quality assurance model in B.E.W.L. as ‘ISO 9000 Project Coordinator’ and ‘Team Leader’ of Internal Quality Auditors. Successfully implemented the proposed process improvement and process/plant layout with regard to Material Handling and changes in fixture design with the help of QC tools that helped the reduction in the material wastage. Actively participated in the TPM, 5S and Kaizen activities with the production line workers and labors on the shop floor.