Nikhil Ashok, Technical Field Advisor

Nikhil Ashok

Technical Field Advisor

GE Power Service

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering
Experience
18 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 10 Months

Technical Field Advisor at GE Power Service
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since September 2014

Technical Field Advisor for gas turbine site overhauls. Lead the site activities, man power planning, job planning, site coordination, technical reporting, ensuring EHS adherence, QA documentation and technical liaison with clients/ engineering department in various customer sites across Middle East & Africa.

Shift Lead Engineer- Contract job at Alstom Thermal Services FZE
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • April 2014 to May 2014

Lead engineer for gas turbine site overhauls. Lead the site activities, man power planning, job planning, site coordination, technical reporting, ensuring EHS adherence, QA documentation and technical liaison with clients/ engineering department in various customer sites across Middle East & Africa.

Shift Lead Engineer- Free lance Job at Alstom Thermal Services FZE
  • Qatar - Doha
  • October 2013 to November 2013

Free Lancer job for gas turbine overhauling in the capacity of Night Shift Lead Engineer for Alstom at a client site in Qatar (Client: Qatar Water & Electricity Company, Doha, Qatar.

Support Engineer- Fabrication at Siemens Ltd
  • India - Vadodara
  • October 2012 to October 2013

Fabrication of steam condenser (up to 120 MW).
Fabrication of pre designed compressor fans.
Fabrication of gas compressor base frame and process piping.
Quality check for the fabricated machineries and reporting of non conformities.
Shop floor supervision.
Responsible for daily job planning, co-ordination of work and shop floor feeding.
Preparing of reports/ QA documents for end customer.

Lead Field Service Engineer- Gas turbines at Alstom Thermal Services FZE
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • September 2008 to July 2012

Lead the mechanical activities during on-site inspection of OEM Gas Turbo generator (ALSTOM make GT13E2- 160 MW & GT13D- 100 MW), for major & minor outages.
Responsible for daily job planning and to execution.
Disassembly and Re-assembly of entire gas turbine, i.e. outer and inner casings, rotor, stator parts, combustion chamber, burners, bearings, blow out valves etc…
Assist the assessment engineer for carrying out life time assessment of various components in GT.
Testing and refurbishing activities for all auxiliary components of the gas turbine.
Technical liaison between the client and technical department, as a single point contact in the site, during the inspections.
Communications with client/ technical department regarding progress of inspections, day to day activities, Permit to Work, tools and tackles etc.
Write Technical Reports regarding the inspection and overhauling activities to client and OEM.
Provide on field technical support (mechanical) for the OEM gas turbines and the auxiliary systems like gas valves, oil pumps, extractors, blow off valves etc. I was able to provide technical support (GT mechanical & auxiliaries) to various clients across Middle East such as Bahrain, Kuwait, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Iraq, Qatar etc.

Engineer- Advanced Parts at Weir Oil & Gas FZE
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • December 2007 to September 2008

Reverse engineering of third party components.
Scanning of samples using FARO ARM, the 6 degree freedom CMM and 3D modeling of the data collected using Solid Works 2006.
Preparing 2D manufacturing drawings from the solid model & arrange for manufacturing of the component.
Co-ordinate with foundry and machine shop for getting the component manufactured according to the drawing. Components mainly reverse engineered: pump volutes, impellers, turbine casings, buckets, vanes, heat resistant tiles etc…

Engineer- Manufacturing at Siemens Ltd
  • India - Vadodara
  • March 2005 to September 2007

Manufacturing and assembly of industrial steam turbines up to 140 MW.
Quality check for the fabricated and assembled machineries and reporting of NCR
Shop floor supervision.
Responsible for daily job planning, co-ordination of work and shop floor feeding.
Preparing of reports/ QA documents for end customer.

Graduate Engineer Trainee at Adeep Locks
  • India - Bengaluru
  • August 2004 to February 2005

Support the production lane by designing new tools & tackles.
Develop new procedures/ jigs and fixtures for new products.
Design & manufacture jigs & fixtures.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering
  • at Pondicherry University
  • April 2004
Diploma, Mechanical Engineering
  • at Board of Technical Education, Kerala
  • March 2001

Specialties & Skills

Gas Turbines
Steam Turbines
Field Service
Technical Support
Manufacturing

Languages

English
Expert
Malayalam
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate
Tamil
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

GT13E2 C-Inspection Course (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2010
Valid Until:
August 2010
Rotating Equipment Training (DT-KT) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2010
Valid Until:
June 2010
Erection Engineer Basic Training (MONT Program) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2010
Valid Until:
July 2010
GT13E2 Basic Course (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2010
Valid Until:
May 2010
Alstom certified expert in GT13E2 Gas tubrines (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2010
Valid Until:
October 2012

Hobbies

  • Cricket
  • Pencil Sketching & Painting
  • Aquairum Keeping
  • Travel