NIKHIL WALIA, Senior Reliability Engineer

NIKHIL WALIA

Senior Reliability Engineer

SAUDI ARAMCO

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Bachelor's degree, ELECTRONICS & INSTRUMENTATION
Experience
18 years, 7 Months

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Total years of experience :18 years, 7 Months

Senior Reliability Engineer at SAUDI ARAMCO
  • Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
  • My current job since May 2014

"Works with Project Engineering to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and"
"modified installations."
"Guides efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls, and safety/security systems."
"Uses tools as Tap root and FRACAS to do root cause analysis and to put"
"recommendations."
"Develops engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations. These problems include capacity, quality, cost or regulatory compliance issues."
"Publishes statistical reports and KPI's as MTBF(mean time between failures), Work order quality, Bad actors report, Monthy Reliability and trip reports etc."
"Uses data analysis tools as :FRACAS, Fault Tree analysis, Tap Root.FMEA."
"Provides technical support to production, maintenance management and technical personnel."
"Works on PM optimization using specialized softwares as PMO2000. Establishes concept of TPRM in organization ."
"Facilitates / Participates in Asset and Instrument Criticality Analysis."
"Maintains and analyzes elements of Reliability data, including: Overall Equipment Effectiveness losses, work order cost and failure code analysis, failure analysis, and maintenance of the asset hierarchy."
"Interfaces directly with designated operating areas on matters of ongoing process control issues, structured loss elimination program, and recommended proactive maintenance opportunities."
"Carry out Alarm Rationalization study ."
"Reviews all capital projects and participates in meetings with Vendors so as to implement reliability from start itself."

LEAD ENGINEER MAINTENANCE-INSTRUMENTATION at RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED
  • India - Surat
  • October 2005 to May 2014

Responsible for the continuous running of equipment and machinery;
Designing maintenance strategies, procedures and methods;
Carrying out routine scheduled maintenance work and responding to equipment faults
and diagnosing breakdown problems;
Carrying out quality inspections on jobs;
Liaising with client departments, customers and other engineering and production
colleagues;
Controlling maintenance tools, stores and equipment;
Monitoring and controlling maintenance costs;
Dealing with emergencies, unplanned problems and repairs;
Managing and controlling annual turn around effectively and safely.
Working with specialist equipment, such as programmable logic controllers (PLC),
DCS, Vibration monitoring systems, CMMS, Compressor controls systems.
Provide technical advice during troubleshooting and corrective action of instrument
breakdown or failures to find the root cause and best solution in order to restore the
functionality back to normal.
Administer the relevant contract, its contractors and suppliers associated to the works
as contract holder to ensure compliance to the procedures, policies and guidelines set
to support the maintenance needs.
Identify, study, propose, and implement area for improvement (project) in the field
of instrumentation engineering to enhance operation and improve total equipment
reliability.
Forecast and prepare budget for instrument related activities i.e. maintenance,
shutdown and project for consolidation into department yearly Work Program and
Budget (WPB). Monitor budget utilization closely and provide justification for
variance.
Populate inputs into Computerized Materials and Maintenance Management System
(CMMMS) to ensure data and history of equipment maintenance activities are
captured accurately.

Education

Bachelor's degree, ELECTRONICS & INSTRUMENTATION
  • at KURUKSHETRA UNIVERSITY
  • June 2005

Specialties & Skills

Compressor
Instrumentation
Reliability Engineering
Functional Safety
TPRM/TQM/RCM
Control System Networking

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert

Memberships

Society of Maintenance & Reliability Professionals
  • Certified permanent member
  • November 2015
International Society of Automation
  • Executive member
  • August 2015

Training and Certifications

CFSP(Certified Functional Safety Professional) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2015
Valid Until:
December 2018
CMRP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2015
Valid Until:
November 2018
Certified Tap Root Analyst (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2015
Valid Until:
January 9999

Hobbies

  • Presentations
    Presented technical papers in various technical presentations.
  • Reading Technical articles & journels
    implemented best practices in Reliability in the field of PM optimization, TQM in my current company.