Nilesh Modak, Civil Structural Lead Engineer

Nilesh Modak

Civil Structural Lead Engineer

FLUOR

Location
India - Gurgaon
Education
Master's degree, Structural Engineering
Experience
25 years, 11 Months

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Total years of experience :25 years, 11 Months

Civil Structural Lead Engineer at FLUOR
  • India - Gurgaon
  • My current job since June 2015
Principal Engineer at Technip E & C India
  • India - Mumbai
  • August 2009 to June 2015

Working as a Lead Engineer/Area Lead
Furnish Engineering input to Engineering team & guiding them
Involved in Planning, Scope Development, WBS, Man-hour & Cost -Estimates, Scheduling, Managing team & deliverable, Monitoring & Communicating Project Status, Co-ordination, Pre bid engineering, review Engg, Coordinate audits, Interaction with Client & Project Closure
Involved in Estimation of Man-Hours for many Sales offers after receiving ITB documents. (ONGC OPAL Dahej, SKEC Jurong Aromatics Ltd etc.)

PROJECT EXPERIENCE:

Chevron Phillips Chemical Company - USGC Petrochemical Project, Texas, USA

Involved in
Conceptual design of steel pipe racks and process structures,
Conceptual design of equipment, structures, building, and pipe-rack foundations,
Conceptual design of site rough grading, as well cut and fills soil balance.
Conceptual design of storm drainage system, site paving, surfacing, and roads,
Civil/structural material take-off Calculation (+/-10% MTO) for TIC estimate.

Jordan Bromine Company Ltd - JBC Continuous TBBPA Facility, Jordan.
Worked as Civil Structural Lead Engineer for this project

Visited Baton Rouge, LA, USA, for Kick-off Meeting, Planning, estimate preparation & schedule development of Phase III portion of the JBC Petra Bromine Project.

This is Brown field project, adding new facilities in Existing Plant. Involved in Monitoring all design & deliverable activities. Involved in Revamping of existing Piperack & structures for new facilities requirement. Design of TBBPA Facility process Structure.

Exxon Mobil Chemical Asia Pacific - SPT Olefins recovery project, Jurong Island, Singapore
Working as Lead Engineer for this project
Responsibilities:
Site Support for technical queries & involved in replying fabrication/Site RFI’s.
Was Deputed to Site for 3 weeks for site Engineering Support.
Received award & recognition certificate for outstanding contribution.

Design Engineer II at Fluor Daniel India Ltd.
  • India - Delhi
  • March 2004 to August 2009

OJSC Taneco Refining & petrochemical Complex, Nizhnekamsk-Republic of Tartastan
Worked as Area Lead Engineer for Amine regeneration unit for this project.
Supervise a team of design engineers & designers to achieve the project goal.
Also involved in job planning, resource mobilization as per project requirement for whole project.
Co-ordination with other disciplines (at GEC & Prime office) for required design inputs for Structural Scope as well as solving the problems.
ALCOA Warrick Power Plant
Worked As a checker & supervise a team of design engineers & designers to achieve the project goal
At later stage of project, became Lead Engineer also involved in job planning, resource mobilization as per the project requirement for whole project
Coordination with other disciplines (at GEC & prime office) for required design inputs for structural scope
Reviewing & checking of engineering deliverables to ensure project quality procedure
Got Special Monitory award (US$500) as well as Memento Award from client ALCOA for outstanding contribution to the Project

OPTI CANADA Long Lake Up-grader Project. (Alberta) Canada

Worked as design engineer.
Involved and associated in the following activities
•Design of Modular process pipe rack
•Design of Many Modular Process Structures supporting Exchangers, vessels & Multi Utility Supports (Piping, Electrical etc.)..
•All Structures are designed considering Modular Concept. It also includes Fire, Lifting & Transportation Analysis for the same,
Imperial Oil Limited (Strathcona) Canada
Worked as design engineer.
Involved and associated in the following activities.
•Design of process pipe rack
•Design of Reactor (100ft High) Tabletop & its Foundations Suporting at Ht of 18 ft from Ground
•Design of Furnace Foundation (100ft High)
•Pump foundations.
•Exchanger/ Filters and Vertical Vessel foundations.

Civil - Structural Design Engineer at JACOBS Humphreys & Glasgow Pvt. Ltd.
  • India
  • April 2002 to March 2004

Experience in Structural Design of Various Structural Components of Oil/Petroleum Refineries using latest software packages viz. Staad-Pro - 2003 and AutoCAD R2000 using AISC & Indian Codes and other International Codes.

Detailed Design for 21m high Lift Shaft for SRF Ltd., Alwar, Rajasthan.

It includes design of RCC 21m high Lift Shaft for Multipurpose Plant for SRF Ltd.. Using STAAD-Pro and preparation of drawings using AutoCAD R-2000i etc.

Detailed Design Engineering for Soda Ash Plant Expansion for M/S Nirma Ltd.

It includes various design of RCC as well Steel Structures for Section 500 (Filtration & Calcinations) and Section 300 for Nirma Ltd. at Bhavanagar for Soda Ash Plant. It also includes various equipment Supporting Structures & foundations and working platform for the same.

Detailed Engineering for Retail Outlet Network for Reliance Petroleum Ltd.

It includes various design of RCC as well Steel Buildings, layout of Petrol Pumps. It includes Detailed Engineering for Sales Buildings, Car & Truck Service Stations, and also Passenger Amenities like Dhaba & restaurant Buildings etc.

Design & Analysis of Equipment Supports for MIDREX

It includes Detailed Analysis and Design of Supporting Structures/ Steel platforms for Equipment like Dryer, Cooler, Scrubber and Palletizer etc. for M/s MIDREX Technologies Inc., USA.

Design Engineer at HINDUSTAN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY LIMITED,
  • India
  • January 2001 to April 2002

Experience in Structural Design of Various Structural Components of Bridge & Temporary Structures Like Batching Plant Foundations etc. using latest software packages viz. Staad - PRO, and AutoCAD R14 using AASHTO and CEB - FIP Codes.

Bandra - Worli Sea-Link Project

Worked on Design of various structural components of approach spans of 50m each continuous (all Precast Concrete Segmental Construction) to Cable Stayed Bridge unit for Bandra - Worli Sea Link Project due to re-segmentation using IRC, AASHTO and CEB - FIP Codes. Also preparing Methodology Statement for the Erection of Segments. Also involved in Design of Temporary Structures like Foundations and supporting structures for Gantry, Casting Yard, SIMEM and LEIBHERR Batching Plants and also involved in Analysis and detailed design of Gantry Trusses and Erection Truss and involved in methodology and design of Jetty Strengthening and presently doing some permanent work checks for the segments as well as shop Drawings for Precast Segments.

Assistant Design Engineer at CONSULTING ENGINEERING SERVICES (INDIA) LIMITED,
  • India
  • November 1997 to January 2000

Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP-II)
Detailed design for widening of existing Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road & Anik Panjarpole Link Road for Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority, in technical association with M/s Wilbur Smith & Associates, Columbia (USA); job including design of PSC bridge (25m - 2 Span Continuous), B.O.Q preparation, cost estimation, It also includes the conditional Survey of all the eight bridges on Jogeshwari - Vikhroli Link Road.

Mumbai -Pune Express High way & Improvements to Existing NH-4 between Adoshi and Long Tunnel near Khandala and Construction of Khandala - Lonavala Bypass. Involved in design of various C.D.works viz. Box culverts, slab & pipe culvert, Overpass bridges (20m Span), Viaducts (known as Non- Toll Road Bridges of span 18m - 5 Span Continuous including Superstructure and Sub-structure) along the Expressway.

Sports Stadium at BSES Nagar, Mumbai
Involved in design of various Components of Sports Stadium viz. Stadium Building, Steel Structure Roof Truss.

National Stock Exchange (I) Ltd. (NSEIL) Building at Bandra - Kurla Complex Mumbai
Analysis and Design of Virendeel Girder portion for NSEIL building (G + 8) entrance portion. Prepared a model for Analysis as well as design of Virendeel girder portion & their connections between steel members & concrete members.

Airoli Railway Station Commercial Complex, Airoli, Navi Mumbai.
Design of Roof Truss for Platform Area, portion for Station building (G + 2) for CIDCO, Analysis as well as design of complicated roof for platform portion & involved in design of office building of Airoli station commercial complex.

Up gradation of CPR Hospital at Kolhapur and Patan.
Involved in design of hospital’s new building at Kolhapur. Involved in modeling big building of hospital (G+4)

Pedestrian Subway on Jungli Maharaj Road at Pune.
Involved in design of Pedestrian Underground Subway across Jungli Maharaj Road for Pune Municipal Corporation.

Site Engineer at M/s Traphalgar Construction House, Mumbai.
  • India
  • August 1997 to November 1997

Experience in Excavation & Construction of retaining wall aswell as Casting of deck slab and soffit slab for box girder.

Education

Master's degree, Structural Engineering
  • at Indian Institute of Technology, Powai, Bombay
  • January 2001

First Class with Distinction (CPI = 8.0  80%) Elective: Earthquake Engineering, Finite Element Method, and Plastic Analysis, Structural Dynamics etc. Dissertation Subject: Behaviour of Shear Walls Small Project: Design of simply supported Bridge (Span 25m) Design of Industrial Shed (Span 50m)

Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering
  • at Mumbai University
  • May 1997

First Class with Honours (64 %) Elective: Structural Analysis, Prestressed Concrete Structures. Project: Design of Prestressed Concrete Box Girder Bridge for Kalwa -Thane Creek Site. Small Project: Design of Bungalow (G + 1) R.C.C. Structure.

Specialties & Skills

Steel Structures
Project Execution
Engineering Design
Estimating
Project Work
KNOWLEDGE OF STAAD-Pro V8i, ANSYS, NISA
KNOWLEDGE OF Microsoft Office, AUTOCAD Tools etc
KNowledge of UNIX, LATEX, LEAP 5, LANGUAGE C & FORTRAN 77

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Marathi
Expert
Gujarati
Beginner

Memberships

IIT Bombay
  • Alumini Membership
  • January 2000
AISC
  • Professional Use
  • March 2004
PMI
  • Member
  • August 2012