Senior Reliability Engineer
Marafeq Qatar
Total years of experience :17 years, 10 Months
• Initiated the RCA of critical centrifugal compressor high speed repeated bearing failure upon every power failure and implemented the corrective action saving the costly failure and peak season downtime.
• Investigated the root cause of 3 times switchgear flashover in 2 years, at least 3 design issues and poor-quality components identified and corrected, leading to more reliable and safe operation.
• Initiated and regularized the 3 main predictive maintenance program- vibration, ultrasound, thermograph and identified and corrected the flaws in oil sampling and analysis resulting in reduction of 75% unplanned failures in 2 years for pumps and cooling tower gearboxes.
• Actively lead the efforts for improving the preventive / predictive maintenance compliance rate from 55% to 95% in 2 years, which resulted in reduction of critical equipment failures by 60% and direct failures cost saving.
• Worked actively with team to improve the work management and planning -scheduling and productivity improved by at least 15%.
A) Maintenance & Reliability
1. Lead and supervised the maintenance/ testing projects, expert in applying effective and applicable techniques for power distribution assets like cables,
motors, alternators and transformers.
2. Develop an FMEA based maintenance work instructions for individual assets with an optimal combination of preventive & predictive methods.
3. Experienced in troubleshooting and maintenance of circuit breakers, VCB, bus
bar maintenance, CT, VT, cable fault location, transformer preventive maintenance and key observation, routine logs, temperature observation and NDT for protection relays etc.
4. Condition monitoring & testing expertise in partial discharge testing-Ultrasonic & TEV, tan-delta, MCSA, PDCA for switchgear, motors, transformers and cables.
5. Prevented at least 20 potential failures out of 300 cable circuits, as well as one potential failure of 20 dry transformers tested by early detection, minimizing downtime.
6. Enabled the asset owner to make better decision regarding rebuild or replace the asset by generating the health indices & life expectancy report of each asset based on test results.
7. Facilitated the RCM study for systems including Transformer, circuit breaker, heavy duty chillers & complex pumping systems & realized reduction on downtime by 45 to 65%.
8. Consulting the customer for reliability by conducting RCFA, FMEA and generated RPN (risk priority number)as required by client and submits the report and realized up to 30% increase in MTBF.
9. Achieved a reduction in downtime by at least 15% by planning the repair based
on defects identified by health assessment program.
B) Reporting & Analysis
1. Standardized the quality documentation like method statement, risk assessment and log sheets as well as the technical documents like electrical
drawings, loop diagrams, and markup etc.
2. Develop a communication matrix for each project considering the project requirement and involvement of stakeholders.
3. Prepared the conclusive reports with recommendation of action required by
collating the results of different tests.
C) Scheduling & Control
1. Completed the 100 % projects on time by creating a realistic project plan well in advance to be submitted to client for their approval and internal management.
2. Coordinate with other stakeholders like client, supplier and subcontractor to achieve completion on time.
D) Training & Awareness
1. Provided 70 hours training and onboarding induction to new staff about project requirement and technical support.
E) Project Management
1. Manage & maintain the scope, cost and schedule of the project.
2. Understanding of the contract and verification of the scope, discuss and finalize the scope of vendors and subcontractors.
3. Participate in decision making regarding the outsourcing & subcontracting the scopes and deliverables.
4. Maintain the cash flow.
5. Delivering the engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning as
Per the agreed schedule.
6. Review of the documents submitted by the vendors, QHSE documentation, PQP, Project plan & schedule, revenue reporting.
A) Maintenance & Reliability
1. Responsible for implementing effective & applicable Condition assessment techniques, like partial discharge test, thermograph, TEV & tan delta, insulation testing techniques on substation equipment like switchgear, transformer and capacitor banks.
2. Conduct the preventive/predictive maintenance, NDT for medium voltage power distribution assets like circuit breaker, VCB, switchgear, transformer, protection relays, & cables etc.
3. Involved in RCM analysis team and conduct FMEA for critical equipment, like switchgear, transformer.
4. Associated with the Pas 55 team for preparing and implementing the standards in line with the operations and maintenance.
5. Achieved the 70% reduction in LVDB flash overs by Initiating special condition monitoring program during the summer season 2014-15.
6. Optimized the maintenance efforts by categorizing & prioritizing the defects & prepared the follow up plans to focus the resources on the most critical area.
7. Generated the report highlighting the failure of the equipment by analyzing the CMMS/ SAP data.
8. Initiated the condition monitoring of 132/11 KV power transformer by Conducting a feasibility study to comply with the safety regulations.
B) Failure Study & Bad Actor Elimination
1. Study the failure rate of equipment to identify the bad actors, conduct RCFA using tools like FMEA, RCM and Fishbone etc. to generate the reports and recommendations.
2. Calculate and track the reliability KPIs, MTBF, SAIFI, CML, CAIDI etc. & devise a condition monitoring strategy to sustain the target reliability.
C) Reporting and Analysis
1. Prepare monthly performance report of the section. Calculate the cost saving based on potential failures detected based on net present value justifying ROI.
2. Review and update the life cycle costing and generate reports and suggested recommendations.
D) Scheduling & Control
1. Develop the schedule over CMMS, and update the comments and feedback to the system.
2. Monitor and evaluate the maintenance program and adjust the frequency as required based on health indices.
3. Coordinate with other departments like site maintenance, workshop and inventory, data center, IMS and projects.
E) Training & Knowledge sharing
1. Delivered 40 hours per year in-house training to the field staff regarding the new technologies of condition monitoring techniques & failure mechanism.
2. Identify the training needs for the team members and recommend the internal and external trainings required to training department.
• Planning, scheduling & controlling the effecting preventive & corrective maintenance activities. Categorizing the critical & non critical equipment in consultation with the process team and developing the maintenance plan. • Conduct maintenance of 11 kV switchgear, Non-destructive tests, and functional tests. Analysis the test results, graphs and verification against the set standards to plan the corrective action if required. • Troubleshooting the complex electrical circuits, Installation of starters and VFD drives, medium voltage starter, VFD drives and heavy duty chillier controls & control systems. • Formulation & implementation of various Standard Operating Procedures for repeatable processes & systematic delivery of high quality maintenance services. • Provide on-job training to team members and evaluate their performance over the period. • Coordinating with vendors and suppliers under service level contracts as well as one time service. • Maintaining quality standards, ensuring stringent adherence to quality standards, norms & practices, identifying gaps & taking corrective action. • Working in close coordination in work groups for ensuring adherence to quality standards. • Modifications in equipment, process flow, working practices, consumables, power, etc. for controlling & reducing conversion cost per unit produced. • Awareness with ISO & OHSAS standards was closely associated with the implementation in the organization. • Analysis of downtime, breakdown and maintenance costs to take corrective measures. • Monitoring, training & motivating the manpower for accomplishing the desired objective. Providing direction, motivation & training to team for ensuring optimum performance. • Techno-commercial evaluation of the spares and contracts, follow up with the purchasing department to ensure the timely delivery
Ripe component Ltd. is Korean firm involved in manufacturing the mobile chips and assembling.
I joined as electrical engineer trainee.
I took up the roles for utility maintenance, electrical switchgear and LVDB and motor control centres.
working in close coordination with the vendor and contractors.
1. Completed bachelors in electrical and electronics engineering in June 2006. 2. Joined a 2 week project in Bharat heavy electrical limited India in June 2004 for manufacturing and testing high voltage ceramic insulators used basically for overhead lines. 3.Joined a 2 week project in Bharat heavy electrical limited India in June 2005 for manufacturing and testing of air circuit breaker, oil circuit breakers for low and medium voltage switchgears.
