Pradhyumna C S, ENGINEERING TECHNICAL LEADER

Pradhyumna C S

ENGINEERING TECHNICAL LEADER

GE WATER & PROCESS TECHNOLOGIES

Location
India
Education
Master's degree, ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Experience
22 years, 2 Months

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Total years of experience :22 years, 2 Months

ENGINEERING TECHNICAL LEADER at GE WATER & PROCESS TECHNOLOGIES
  • India - Bengaluru
  • My current job since May 2013

GE Water & Process Technologies, . Is a Division under GE Power & Water, it’s a Global Company having technologies such as MBR/UF/RO/EDI/EDR, it’s a System Integrator kind of Company where We Provide the complete Treatment Solutions along with Engineering services w.r.to E&M front only
Major Job Responsibilities;
• Project Engineering
• Engineering Technical Leader- Responsible for Engineering of Following Projects
• 900m3/day MBR Plant for VGN Stafford - Chennai.
• 600m3/day MBR Plant for VGN Minnerva - Chennai
• 950m3/day MBR Plant for Delhi One
• 36m3/hr UF/RO Plant for VGN Minnerva - Chennai
• 1850m3/day RWTP consisting of RO/EDR/UF Backwash Recovery. 350m3/day ETP for PepsiCo Sri City
• 20m3/day ETP for Nestle Srilanka
• . AL Diwaniyia Power Project - 3700m3/day Water Treatment Plant - Pretreatment & Submerged UF/RO/EDI and Sludge handling
• AL Diwaniyia Power Project - 60m3/Day Sewage Treatment Plant, Oil waste treatment system
• 260, 000m3/day Pretreatment and Submerged UF Zeeweed 1000/RO Plant at Kuwait
• 34, 000m3/day - Ternium Mexico - Pre Treatment Plant /Lime Softening/Pressurized UF/Primary RO/HERO BWRO/Demin RO/EDI/Sludge Handling system/Submerged UF

Sr. Mechanical Engineer at ATKINS LTD
  • India - Bengaluru
  • September 2011 to May 2013

ATKINS LTD., Bangalore (India)
Sr Mechanical Engineer - Mechanical Electrical Process (MEP) - W&E

September 2011 to Till Date
Atkins Global is a Global Engineering Consulting Firm, having operation in many countries, . Atkins Bangalore works only for UK clients like Southern Water, Thames water, Wessex Water, Bristol Water etc.
Major Job Responsibilities;
• Design & Engineering
• Mentoring
• Involved in the following projects
• Leading the Team of MEICA Technical Support for Southern Water- Preparation of Maintenance Scheduled Task for MBR/SBR/SAF/Crypto Plant/Grit handling/Waste Water Pumping Station
• Working/Guiding on the following Projects.Blagdon Pumping Station - Variable Speed Pump head Calculations
• Pumping Station up gradation - Abbots Wood, Working on Standardization of Pump head Calculations and other Standardization of Spread Sheets
• Millbrook Sludge treatment Center - Sludge pump calculations.
• Pumping station design Calculations - Kent institute of medicine, Wood cote Grove, Sayers Commons
• Center of Excellence Schemes.Polbrough Inlet works, Upper Horse Bridge Schemes, Cod ford STC works, Ports wood Refurbishment of wash water pumps
• Wessex Water Schemes - Victoria Pumping Station - GA Drawings.
• Currently Working on Detailed Engineering of B0400 schemes, Monkton Dervil, Summers lade, Snow down, Little Down.

Sr Manager Design & Engineering at JUSCO - TATA STEEL
  • India - Bengaluru
  • April 2008 to August 2011

JUSCO is a wholly owned Subsidiary of TATA STEEL, has over 9 decades of exp in comprehensively managing a town “TATANAGAR” the town is spread over an area of 14000acres, JUSCO Manages Entire Gamut of Services like Water & Waste Water, Power services, Solid waste management, etc.
Major Job Responsibilities;
• Contracts Management & Extra Claim
• Detailed Engineering
• Pre bid Engineering
• Mentoring
• Faulty design by the consultant w.r.to Gravity main was checked and Re-designed. Which not only saved money but also client’s appreciation for my work
• Gave a Technical Presentation to the client on the basis of which we were allowed to participate in the bidding process, other wise we did not have the Prequalification.
• Convinced the client on location of Intake and change in the concept of Design & Engineering which resulted in timely progress of the work.

Involved in following projects for Pre Bid Engineering Activities.

• 317, 800m3/day Sludge treatment plant for TATA STEEL TATANAGAR.
• 50, 000-m3/day Waste Water Treatment plant for TATA STEEL- TATANAGAR.
• Madurai Management Contract - 10, 000 Connections.
• Mysore City - Preparation of CIP, Rehabilitation of Existing Water Distribution system, and upgrading it to 24 x 7 Water Distribution systems for complete Mysore City and managing the system for 3 yrs.
• 40, 000m3/day - Teritiary Treatment plant for Surat municipal Corporation
• 60, 000m3/day - Water Treatment plant for BIL -cuddapah.
• 147, 000m3/day - Water Treatment Plant for Baranagar - Kolkota
• 1630m3/day STP - Damodar Valley Corporation
• 150, 000m3/day - WTP Agra, UP JALA Nigam
• 65, 000m3/day -TTP Vizag, Ongoing EOI Write up
• 120, 000m3/day submerged intake, Jack well pump house, 33km pumping main - GMR
• 60, 000m3/day - pumping main CESC.
• 15, 000m3/day - ETP for Rourkela Steel Plant
• 320, 000m3/day - Head Works, 27km, Raw Water Line, Water Treatment Plant - 192, 000m3/day, Water Distribution System - 2000km for Arungabad City
• Bangalore South - UFW project - BOQ/BOM Preparation

Involved in following projects Detailed Engineering

• 6, 000m3/day Water Treatment plant, Intake structure, 50km pipeline(Gravity + pumping), for Uranium Corporation India Ltd - Cuddapah
• 70, 000 m3/day water Treatment plant at Garden Reach for Kolkota Metropolitan Development Corporation.
• 261, 000m3/day Intake Jetty, Intake Pumping Station, Settled Water Pump house - for Haldia Development authority - 25 yrs BOOT project.
• Salt Lake Sector V - Water Distribution system for 30 yrs BOOT.
• Garamnalla/Sunsungariah - 14, 400m3/day Pumping main
• Mango Water Supply Project - 160km Water Distribution system, 48, 000m3/day Water Treatment plant, Intake structure - Ongoing.
• 10MLD WWTP of LD-II, 30m3/hr Softening Plant for TATASTEEL Works JSR - Ongoing Team member.
• Make up Water, Drinking Water, Fire Fighting Water System - Rourkela Steel Plant - Ongoing

Asst Manager Technical at Jindal Saw Ltd
  • India - Bengaluru
  • September 2005 to April 2008

Jindal Saw Ltd/Jindal Water Infra is a part of $ 6 Billion Jindal Group. JSL is a largest manufacturer of Saw pipes, Its Total pipe solution company Saw, DI, Stainless, and Offering Total turnkey solutions to consumers in Water sector.
Major Job Responsibilities;
• Booking orders of 6000tonnes in Jal Nirmal / PRED
• Provide Technical services to the regional office viz., Karnataka /Tamil Nadu, and Maharastra.
• Member of the core team on pricing for Karnataka on key tenders.
• Member of Core team to create value for the organization by the Formation of JWIL.
• Marketing In charge & responsible for Business Development for Southern Region.
• Active team member to assist in proposal making and in particular survey, preparation of BOQ, Rate analysis for the CVIL works.
• Some of the proposals in short span of 7months months undertaken are:
• 8000m3/day ETP @ Sitarganj - 22Cr*
• HMWSSB - 50cr - Concession Contract
• Chennai Metro 25km pipeline - 50Crores
• Raj West Power - 185km pipeline 320Crores*
• 10000m3/day - SWRO plant @ Tuticorin - 66Cr
• 227, 000m3/day - 165km Pipeline for JSW Bellary - 200Crores

• Member of Core team to create value for the organization by the Formation of JWIL. I was the one who told the management that we can think of forward integration by way of good projects.
• I was the main Engineer to do the due diligence and also on generation of BOM/BOQ for the Raj West power project which we won against stiff competition.
• As a Southern Regional In charge I was able to dole out the first ever bid to the new organization and give a stiff fight to competitor and we were L2.

Design Engineer at Degremont Ltd
  • India - Delhi
  • December 2003 to September 2005

Degrémont - A world leader in Water Treatment Technologies and a part of 40 billion Euros French infra structure giant Suez group. Degrémont Ltd. is a subsidiary of Degrémont SA, France with all necessary technical support and access to newly developed technologies for whole spectrum of water treatment related activities of the Degrémont group.
• Worked as Design Engineer (Design & Engg.) and responsibility broadly included all activities of detail engineering of water & waste water treatment plants and the job profile included the activities listed below

• Development of basic engineering.
• Preparation of Basic/Study drawings of all the units/structures of the plant for civil structural designer and for submission to the client/consultant.
• Preparation of technical specification of all the Mechanical equipments,
• Preparation of the detailed drawings viz. mechanical GA drawing, piping isometric, yard piping, puddle pipes, pipe supports etc.
• Discussions and follow up with the clients/consultants for approval of calculations/drawings.
• Planning and managing team designers, which includes work planning as per the schedule, assigning the activities to every member and monitoring the progress.

Involved in following projects as one of the Design engineer’s in a team.

• 10, 000m3/day Sewage treatment plant at Hyderabad.
• 1, 500-m3/day Tertiary Treatment plant at Cubbon Park Bangalore.
• Refurbishment of existing Pretreatment plant at Ain Ghazal Jordan.
• 141, 000 m3/day Pre - Treatment plant for NTPC Kahalgaon

Involved in following projects as Lead Design engineer

• 118, 000m3/day for Pre Treatment plant for NTPC Sipat, INDIA
• 60, 000 m3/day water Pre-Treatment plant at Sagardighi for West Bengal Power Corporation Ltd, INDIA

• As a Lead Engineer of Sagardighi Thermal Power Project - Plant Water Package. I was able to justify our Designs and Engineering to the client in terms of a big error which I had noted and successfully convince the client and there by the complete sludge line was reduced to 50% of estimated capacities which resulted in a huge savings for the company.

Design Engineer at SNC LAVLIN
  • India - Bengaluru
  • January 2003 to December 2003

Span Consultants Pvt Ltd one of the leading consultants in the field of structural, architectural, Water Supply, etc.
Responsibilities broadly included the following
Design & Implementation Piped Drinking Water Supply Scheme for Rural Villages in Karnataka. (World Bank funded project, Jal Nirmal)


Involved in the following project villages.
• Water Supply Schemes designed for 52 project villages
• Designed under Ground Sewerage system for Hulkoti Village with a STP (Oxidation pond).
• Designed water treatment plants consisting of slow sand filter raw water balancing tanks, pure water sumps for 5 project villages.

• As a Lead Engineer for the project on under ground Sewerage system for Hulkoti Village. I was able to successfully convince the client on the technology options which were suitable for rural areas and change there decision of adopting conventional STP by ASP process to Oxidation pond. World Bank accepted our designs with out any modifications.

Design Engineer at Dr R Venkatraman Environmental Consultants
  • India - Bengaluru
  • October 2001 to July 2002

Responsibilities broadly included the following

Saroornagar Lake, Langer houze Lake, Safeelguda Lake Restoration Projects.
• Involved in planning the scheme.
• I was part of the team to process design the of STP’s:
• Besides this I have also worked out discharge capacities of ring drains, designed an escape channel for discharge of surplus water from Safeelguda Lake of 660m lengths.
Involved in the following projects - Process Design of STPs/WTPs.
• Saroornagar Lake Restoration project 2500m3/day STP, Langer Houze Lake Restoration Project 1200m3/day STP Safeelguda Lake Restoration project 600m3/day STP.
• 1350m3/day water recycling plant for Karnataka golf course for lawn irrigation. 150m3/day water recycling plant for Siddhaganga institute of Technology Tumkur.
• Preparation of Technical manual for World Bank funded Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project II in Karnataka.

Education

Master's degree, ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
  • at BAUHAUS UNIVERSITAT WEIMAR
  • October 2016

MASTERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT

Bachelor's degree, CIVIL ENGINEERING
  • at UNIVERSITY OF VISVESWARAYA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
  • September 2000

Specialties & Skills

Water Treatment
Water Reuse
Wastewater Treatment
Water Supply
Pipeline Design

Languages

Hindi
Intermediate
Kannada
Expert
Tamil
Intermediate

Memberships

INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS UK
  • INCORPORATED ENGINEER
  • January 2013