Pragneshkumar Patel, Facilities Manager

Pragneshkumar Patel

Facilities Manager

Operon Middle East

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering
Experience
18 years, 9 Months

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Total years of experience :18 years, 9 Months

Facilities Manager at Operon Middle East
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2019 to November 2019

 Responsible for Total Facility Management of 5800 residential and retail units spread across 270 Facilities ( Wasl Properties, Dubai )
 Financial review and analysis of trends to identify operating cost improvements and reductions.
 Regularly analyses actual costs looking for ways to maximize savings and reduce reactive work.
 Contractor Management ensuring optimum performance in delivery of the services and monitoring SLA & KPI.
 Timely review and approval of invoices for payment.
 Issue Priority 1 incident communications to the business as they occur on a 24/7 basis.
 Provide post incident reporting including root cause analysis, action plan, options for mitigation and recommendations.
 Identify/deliver on strategic, growth and value add opportunities.
 Building efficiency, optimum performance and statutory compliance through collaboration with service providers and external experts.
 Prepare SOP’s, Method statements and Risk assessments.
 Inspect buildings’ structures to determine the need for repairs or renovations.
 Comply all statutory requirements and maintain detail records.
 Review utilities consumption and strive to minimize costs.
 Supervise all staff facilities staff (technicians, life guard, cleaning staff etc.) and external contractors.
 Control activities like parking space allocation, waste disposal, building security etc.

Assistant Manager ( Technical ) at Khidmah LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2016 to August 2018

Responsible for Operation and maintenance of Al Zeina Community (Aldar Properties PJSC ), Abu Dhabi (Under Owner Association ).
Identifying and delivering improvements across all aspects of operations including Environment and Sustainability, Capital Investment and Delivery, Maintenance, planning, programming and budgeting.
Prepare, submit, manage and report on the OPEX budget consisting of reactive and preventative maintenance activities.
Provide technical support on building services to the Community Manager and FM team as required.
Provide life cycle and cyclical asset maintenance modeling, costing and analysis to the client.
Ensure compliance for audits and insurance across the portfolio.
Oversee the delivery of the Operating and Capital Expenditure budgets as well as compliance, Risk Management and sustainability.
Financial review and analysis of trends to identify operating cost improvements and reductions.
Regularly analyses actual costs looking for ways to maximize savings and reduce reactive work.
Contractor Management ensuring optimum performance in delivery of the services and monitoring SLA & KPI.
Timely review and approval of invoices for payment.
Issue Priority 1 incident communications to the business as they occur on a 24/7 basis.
Provide post incident reporting including root cause analysis, action plan, options for mitigation and recommendations.
Identify/deliver on strategic, growth and value add opportunities.
Building efficiency, optimum performance and statutory compliance through collaboration with service providers and external experts.
Prepare SOP’s, Method statements and Risk assessments.

Assistant Maintenance Mannager at Bin Dasmal Contracting Est
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2014 to May 2016

To prepare strategy of Preventive and corrective maintenance of MEP equipment's ( Chiller, Cooling Tower, Package Unit, VRV, Primary and Secondary chilled water network, Pumps, Ecological Units, FAHU, AHU, FCU, Spit and Window AC, Heat Ex changers )
Service Sales ( AMC, Retrofit, Up gradation of system )
Customer Relationship
Review and prepare subcontractor agreement.
Daily monitor PPM and Breakdown activities.
To achieve KPI and SLA.
Monitor and Control Operation Cost, Profitability and cash flow.
Asset Management
Develop, lead, motivate and inspire a professional team enabling them to meet both personal and business targets.
Implementation of ISO 9001 : 2008

Project Engineer at Kharafi National Co LLC
  • United Arab Emirates
  • June 2012 to May 2014

Handling of Operation & Maintenance of 4000 TR District cooling Plant. (Rihan Heights District Cooling Plant )
Handling Total Facility Management of Musanada Mosque Project (Total 560 Mosque mobile Operation )
Handled Facility Management of 1221 Apartment property. (Al-Zeina Project, ALDAR Properties)
Overall responsibility of preventive and corrective maintenance of Electrical, HVAC, Plumbing, Telecom Systems, CCTV, Security & Fire Safety equipments and soft services.
Good knowledge in Computerized Maintenance management system.
To built customer relation.
To achieve KPI and SLA.
Train and develop site team.
To prepare Method statement and risk assessment.

Deputy Manager at Blue Star Limited
  • India - Vadodara
  • September 2008 to February 2012

Managed Customer Service at State level.
Handled AMC/Spares Sales.
Heat Load Calculation and Equipment Selection.
Implementation of ISO 9001 : 2008
Settlement of Warranty claim with Vendors.
Monitoring and management of critical parts.
Analysis of breakdown and maintenance cost.
All type of Preventive and break-down maintenance of Centrifugal, Screw (York, Hanbell, Bitzer make) and reciprocating chillers, PCPA, Package Air-conditioning, BVRF and Refrigeration systems.
Maintenance of Evaporator, condenser, Air handling Unit, Cooling Towers, Pumps and Valves.
Fault finding and troubleshooting of refrigeration system and controls.
Overhauling of Screw, Centrifugal and Reciprocating compressor.
Worked with SAP ERP System
Develop and train of Field Engineer.

Assistant Manager at IDMC Limited
  • India
  • August 2007 to September 2008

Organization: IDMC Limited, Anand.
Duration: Aug.2007 to Sep.2008.
Designation: Assistant Manager
Job profile

➢ Selection of Equipments, Execution of Refrigeration Project.
➢ Servicing, Erection, Commissioning and Maintenance of Screw Chiller (Grasso Make, Gmbh) and Reciprocating Chiller.

Plant Engineer at Sicgil Industrial Gases Ltd
  • India
  • October 2003 to July 2007

Organization: Sicgil Industrial Gases Ltd., Ranoli.
Duration: Oct.2003 to July 2007
Designation: Plant Engineer.
Job profile

➢ Handling of Ammonia and Freon refrigeration plant with liquid over feed system, checking of process Parameters.
➢ Implementation of ISO 9001: 2000.

at Raymon Patel Gelatin Pvt. Ltd
  • India
  • September 2002 to October 2003

Organization: Raymon Patel Gelatin Pvt. Ltd., Vasad.
Duration: Sep.2002 to Oct.2003. (13 months)
Designation: GET
Job Profile

➢ Handling of chilling plant, daily checking of refrigeration system, maintenance of screw and reciprocating compressor, plant maintenance.

Inspector cum Service Engineer at Nulux Engineers
  • India
  • October 2001 to August 2002

Organization: Nulux Engineers, Mumbai.
Duration: Oct.2001 to Aug.2002. (10 months)
Designation: Inspector cum Service Engineer.
Job Profile

➢ Quality control of diesel engine, engine testing and servicing.

Apprentice Engineer at PM Diesels Ltd
  • India - Rajkot
  • August 2000 to September 2001

Quality control of diesel engines, engine testing and servicing
Involved in R&D department of diesel engines, implementation of ISO 9001:2000.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering
  • at Govt. Engg. College
  • June 2000

Specialties & Skills

Project Engineering
Facility Management
Servicing
Maintenance Services
ENGINE TESTING
ENGINEER
FREON REFRIGERATION
MAINTENANCE
REFRIGERATION
REFRIGERATION SYSTEM
TESTING
Facility Management

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