Sachin Kedare

• Team Leadership and Coordination: Leading a team of 20 multidisciplinary QC Inspectors across Static equipments, structural, welding,
painting, and mechanical disciplines, ensuring consistent adherence to project quality standards and facilitating effective cross-functional
collaboration.
• Project Involvement: Participated in kick-off meetings, Pre-Inspection meeting with client and project team and finalizing quality control and quality
assurance documents before starting the projects.
• QA/QC Documentation and Procedure Development: Preparing and implementing Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs), NDT methods, dimensional
control procedures, pressure testing protocols, and PWHT procedures in alignment with international standards and client specifications.
• Client Document Review and Technical Query Management: Reviewing client-supplied design documents, drawings, and specifications,
identifying inconsistencies, and raising Technical Queries (TQs) to resolve design conflicts and ensure constructability and compliance.
• Internal Auditing and Quality Compliance Monitoring: Conducting internal audits across departments, evaluating adherence to project quality
plans, ISO requirements, and company procedures, and initiating corrective actions to ensure continuous quality improvement.

• Comprehensive experience in reviewing project contracts, technical specifications, and drawings to define QA/QC scope, and advising project managers
accordingly.
• Actively supported planning and resource allocation for quality activities, participated in project kick-offs, pre-inspection meetings, and finalized QA/QC
documentation.
• My expertise includes developing QA/QC plans, ITPs, and testing procedures, overseeing document control, and coordinating inspections for welding,
dimensional checks, and NDT with internal and third-party agencies.
• Successfully led audits aligned with ISO standards and represented the organization during ASME U Stamp audits.
• Skilled in reviewing P&ID and fabrication drawings, performing inspections and testing of equipment such as pressure vessels and piping systems, and
ensuring traceability through heat numbers and welder logs. And executed stage-wise inspections, including weld fit-up, hydro/pneumatic tests, and
operational testing, ensuring compliance with NDT and material standards.
• My experience includes inspecting incoming materials, maintaining detailed records (WPS, PQR, weld maps), and performing hydrostatic and pneumatic tests
as per project specifications.
• Proficient in physical and mechanical testing methods, including PMI, hardness, SR, and PWHT, and have a thorough understanding of the entire NDT
process.
• Coordinated inspection visits and consultancy services with renowned agencies such as Aramco VID, Intertek, TUV, Lloyds Register, and others, ensuring
timely inspections and compliance with international standards.
• Actively monitor non-conformances, implement corrective actions, and maintain comprehensive documentation for audits.
• Hands-on experience with tool room operations, supplier audits, welding processes, and surface preparation and coating inspections, including surface
profiling, holiday detection, and painting quality control.
• Familiar with environmental condition surveillance for coating applications.
• Conducted performance reviews and training assessments for team members.
• Continuous improvement through methodologies like Lean, Six Sigma, and 5S, ensuring high-quality project delivery and operational excellence.

Experienced in ThirdParty Inspection for IOCL NTPC, BHEL, and ONGC offshore projects, covering welding, painting, piping, and structural fabrication in accordance with ASME, ASTM, AWS, ISO, API, IS, and EN standards.

Conducted endtoend inspections from raw materials to final painting for pressure vessels, heat exchangers, piping, valves, API pumps, structural components, and skid packages.

Skilled in casting/forging inspections, pouring witness, ladle analysis, mechanical testing, and EN 10204 3.2 certification. Performed pipe mill inspections as per ASTM, API 5CT, and API 5L, along with structural, galvanizing, and coating inspections (WFT/DFT, surface profile, salt testing, holiday testing).

Experienced in valve dimensional checks and pressure/leak testing per API 6D, API 598, and ASME B16.34, as well as inspection of process column internals.

Managed Reliance project inspections and ensured full compliance with ITP/QCP, NCR closure, open point resolution, and IRN issuance.

Equipment Quality Inspection and Skid Package Compliance:

Conducted QA/QC inspections for pressure vessels, heat exchangers, piping, API pumps, valves, structural components, painting Activities in heavy equipment manufacturing.

Complete Inspection of skid packages / Modules.

Overall shop floor activities related to Quality control, fit up inspections, NDT inspections, Pressure testing inspections.

Surface preparation, Galvanising, Painting inspections including Surface profile, Salt Test, WFT, DFT, Holiday testing.

Final quality dossier preparation of various items, Static & Rotary Packages