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Sandy Sakti, Head of Control Systems and Automation

Sandy Sakti

Head of Control Systems and Automation·Qatar Fuel Additives Company Ltd. (QAFAC)

Qatar

Master's degree, MSc in Project Management

Work experience

Total years of experience: 23 years, 9 months

Head of Control Systems and Automation

November 2013 - Present

Qatar Fuel Additives Company Ltd. (QAFAC)

Doha, Qatar

November 2013 - Present

• Leading and managing control system & automation engineers/technicians and related activities that include maintenance, technical support, and projects execution for ongoing plant operation.
• Responsibilities on day to day maintenance activities, process control modification and/or improvement & troubleshooting as well as Project Management and coordination on various aspect of Distributed Control System (DCS), Emergency Shut Down (ESD) and Safety Instrumented System (SIS), Industrial Control System (ICS) Cyber Security, Plant Historian Database and Real time Process Information, Advance Process Control (APC), Alarm Management System, Operation Monitoring, and Operator Training Simulator to ensure high quality services to the operation team with effective management of work load.
• Project implementation to develop and keep current road map addressing of control system reliability and availability over plant life span. Addressing and implementing solutions to encounter daily problem of control automation systems and come up with solutions towards plant process control optimization.
• Carry out all activities involved in monitoring, controlling, and modifying on DCS, ESD, RTPIS, and other control system related job, includes routine system monitoring, backup, discussion of operation and maintenance issues.
• Carry-out implementation of changes with major plant shutdowns and overhauls schedules. Executes preventive maintenance programs while ensuring that all work is carried out in a timely manner as per manufacturers’ recommendations.
• Ensure compliance to all relevant safety, quality and environmental management procedures and controls within a defined area of control system activity to guarantee employee safety, legislative compliance, delivery of high quality products/service and a responsible environmental attitude.
• Participates in the Hazardous and Operability (HAZOP) brain storming sessions with regards to control systems and is the final decision maker regarding the suitability of the control schematics.
• Participates in the Pre-Start up Safety Review (PSSR) from a control system point of view prior to project handover to production to ensure proper controls are set in place.
• Prepares and reviews reports on major outages, abnormalities and major equipment history. Create analysis and configuration of simple and complex DCS / PLC logic for problem solving for optimization purposes. Modification of associated DCS graphics, PLC HMI (Wonderware) and PI-OSISoft System graphics for Operation optimization purposes.
• Keep abreast of new trends and developments in the unit control systems. Apply and implement technical modifications in the existing design to enhance operation parameters.
• Troubleshoot any failures/abnormalities in the controls and field instruments. Perform trip or failure analysis depending on the situation, then carryout necessary actions accordingly.
• Supporting to all projects pertaining to Control System expansion and modifications. Designing and executing any modification of Control system related area as per Plant Modification Requirement (PMR). Update database and drawing for the close out of related PMR. Participating in the HAZOP study of the plant for the proposed modification as per PMR.
• Interfaces with all vendors and contractors engineer in the Engineering Design, installation, testing and acceptance. Conduct the Design, FAT, SAT, and commissioning for all the new projects pertaining to Control System inside the Plant area and make sure all the new system are working and properly incorporated with the existing system. Review new control system installations and expansion project documentation, drawings, equipment specifications and testing procedures.
• Report and provide data of Root Cause Investigation to management for resolving issues on critical equipment failure for improvement plan and strategy.

Company industry:
Petrochemicals & Refined Petroleum Products Manufacture
Job role:
Engineering

Senior Control System Engineer

June 2012 - November 2013

Qatar Fuel Additives Company Ltd. (QAFAC)

Doha, Qatar

June 2012 - November 2013

Responsibilities in Control System Dept:
Assigned in Control System Dept with direct reporting to maintenance Manager since June 2012 and carried out following daily activities.
• Managing Control System Division activity and manpower.
• Responsible for all Control System Division Projects activity.
• Budgeting, Planning and Execution Control System Division financial activity.

Comprehensive knowledge in Distributed Control System and Emergency Shutdown Devices and integration with other industrial automation system such as Advance Process Control, SCADA, Foundation Fieldbus, Fire & Gas, Automatic Tank Gauging, PI (Plant Information), Plant Alarm System, Event Alarm Recording System, Compressor Control System, etc from various process automation vendors (Foxboro, Honeywell, Yokogawa, Allen Bradley, Triconex, Wonderware, Modicon, OSISoft, PAS, etc).

Managing maintenance and technical support for the ongoing operation of the Distributed Control system (DCS), Emergency shutdown system (ESD) and Real time Process Information System (RtPIS), Loop tuning system, Alarm management system, PLC human machine interface, and provides engineering technical support for the design of the Control systems for capital projects and plant modifications.

Having experiences in the project implementation and execution to develop and keep current road map addressing of control system reliability and availability over plant life span. Addressing and implementing solutions to encounter daily problem of DCS & ESD system and come up with solutions towards plant process control optimization.

Company industry:
Petrochemicals & Refined Petroleum Products Manufacture
Job role:
Engineering

Control System Engineer

August 2007 - June 2012

Qatar Fuel Additives Company Ltd.

Doha, Qatar

August 2007 - June 2012

•Carry out maintenance and technical support activities for the ongoing operation of all system of the Process plant system including DCS System, ESD System, Real Time Process Information System (PI-OSISoft), Plant Alarm System, Advance Process Control System, Event Alarm Recording System, Loop Tuning system, and PLC HMI Wonderware System.
•Carry out all activities involved in monitoring, controlling, and modifying on DCS, ESD, RTPIS, and other control system related job.
•Carry-out implementation of changes with major plant shutdowns and overhauls schedules. Executes preventive maintenance programs while ensuring that all work is carried out in a timely manner as per manufacturer recommendations.
•Prepares and reviews reports on major outages, abnormalities and major equipment history. Create analysis and configuration of simple and complex DCS / PLC logic for problem solving for optimization purposes.
•Keep abreast of new trends and developments in the unit control systems. Apply and implement technical modifications in the existing design to enhance operation parameters.
•Troubleshoot any failures/abnormalities in the controls and field instruments. Perform trip or failure analysis.
•Supporting to all projects pertaining to Control System expansion and modifications. Design and execute any modification of Control system as per Plant Modification Requirement (PMR). Participating in the HAZOP study of the plant for the proposed modification as per PMR.
•Interfaces with all vendors and contractors engineer in the Engineering Design, installation, testing and acceptance. Conduct the Design, FAT, SAT, and commissioning for all the new projects pertaining to Control System. Review new control system installations and expansion project documentation, drawings, equipment specifications and testing procedures.
•Report and provide data of Root Cause Investigation to management for resolving issues on critical equipment failure for improvement plan and strategy.

Company industry:
Petrochemicals & Refined Petroleum Products Manufacture
Job role:
Engineering

Senior Control System Engineer

March 2003 - July 2007

PT. Foxboro Perkind Indonesia (Invensys Indonesia)

Indonesia

March 2003 - July 2007

Main Responsibilities:
- As a System Engineer :
o Assist to System Manager in design/engineering of industrial process automation & integration system, to provide the optimum economical and technical solutions for integrated plant information and automation systems including Distributed Control System (DCS) and integration with other industrial process automation systems (SCADA, ESD, Foundation Fieldbus, Fire & Gas, Automatic Tank Gauging) from various process automation vendors (Honeywell, Yokogawa, Allen Bradley, Triconex, Modicon, Edress+Houser, etc.).

o Supporting sales system department in arrangement of technical project proposal and marketing activities, such as product and solution presentation and demo session.

- As a Service Engineer
Supporting our customer on solve problems and troubleshooting of DCS Foxboro and also Foxboro A2 and SCADA System.
- As a Project Engineer
Scopes of main responsibilities are design/engineering and installation during project execution and maintenance during maintenance period. Preparing all documents related to the project, from design specification documents until as built documents.
Prepare engineering proposal, design system hardware and software and compare to the BOM from Sales department.
- Conduct technical training (maintenance and engineering) for customer’s engineer.

Company industry:
Installation & Technical Services
Job role:
Engineering

System Engineer

September 2002 - February 2003

PT. Solusindo Informatika

Indonesia

September 2002 - February 2003

Main Responsibilities:

• Windows 2000 server domain installation and set up.
• Computer Local Area Network Installation and set up..
• Supporting to all projects pertaining to Windows 2000 Server installation and modifications.

Company industry:
IT Services
Job role:
Engineering

Education

University Of Liverpool

July 2017

July 2017

Master's degree, MSc in Project Management

United Kingdom

GPA (point): 3.11 out of 4

GPA (point): 3.11 out of 4

MSc. in Project Management (with Merit), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Liverpool

University of Indonesia

August 2002

August 2002

Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineer majoring in Control System Engineering

Indonesia

GPA (point): 3.11 out of 4

GPA (point): 3.11 out of 4

Skills

Testing
Expert
Testing
Expert
Operation
Expert
Operation
Expert
Process Control
Expert
Process Control
Expert
PLC
Expert
PLC
Expert
Modification
Expert
Modification
Expert
Distributed Control System
Expert
Distributed Control System
Expert
Programmable Logic Controller
Expert
Programmable Logic Controller
Expert
IT Networking
Expert
IT Networking
Expert
Control System Software
Expert
Control System Software
Expert
OT Cyber Security
Expert
OT Cyber Security
Expert
Process Safety
Expert
Process Safety
Expert
Testing
Expert
Testing
Expert
Operation
Expert
Operation
Expert
Process Control
Expert
Process Control
Expert
PLC
Expert
PLC
Expert
Modification
Expert
Modification
Expert

Languages

English
Expert
Indonesian
Native Speaker

Memberships

ISA

ISA-Qatar membership since Dec 2010. ID: 33185537

December 2010

TUV Functional Safety Engineer

TüV Functional Safety Engineer for Safety Instrumented Systems. ID: 3332/11

March 2011

Training and Certifications

Training
Functional Safety Engineer
TUV
Mar 2011

Hobbies

  • Basket ball, Rafting, Running