Project Operation Manager
BASF Petronas Chemicals
Total years of experience :26 years, 10 Months
-Overseeing system (DCS and safety PLC) migration project. -Project milestone progress, technical/operability/readiness governance
-Implement High Performance HMI
-Ensure smooth start-up
-Operator training
-Maintenance training
=Project Management
-Technical evaluation
-Commercial evaluation
-Interface between technical and operation group
• Process safety
o Crude Acrylic Acid, Butylacrylate, 2-Ethylhexyacrylate and tank farm HAZOP clean sheet review
o Process safety yearly verification
o Compliance to BASF group safety concept review
o Incidents investigation
o Review Management of change (MOC)
o Managing plant risk assessment - HAZID
o Explosion protection classification
• Consumption unit (unit ratio) improvement
• Daily plant operation process monitoring and troubleshooting
o Acrylic Acid
o Butyl Acrylate
o 2-Ethylhexylacrylate
o 80 tonne/h boiler/incernarator
o Utilities -condensate, water, air and Nitrogen
• Tuning of all critical process loop
• Capacity planning
• Run strategy
• Plant trial lead
• Asset Effectiveness
• Catalyst management
• CAPEX planning
• Engineering gate keeper
• Project Management
• Plant Electrical and Instrumentation lead
• Production Management
• Technologies benchmarking for new investment project
• Coordinate global technology & experience transfer
• Perform technology benchmarks
• CAPEX planning coordination
• Perform and coordinate studies for major investment projects
• Evaluation of investment projects
• Contribution to project execution
• Propose optimization projects
• Monitor plant and JV technical performances
• Safety concepts for storage, handling and transportation of Acrylic Acid and Acrylates
• Production Mangement
• Managing engineering, project, construction & commissioning EPCC
• Euro300 million capital investment project Basic Engineering Design Data, Front end engineering design (FEED), cost estimation and budget preparation for evaluation and approval
• Process Safety
o EHS Review for large CAPEX project
o HAZOP and Risk analysis
o Safety instrumented system
Safety requirement specification
Safety instrumented level verification
Safety instrumentation function design
o Made Acrylic Acid, Glacial Acrylic Acid, 2-Ethylhexylacrylate, Butylacrylate, Syngas, Oxo Alcohol synthesis & distillation, Maleic Anhydride, Butanediol, product storage and infra-structure to be IEC61511 compliance.
o Implemented Crude Acrylic acid synthesis reactor explosion protection
• Instrument & control FEED
• Instrument & control detail engineering
• Cost estimation
• Project Management
o Project scope
o User specification
o Equipment specification
o Tender preparation
o Technical evaluation
o Project kick-off
o Project execution
o Project closure
• Construction, start-up and commissioning of Acrylic complex, Oxo Alcohol complex Syngas plant and Butanediol complex
• Increased Acrylic Acid, Syngas & Maleic Anhydride plant availability by improving their analyzers system reliability.
• Asset management
• FEED and detail engineering for Analyzers system
• Custodian for safety instrumented system (SIS)
• Maintenance & spare parts strategy
• Setting up a training program for online analyzer system
• Setting up boiler feed water monitoring program using online analyzers
• Subject Matter Expert
• Construction, start-up and commissioning of Kulim specialty gases analytical lab and refilling plant
• Kulim specialty gases analytical lab and refilling plant operation and maintenance
• Review gases blending safety procedure
• Review customer requirement on gas mixture compatibility and quality
• Maintain Kulim Hi-Tech Park’s gas purity
• ISO9000 implementation
• Specialist advice regarding customer gases requirement and quality to sales & marketing department