Manager -Maintenance & Projects
Chokhi Dhani Woods Expert Limited
Total years of experience :37 years, 3 Months
In charge of testing and accepting contractual jobs and start-up projetcs
Preparation of FAT checklist, orientation and training of technical staff
Preparation of PM Checklist and schedules
Formats for monitoring, operation and maintenance as per ISO 9000, 14000 requirement
Liasoning with government regulation authorities for inspection and approval
Facilities Management
Responsibilities include planning for improvement, expansion and safety and ISO 9000, 14000 and 22000 documentation, procedures preparation and implementation of LOTO and Permit To Work systems; implementation of Reliability Centered Maintenance
Exp in Processing equipment like homogenizer, pasteurizer, high speed mixers, kneaders, debugging machine, hand dumping stations, sugar milling machines, fat extruders
Exp in packing machines like depalletizers, bottle rinsers, fillers, cappers, bottle coolers, induction sealers, vacuum detectors, labellers, printers, bottles coders, case sealers, Corazza filler, cube collators, Shrink wrappers, Pouch fillers like VOLPK S-90, S-130, S-200, TWIN HEAD FILLERS -GWEB, Cartoners like BRADMENLAKE, CHI MEI, MARDEN EDWARDS, Can Fillers like EASYFILL, SEAMERS, ESTA dust collectors, GUERIN material transfer system
Exp in utilities like Boilers, Chillers, Air Compressors, R O Plants, Fire Fighting systems
Warehouse equipments like forklifts, hydraulic pallet lift, High Reach
My achievements :- Changed the department from Breakdown oriented to Preventive maintenance and Corrective maintenance oriented with application of Reliability Centered Maintenance techniques
Maintenance of Fruit pulp and concentrate processing Equipments and Vegetable Dehydration. It is an ISO certified Company with 100% export market, with strict regulations in maintaining hygiene.
In creating Bill of Materials for implementation of SAP
Member of HACCP team involved in preparation of Safety Food manuals and Safety Maintenance manuals with maintenance procedures with detailed risk assessment.
Involved in manpower recruitment and training.
Involved in estimation of manpower and utilities like electricity, steam, air and water.
Exp in maint. of ASEP sterilizers, Make : ASEP systems, ELPO, and TMCI
Exp. In maint. of separators, Make: Westfalia and Alfa- Laval
Exp in installation of transformer 33/0.44 kv .
Exp in liasoning with Govt officials in Elect and Boiler Inspection.
Exp in estimation and upgrading of utilities.
Installation and commissioning of Co-gen boiler of 17.5 TR x 2, Pr. Rating : 40 KG/Sq .Cm, power plant 4 MW, Fuel : Bio waste Boiler make : Cheema,
Exp. in installation and commissioning and maint of Chilling plants, Compression and VAM type, up to 150 TR, Refrigerant : R 22, Ammonia and R 404
My achievements :-
Changed department from Power factor deficiency paying penalties to power factor maintaining and increment receiving department
Responsible for Plant maintanace activities related to Mechanical, electrical and Instrumentation
Responsible for budgetting and annual plan preparation
Responsible for Technical evaluation of materials
Responsible for sourcing for in house spares as alternative to overseas spares
Responsible for preparing maintanance procedures incorporating safety
Responsible for training personnel in maintanance activities
Responsible for evaluating personnel
Responsible for making field investigation and history writing in SAP
Involved in making yearly plan for mechanical maintanence section, identifying material andmanpower requirement,
Scheduling of the activities as per operational requirements,
Budgetting, requsting for materials, preparing quarterly and monthly plan
Updating and reviewing PM checklists and frequency and time required,
Preparation of maintanance procedures
Modifying and upgrading of existing system and utilisation of local material as replacement for overseas materials
Updating equipment history and time writing of maintanance work orders.
Periodic and ovehauling of pumps, capacity10.3m3/sec, Make Ebara, Japan and capacity 13.6m3/sec, Make Patterson, USA, vertical turbine, mixed flow type.
Hot gas path inspection and combustion chamber inspection of 10MW Natural gas fired Gas Turbines, Make Fiat(jobs involving boroscopic inspection, DP test and Ultra sonic testing and inspection)
Periodic maintanance and overhauling of Motors, capacity 1300KW, Make Mitsuibishi, Japan and Ideal, USA.
Overhauling of Sodium Hypochlorite Generators, capacity 60m3/hr Make Sanilec, USA, type plate, Make Electrocatalytic, UK, type modular and Make Mitsuibishi, Japan, type shell.
Periodic maintanance of acid handling pumps and multistage jockey pumps for fire fighting system.
Laying and repairing of above ground and under ground PVC, CPVC pies upto 500 mm dia.
Incharge of making maintanace scheduling for major jobs, evaluating manpower and materail requirement, co-ordinating with production department to meet production targets with minimum changes to schedule,
Co-ordinating with government approving authorities like Boiler and Transformer inspection and certification,
Modification of existing system to reduce safety and pollution hazards
Finalising and installing waste water treatment plant with R O based equipments
Cost management and optimization of manpower and material use.
Failure analysis and condition monitoring.
Handling of contract labours.Hands on experience in IBR boiler
Shutdown maintenance and chemical plant equipments and glass lined, lead lined and rubber lined vessels.
Modification to facilitate and upgrade plant production capacity.
Periodic inspection and maintanance of reactors (lead lined, rubber lined and glass lined.
Overhauling of gear boxes pumps compressors and related rotating equipments.
Periodic maintanance of chiller plants, capacity 60Tons, Make Aircon.
In charge of maintanance of pharmacheutical equipments and utilities
Equipment history updating
Material requisiion and inspection,
Hands on experience in centrifuges, blenders, tablet making machines, blister packing machine, semi automatic blow moulding machine etc
In charge of maintanance of wood prceesing and wood working machines based ob Danish Wood Technology.Make :Denmark and Germany.it was a 100% export orientded plant in the exclusively export processing zone in Cochin.
in charge of supervision and inspection of fabricated parts and rear axle sub assembly for TAFE Tractors.involved in quality control
Risk and failure mode analysis and modification of monitoring points
PG DIp in Risk Management
first class with 70 %