Muhammad Subhani, Senior Manager Technology

Muhammad Subhani

Senior Manager Technology

ACWA Power International

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, Industrial Management
Experience
17 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 10 Months

Senior Manager Technology at ACWA Power International
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since October 2016

Key Responsibilities:
• Technical support to Business Development and Operational Assets
• Evaluation and comparison of Performance Parameters of different plant (new and existing)
• Availability modeling (including RAM Analysis)
• Technical Due Diligence (DD) for accusation projects
• Feasibility study for conversion of conventional steam power plants to CCPP
• Evaluate of the possibilities for improvement in existing plants
• Evaluation of Heat Balance of existing and new projects

Manager Operations and Maitenance at Rousch (Pakistan) Power Limited, 450MW CCPP
  • Pakistan - Multan
  • June 2008 to September 2016

Key Responsibilities:
• Leading Power Plant Performance (Different KPI like Heat Rate, Gas Calculation, Trending etc)
• Leading Power Plant Commercial & Operational matters (Efficient operations of plant, decision for startups and shutdowns, economical mode of operations etc)
• Leading the Annual Dependable Capacity tests and Plant Performance sests
• Annual Budget Preparation (150Million USD+) and monitoring (Heatrate, generation, import energy, chemical consumptions, spares usage and plant improvement projects)
• Leading all commercial invoices preparation and verification. (Energy, Gas, Water, EOH etc)
• Provide expert technical support and strategic advice to O&M team by reviewing daily generation and efficiency data and advising on changes
• Project Engineer & Coordinator for Life Time Extension (LTE-2012, 19 Million Euro project) major outage and several annual minor outages
• Liaison with all stockholders on all technical and commercial issues
• Communication with WAPDA, SNGPL, Irrigation department and EPA on regular basis
• Contract Management (Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), Gas Supply Agreement (GSA), LTMSA with Siemens Germany, O&M Contract with ESBI/DPS
• Scheduling and Coordination of maintenance/force outages/shutdowns
• Active participation in engineering projects and solutions for root cause analysis, project management, design review and compliance of CAPEX projects
• Review of all O&M activities on daily basis and auditing of CMMS
• Review and analysis of all incident and trips reports
• Participations and preparation of minutes of meeting (MOM) for daily, weekly, monthly plant performance meetings, project meetings, procurement meetings etc.
• Preparation of Daily and Monthly Plant Performance Reports and other regular and ad hoc management information reports

• HSE Auditing and Sustainability Development at across the site
• Daily, Weekly and Monthly review and coordination for dispatch to Grid
• Calculation of Force outage allowance and its finance impact
• Monthly Energy Metering (Energy Invoice generation for WAPDA-Offtaker)
• Technical review of Procurement cases
• Technical review of plant critical equipments and systems
• Preparation of reports and presentations for several meetings and issues including BoD
• Preparation of tender documents, when required
• Environmental reporting to EPA
• Deputies for Chief Technical Officer and Senior Managers as required
• Participation in Siemens V94.2 Users Conference (Last Conference: UK, 2013)
• Hiring of new engineers and DAEs as Trainees and Plant Engineer

Assistant Engineer- Electrical & Instrumentation (Commissioning Engineer) at DESCON Engineering Limited
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • November 2006 to June 2008

Key Responsibilities:
• Pre-Commissioning and Commissioning of YOKOGAWA PLCs and TENESOL Solar Panels.
• Assisting the vendors and client during commissioning work.
• Supervision of Field Instruments Installation. (F&G Systems, PTs, FTs, TT, etc)
• On site Project Planning using Primavera Project Planner P3 and MS Project
• Progress Monitoring of Plans
• Preparation of Schedules for E&I equipments.
• Calibration & Testing of Field Instruments before Installation.
• Preparation of Manpower and Equipment Deployment Plans
• Monitoring of Field Engineering Documentation Control (FEDC)
• Preparation of Progress Reports (Daily, Weekly and Monthly)

Visiting Faculty at Technical Education & Vocational Training Authority, Punjab
  • Other
  • June 2006 to November 2006

Visiting Faculty for B.Tech Electrical and Electronics classes

Education

Master's degree, Industrial Management
  • at University of Gavle
  • June 2010

Thesis: Management Systems (HS&E)

Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering
  • at National University of Sciences and Technology
  • June 2006

1st Position in Final Year Project

Specialties & Skills

Plant performance
Technical Review
Power Plants
Planning: Primavera Project Planner P3, MS Project
Office Tools: MS Words/PowerPoint/Excel, Windows 7/XP/2000/98/95, Linux Fedora Core4
Siemens Power Plant Automation SPPA-T2000(TXP8.1, Siemens DCS for Power Plants),
Flexim simulation
Tenesol Solar System ENERSOFT
Programming: MATLAB, C/C++, Assembly, Function Block Diagram
Smart instruments, HART based instruments, PTs, FTs, TT, etc
Auditing: Environmental Auditing as per ISO 19001 and H&S Auditing
Yokogawa PLC PROSAFE RS
Management Systems: ISO 14001, ISO19001, OHSAS18001, and several HSE MSs
Field Instruments Installation
Ovation Process Automation (Emerson DCS for Power Plants)
IRCA Certified Lead Auditor for OHSAS 18001

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert

Memberships

Saudi Council for Engineers
  • Engineer
  • October 2016
Pakistan Engineering Council
  • Professional
  • June 2006

Training and Certifications

Leadership Development Programme (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2021

Hobbies

  • Reading latest technologies, learning new software, playing cricket, squash and swimming