Team Leader
WS Atkins India Pvt Ltd
Total years of experience :15 years, 10 Months
Ensuring staff motivation, monitor and measure performance targets and works standards. Responsible for ensuring performance and quality
Preparing workload allocation for each team members and coordinating team’s work on a daily basis.
Handling client queries and acting as Technical lead for project delivery.
Mentoring and training of junior and new staff beyond the work team.
Monitoring & reporting on standards & performance targets.
Chairing weekly team meetings for reviewing targets & achievements.
Responsible for progress tracking of projects.
Responsible for setting up of Rail Projects’ Gurgaon office (opened on 1st July’13).
Planned & coordinated office infrastructure & IT facilities for Gurgaon office.
Interfacing with all stakeholders’ involved and managing progress to ensure on time delivery.
Involved in the recruitment of new engineering staff and responsible for their induction & training.
Responsible to set up a training facility for Maintenance Dept, simulating all the characteristics of a working railway. Responsible for system design, development and implementation of novel products introduced into the UK Railway infrastructure.
Handling deliverables of associated asset management responsibilities. Set up interface between onsite and offshore offices.
Developing project stage scopes and undertaking stage works designs.
Liaising with various stakeholders to ensure timely implementation of new cost reduction initiatives on project.
Undertaking several rotational responsibilities mainly encompassing of:
Evaluating ITT, preparing job memos, collating information for tender risk assessment, resource management during the bids.
Managing sub-contractors and supply chain for the Engineering Manager for Newport Area Signalling Renewals project
Responsible for project close out and handover activities along with the delivery of asset management deliverables
Key design experience in railway signalling and control systems, telecoms, MEP, civil Eng and P/way division working across several projects in UK namely- Newport, Cardiff Signalling Upgrade, Crossrail, London Gateway and North London Line Upgrade
Extensive site experience in installation and testing of various signalling and telecoms equipment and hold a valid PTS.
Key point of contact between site (construction and test) and design team both offshore (India) and within the UK
Authored various reports on option development for London Gateway telecom project, Civil Package of Great Western Electrification scheme and Victoria Railway Signalling Scheme
Good knowledge and application ability of Yellow Book - Engineering Safety Management, CENELEC standards, CDM regulations for Railway applications and safety, Network Rail Standards
Responsible for detailed design deliverables of signalling safety critical systems.
Role: Reporting to the Design Manager, working on various resignalling schemes and bids. The list of responsibilities spans from producing location area plans, detailed location and REB designs, control tables, source updates, correlation updates, handbacks, liaising with the UK counterpart for modifications and engineering updates. Mentoring junior designers to incorporate safety standards and processes in deliverables to achieve quality outputs.
Job scope was to deliver safe and error free designs in agreed timescales and set quality according to the contractual requirements.
Role: Reported to the Design Manager, producing SSI and RRI detailed design deliverables and westcad designs for various projects like Newport Signalling Renewal, Kettering - Harrowden Junction enhancement, Evergreen Resignalling and Rugby-Nuneaton. Worked on Sub-Surface Railway (SSR) Upgrade (London Underground) - ‘Interoperability Design Strategy’ bid, conceptualising the strategy for using ATC system to resolve interoperability requirements between Network rail and London underground infrastructures to maximize operational flexibility and speed.
Completed IET Accredited (0122.09.PD) Electrical Engineering Graduate Training Program- July, 2010- 2012
Trained in British Railway Signalling Concepts & Practices- Signet Solutions- UK
Passed IRSE Modules: Module 1: Safety of Railway Signalling and Communications Module 2: Signalling the Layout Module 3: Signalling Principles Module 5: Signalling & Control Equipment, Applications Engineering Module 7: Systems, Management & Engineering
Personal track safety training and certified license to work on UK rail infrastructure sites
Trained in Railway Signalling Concepts & Practices, IRISET- India
1.1.160- Signalling Design Verifier License Holder 1.1.150C- Signalling Designer License Holder
College Event: Technofest • [2008: 3rd Prize] Working Model for solar cooling system in car College Event: Sports • 2007-2008- Captain, Throwball team- won several tournaments • 2007-2008- Vice Captain, Volleyball team- won several tournaments • 2007-2008- Sports Committee Member
• 2002-2003- School Head Girl • 2000-2001- House Prefect