Muhammad Ashraf
Senior Mechanical Engineer
mianwali
Summary of Career
Experience as
03 February 2016
14 December 2017
Working as Area Manager (Utilities and Project & Planning) to manage day to day functions of Utilities maintenance section for the smooth operation of plant and Project & Planning to control documentation , Drawing and computer sections for Planning & scheduling, drafting, Preventive Maintenance schedule compliance, new projects and modifications activities.
Utilities Section
Overall administrative and management control to perform daily routine maintenance job assignments, Annual Turn Around jobs, Annual maintenance Budget proposals, Procurement & follow up of mandatory spares required for Utilities plant maintenance & repair.
Project & Planning Section
Administrative and management control of documentation section to keep up to date record of all vendors engineering documents &drawings of plant and new projects & modifications.
Administrative and management control of computer section to keep up to date record of daily routine maintenance, Preventive Maintenance schedule implementation and compliance, Annual turn around maintenance planning on MS project, Daily, Monthly and Annual plant maintenance reports to forecast maintenance man-hours, proper utilization of manpower and plant maintenance cost.
Administrative and management control of Drawing Section to generate engineering drawings on AutoCAD for existing plant & machinery and new projects & modifications for manufacturing of spare items from AGL workshop and other local & foreign manufacturing companies.
Experience as
26 September 2015
02 February 2016
AOA is a joint venture between Algerian State owned Oil and Gas Company Sonatrach and Sohail Bhawan Group (Holding) LLC Oman. AOA complex construction contract was awarded to Japan Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) in partnership with Korea Daewoo Engineering &Construction Company in 2008. The process technology for ammonia production plants is Haldor Topsoe, Denmark and its urea process technology is Italy's Snamprogetti and while Germany' Uhde Fertilizer Technology has supplied its urea granulation process technology.
The complex is producing 4000 MTPD of ammonia, almost all of which is being converted urea using two plants producing 3500 MTPD each of urea.
Electricity generation capacity of the plant is 93 MW by four Gas turbines having each of 23.28 MW and steam generation capacity of three HRSG connected to Gas turbines with supplementary gas firing is 225 ton/hr.
Job Description
worked as Sr.Mechanical Engineer Planning & Methods to carry out day to day activities at El Sharika El Djazairia El Omania Lil Asmida AOA spa Arzew Industrial Area Algeria
My major responsibilities includes
Worked on development of RCM data base for functional failures, failure modes and their effects.
Developed standard maintenance procedures for rotating and stationary equipments as per OEM recommendations
Developed preventive maintenance schedules for rotating equipments.
Prepared all equipments data and mandatory spare parts required for three years smooth operation of the plant.
Worked on the coding philosophy of equipments and spares for implementation of ERP.
Reviewed material stock levels and future requirements and expedite Material Section for procurement of proper material at strategic stock levels.
Preparation of daily production and maintenance progress reports and running machines history record.
Preparation of annual maintenance budget proposals.
Managed & superviseddaily mechanical corrective & preventive maintenance jobs in coordination with planning and production department to maximize the plant availability.
Developed team work capabilities of mechanical supervisors & technicians and developing their skills to carry out maintenance tasks independently.
Experience as
01 July 2008
19 September 2015
Lead and managed multi discipline teams consisting of mechanical engineers, supervisors, technicians, Fabrication foreman, Fabricators, Elect Arc welders and TIG welders within the maintenance department.
Responsible for timely & cost effective maintenance of urea & PH&S plants equipments like centrifugal pumps, high pressure plunger pumps, centrifugal compressor, steam turbines, conveyor belts, bagging hoppers, sewing machines, Prilling machine, Pressure vessels, steam drums, tubular & plate heat exchangers, Carbamate condenser, reactor, stripper etc
Reviewing and acceptance of production drawings of equipments, machinery and spare parts for local workshop production to reduce the foreign capital.
Supervise and gave direction to the Fabrication team to carry out routine equipments & piping repair jobs, planned modifications and new projects as per standard operating procedures.
Maintained safe working conditions by ensuring 100% compliance with OSHA and ISO Standards, ISO 9001:2008 (QMS), ISO 14001:2004 (EMS) and OHSAS 14001: 2004.
Drive the safety culture and safety engagement within the maintenance team.
Provide technical support to technical services department for the execution of management of change requests, design package review and commissioning of new projects or modifications.
Responsible in maintaining safe operation, reliability and efficiency of all the equipment in covered area by performing predictive maintenance such as vibration analysis, lube oil analysis and operating parameters trending.
Direct participation in condition monitoring and vibration data collection, analysis, diagnosis and propose recommendations to concerned sections as necessary to increase equipment serviceability and reduce operation downtime.
Deal with condition monitoring of equipments including pumps, turbines, compressors, blowers, fans and gear boxes etc. and update data base for functional failures, failure modes and failure effect analysis to carry out RCM.
Implementation of preventive predictive maintenance program (condition monitoring i.e. vibration analysis, oil sampling analysis, coolant water ph analysis) as per planned schedule.
Supervise and provide direction to condition monitoring technician for performing day to day activities and ensure all activities compliance with operating principle, EHS requirement and all procedural requirement.
Liaise with suppliers & vendors for procurement of spares, consumables, equipments and piping etc
Provide full support to technicians during troubleshooting, diagnosis activities and carry out route-cause failure analysis. Liaise with to get recommendations and advise on repeated failures & problems.
Develop major overhauling& repairing activities plan for rotating& stationary equipments and follow-up for timely execution.
Manpower outsourcing, hiring and contract out for new projects and modifications
Non destructive testing of urea plant critical equipment with electromagnetic probe to check tubes wall thickness loss and graphical representation of equipment remaining life.
Planning and Supervision of Annual plant maintenance activities, preparation of activity/bar charts of critical equipments and inspection of equipments
Preparation of daily maintenance progress reports and running machines history record.
Preparation of annual maintenance budget proposals.
Successful implementation and utilization of ERP plant maintenance and material management modules.
Experience as
01 April 2000
30 June 2008
Worked at Utilities, off sites and power plants as an Area Manager to lead a team comprising mechanical engineer, supervisors and technicians across three shifts to perform daily routine maintenance jobs, planned and unplanned jobs for the smooth & continuous operation of the unit. Major responsibilities includes,
Maintenance of boilers, cooling towers, water treatment plants, centrifugal pumps, steam turbines, gas turbine, heat exchanges, surface condenser, gear boxes, fans etc.
Built a well organized maintenance team..
Plan & Execute routine jobs, P.M., Predictive Maintenance, breakdown & emergency repair of various plant equipments as per Technical drawings & International Standards like API, ANSI, ASME, TEMA & AWS.
Worked on the implementation of ERP System. Coding of all the related spares of the maintenance section.
Successfully planned and executed process improvement modifications & new projects like conversion of water tube boiler into HRSG and installation of Gas turbine.
Developed and managed operating and capital budgets to ensure that section’s operations remain within budgetary targets.
Review material stock levels and future requirements and expedite Material Section for procurement of proper material at strategic stock levels.
Preparation of daily maintenance progress reports and running machines history record.
Preparation of annual maintenance budget proposals.
Implementation of latest maintenance techniques (preventive, predictive, proactive approach to increase equipments reliability).
Managed & supervised daily mechanical corrective & preventive maintenance jobs in coordination with planning and production department to maximize the plant availability.
Experience as
12 February 1998
31 March 2000
Worked as Assistant Engineer at Pak-American fertilizers modernization and expansion project 650 MTPD Ammonia & 1050 MTPD Urea plants designed and installed in supervision of Toyo Engineering Corporation Japan.
Studied isometric drawings, piping plans of urea and utilities plant.
Supervision of piping fabrication work of utilities and urea plant.
Piping flushing/blowing, hydro-test, Commissioning and start-up activities.
Supervision of maintenance activities of utilities section.
Liaison with warehouse to develop inventory management system
Managed & supervised daily mechanical corrective & preventive maintenance jobs in coordination with planning and production department to maximize the plant availability.
Bachelor 14 April 1997
NWFP UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY PESHAWAR B.Sc Mechanical Engineering with Honour