Arunprasad Elamurugan
Assiatant Manager - Projects
Dubai
Summary
Project Management Professional, PMP with Mechanical background and commendable success in Project Management, Production, Planning & Control, Vendor Development and Operations, An effective communicator with relationship management skills with the capability to relate to people at any level of business and management
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
5
5
Languages
Work History
Assistant Manager - Projects
Alshirawi Equipment Co LLC
Dubai
07.2022 - Current
- Maintained tactical control of project budgets and timelines to keep teams on task and achieve schedule targets.
- Delivered high level of service to clients to both maintain and extend relationship for future business opportunities.
- Partnered with project team members to identify and quickly address problems.
- Supported senior managers and department leaders by completing projects and problem resolution under tight budgets and schedule demands.
- Generated weekly and monthly status reports for helpful progress tracking.
- Identified and resolved risks to minimize project disruption.
- Developed and maintained project documentation for reliable records.
- Monitored and tracked project metrics and collected data to share with project members.
- Documented project progress to fulfill project requirements and establish traceability.
- Mentored and guided staff to enhance performance and exceed customer expectations.
- Updated customers and senior leaders on progress and roadblocks.
- Devised and implemented attainable schedules, timelines and milestones for on-track projects.
- Led team meetings to assess project progress and plan appropriately to meet delivery targets.
- Planned, monitored and analyzed project costs to meet financial goals.
- Sourced, vetted and managed vendors needed to accomplish project goals.
- Reported regularly to managers on project budget, progress and technical problems.
- Tracked project and team member performance closely to quickly intervene in mistakes or delays.
- Facilitated workshops to collect project requirements and user feedback.
- Analyzed project performance data to identify areas of improvement.
- Maintained open communication by presenting regular updates on project status to customers.
- Verified quality of deliverables and conformance to specifications before submitting to clients.
- Recruited and oversaw personnel to achieve performance and quality targets.
- Monitored project progress, identified risks and took corrective action as needed.
- Scheduled and facilitated meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules and conflicts.
- Developed and implemented project plans and budgets to ensure successful execution.
Project Engineer - Process Equipment Division
AlShirawi Equipment Company LLC
Dubai
07.2019 - 07.2022
- Monitored installation of materials and equipment for compliance with drawings and specifications.
- Determined and scheduled priorities as required to progress engineering work.
- Recommended process improvements to reduce unnecessary waste.
- Trained junior engineers in workstation design and material handling.
- Reviewed progress controls for project quality assurance.
- Assisted with cost proposal development and customer presentations.
- Delivered concise instructions to technical team to maintain quality control.
- Performed constructability reviews of construction bid documents for coordination purposes.
- Maintained records for each project and engineering discipline.
- Provided technical direction of system development methodologies to improve technical performance.
- Monitored metrics during project execution to maintain compliance with planned costs.
- Recommended improvements for design, construction means and materials based on field or changing conditions.
- Identified technical risks within managed projects.
- Delivered regular compliance reports to drive process improvement and corrective measures.
- Assessed impact of modification requests for ongoing projects.
- Evaluated change order requests in response to out-of-scope work activities.
- Analyzed and interpreted data to identify trends and recommend improvements.
- Created detailed reports on engineering activities and findings.
- Conducted research to identify and evaluate new technologies and concepts.
- Implemented new strategies to reduce costs and improve efficiency of engineering team.
- Developed comprehensive engineering documents for all projects.
- Developed high-quality engineering designs and plans to meet industry standards.
- Verified construction documentation to meet client requirements and vision.
- Documented and developed engineering procedures and processes.
- Developed and implemented procedures to verify compliance with engineering standards.
- Trained and mentored junior engineers, providing guidance and direction.
- Performed complex calculations to analyze and optimize engineering processes.
- Collaborated with other departments to facilitate successful project completion.
- Analyzed and interpreted customer requirements to develop engineering solutions.
- Monitored and evaluated engineering performance to recommend improvements.
- Assisted in developing cost-effective solutions to engineering problems.
- Conducted technical evaluations of engineering designs and test results.
- Implemented automated systems to improve accuracy and efficiency of engineering processes.
- Designed and implemented quality control processes to facilitate customer satisfaction.
- Developed and maintained relationships with suppliers to facilitate quality and timely delivery of materials.
- Led engineering teams to successfully complete projects on time and within budget.
Sr. Project Engineer
Petromen Oil field & Contracting LLC
AbuDhabi
02.2019 - 07.2019
- Shutdown projects in ADNOC as a Subcontractor
- Key Result Areas:
- Adhered to timelines to meet quality assurance targets.
- Assessed scope and requirements to assist with project design determinations.
- Review and implementation of Method statements & procedures
- Finalize the subcontracts requirements based on the projects
- Monitoring the daily progress & ensure the work is progressing as per the planned schedule
- Review manufacturing process for the Prerequisites for shutdown and fabrication
- Review and coordinate with procurement for mobilization of equipment for the shutdown
- Coordinate with the main contractors Core Team for planning and execution of major overhauls
- Issue monthly reports and produce presentations for clients on a monthly basis
- Responsible for scheduling above activities in consultation with plant maintenance
- Provides a key interface and communication function between department and other elements of organization
- Participate in vendor interaction for new purchases, upgrades, troubleshooting of plant assets etc
- Ensuring the qualifications of inspection personnel through training, development, and performance reviews
- Ensure QC on static/rotary repair to confirm compliance
- Reviews, negotiates and finalizes contracts and change orders
- Key Projects:
- Project: EPC for Interconnecting Feed to the Condensate Stabilization Units in ASAB-1 Plant
- Client: ADNOC – Gas Processing
- Project: Replacement of RA Heating Medium vessel & NEB (DY & RA) Flare Headers
- Client: ADNOC- Onshore
Production Engineer
Prestige Engineering LLC
Sharjah
11.2014 - 02.2019
- Decreased in-house production issues by establishing and coordinating sub-contracting and outsourcing requirements and processes.
- Created engineering documentation for manufacturing processes, equipment specifications and change notices.
- Read and analyzed blueprints and project documentation to develop workflows and strategy.
- Applied lean manufacturing processes to enhance quality, reliability or cost-effectiveness.
Production/Planning Engineer
Prestige Engineering LLC
Sharjah
11.2014 - 12.2017
- Fabrication, Machining & Subcontracts
- Key Result Areas:
- Reporting project updates to Management as well as providing assistance in Planning & control activities
- Circulate Job requirements and arrange necessary arrangements as per the Contract Review
- Coordinate with clients for Technical requirements, ECN, As Built in the drawings
- Review Material Sourcing plan for all jobs and maintain as per the Client AVL
- Review Project manufacturing plan in MS office & Primavera as per the client requirements
- To coordinate & prepare Micro schedule on ongoing jobs to monitor the activity followed upon schedule to meet the delivery
- Review Manpower and reduce unnecessary Non lead time
- Conducting budget planning and cost estimation for jobs; Developing project plan and monitoring the same against the requirement
- Check ERP, SAP for data analysis, Cost Analysis & Manpower consumption and report to Management
- Managing the cash flow requirements and updating Purchase & Accounts for monthly requirements
- Coordinating & communicating with vendors for purchase and material requirements
- Update accounts for Jobs Invoicing, Provide Proper reports
- Streamlining site activities & subcontracting activities, fulfilling manpower requirements, collaborating with
- Engineering Team for drawing & design activities as well as with clients to review design & drawings, and so on
- Regularly update Progress status/reports to client
- Guiding & managing Production Supervisors & employees for the work allocation & daily production
- Receiving, reviewing, & verifying PO to ensure the received material are related with it
- Coordinate to arrange material request against the drawing
- Coordinating with stores to follow-up for the consumables required and with purchase for production material
- Monitoring & ensuring all the progress on stage
- Coordinate for logistics planning to ensure the Equipment delivery in all safety aspects
- Coordinate for Import/Export for Materials, Arrange Necessary documents if required
- Key Projects:
- Project: Oily Water Coalescer, – Fabrication of ‘U’ Stamp Vessel with complete Skid and Piping
- Assembly, Factory Acceptance Test
- Client: UNAOil
- Project: Degasser, Hydro Cyclone, Desanding Cyclone & Fine Filters– Fabrication of ‘U’ Vessel,
- Piping, Skid and Assembly, FAT, Bonatti SpA, End-user: Sonatrach Our hood
- Project: CPI Oily Water Separator, Manufacturing of Tank, Piping, FAT
- Client: Peerless, End User: ADCO
- Project: Generator Skid & Assembly – Fabrication of Skid with Assembly
- Client: National Oilwell Varco
- Project: Corrosion Inhibitor Skid & Assembly – Manufacturing of SS Tank & Skid with complete Test
- Client: Proserv Production Technologies, End User: KOC
- Project: Sludge Treatment Vessel & Piping – Fabrication of API Tank with complete Piping &
- FAT Test
- Client, Bonatti SpA, End-user: Sonatrach Our hood
- Project: DCO Degassing Vessel – Fabrication of Pressure vessel with complete Piping
- Client: Schlumberger
- Project: Potabilization collector & Headers
- Client: Suez International, End User: BARAKA
- Project: Inter After Cooler – Heat Exchanger for ADGAS
- Client:, ADGAS
- Project: BFW Heater
- Client, User: ADGAS
- Project: Retubing of Reheater
- End User : ADGAS
- Project: Sulfur Condensers Heat Exchanger
- Client:, Mellitah Oil & Gas- Libya / PBserv
Assistant Manager - Machine Shop
GTN Engineering India Ltd
Coimbatore
01.2013 - 11.2014
- Key Result Areas:
- Assisting General Manager in Operational in Planning and execution of work related duties in Machine shop
- Directing Supervisors/Engineer, QC Engineers for Shift wise work Allocation
- Assisting Supervisor in allocating Job machine wise
- Manpower Management in assisting Employees towards the work and daily production
- Ensure that all the Health & safety procedures are maintained and followed
- Review Daily Production Plan vs
- Actual to identify the problem of Failure
- Identify Actual root cause for failures, take corrective & Preventive Actions
- Proactively building, developing and maintaining relationship with all members
- Disciplining Employees when it is required
- Communicating information to staff and supervisor in a professional manner
- Assisting Staffs, operators and supervisors with their needs, questions, Problems and Complaints
- Review machine Complaints and summarize the monthly, weekly and daily complaints of machines to the maintenance department
- Schedule a month wise preventive maintenance for machines
- Coordinate with manufacturing for new product development
- Coordinate with manufacturing to find the tooling issues
- Coordinate with tool room engineers to make the effective usage of tooling Inserts and consumption
- Report monthly production, consumption, rejections, kaizens & Continuous Improvements against the target in the form of monthly report to Management
- Assist Painting department to coordinate with the Schedule
- Coordinate with Assembly department if there is any issues
- Assist on repairing the Casted Valves for re-usage, Testing & assembly
- Conduct Internal Audit & Housekeeping Audit with my staff and supervisors to maintain system, procedure and good working environment
- Conduct Shop floor meetings to encourage employees, discuss problems
- Review with QA functions for an effective Corrective action & preventive actions against rejections
- Lead QC Engineer to perform process control charts, Process Capability etc
- Coordinate with the Meteorology team for Instrument, Gauge status and any new instruments usage and training
- Assisting in the recruitment, training and development of staff
- Assisting Maintenance, manufacturing & Machine shop to review month wise performance in the month wise department review meeting
- Significant Accomplishments:
- Optimized the cost with subcontractors, and reduced cost up to 20%
- Implemented TPF techniques to improve machine maintenance and avoid sudden breakdown by 15%
- Conferred with Safe Zone Leader Award
Graduate Management Trainee
GTN Engineering India Ltd
Coimbatore
12.2010 - 11.2014
- Assisted established management staff with operational oversight, business development, and process improvement strategies.
- Established open and professional relationships with team members which facilitated communication, quickly resolving issues, and conflicts.
- Planned and implemented team projects to accomplish objectives.
- Modernized and improved operational procedures to increase productivity and profitability while tightly controlling costs.
Graduate Engineer Trainee
Machine Shop
Coimbatore
12.2010 - 12.2012
- Provided repairs to avoid long maintenance wait times.
- Assessed scope and requirements to assist with project design determinations.
- Evaluated quality control processes and made recommendations for improvements in quality control.
- Worked closely with engineers on projects.
- Participated in failure analysis and debugging report activities.
- Collaborated with development teams, internal customers, and product line management to verify delivery of desired quality requirements to distributors.
- Adhered to timelines to meet quality assurance targets.
- Shadowed designers and engineers to learn ways to implement methodologies.
- Implemented rich, interactive data visualizations using modern JavaScript and software development techniques.
- Adhered to safety procedures and good housekeeping standards to comply with regulations.
- Designed and coordinated engineering tests and experiments.
- Prepared standard reports and documentation to communicate results to senior management.
- Analyzed and planned workflow, equipment placement and space requirements to improve manufacturing efficiency.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Production Engineering
St Peters Engineering College
Chennai, India 05.2006 - 05.2010
MBA - Business Analytics
Bits Pilani
India 08.2020 - 10.2022
Skills
Project Brief Design
undefinedAccomplishments
- PMP Certified, PMP Number : 3129047
- Software Package: MS Office, MS Projects,
- Knowledge Purview / Skill Set
- Having a wide experience of production planning in dealing projects with clients to meet up the schedule on time
- Manpower Management in accommodating people in speculated areas to meet improvement in schedules
- Coordinates in entire project to meets the delivery in different aspects to reach the clients; Follow up with procurement to meet the material requirements for the projects
- Lessons Learned: Identify, review, analyze and validate lessons learned for assigned projects.
- Project SLAs: Develop the Service Level Agreement (SLA) for the project that is mutually agreeable to GEP and the Business
- QC Knowledge in API 6A ,12F, 650, 2A, 2F & ASME SEC VIII
- Done projects in Waste water treatment, Chemical Injection Packages, Industrial water Management projects, Oily separators
- Material requisition on accordance to the production drawings, clarifies with client my coordinating with design team to get the Actual
- Manufacturing & Machining experience in terms of API 6A valves, A wide experience in terms of utilizing the valves in different kinds of machines like Horizontal Milling Centers, Turning Centers, Vertical Milling Centre
- Extensive knowledge on troubleshooting, reworking of valves due to dimensional variation of critical points in terms of valves
- Developed the terms of Total Productive Maintenance i.e., Jishu Hozen on maintaining the machines on its definite terms to identify & troubleshoot the errors in machines and its spares
- Lean manufacturing ideas on reducing the lead time of products, i.e., By identifying & Reducing the non-valued activities to have a proper cycle time in machining the component & setting the component
- Manufacturing skills on reducing the Non conformity of products by taking the proper RCA & CAPA for the failure
- Developing kaizens/ Continual Improvements ISO 9001:2008, OHSAS 18001 & EMS 14001 as an integrated part of
- Management system
Certification
Project Management Professional
Timeline
Assistant Manager - Projects
Alshirawi Equipment Co LLC
07.2022 - Current
MBA - Business Analytics
Bits Pilani
08.2020 - 10.2022
Project Engineer - Process Equipment Division
AlShirawi Equipment Company LLC
07.2019 - 07.2022
Sr. Project Engineer
Petromen Oil field & Contracting LLC
02.2019 - 07.2019
Production Engineer
Prestige Engineering LLC
11.2014 - 02.2019
Production/Planning Engineer
Prestige Engineering LLC
11.2014 - 12.2017
Assistant Manager - Machine Shop
GTN Engineering India Ltd
01.2013 - 11.2014
Graduate Management Trainee
GTN Engineering India Ltd
12.2010 - 11.2014
Graduate Engineer Trainee
Machine Shop
12.2010 - 12.2012
Bachelor of Engineering - Production Engineering
St Peters Engineering College
05.2006 - 05.2010
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