Nihal Mohan Gatty

Key responsibilities and Achievements

• Led quality inspections from incoming raw materials through fabrication, welding, painting, assembly, and final pre-dispatch inspection, ensuring compliance with customer specifications and quality standards.
• Performed quality control for custom-built diesel generator enclosures (650–1500 kVA) and generator acoustic canopies (30–500 kVA), including dimensional inspection, welding inspection, painting inspection, and final quality verification.
• Managed QA/QC activities for offshore special projects and 2500 kVA data center generator enclosure projects, ensuring compliance through material verification, fabrication, welding, assembly, surface preparation, painting, and final inspection.
• Verified material traceability, dimensional accuracy, welding compliance, NDT acceptance, and coating quality, including Dry Film Thickness (DFT) inspections, ensuring adherence to project specifications.
• Coordinated third-party inspections and ensured compliance with approved ITPs, WPS, PQR, NDT requirements, and client quality standards throughout manufacturing process.
• Prepared and maintained quality documentation, including RFIs, inspection reports, material traceability records, NDT reports, painting reports, and Manufacturing Record Books (MRBs) for client submission.
• Collaborated with production, engineering, procurement, and client representatives to resolve quality issues, implement corrective actions, and support timely project completion.
• Contributed to successful project delivery with zero major quality non-conformities during final customer inspections through proactive quality monitoring and strict adherence to QA/QC procedures.

• Assisted in training junior inspectors to maintain high quality standards.
• Enhanced productivity by implementing preventative maintenance schedules on inspection equipment.
• Demonstrated strong problem-solving skills in addressing product defects and shortcomings promptly and effectively.
• Ensured compliance with safety standards for employee wellbeing.
• Reduced manufacturing errors with strict adherence to inspection protocol.
• Kept quality paperwork accurately updated and filed for ease of reference.
• Promoted safe work practices amongst staff members, minimising workplace hazards and accidents.

• Supervised fabrication, fit-up, welding, erection, and installation of carbon steel, stainless steel, and alloy steel piping systems in refinery projects.
• Supervised piping erection, alignment, flange fit-up, support installation, and final bolting activities.
• Ensured all piping activities were carried out in accordance with approved drawings, project specifications, applicable codes, and client requirements.
• Planned and coordinated daily piping activities, allocating manpower, equipment, and materials to achieve project targets.
• Coordinated with other supervisors for smooth operations across departments.