SREEKANTH S
Dubai,United Arab Emirates
Summary
Results-driven professional with experience in operations management, team leadership, and process improvement. Strong ability to manage resources, enhance operational efficiency, and maintain positive stakeholder relationships while supporting organizational goals.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work history
Service Centre Team Manager
Alfa Laval
Abu Dhabi, UAE
05.2024 - Current
- Oversee the overall operations of the Service Center, ensuring efficient execution of service jobs, resource utilization, and adherence to operational standards.
- Manage daily service activities including job planning, scheduling, quality control, and timely delivery of services to customers.
- Manage the Service Center operational budget, including cost control, financial planning, and performance monitoring.
- Drive cost optimization initiatives to improve profitability and operational efficiency.
- Lead HSE initiatives in collaboration with regional HSE teams to ensure safe working conditions and compliance with company and regulatory standards.
- Promote a strong safety culture and continuous improvement in workplace safety practices.
- Maintain strong relationships with customers and internal stakeholders to ensure high service quality and customer satisfaction.
- Coordinate closely with sales and technical teams to support business development and service delivery.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and service quality.
- Define and monitor KPIs to track service performance, operational efficiency, and financial results.
- Implement corrective actions and improvement strategies based on performance analysis.
- Manage and develop a team of technicians and support staff, ensuring proper training, competency development, and performance management.
- Foster a collaborative and high-performance work environment.
- Represented organisations at seminars, conferences and business events.
- Analysed and resolved complex resource management issues for optimised scheduling.
Project Manager, Marine & Diesel Projects, BWTS
Alfa Laval
Dubai, UAE
12.2021 - 04.2024
- Leads planning and execution of BWTS implementation projects.
- Handling over 150 BWTS Pure Ballast deliveries to various vessel owners in shipping industry as retrofits and for new buildings across region of Middle East, Southern & Eastern Africa and Cyprus market.
- Define work breakdown structure, milestones and work proposals of the project.
- Perform scope analysis, resource allocation, budgeting, risk assessment, cost and time monitoring, progress tracking, reporting, quality assurance and closure of projects.
- Act as a liaison between different stake holders of the projects like customers, engineering sub contractors, shipyards, OEMs, logistic partners and various global internal departments.
- Manage and motivate a team containing project coordinators, order handlers, sales engineers, installation & commissioning engineers.
- Conduct technical review of Projects.
- Ensure that orders are executed with strong focus on quality, delivery time and budget. Identify the chances of missing deadlines early and suggest mitigation plans.
- Organize and conduct meetings with Divisional Manager and Global business heads to report progress and status of the running projects, highlight the achievements of the team.
- Ensure right invoicing and maintain project turnarounds at any given interval.
- Technical Advisories to Service team and commissioning engineers managing product portfolio.
- Build relationships with customers, which ensures good customer experience and satisfaction
- Project budget control & statistically improving invoice management meeting organizational KPIs and within CAPEX and OPEX.
- Reviewed incidents and near misses and adapted Health & Safety training content for the team accordingly.
- Resolved complex issues with strong analysis and investigations.
Marine Technical Superintendent - Electrical
Seaspan Ship Management Limited
Vancouver, Canada
10.2019 - 10.2021
- Manage all technical (Electrical) matters of all assigned vessels and also ensure that safety is regarded as primary responsibility.
- Responsible for repairs, planned maintenance and modifications to vessel's equipment's.
- Plan and coordinate inspection and dry docking of vessels.
- Follow up on performance of vessel equipment's and arrange corrective actions to be carried out when necessary.
- Assist Base Manager and Superintendents for vessel certification and surveys for class, flag and international requirements are in order. Liaising with Charterers, Flag State and Port State controls if required.
- Maintain & monitor all maintenance reports for electrical equipment from vessels. Verify with vessel of any abnormalities noted and report to TS for further action.
- Compile documented reports upon completion of each dry-docking; include summaries or work carried out and comparison of budget and actual expenditure.
- Manage financial budgets and cost control for maintenance, repairs, stores, modifications and dry dockings,
- Ensuring that all mandatory procedures i.e. Tool box talks, Risk assessments, permits to work, hot work permits etc. are used effectively and filed for audit purposes.
- To conduct on board familiarization, training and performance assessments for ETOs onboard.
Senior Marine Electrical Engineer
Seaspan Ship Management & American President Line
Vancouver, Canada & Singapore
10.2006 - 10.2019
- In full charge of Managing, Maintaining, and upgrading shipboard power distribution and associated control systems on-board vessels. Manage strategic planning and day-to-day operations of electrical team.
- Hands on experience in various installation, maintenance, troubleshooting and rectification of wide range of electrical equipment's, lighting's, machinery and associated control panels, control systems and power distribution systems.
- Preparing, revising and/or reviewing technical manuals, engineering operating procedures, instructions, specifications, standards and PMS documentation for cognizant equipment and systems.
- Manage, Maintain, and upgrade on-board HVAC, Power distributions (HVSB, LVSB, ESB, DG, EG, UPS & Electrical Panels) and associated control systems on-board vessels. Hands-on experience on maintenance of 6.6 kV power distribution systems
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication
Anna University
Tamil Nadu, India05-2005
Skills
- Project Management
- Project Scheduling
- Stakeholder relations
- Electrical engineering
- Systems Installation, Configuration and Upgrading
- Compliance understanding
- Workflow planning
- Strategic planning
- Resource Management
- Budgeting and Estimation
- Maintenance and repair management
- Performance Evaluations
- Inspections and evaluations
- Workplace safety
- Supply Chain Management
- Risk mitigation
- Health and safety astute
- Regulation compliance
- Engineering drawing interpretation
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CERTIFICATIONS
PMP ® Certification
Certified STCW III/6 E T O
Risk Management & Incident Investigation
High Voltage management level certification
Resource Management Marine Environmental Protection Committee
Valid STCW 2010 Certificate of competency
VECP & Marine Environmental Protection Course
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Timeline
Service Centre Team Manager
Alfa Laval
05.2024 - Current
Project Manager, Marine & Diesel Projects, BWTS
Alfa Laval
12.2021 - 04.2024
Marine Technical Superintendent - Electrical
Seaspan Ship Management Limited
10.2019 - 10.2021
Senior Marine Electrical Engineer
Seaspan Ship Management & American President Line
10.2006 - 10.2019
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication
Anna University