Rohit Kumar
Karwar
Summary
Dynamic professional with over 15 years of experience in the Indian Navy as a Petty Officer Engineering Mechanic, specializing in marine engines, gearboxes, and auxiliary systems, including HVAC and hydraulics. Successfully transitioned into leadership and engineering roles post-retirement, most recently serving as Assistant Mechanical Engineer at Vignan Technologies Private Limited after a tenure as Cluster Head in Vigilance at Awign Enterprises. Demonstrated ability to achieve targets across diverse functions such as Technical Engineering, General Administration, and Logistics, consistently excelling under pressure. Holds a degree in Defense Studies from the Indian Navy, providing a strong foundation in strategic operations and management.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Assistant Engineer-Mechanical
Vignan Technologies Private Limited
Karwar
07.2024 - Current
- Responsible for satisfactory completion of all mechanical and hull work associated with Autonomous Surface Vessel - Mine Counter Measure and ASV - Anti Submarine Warfare boats.
- Responsible for ensuring all underwater hull fittings, valves and flood alarm system affecting water tight integrity are well always maintained and working satisfactory.
- Read and interpret all engineering drawings, schematics, technical manuals, bills-of-materials (BOMs), assembly procedures and work instructions.
- Responsible for finding suitable indigenous replacements for all critical machinery, hull fittings, equipment LRUs, components and sub-assemblies.
- Responsible for carrying out all the maintenance routines for the mechanical equipment in association with the OEMs/ sub-contractors/ vendors for timely completion.
- Complete and maintain all work/ test/ trials related documentation such as installation and commissioning checklists, records of tests performed, and a log of all activities performed on equipment.
- Work with oils, chemicals and hazardous materials in a safe manner to ensure boats' operational availability.
- Participate in at-sea deployments to support commissioning and system testing in India and abroad.
- Participate in training within India or abroad to learn about system operation and maintenance.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot technical issues, enhancing project efficiency.
Cluster Head - Invigilance
Awign Enterprises Pvt. Ltd
Chandigarh
01.2023 - 01.2024
- Cluster Head - Invigilance of North - 4 region which consists of five states (Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and J&K).
- Cluster Head - Invigilance of North - 3 region which consists of entire Rajasthan.
- Responsible for managing local/venue level relationships for Awign with the customer (TCS Invigilation Vertical).
- Responsible for day-to-day operations, managing escalations, SPOCs relationship in the allocated Cluster.
- Manage and maintain all the hygiene checks with respect to test venues, workforce and respective POCs.
- Responsible for proactive planning and execution of set objectives for successful running of tests at the venues.
- Responsible for closely working with the headquarters and central leadership teams during the tests on real time basis and fixing any gaps to arrest any issues.
- Responsible for taking End to End ownership of the deployed workforce of the test venue and making sure the workforce adheres to all the SOPs.
- Responsible for generating reports and submitting the same to customer's POC and Awign central team.
- Interface with customer POC and local government bodies/compliance authorities in lieu of any escalation arising out of any untoward incidence from the respective test venues.
- Responsible for strictly enforcing all the ethical measures and SOPs on workforce to avoid any ethical or integrity breach/incidents.
- Accountable for suggesting SOP improvement plans from time-to-time basis the ground level dynamics.
- Takes complete ownership and accountability of smoothly running the test venues.
- Develop and build strong relationship customer POCs to minimize escalations from the venues.
- Participate in all internal and external meetings.
- Maintain a good relationship with customer and getting more demand for the company.
- Supervising the invoice raising and approval from the customer.
PETTY OFFICER ENGINEERING MECHANIC
Indian Navy
Mumbai
07.2006 - 07.2021
- Effectively planned, executed preventive maintenance and troubleshooting of various machineries and instruments to increase machine uptime and equipment reliability.
- Increased mean time between failures and reducing mean time to repair of machines, thereby increasing productivity.
- Imparted training to subordinates to enhance their operational efficiency.
- Supervised and maintained ships, boats and rafts machinery in sea worthy state.
- Operated outboard motors of capacity 25 HP to 250 HP makes like Yamaha, Mariner, Johnson etc.
- Maintained main propulsion plant having power rating of at least 15000 BHP, including steam propulsion (32000 to 72000 HP) with steam boiler, gearing, shafting and propellers.
- Maintained gas turbine propulsion plant (15000 HP to 64000 HP) with gearing, shafting and propellers.
- Maintained power generators and alternators including turbo alternators, gas turbine generators, and diesel alternators having rating from 100 KW to 1250 KW.
- Maintained Refrigeration and AC Plants of Indian, European and Russian origin such as York, Voltas, Russian, Kirloskar, etc.
- Maintained HP Air Compressor with capacity more than 200 bar, auxiliaries such as motor/turbo driven pumps, stabilizers, hydraulics, steering gear machinery cranes, Winches, Davits, Derricks, Boilers, Distilling plants, Centrifugal separators, etc.
- Supervised, trained, installed and maintained fire-fighting and damage control equipment.
- Possess knowledge to minimize casualties in case of Nuclear Biological and Chemical Warfare by operating and monitoring decontamination equipment.
Education
Basic NBCD Course -
NBCD INS Shivaji
LonavalaDEME - Engineering Mechanic
INS Shivaji
Lonavala, MHLME 'Q' - Engineering Mechanic
INS Shivaji
Lonavala, MHBasic IT Course - IT
INS Hamla
MumbaiEquation of Graduation Certificate -
Indian Navy
Mumbai01.2021
ICE Competency - Engineering Mechanic
Indian Navy
INS Sumitra01.2019
Skills
- MAINTENANCE & OPERATIONS
- ADMINISTRATION
- LOGISTICS & EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT
- COMMUNICATION & INTERPERSONAL
- LEADERSHIP & TEAM MANAGEMENT
- HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
- LIASIONING AND COORDINATION
- CRISIS AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Languages
Hindi
English
Punjabi
Timeline
Assistant Engineer-Mechanical
Vignan Technologies Private Limited
07.2024 - Current
Cluster Head - Invigilance
Awign Enterprises Pvt. Ltd
01.2023 - 01.2024
PETTY OFFICER ENGINEERING MECHANIC
Indian Navy
07.2006 - 07.2021
DEME - Engineering Mechanic
INS Shivaji
LME 'Q' - Engineering Mechanic
INS Shivaji
Basic IT Course - IT
INS Hamla
ICE Competency - Engineering Mechanic
Indian Navy
Basic NBCD Course -
NBCD INS Shivaji
Equation of Graduation Certificate -
Indian Navy