Amirtharaj Thiagarajan

Responsibilities

Led utilities operations (scrubbing/abatement, water treatment, gases, HVAC, power) for an optical fiber glass plant, ensuring 100% uptime and regulatory compliance.

Impacts

-Reduced import costs by 50% via in-house technology development (Chairman's Award, May 2024), ensuring business continuity.

-Achieved 5.5 million safe man-hours and 1600 days without lost time injury (June 2024).

-Developed a robust safety culture by a project named “Abhay” in collaboration dupont

-Led utilities design and stabilization for a 500 MTPA optical fiber glass plant greenfield project (2019-2022).

-Awarded for 20% water conservation (Star Performance Award, April 2019).

-Increased SiCl4 production capacity by 40% (2016).

-Revamped gas abatement systems (HCl and chlorine scrubbers) for environmental compliance.

Responsibilities

Managed production of industrial/automotive lubricants and rust preventives, optimizing processes and ensuring quality.

Impacts

-Trained at Buhmwoo Chemicals (South Korea) on automotive wax manufacturing.

-commissioned a 200 MT/day wax plant, reducing import costs.

-Received a Special Recognition Award (YBI, 2008).

-Reduction of import costs by indigenous product manufacturing

-Implemented FIFO in production,inprocess and finished goods

-Implemented 5S across the plant premises.

-Implemented PLC Automations in batch lubricants manufacturing process

-Demonstrated safety across the plant operations

Responsibilities

Managed operations and maintenance of a complex industrial facility, including a copper production plant, smelters, an 11 MW waste heat recovery boiler (WHRB), a refinery, and sulfuric acid and phosphoric acid plants.

Impacts

-Stabilized O&M in Sterlite industries copper manufacturing process

-Performed annual shutdown of plant

Responsibilities

Handled bulk drug production operations, ensuring efficient and safe production processes.

Impacts

-Produced herbal extracts,executed pilot plant unit operation.

-Implemented quality control techniques