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Amit Sindhu

Amit Sindhu

Gurugram

Summary

MANAGER & SECTION LEAD – ICA, ICT and ELECTRICAL, PROJECT MANAGER

Accomplished Instrumentation & Controls Design Engineering professional with 19 years and 07 months of experience with a proven track record at Jacobs Engineering Pvt. Ltd., adept at growing technical teams and enhancing global work through strategic capability selling. Skilled in design management and stakeholder engagement, I excel in driving initiatives and mentoring teams towards innovative solutions and quality excellence.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Design Manager

Jacobs Engineering Pvt. Ltd.
Gurgaon
06.2015 - Current
  • Lead a team of 55+ team members and am responsible for workload forecast & management of discipline KPIs
  • Hiring plans for the disciplines
  • Appraisals and merit review
  • Chalking out training plans and implementing them
  • Team building
  • Augmenting Technical capabilities and skillsets
  • Talent mapping of resources
  • All aspects of people management
  • I report to Head of Sector & Director – Water market
  • Second level reporting is to VP & GM - Asia

Instrumentation & ICT Tech Leader (Manager)

UEM India Pvt Ltd (Now Toshiba Water)
04.2011 - 06.2015

Senior Engineer Instrumentation & ICT

Degremont India Pvt Ltd (Now Veolia Water)
07.2006 - 04.2011

On Job Trainee

HCL Infinet India Pvt Ltd
07.2005 - 06.2006

Education

B.E - Electronics and Communications Engineering Honor’s degree

Maharishi Dayanand University

Skills

  • Setting up and profitably growing technical teams - grew the ICA team from single team member to more than 30 in a period of one year in Jacobs
  • Adding new technical capabilities via external hiring and internal talent development including agile skills
  • Selling developed capabilities and skills to lead regions for enhancing global work
  • Driving new initiatives by overcoming organizational barriers
  • Preparation of engineering workflows and checklists
  • Technical mentorship for the team
  • Innovating and using automation for the smart delivery of tasks
  • Leading key proposals with lead regions (to the tune of 150K GID/GDC hours)
  • Design management and leading dry and wet utility teams on different project designs
  • Diverse experience ranging from EPC to consultancy
  • Management of various stakeholders, including external and internal clients and vendors
  • Acting as the employer's representative and reviewing the contractor's drawings
  • Quality management (DNV GL-certified internal quality auditor)
  • Drawing up project execution plans
  • HAZID, HAZOP, and SIL studies
  • Preparing concepts and preliminary design reports for smart cities' ICT, including integrated command and control centers, and IoT-based networks
  • Diverse experience from master planning to detailed designing

Professional Expertise and Leadership

i) I have a rich experience experience in the field of water, wastewater, and effluent treatment for:

  • Municipal Water and Wastewater Treatment Projects across the globe and domestic market.
  • Industrial balance of plant ETPs
  • Zero Liquid Discharge plants
  • Reverse Osmosis plants

ii) I also have rich experience in smart city/ infrastructure ICT projects as aviation/ port projects.

In my current role, I lead a team of 55+ team members and am responsible for:

  • Workload forecast & management of discipline KPIs
  • Hiring plans for the disciplines
  • Appraisals and merit review
  • Chalking out training plans and implementing them
  • Team building
  • Augmenting Technical capabilities and skillsets
  • Talent mapping of resources
  • All aspects of people management

iii) I report to Head of Sector & Director – Water market

Second level reporting is to VP & GM - Asia

Project experience

Jacobs & Ch2m:

Water / Wastewater treatment and pumping:

  • TUAS WRP (Singapore)
  • Jeddah Critical Pumping Stations (KSA)
  • Ajman Capacity upgrade works WWTP Phase 2 (Ajman, UAE)
  • MBR Foul Water Pumping stations (Dubai)
  • City of Tracy WWTP – Phase IIB (USA)
  • Changi Phase 2 WRP (Singapore)
  • Ø Sharjah Phase 5 STP
  • Ø Amanisha Nallah PS & Interceptor sewers (Jaipur)
  • Ø Reliance Algae to Oil plant - Jamnagar

Ports:

  • Ras Al Khair (KSA)
  • Delware Container terminal

Infrastructure & Smart cities:

  • Krishnapatnam
  • Tumakuru
  • Amravati (Project went on hold mid-way through the design phase)
  • Shendra & Bidkin

Aviation:

  • Naval Air Station Seabird (Karwar)
  • Lucknow Intl Airport Limited (Masterplanning Project Manager) for AAHL
  • Jaipur Intl Airport Limited (Masterplanning Project Manager) for AAHL
  • Bangalore Intl Airport Limited (Different packages)

UEM India Pvt Ltd :

Water / Wastewater/ effluent treatment and pumping:

  • 6 no. ETPs in Gujarat for ONGC
  • 4 no. ETPs in Assam for ONGC
  • Essar ZLD coal bed water treatment facility, Raniganj
  • Millar Western Waste Water treatment plant, Canada
  • JBF, PTA treatment plant Mangalore

Degremont India Pvt Ltd :

Water / Wastewater/ effluent treatment and pumping:

  • 550 MLD WTP at T.K.Halli, Bangalore
  • 918 MLD WTP at Bhandup, Mumbai
  • 635 MLD WTP at Sonia Vihar, New Delhi (Testing and commissioning)

Experience leading key pursuits

  • C3D3 Tuas
  • KRANJI CWRP (48 k hrs)
  • SAMI (75K hrs)
  • ADANI DHARAVI

Others

  • Worked on iconic projects like Ras Al Khair, TUAS, Jeddah PS, Tracy, Reliance Algae to Oil.
  • Have strong interpersonal skills and effective communication capabilities where we need to coordinate with multiple stakeholders.
  • Adept in getting work done through influence and building consensus.
  • I have good knowledge of different water and wastewater processes which gives me a good understanding of water and wastewater treatment. Along with this have done numerous projects on Smart Cities and infrastructure, aviation as well.
  • I am an externally certified Internal quality auditor as well. Certified by DNV-GL.
  • Received training for safety in design. First 2 years of my tenure were spent in site execution which helped to give me a good insight into practical aspects consideration when we do design. Also received training for “Safety in design”.
  • Have worked on numerous projects across all regions with water teams, however not going into details to keep the resume short and summarized.

Awards

  • Received Discretionary Bonus
  • Impact Bonus
  • Reward & recognition multiple times in last few years

Memberships and affiliations

ISA Delhi Section, Member

Languages

English - Fluent

Hindi - Fluent

Personal Information

  • Year of Birth: 1983
  • Nationality: Indian

Functional roles

  • GID coordinator – US (All markets India BI), 3 times growth in billable work inflow to India from USA. (FY 2021 to 07/2024)
  • Regional Practice Leader/ Regional Technical Leader – I & C, Head of I & C CoP for India; Addition of capabilities like PLC programming. (FY 2019 - Ongoing)
  • 40-40-20 India BI Program Manager, Female ratio increased from 21 percent to 29 percent; Hired first contender for 20 during this period as an especially abled resource. (FY 2023 & FY 2024)
  • Water Market SPOC - MEP, Acted as the single point of contact for water markets from the sector. (FY 2024 11/2023 to 05/2024

Timeline

Design Manager

Jacobs Engineering Pvt. Ltd.
06.2015 - Current

Instrumentation & ICT Tech Leader (Manager)

UEM India Pvt Ltd (Now Toshiba Water)
04.2011 - 06.2015

Senior Engineer Instrumentation & ICT

Degremont India Pvt Ltd (Now Veolia Water)
07.2006 - 04.2011

On Job Trainee

HCL Infinet India Pvt Ltd
07.2005 - 06.2006

B.E - Electronics and Communications Engineering Honor’s degree

Maharishi Dayanand University
Amit Sindhu