ARUN VIJAYACHANDRAN
Kollam
Summary
Senior Manager with extensive experience in healthcare sector, excelling in project management and electrical design. Proven track record in contract administration and quality assurance, ensuring compliance and timely delivery. Adept at leading teams and optimizing project outcomes, leveraging strong analytical skills and effective communication.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Manager - Engineering Services
M/s STAT Consultancy P Ltd.
01.2021 - Current
- Project management of hospital projects, review of material submittals, processing invoices, testing, and commissioning of electrical equipment at the project site.
- Assessing the contract documents, drawings, and specifications.
- Review of the contractor's submittals and ensuring their compliance with the concept design, contract requirements, and coordination with other disciplines.
- Review of shop drawings, ensuring their compliance with design requirements, contract requirements, coordination with other disciplines, and submission as per the approved schedules.
- Review and approval of materials, ensuring compliance with contract requirements, and submitted as per the approved project construction schedule.
- Regular visits to the project site to ensure the quality of work is in compliance with contract requirements, good construction practices, only approved materials are used, and compliance with shop drawings.
- Review and approval of the method statement as submitted by the contractor, and ensuring its compliance with all contract requirements.
- Participate in reviewing field design changes by providing the technical position addressing any foreseen cost and time impacts.
- Technical support and assessment of variations and claims by the contractor.
- Technical support to the planning engineer with respect to the precedence of activities and the optimum duration of each activity.
- Attend technical meetings with the contractor, and weekly progress meetings.
- Ensuring coordination between all other disciplines and trades has been carried out for all external and internal MEP services.
- Review the as-built drawings as submitted by the contractor.
- Witnessing testing and commissioning activities, and ensuring full compliance with project requirements.
- Making sure that any nonconformity has been reported through a nonconformance report (NCR).
- Coordinating with the MEP team for the installation and commissioning of HT/LT cabling works, transformers, DGs, UPSs, chiller plant rooms, and hydro-pneumatic plants.
Senior Electrical Engineer -Project & Design
M/s STAT Consultancy P Ltd.
01.2016 - 12.2021
- Electrical design, tendering and estimation, project management of hospital and commercial projects, review of material submittals, processing invoices, testing, and commissioning of electrical equipment at the project site.
- Leading a team of electrical design engineers, CAD technicians, and site engineers to design and execute projects such as hospitals, hotels, and commercial buildings.
- Initial load calculation to size the electrical equipment and to provide space requirements for electrical services, such as transformers, generators, UPS, electrical rooms, and solar panels.
- HT cable, bus duct, and cable tray routing and sizing.
- Preparation of single-line diagrams and initial project estimates.
- Preparing a detailed design report for the project, which comprises the detailed project planning, load, and equipment details.
- Design of interior and exterior lighting for all buildings, earthing and lightning protection systems, and HVAC power layout.
- Preparation of technical specifications for transformers, generators, UPS, and light fixtures.
- Preparation of the BOQ, tender specifications, and detailed AutoCAD electrical design drawings.
- Preparing the project estimate, comparing the quotes received from contractors, and negotiating for the best offer for the award of the contract.
- Incorporating the green building standards, wherever applicable.
- Selection of light fixtures based on the interior design and technical specifications.
- Meeting with the client, architect, other services consultants and contractors to discuss and provide solution to various concerns that arises in a project.
- Inspection/Approval of various electrical equipment such as transformer and panels by conducting test as per standard to ensure quality and safety of the equipment used in our projects.
- Review and approvals of General arrangement drawings.
- Review of contractor's submittals and ensuring its compliance with concept design, contract requirements and coordination with other disciplines.
- Coordinating with the HVAC, Plumbing and fire departments and design the project taking into consideration their requirement.
Project Coordinator -MEP Services
M/s STAT Consultancy P Ltd.
01.2011 - 12.2015
- Lead the team of Junior Engineers for Various projects of the company.
- Responsible for execution of all electrical works at site.
- Project Planning & Scheduling.
- MEP Services Coordination.
- Developing and Maintaining Electrical & Elv Budgets.
- Raising Technical queries to the design team.
- Meeting with the client, architect, other services consultants and contractors to discuss and provide solution to various concerns that arises in a project.
- Inspection/Approval of various electrical equipment such as transformer and panels by conducting test as per standard to ensure quality and safety of the equipment used in our projects.
- Review and approvals of General arrangement drawings.
- Review of contractor's submittals and ensuring its compliance with concept design, contract requirements and coordination with other disciplines.
- Coordinating with the HVAC, Plumbing and fire departments and design the project taking into consideration their requirement.
PROJECT Engineer - Electrical
M/S SAAD Trading and Contracting Company
05.2008 - 04.2011
- Company Overview: Al-Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- Handling the electrical work of the non-process industrial buildings, 2 No. 11 kV/0.45 kV substations (civil and electrical), above 100 km LT cabling works, MV/LV substation panel erection, 2.5 MVA substation transformer erection, 5 Nos. 1 MVA distribution substations, and infrastructure development.
- Review of construction drawings.
- Developing shop drawings.
- Handling the electrical material procurement.
- Material approvals, timely material take-off, and site material management.
- Project tracking for the efficient completion of the project.
- Preparation of As-Built Drawing.
- Supporting the project manager in all technical concerns related to electrical works.
- Developing and maintaining manpower, and cost estimates.
- Coordinating with the in-house and consultant QA/QC inspections.
- Raising and handling all technical queries, RFIs related to the materials, specifications, and relevant international standards.
- Assisting in the documentation and submission of the handover dossier.
- Commissioning of all equipment and systems.
- Training the client technicians during the takeover process.
- AL-Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Senior Executive - Facilities
M/s Future Group India (Ltd)
Bangalore
03.2007 - 05.2008
- Company Overview: Bangalore.
- Review electrical engineering design, specifications, project schedules, circuit diagrams, and estimates for the construction of the multi-storied retail shopping outlets of the company.
- Handling all the client-level inspections and supervisions for all the MV/LV electrical installation works.
- Testing and commissioning of the MV/LV switchgear systems, generators with synchronizing panels, transformers, and all the LV units, air-conditioning, refrigeration systems, elevators, and escalators.
- Coordinating all contractual progress meetings for the effective completion of the project.
- Coordinating the entire handover process with various contractors.
- Responsible for building up maintenance teams and providing training before the takeover from the contractor.
- Banglore.
Electrical Engineer-Projects
KIMS Hospital
Trivandrum
01.2004 - 03.2007
- Company Overview: Trivandrum.
- Upward expansion of the existing hospital building and MEP plant expansion.
- Review electrical engineering design, specifications.
- Handling all the client-level inspections and supervisions for all the MV/LV electrical installation works.
- Handled the electrical procurement of all client-supplied materials.
- Review of the contractor's submittals and ensuring their compliance with the concept design, contract requirements, and coordination with other disciplines.
- Liaison with supply authorities for the enhancement of energy demand.
- Trivandrum.
Electrical Engineer Trainee
M/s Kerala State Electricity Board
07.2003 - 12.2003
- Assisting the engineers of the Relay Testing and Commissioning Unit in the testing of various substations in South Kerala.
- Assisting in the testing of earth fault, overcurrent, distant, and differential relays, power circuit breakers, and power transformers of various high-voltage substations.
- CTs and VTs tests, primary injection tests, stability test for differential and REF protection circuits, secondary injection of normal protection relay.
- Assisting the engineers with the commissioning tests of power transformers.
- Maintenance of the station battery unit and charger units.
- Independently carried out the testing of 11 kV systems at the various 110 kV power stations.
Education
B.E. - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Jaya Matha Engineering College
Nagercoil12.2002
Diploma - Electrical Engineering
Government Polytechnic
Kerala12.1999
Skills
- Project management
- Electrical design
- Contract administration
- Material approval
- Compliance review
- Quality assurance
Languages
- English
- Malayalam
- Hindi
- Tamil
Education And Professional Development
- 2025, LEED Green Associate
Issued on March 31, 2025
Valid through 30 Mar 2027
- 2019, Indian Green Building Council accredited professional
Issued in September 2019
- 2009, one-day training for the Eco Dial software
- 2009, in-house training course on ISO internal quality auditing (ISO 9001: 2008)
- 2007, Project Planning and Management Using Primavera, CADD Centre, India
- 2005, Three day work Shop on Best Practices in Energy Conservation organized by Central Power Research Institute.
- 2003, One day Seminar on Safety & Quality in Health Care.
Personal Information
- Passport number: AG543802
- Passport expiry date: 08/27/2035
- Marital status: married
Timeline
Senior Manager - Engineering Services
M/s STAT Consultancy P Ltd.
01.2021 - Current
Senior Electrical Engineer -Project & Design
M/s STAT Consultancy P Ltd.
01.2016 - 12.2021
Project Coordinator -MEP Services
M/s STAT Consultancy P Ltd.
01.2011 - 12.2015
PROJECT Engineer - Electrical
M/S SAAD Trading and Contracting Company
05.2008 - 04.2011
Senior Executive - Facilities
M/s Future Group India (Ltd)
03.2007 - 05.2008
Electrical Engineer-Projects
KIMS Hospital
01.2004 - 03.2007
Electrical Engineer Trainee
M/s Kerala State Electricity Board
07.2003 - 12.2003
B.E. - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Jaya Matha Engineering College
Diploma - Electrical Engineering
Government Polytechnic
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