GOPI SANKAR

• Led cross-functional teams to execute projects, ensuring alignment with scope, schedule, and cost constraints
• Defined project financials, risk strategies, and execution methodologies in collaboration with stakeholders
• Managed project financials, including invoicing, cost control, and cash flow, ensuring profitability
• Oversaw procurement, working with supply chain teams for materials sourcing and vendor coordination
• Monitored project milestones and KPIs, ensuring adherence to ABB best practices and safety policies
• Served as the primary client contact, resolving technical challenges and ensuring seamless communication
• Identified project risks and drove risk mitigation strategies, enhancing project efficiency and margins
• Assisted in end-to-end project planning, risk assessments, and budgeting
• Facilitated project schedules, working closely with internal and external teams to ensure timely deliveries
• Developed project-specific health, safety, and environmental (HSE) plans, ensuring compliance
• Fostered a collaborative team environment, motivating and monitoring internal and
  external resources to achieve project milestones.
• Coordinated with feeder factories and suppliers for production planning and progress
  tracking, ensuring timely delivery of materials
• Documented change requests and facilitated approvals for scope adjustments,
  additional costs, and time extensions, maintaining project integrity and alignment
  with customer expectations.

• Scrutinize the order specifications/ contract in terms of technical and commercial clauses.
• Liaison with feeder factories and sub vendors to meet the contract delivery requirements.
• Documents/Drawings preparation and obtain approval from client and issuing Manufacturing clearance to factories.
• Project Execution, Monitoring, and control. Continuously monitor the health status of the project and generate project status reports, as required by customer agreements and management policy, at least once per month.
• Conducting IKOM and CKOM, evaluation of offers, ordering of materials as per project requirement.
• Keep track on even minute changes in a project during execution phase which might attract change order with customer.

• Company Overview: (Sterlite Copper Plant, Tuticorin)
• Monitored and optimized turbine operations, ensuring efficient plant performance.
• Responsible for Smooth, Efficient Operation and maintenance of Turbine and its Auxiliaries.
• Inspection/Repair/Modification/Replacement of worn-out & damaged components of Steam turbine and its auxiliaries.
• Execution of maintenance activities of steam turbine as per safety first principle.
• Root cause analysis for turbine operation failures.

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• Company Overview: (ITC Paper Plant, Coimbatore)
• Maintained and optimized plant instrumentation for seamless operations
• Responsible for calibration, Maintenance, and Installation of all kinds of field instruments used for Pressure, Level, Flow & Temperature measurements & control. Some of the makes are ROSEMOUNT, FISHER, ABB, and YOKOGAWA.
• Maintain the equipment track record through SAP (Material Management) and CMMS.
• Maintained all engineering files and ensured that all modification work carried in facility was in accordance with MOC process.