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Kabila Raveendran

Project Engineer
Chennai

Summary

Serving as a technical resource and project engineer lead for small to large capital and improvement projects regionally and/or globally. Involved in all three phases of projects: FEED,detailed design and construction, and commissioning and startup. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Project Engineer

Dow Inc
Chennai
06.2021 - Current
  • Lead project meetings and collaborate with key stakeholders at necessary milestones in project. Responsible for project tracking and analysis.
  • Performing quality control checks throughout all stages of schedule to ensure budgets are kept, deadlines are met, and performance of team is as it should be.
  • Monitoring compliance of project to ensure that industry codes and practices are adhered to, quality assurance policies are followed, and performance standards are met.
  • Coordinated presentations for customers and project members detailing project scope, progress and results, keeping all entities well informed of milestones and goals
  • Drafted action plan and led meetings with department executives to review project status and proposed changes
  • Prepared and reviewed engineering specifications, scopes of work, schedules of payments and other documents
  • Controlled site engineering activities to maintain work standards, adhere to timelines and meet quality assurance targets
  • Wrote methodological and analytical reports tailored to specific project and client needs
  • Identified new and more cost-effective suppliers through participation in industry networking events, purchasing advantageous packages and cutting costs

Senior Process Automation Engineer

Dow Inc
Chennai
02.2019 - 05.2021

Led a Capital Project for Hydrocarbon Plants(Furnaces) to migrate the existing control system to new one .(MOD V to ABB 800xA DCS)

  • Establishing project goals and planning.
  • To Track progress, schedule, and costs for PA team during all project phases.
  • Work with other engineers to determine project and control requirements.
  • Creating the process control overview for the project & Develop user requirement system specifications.
  • To estimate process control cost and schedule for project and manage against these baselines.
  • Determine testing scenarios and oversee simulation of control system to test strategy and improvements.
  • Provide training of operations and support commissioning and start-up of new asset.
  • Serve as subject matter expert for work execution, tools and systems supporting and interfacing in space of Production Operations Management.
  • Participate in project scoping activities.
  • Drive strategic solutions in partnership with stakeholders.
  • Engaged with stakeholders and cross-discipline and cross-functional global project teams.
  • Performing high level functional activities, such as requirements gathering and gap analysis of user requirements, requires functional and business expertise.
  • Participated in design specifications, configuration, testing, implementation and startup of manufacturing execution systems (MES) solutions.
  • To identify and deploy Most Effective Technology (MET) standard solution components to meet project requirements.
  • Supported training of operations and support commissioning and start-up of asset.
  • Generated a value of around ~120000$ against the estimation from software development.

Process Automation Engineer

Dow Inc
Chennai
02.2015 - 01.2019
  • Involved in development of Process control Strategy documents for Furnaces.
  • Worked on Furnace Control code development of 20+ Furnaces.
  • Supported Plant Commissioning and start-up in onsite for 6 months..
  • Worked with BM Auditor and SIS Auditor to make sure all necessary safety measures have been taken care in coding to avoid unsafe trips.
  • Showed value creation of around 500000$ for units i worked on.

Simulation Engineer

Dow Inc
Chennai
07.2013 - 01.2015
  • Developed Dynamic simulation modelling for furnaces, Distillation Columns, Compressors, and Driers, Fired equipment and Utility systems using
  • Simulation software with help of Process Flow Diagrams, Process and Instrumentation Diagram and Process Equipment Data sheets.
  • Developed Plant Operators manual.
  • Successfully carried out FAT/CAT for respective units onsite.
  • Tuned systems to boost performance.
  • Showed soft savings of around 35000 USD.

Education

B.Tech - Chemical Engineering

Alagappa College of Technology,Anna University
Chennai
08.2008 - 05.2012

Skills

    Project Management

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Timeline

Senior Project Engineer

Dow Inc
06.2021 - Current

Senior Process Automation Engineer

Dow Inc
02.2019 - 05.2021

Process Automation Engineer

Dow Inc
02.2015 - 01.2019

Simulation Engineer

Dow Inc
07.2013 - 01.2015

B.Tech - Chemical Engineering

Alagappa College of Technology,Anna University
08.2008 - 05.2012
Kabila RaveendranProject Engineer