LOVEPREET SINGH

Operations and Maintenance Nov,2019- Current

• Coordination with management, technical crew members and fellow supervisors for efficient operations.
• Assessed power supply related issues in real time in 95 sq kM area under division's jurisdiction.
• Implemented (N-2) Contingency Plan , helping in revamping the reliability in the distribution scheme of 5 sectors.
• Maintained the breakdown percentage of 0.09%, which is the industry wide benchmark.
• SAP related jobs like order creation, approving technical feasibility, complaints closing, check consumer reading, to obtain BI report monthly etc.
• Manage the contractor teams for timely completion of projects and to verify the site after work completion and then update the same in GIS (Geographical Information System).
• Preparation of the SOPs for each and every job carried out by division and also verify their implementation on site through surprise audits to ensure compliance of safe and healthy practices.
• Planning and erection of new overhead conductor and underground cables for 33 and 11 kV Voltage level.
• Maintenance of switchgear in 33 kV GIS and Non GIS Substations.
• Periodic maintenance of 33 kV and 11 kV overhead networks to improve supply reliability.
• Rectification of 33 & 11 kV feeder breakdowns within 2 hours as defined in SLA.
• RMU, Transformer, feeder pillar installation and maintenance.
• To prepare monthly energy audit report to analyze the losses and prepare action plan to mitigate them.
• Distribution T/F cleaning and metering to reduce the losses.
• To prepare an action plan to reduce the supply outage time by analyzing monthly feeder outage report .
• Spearheaded cross-functional initiatives across departments to achieve business goals for bottom-line profits.
• Employed optimal safety practices to reduce work site complaints, hazards, incidents or lost-time accidents to improve overall OSHA scores and expand bid opportunities.
• Created and made appropriate documentation for annual budgets and senior leadership goals.
• Established performance goals for department and provided methods for reaching milestones.
• Evaluated product development strategies and prepared alternative approaches to exceed goals.

Metering Department July 2016-Oct 2019

• Installation of HT as well as LT meters
• Conceptualized, designed & implemented the group meter rectification process to obtain the meter data through AMR using DCUs
• Preparation of energy consumption report for energy units assessment and for check meters to confirm the accuracy of the installed meters
• Managing meter data downloading through AMR and rectification of AMR failure cases
• Responsible for meter testing as well as other issues related to LT and LT-CT meters
• Resolved the smart meter connectivity issue by coordinating with Vendor team
• Designed user manual for prepaid meters (uploaded on NPCL website)
• Improved meter inspection & replacement certificate format to be filled by NPCL representative at site
• Built an in-house device to reduce the CT-PT failure cases in HT- meters using microcontroller based temperature and Humidity sensor
• Prepared and finalized the design of single phase push-fit meter box to reduce the electricity theft
• Installation of net meter and generation meter for solar energy calculation
• Member of the team of a project called cyclo aimed to reduce the time of site inspection by our engineers by using mobile phone app to input all the relevant data and observations directly into the system without entering first into register and then will be entered into system by data entry operator.