Pravesh Agrawal

Experienced engineering professional with 34+ years at Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), specializing in Plant reliability engineering , Asset maintenance, Turn Around and Shutdowns, Spares and inventory management, Industrial automation, Maintenance costing and budgeting , Life cycle costs , Engineering Audits and project management for large-scale continuous process industry. Proven leader in handling multidisciplinary reliability and maintenance teams across mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and civil disciplines. Ensures high plant availability with cost management and successful project execution. Adept in process safety management, root cause analysis, team building , statutory compliance, and quality/safety systems (ISO, OHSAS).

• Successfully planned and executed a 20-day Turnaround of the PFY plant in April 2025, accomplishing all key objectives within budgeted targets for cost, timeline, and safety.
• As Engineering Head since April 2022, surpassed reliability and maintenance KPIs for the SMD site (e.g., availability, spares cost, service cost) for the last 3 years.
• Played a key role in finalizing methodology, sourcing vendors, planning, and successful execution of HMD-CP12 - Finisher Shaft in-situ repairs.
• Completed, surpassing budgeted norms, various Polyester Capex projects, including feasibility, detail engineering, procurement, and commissioning, such as CP12 line reactor safety system at SMD & HMD-CP12 and SMC-ASRS revamp.
• Contributed to assessing the plant and machinery condition of a company under acquisition for management decision-making regarding facility restart.
• Led the team for health check of Carbon Fibre winders at a mothballing facility for an upcoming carbon fibre plant.
• Led the effort in OLS monitoring and normalization at HMD, resulting in major reduction of installed OLS and associated process safety risk.
• Successfully led the technical team for sourcing a replacement Finisher cage for HMD - CP8; when deal did not go through due to external reasons, contributed to successful in-house dismantling, cleaning, re-assembly and commissioning.
• Completed over 15 Root Cause Analyses across various plants, including HMD-CP11-Est1 failure and PMD - Flasher coil - Chinese Hat design and installation for CD product.