RAKESH KUMAR DASH

Key Result Areas:

• Managing 40 MWp plant day-to-day operation and maintenance activities of all the PV systems installed by the company or under O&M contract.
• Tracking of generation, PR, and plant performance on a daily basis, and resolving issues of plants, is guaranteed to maintain PR and generation.
• Coordinate and manage all the technical work on site, ensuring the delivery of service on time and according to standards: preventative and corrective.
• Controlling all technical activities carried out on site, including in-house staff and third-party contractors, according to defined scope of work, timelines, and prescribed Site Operating Procedures.
• Technical evaluations of the equipment are conducted to ensure optimal performance, and to identify and implement performance optimizations to maximize generation.
• Prepare budgets and proposals under existing contracts, as well as prepare the operation and maintenance contracts.
• Define pricing for new operation and maintenance contracts by analyzing specifications, including labor rates, and the number of technicians and specialists needed for each project.
• Customer relationship management in terms of technical matters arising from any site, including client meetings, staff/contractor oversight, reporting, and quality control functions.
• Preparing the daily, monthly, and quarterly generation report, as well as the daily activity report, JMR, and breakdown report.
• Recruit, select, train, and manage plant operating, maintenance, and administrative staff.
• Responding to the problems and complaints within the quickest possible time.
• Coordination of HOTO with the project team, handling contractors and vendors at the site.
• Preparing preventive maintenance checklists and SOPs for the solar power plant.
• Managing the use of company/O&M tools, vehicles, spare parts, and equipment on each site, ensuring minimum stock levels (where applicable), inspections, scheduled and unscheduled services, maintenance, calibrations, safe keeping, upkeep, cleaning, and correct use, fit-for-purpose applications by trained and authorized personnel.
• Coordinating with the vendor company for warranty replacement.
• Controlling activities related to the delivery of the target production yields of each site in line with performance guarantees, availability commitments, and any PR guarantees, and managing any faults in a timely manner as they may occur.
• Managing complete plant operations, billing, and price negotiation with vendors.
• Developing and maintaining quality systems and procedures in order to improve the efficiency of the operation of each site.
• Promoting innovative thinking regarding continuous improvement, efficiencies, cost, and time-saving opportunities within the scope of the O&M contract.
• Developing and improving O&M processes and tools according to ISO 9001 standards.
• Set up O&M activities for new plants in new regions, including the adaptation and development of local systems and procedures, as well as staff training.
• Coordinated cross-departmental projects to ensure timely and successful completion.

Key Result Areas:

• Handling over 50 MW solar power plants (ground mount and rooftop) in pan-India projects.
• Establish, set, and monitor weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual objectives.
• Monitor the KPIs and financial targets.
• Build and lead best-in-class operational teams, and provide leadership and mentoring to all levels.
• Technical evaluations of the equipment are conducted to ensure optimal performance, and to identify and implement performance optimizations to maximize generation.
• Contract management for plant O&M agreements and other agreements: responsible for budgetary control and setting operational budgets for all sites; maintain all data related to generation, breakdown, and actions taken to restore; analyze the generation data and PR; daily reporting to the Head Office.
• Preparation of the daily analysis report of generation, auxiliary, and plant PR.
• Manage external relationships with key stakeholders (customers, grid operators, government officials, local communities, contractors, etc.).
• Preparing the daily, monthly, and quarterly generation report, the daily activity report, and the breakdown report.
• Maintaining the record of all operation and maintenance activities on the site.
• Responding to the problems and complaints within the quickest possible time.
• Manpower deployment and checking technical activities for effective production.
• Prepare preventive maintenance checklists and SOPs for the solar power plant.
• Ensuring that all safety measures are installed for maintenance jobs, since high volts of current are involved.
• Coordinating with the vendor company for warranty replacement.
• Managing complete plant operations, billing, and price negotiation with vendors.
• Prepare and attend monthly, and as required, meetings with senior management to present performances, highlighting risks and opportunities.

Key Result Areas:

• Handling over 60 MW of solar power plants (ground mount, rooftop, small rooftop, and water pump) in pan-India projects.
• Estimates, prepares, and assigns the resources, such as manpower, consumable materials, and tools, etc., required for all electrical and related works prior to execution.
• Preparation and execution of commissioning activities.
• Submits site daily reports, inspection requests, and all applicable monitoring reports on a regular basis or as required.
• Coordinating with engineers and preparing daily and weekly job schedules.
• Attending the weekly meeting with the manager and consulting engineers.
• Preventing wastage and misuse of equipment, materials, and tools.
• Supervising work crews to best utilize manpower and materials.
• Detailed project report (DPR) preparation for the solar power plant.
• Review the design and prepare the schedule timeline of projects.

Projects Handled:

1. MRPL (ONGC) HCU-II (Revamp) Unit

2. Guru Gobind Singh Refinery (HMEL) CDU/VDU Units

Key Result Areas:

• Installation of instruments like temperature indicators and temperature.
• Transmitters, RTD, Pressure Transmitters, Flow Transmitter.
• Reading the Hook Up drawing, cable schedule, P&ID, B.O.M., and installation.
• Standard drawing, junction box drawing, and executing accordingly.
• Field engineering, assisting in the modification of instruments on site as per client requirements.
• Coordinating with clients and higher-level management regarding the detailed instrumentation work.
• Coordinating for the QA/QC procedure and related document formats with clients for approval.
• Coordinating the instrumentation works, such as junction box and instrument installation, tray and duct works, cable laying, cable glanding, and ferruling.
• Termination, Airline, Impulse line, Stream tracing, Hydro testing.