Venkata Ramanaiah Vallepu
Engineering & Projects - HVAC, Utilities, CQV, GMP Compliance
Hyderabad,TS
Summary
Skilled and accomplished Mechanical Engineer with over 10+ years of experience in the pharmaceuticals industry, specializing in OSD and Injectables. Targeting challenging role in a Senior Level for a HVAC, Clean & Black Utilities Projects, Commissioning & Qualifications, Operations & Maintenance.
Overview
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Certification
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Executive
Ferring Laboratories Pvt. Ltd.
04.2023 - Current
- Led construction, commissioning, and qualification of HVAC, clean utilities, black utilities, and fire protection systems, ensuring project delivery met quality and regulatory standards.
- Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
- Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.
- Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
Senior Executive
Gland Pharma Ltd.
09.2022 - 03.2023
- Led operations and validations for purified water, WFI, and pure steam systems, ensuring safety and GMP compliance.
- Maintenance of Purified Water generation systems, Capacities 9 m3 per hour and 12 m3per hour.
- Maintenance of multicolumn distillation plants, capacities 1000 litres per hour and 4500 litres per hour.Maintenance of pure steam generation systems, capacities 4500 kg per hour and 5000 kg per hour.
- Preparation and review of SOPs and Preventive maintenance schedules.
- Attending breakdown activities by following QMS procedure.
- Planning and maintenance of shift schedules as a team lead.
- Responsible for Daily and Weekly work planning.
- Responsible to follow Good Documentation Practices, Good Manufacturing Practices, Good Engineering Practices to meet the quality standards of the company.
Assistant Officer
Natco Pharma Ltd.
03.2019 - 08.2022
- Managed qualifications, operations, and validations of HVAC, utilities, and water systems to ensure safety and GMP compliance.
- Maintaining of HVAC, cooling towers, Air cooled & Water-cooled chillers and Hot water generation systems.
- Operation and maintenance of HVAC system through BMS and EMS software.
- Maintaining of Purified Water Systems, Water for injection systems and Pure steam systems through SCADA.
- Maintaining Air compressors and Flash jet pumps.
- Preparation and review of SOP’s.
- Involved in preparation and execution of qualification protocols and reports of HVAC, BMS, EMS, SCADA, Chillers, Cooling towers, Hot water generation system, Air compressors, Nitrogen and RLAF.
- Preparation of Preventive maintenance schedules and yearly calendars.
- Attending breakdown activities by following QMS procedure.
- Handling of change controls and deviations through QMS system.
- Planning and maintenance of shift schedules as a team lead.
- Responsible for Daily and Weekly work planning.
- Responsible for inter-department coordination for smooth completion of the work.
- Responsible to coordinate with External contractors/vendors for allotment of works and Execution and review of allotted works.
- Identification & Procurement of spares/necessary resources for the respective area maintenance through Coupa.
- Responsible to follow Good Documentation Practices, Good Manufacturing Practices, Good Engineering Practices to meet the quality standards of the company.
- Responsible to perform the internal Engineering audits and direct reporting to Engineering HOD regarding audit observations.
Junior Officer
Hetero Pharma Ltd.
01.2016 - 01.2019
- Managed HVAC, cooling towers, chillers, and hot water generation systems operations.
Education
M.Tech - Mechanical Engineering
MLR Institute of Technology And Management
Hyderabad, IndiaB.Tech - Mechanical Engineering
Bapatla Engineering College
Guntur, IndiaSkills
Commissioning, qualification and validations (URS/SRA/TM/DQ/FAT/SAT/IQ/OQ/PQ)
Basic design reviews of HVAC and utility systems
Mechanical completion and equipment pre-startup safety review
HVAC and cleanroom systems
Purified water, WFI and pure steam systems
Utility project management
GMP compliance
Change control management
Preventive maintenance planning
Operations management
Stakeholder management
Accomplishments
- Awarded Safety Excellence Award for achieving and contributing to major milestone 3 Million Safe Hours at Ferring Laboratories Pvt Ltd.
- Approx. 800 KL per Annum of Raw water consumption was reduced by treatment of Water system Reject water treatment and reusing it for domestic and gardening purposes.
- Approx. 120 MWH per Annum of Electricity power consumption was reduced by Automation and implementing Operational controls.
Certification
Pursuing PMP (Project Management Program)
Timeline
Senior Executive
Ferring Laboratories Pvt. Ltd.
04.2023 - Current
Senior Executive
Gland Pharma Ltd.
09.2022 - 03.2023
Assistant Officer
Natco Pharma Ltd.
03.2019 - 08.2022
Junior Officer
Hetero Pharma Ltd.
01.2016 - 01.2019
M.Tech - Mechanical Engineering
MLR Institute of Technology And Management
B.Tech - Mechanical Engineering
Bapatla Engineering College