I & E Reliability Engineer - Chevron Global Technologies & Services Pvt. Ltd. - Bengaluru, India
(2025-03)
- Streamlined Spare Parts Management, Obsolescence and RIK (Replacement-in-Kind) workflows for I&E across LNG assets, directly reducing equipment lifecycle risk and operational downtime exposure.
- Led Maintenance Strategy Review with structured gap analysis to improve existing strategies based on equipment criticality and production impact.
- Conducted Deviation Management Risk Assessments based on HAZOP/LOPA and SIS methodologies to assurance operation performance standards.
- Delivered monthly SIF (Safety Instrumented Function) activation reporting for LNG assets, maintaining accurate performance tracking of instrumented protective functions in line with IEC 61511.
- Identification & standardisation of workflow for Remote Control Valve Health Monitoring, enabling proactive identification of underperforming valves and improving process control availability & reliability.
- Addressed Technical Queries (TQs) for I&E equipment, providing deep subject matter expertise to resolve complex instrumentation spares issues in LNG operating environments.
- Improved CMMS (Oracle JDE) alignment by syncing operational performance standards & MWOs frequencies with SRS data across thousands of instrumentation tags, reducing strategy gaps and improving maintenance effectiveness.
Associate Reliability Engineer - Shell India Markets Private Limited - Chennai, India
(2022-10 - 2025-02)
- Contributed to safe and reliable operations across the Shales Canada upstream assets, collaborating with cross-functional maintenance planning, scheduling, frontline engineers' teams.
- Applied RCM, FMEA and RCA methodologies to develop Reliability Strategy Libraries in w-IMS, establishing a structured baseline for the organisation's RCM programme.
- Developed and implemented robust reliability strategies using Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) methodologies to identify critical asset vulnerabilities and develop targeted maintenance plans, ensuring peak operational performance and equipment longevity.
- Developed reliability strategies library in w-IMS tool for PD pump & UPS and improved the asset reliability/cost by optimization of SAP maintenance tasks.
- Leveraged Power BI dashboards and data analytics to monitor KPIs, identify 'bad actor' equipment and drive targeted T&D improvement actions.
Manager – REAM Instrumentation - Reliance Industries Ltd. - LDPE Plant - Nagothane, India
(2018-07 - 2022-10)
- Ensured Safety and Reliability of instrumentation across a Low-Density Polyethylene (LDPE) Petrochemical Plant, managing maintenance of field instruments including transmitters, switches, control valves, SOVs, nucleonic level transmitters and hydraulic-operated valves, warehouse automation systems.
- Handled SAP ERP PM notifications/orders management, permit management systems, inventory management, material procurement and tracking, and master data governance tasks such as creating equipment tags and updating equipment BOMs and maintenance plans.
- Hands-on configuration and logic modifications for Management of Change (MOC) using Rockwell ControlLogix PLC, Yokogawa CENTUM VP DCS and Siemens S7-300 PLC.
- Proposed, designed, and implemented Management of Change (MOCT) projects to improve the reliability and integrity of manufacturing processes.
- Turnaround/Shutdown Planning and execution, routine maintenance and troubleshooting of instrumentation failures.
- Control Valve reliability improvement programme across Gas Cracker and LDPE plants, leveraging predictive maintenance, proactive vent plug monitoring, spare parts management and seasonal monsoon preparedness to reduce unplanned failures and improve valve availability.
- Supported spare parts identification, BOM validation, and preservation planning during CMMS maintenance build and strategy optimization projects.
- Part of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) team & obsolescence management in multiple failures related to UHDE hydraulic valves.
