Inthiyaz Gounda
Senior Instrumentation Engineer
About
Results-driven Senior Instrumentation Engineer with over 12+ years of experience in cement plant operations, specializing in instrumentation maintenance, process control, and industrial automation. Extensive experience in installation, calibration, troubleshooting, and maintenance of field instruments including pressure, flow, level, temperature transmitters, control valves, gas analyzers, and weighing systems. Skilled in preventive and breakdown maintenance, loop checking, and supporting PLC-based control systems.
Proven ability to improve plant reliability, minimize downtime, and ensure safe and efficient plant operations.
Experience
Senior Instrumentation Engineer - SAGAR CEMENTS (M) PVT LTD - Jeerabad, Madhya Pradesh, India
(2025-10)
- Plant-wide instrumentation maintenance for crusher, raw mill, coal mill, kiln, cement mill, and packing plant.
- Responsible for DCS/PLC systems including I/O checking, loop checking, logic troubleshooting.
- Maintenance and calibration of weigh feeders, belt scales, gas analyzers, transmitters.
- Actively involved in shutdown activities, commissioning, and start-ups.
- Coordinating with production, mechanical, and electrical teams for smooth operations.
Senior Instrumentation Engineer - IVORY DIAMOND CEMENT - Ivory Coast
(2020-12 - 2025-10)
- Led instrumentation maintenance and automation upgrades.
- Executed ABB DCS 800xA upgrade and commissioning of ABB I/O panels.
- Calibration and troubleshooting of field instruments and control loops.
Instrumentation Engineer - DIAMOND CEMENT COMPANY - Congo, Central Africa
(2018-02 - 2019-11)
- Maintained control systems and instrumentation for cement manufacturing.
- Implemented improvements that reduced plant downtime by 15%.
Instrumentation Engineer - PANYAM CEMENTS & MINERAL INDUSTRIES LTD - Kurnool, India
(2013-08 - 2018-01)
- PLC, drives, and field instrumentation maintenance.
- Handled motorized dampers, pneumatic actuators, and plant instrumentation.
Education
B.Tech - Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering - JNTU Anantapur
