Senior Engineer – Surveyor at TQ Cert Services (Tata Projects Enterprise) (2025-11 – Present)
- Project Assurance: Managing the inspection scope for major industrial projects involving static & rotary equipment, systems, delivering total compliance with safety & quality standards.
- Technical Verification: Mitigating project risk by identifying fabrication defects in piping skids, spools, systems, tanks & vessels prior to shipment, preventing costly site rework.
- Structural Integrity: Validating the quality of heavy structural systems & components, ensuring precise alignment & welding + NDE quality as per standards / codes & customer specific requirements.
- Reporting: Streamlining the reporting process for inspection visits, ensuring clients received accurate, same day or at the earliest updates on the equipment or product status and inspection results.
Quality Engineer at John Crane Sealing System India (2023-01 – 2025-07)
- Pre-Manufacturing Planning: Led the "Quality Kick-Off" phase by reviewing client specifications & engineering drawings-datasheets to prepare & approve robust Inspection & Test Plans and Quality Assurance Plans along with the required Operating & Testing Procedures prior to start of the fabrication.
- TPI Coordination & Vendor Oversight: Acted as the primary point of control for external quality, appointing & monitoring Third-Party Inspectors at the vendor locations. Reviewed their daily inspection reports, resolved technical queries remotely, and ensured their inspection activities strictly matched the Approved QAP & client requirements.
- Coded Equipment Inspection: Executed mandatory inspections for Coded Pressure Vessels (such as ASME Sec. I, VIII-1&2, PED, CRN, etc)), verifying wall thickness, weld joint geometry, and reinforcement pads, etc. Ensured accurate name plate stamping & validated U-1/U-1A data reports for reservoirs & bladder accumulators.
- API Code Compliance: Tried mastering quality assurance for complex sealing support systems & dry gas panels, ensuring strict adherence to API, 682, 692, 614, etc. standards for critical fluid and gas handling management.
- Systems & Gas Panels Verification: Led end-to-end quality inspections for high-specification Gas Panels & API Plans, validating instrumentation logic, tube bending precision, P&ID-wiring verification, and component integration.
- Testing Oversight: Managed the FAT (Factory & Functional Acceptance Test) schedule, witnessing hydrotesting, pneumatic testing, leak testing on piping & reservoirs to guarantee operational reliability under high-pressure conditions.
- Pre-Dispatch & Final Release: Conducted rigorous Final Visual Inspections (FVI) and Packing Inspections before shipment, ensuring preservation, rust prevention, and correct tagging aligned with shipping lists.
- Documentation & Handover: Managed the complete documentation lifecycle – from verifying initial Material Test Certificates (MTC) to compiling the Final Manufacturing Data Book (MDB) – ensuring a smooth release note issuance and zero shipment delays.
Quality Engineer at EagleBurgmann India (2019-02 – 2023-01)
- Pre-Manufacturing Planning: Led the "Quality Kick-Off" phase by reviewing client specifications & engineering drawings-datasheets to prepare & approve robust Inspection & Test Plans and Quality Assurance Plans along with the required Operating & Testing Procedures prior to start of the fabrication.
- TPI Coordination & Vendor Oversight: Acted as the primary point of control for external quality, appointing & monitoring Third-Party Inspectors at the vendor locations. Reviewed their daily inspection reports, resolved technical queries remotely, and ensured their inspection activities strictly matched the Approved QAP & client requirements.
- Coded Equipment Inspection: Executed mandatory inspections for Coded Pressure Vessels (such as ASME Sec. I, VIII-1&2, PED, CRN, etc)), verifying wall thickness, weld joint geometry, and reinforcement pads, etc. Ensured accurate name plate stamping & validated U-1/U-1A data reports for reservoirs & bladder accumulators.
- API Code Compliance: Tried mastering quality assurance for complex sealing support systems & dry gas panels, ensuring strict adherence to API, 682, 692, 614, etc. standards for critical fluid and gas handling management.
- Systems & Gas Panels Verification: Led end-to-end quality inspections for high-specification Gas Panels & API Plans, validating instrumentation logic, tube bending precision, P&ID-wiring verification, and component integration.
- Testing Oversight: Managed the FAT (Factory & Functional Acceptance Test) schedule, witnessing hydrotesting, pneumatic testing, leak testing on piping & reservoirs to guarantee operational reliability under high-pressure conditions.
- Pre-Dispatch & Final Release: Conducted rigorous Final Visual Inspections (FVI) and Packing Inspections before shipment, ensuring preservation, rust prevention, and correct tagging aligned with shipping lists.
- Documentation & Handover: Managed the complete documentation lifecycle – from verifying initial Material Test Certificates (MTC) to compiling the Final Manufacturing Data Book (MDB) – ensuring a smooth release note issuance and zero shipment delays.
Quality Engineer at ATC Ensys India (2018-10 – 2019-01)
- Quality Planning & Documentation: Developed and approved comprehensive Inspection & Test Plans (ITP) and Quality Assurance Plans (QAP) for diverse product lines, ensuring client specifications were integrated into the manufacturing process before fabrication begins.
- API Systems Assurance: Managed the quality lifecycle for API 682 sealing support systems and piping plans, verifying tube bending geometry, instrumentation hook-ups, and system logic to ensure zero leakage performance during operation.
- Coded Equipment Inspection: Executed statutory inspections on Pressure Vessels in accordance with ASME Section VIII Division 1 and other standards. Scope included verifying shell/dish thickness, nozzle orientation, and witnessing hydrostatic pneumatic or leakage tests to validate structural integrity.
- Structural & Non-Pressure Parts Fabrication: Oversaw the fabrication quality of structural frames and non-pressure parts, conducting dimensional checks, weld visual inspections, and verifying surface preparation/painting to meet industrial durability standards.
- Testing & Final Release: Coordinated and witnessed critical performances tests (Hydrostatic, Pneumatic and Functional/Factory Acceptance Tests) and performed pre-dispatch inspection (PDI) to ensure all equipment was rust-protected, properly tagged, and cleared for shipment.
- Data Integrity: Compiled comprehensive Manufacturing Data Books (MDB) and quality dossiers, ensuring full traceability of material (MTCs) and welding records (WPS/PQR/WPQ) for final client handover.
Quality Engineer at Shree Samarth Tech Process Engineering (2015-12 – 2018-10)
- ASME Coded Equipment (Vessel & Column): Managed end-to-end quality assurance for ASME Section VIII Division 1 & 2 [U, U2, S, R] pressure vessels, reactors, power boiler parts and distillation columns. Verified critical parameters including shell rolling tolerances, nozzle orientation, reinforcement pad welding, and internal tray installation, ensuring readiness for ASME-Stamp certification.
- Heat Exchanger Expertise: Executed precision inspections on Shell & Tube Heat Exchangers in compliance with TEMA and ASME standards. Specifically validated tube-to-tube sheet joint quality (expansion vs. welding) baffle spacing/alignment, and bundle insertion clearances to guarantee thermal performances.
- Storage Tanks (API 650, 620, 653, 510, 570, ASME): Oversaw site fabrication and erection of large-scale tanks. Monitored critical stages including bottom plate layout, annular plate welding, shell vertically/roundness (checking for peaking and banding), and witnessed Vacuum Box, Water Fill-up, and roof structure installation.
- Piping Skids & Systems: Conducted rigorous surveillance on Process Piping Skids, Lube Oil Systems, etc. (ASME B31.3), verifying isometric compliance, spool fabrication accuracy, and stress-free flange alignment to concerning equipment.
- Welding & NDT Management: Acted as a custodian of Welding Control Sheet, monitoring welder performances against approved WPS/PQR for various types of steels, alloys, exotic material grades. Coordinated NDT activities (RT, PT, MT, VT, UT) and interpreted results to disposition weld defects.
- PWHT & Hydro-Pneumatic-Leakage Testing: Supervised special process validations including Post Weld Heat Treatment (PWHT) charts review and witnessed high-pressure hydro pneumatic testing, ensuring safety protocols and pressure holding times were strictly met.
- Documentation & TPI Liaison: Led the compilation of the Final Manufacturing Data Report (MDR), ensuring complete material traceability (MTCs). Coordinated with Third Party Inspector and Authorized Inspectors for stage wise hold points clearance.
