Senior Engineer – Surveyor - TQ Cert Services (Tata Projects Enterprise) - Pimpri, Pune
(2025-11)
- 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 - John Crane Sealing System India - Bhosari, Pune
(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 - EagleBurgmann India - Hadapsar, Pune
(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 - ATC Ensys India - Chinchwad, Pune
(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 - Shree Samarth Tech Process Engineering - Chimbali, Pune
(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.
