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CHANDRESH PARMAR

Instrumentation & Control System Engineer
Al Ahmadi

Summary

A competent professional offering 13+ years of experience in Projects and maintenance of DCS, IPS/SIS, FGS, various Instruments across Refinery, Petrochemicals and Chemical Plants.

  • Rich experience in managing Instrumentation & Control Operations with key focus on optimal resource utilization
  • Expertise in spearheading projects for improving efficiency of Process control using available resources & installing instruments as per requirement.
  • Providing Frontline leadership in maintenance & HSE and act as focal point on all issues pertaining to Instrumentation Engineering.
  • Expertise in erection, commissioning, inspection tests of numerous plants & equipment to ensure project completion within stipulated time/ cost parameters and maintaining equipment effectiveness.
  • Capabilities in plant operations & maintenance of, thereby reducing equipment breakdown & achieving annual costs.
  • Strong relationship management, problem solving & communication skills with capability to network with Clients, Contractors, Design & Project Teams with considerable ease.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
3
3
Languages

Work History

ICSS Engineer- System Specialist

KIPIC (Contract : Fawaz Trading & Engineering)
Al Ahmadi
04.2023 - Current
  • For ICSS Systems ,expert in diagnosing and resolving Honeywell DCS & SM System issues.
  • Domain Expertise: Plant Maintenance and troubleshooting, Hardware Spare Ordering, MOC Implementation,
  • Documentation, System & Application Engineering
  • Providing day to day technical support and assurance for the integrity and security of the process control domain (PCD)
  • Monitors process control domain performance and develops / implements improvement plans.
  • Managing fluctuating priorities dependent on current needs of active projects and MOCs.
  • Works with Production to ensure operators, technicians, support engineers (process, control), inspectors, and production leadership understand the functionality, capability, and limitations of PCD and associated systems.
  • Maintain the process and health of Process Control Domain system backups.
  • Verifying that non‑conformances are addressed and that any approved deviations are documented.
  • Control that security patch levels for all PCD systems are kept current to security policy timeframes, after being qualified by the system vendor.
  • Produce a mitigation plan whenever the installation of patches requires an outage that can impact operations.
  • Collected data on process control statistics to discover potential improvements to process capabilities.
  • Designed compliance measures to maintain adherence to regulatory guidelines.
  • Updated and maintained records in accordance with standards.
  • Utilized source code control for tracking configurations and changes.
  • Improved overall user experience through support, training, troubleshooting, improvements and communication of system changes.
  • Designed and implemented preventive maintenance procedures, reducing support requests.

Assistant Manager-Instrumentation

ONGC Petro Additions Limited
Bharuch
12.2016 - 02.2023
  • Focal for O&M of Control Systems , OT security of OPaL Petrochemical complex
  • Team member for Central Maintenance Services for Polymer group of Plants, Offsite & Utilities
  • Associated with proactive & preventive maintenance of different types of field instruments both in HART and Conventional in liaison with operations for scheduling which facilitates reduced plant downtime, enhanced reliability, and better availability of instrumentation.
  • Played a vital role as a Shutdown Lead engineer in MTA with focus on effective job planning, materials availability, manpower and man hour planning, safe and in time execution considering all HSEF procedures & Permit To Work (PTW) norms.
  • Performed trip data analysis to investigate the root cause of failure and maintaining the record and recommendation (Action tracker portal) through RCA (Root cause analysis) process.
  • Liaising with different vendors for performance issue and other site problems.
  • Formulated & implemented Instrumentation job procedures and commissioning activities including calibration of instruments, loop & functional checking of systems, field instruments, control valves.
  • Prepared and ensuring sustainability of Obsolescence management and Life cycle management of Field Instruments & Control System.
  • Prepared yearly PM schedule, weekly job schedule, Failure reports, PM Order scheduling (Resource planning) Notification/PM Order cycle completion, history and documents updating.
  • Prepared guidelines Interlock testing , DCS/IPS Bypass/override.
  • Completed regular inventory counts to verify stock levels, address discrepancies, and forecast future needs.
  • Helped with planning schedules and delegating assignments to meet coverage and service demands.
  • Controlled resources and assets for department activities to comply with industry standards and government regulations.
  • Assisted in organizing and overseeing assignments to drive operational excellence.
  • Reduced waste and pursued revenue development strategies to keep department aligned with organizational targets.
  • Trained personnel in equipment maintenance and enforced participation in exercises focused on developing key skills.

Senior Instrumentation Engineer

Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited
Bharuch
02.2010 - 12.2016
  • Designed automation concepts and protocols for diagnostic testing and simulation purposes, applying Good Automated Manufacturing Practice (GAMP) protocols.
  • Revised instrumentation guidelines to address exceptions and provide clarification, where needed.
  • Communicated complex technical specifications to non-technical people in easily comprehensible formats.
  • Participated in Project review meetings, coordinating with inter-departmental teams to align ongoing efforts and overall business goals.
  • Focal for Procurement, Engineering ,design, erection and commissioning of Honeywell make DCS, ESD System as per engineering drawing or write-ups provided by EPCC contractor.
  • Designed logic from given control philosophy of equipment for DCS and IPS Systems.
  • Led commissioning of Honeywell make Field Device Manager (FDM) for field sensors and valves.
  • Hands-on experience of commissioning and configuration of Field instruments with Foundation Field Bus.

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Graduate Engineer Trainee

Garden Silk Mills Limited
Surat
08.2009 - 01.2010

Performed as Shift Engineer of Continuous Polymerization Plants and associated Units i.e. Heaters, PTA conveying, compressors, Bagging etc.

Education

B.Tech - Instrumentation & Control Engineering

Nirma University of Science & Technology
Ahmedabad
06.2005 - 08.2009

Skills

    Honeywell Experion PKS DCS

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Projects

1) World’s Largest Greenfield Grassroot 50,000 TPA TDI-II Complex Project, GNFC ,India

(Licensor's :Chematur (TDI group of Plants),PLINKE (Acid recovery Unit), Technip (H2-CO generation) & 22 Utility Units.) 

  

•Executed Design ,Procurement, erection and commissioning of DCS and IPS Systems.

• Assessing the Piping & Instrumentation Diagram (P&IDs), Process Flow Diagram (PFD), Control Narrative, Operation & Maintenance Guidelines Manual etc.

• HAZOP Team member of TDI-II group of Plants. 

• Team member of Design & implementation of Foundation Field bus in TDI-II complex Project.

• Assessing the technical bids, document deliverables & datasheets of different vendors for Mechanical Package & Field Instrumentation and generating TQs based on given RFQ (Request for Quotation).

• Conducted FAT (Factory acceptance test) and SAT (Site Acceptance Test) of the control systems to improve the design, efficiency and reliability of the control systems.

• Implemented new control loops or logics as per engineering drawing changes & licensor requirements.


2) Control & Safety System ,OPaL Petrochemical Complex, India

 (System Vendors : Honeywell for DCS , IPS & FGS , Siemens for PLCs)   
• Lead for erection, commissioning, SAT of DCS, IPS, FGS & PLC packages.
• Integrated 3rd party vendor packages with DCS over Modbus and OPC.
• Led installation and commissioning of Web server, UHN server, DON server, IAMS Server.
• Led installation and commissioning of Honeywell Remote Windows Patch & Anti-Virus Update Server.
• Successfully completed ON PROCESS Migration of DCS of all Polymer Plants, Offsite & Utilities.

3) 340 KTPA Polypropylene Plant ,OPaL, India

 (Licensor's : INOES , JSW, Burkhardt , FIMA, Coperion ,Borsig & KTRON)  


•Team Member responsible for pre-commissioning, commissioning, start-up activity of Polypropylene Plant.
•Part of Commissioning team for Extruder (JSW), Additive Feeding System (KTRON), Pallet Conveying System (Coperion), Compressors (Burkhardt & FIMA), Propylene recovery System (Borsig) for all Polymer Plants.

•Carried out Loop checking, Complex Loop testing , Interlock Testing and Sequential control testing.


• Team Member responsible for pre-commissioning, commissioning, start-up activity of Polypropylene Plant.
• Part of Commissioning team for Extruder (JSW), Additive Feeding System (KTRON), Pallet Conveying System ( (


4)  Control & Safety System  upgradation of Dual Feed cracker , OPaL , India

• Prepared Requirement , Enquiry Specification ,Guidelines for upgradation Project.

• Reviewed Techno commercial bid , Method Statement , Project Schedule , Resource requirement and Material requirements

• Servers & Workstations replacement and upgradation.

• ESD Safety Manager software upgradation.

• DCS Controllers , IO Modules ,Control firewalls and Fieldbus interface modules upgradation.

• ESD new rack installation and configuration.

• Netwrok segregation activity as per cluster design philosophy.

 •Carried out Loop checking, Complex Loop testing, Cause & Effect and Sequential Logic Testing with EPC & System Vendor.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Certification

TUV Certified Functional Safety Engineer

Timeline

ICSS Engineer- System Specialist

KIPIC (Contract : Fawaz Trading & Engineering)
04.2023 - Current

TUV Certified Functional Safety Engineer

10-2022

Assistant Manager-Instrumentation

ONGC Petro Additions Limited
12.2016 - 02.2023

Honeywell Experion PKS R400 Engineering

03-2014

Senior Instrumentation Engineer

Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited
02.2010 - 12.2016

Graduate Engineer Trainee

Garden Silk Mills Limited
08.2009 - 01.2010

B.Tech - Instrumentation & Control Engineering

Nirma University of Science & Technology
06.2005 - 08.2009
CHANDRESH PARMARInstrumentation & Control System Engineer