With six years experience in power sector, I have worked at large scale power facilities with state of the art technology from GE, Harbin Engineering and Dongfang electric. With strong grip over commercial and technological aspects of the powerplant. Deeply understand the importance of unit performance and economical operation of power plant. Looking for position as an Operations Engineer/Shift Engineer or related position which offers key participation, team oriented tasks, immediate challenges, and career opportunity..
Hi, I’m
Zubair Ahmed
Karachi
Summary
Overview
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Harbin Electric International
Shift Engineer MCR Operations
03.2023 - Current
Job overview
- Company Overview: Ultra-Super Critical Coal-Fired Power Plant 660 MW LEPCL Karachi
- Responsible for safety Management
- Responsible for preparing safety documents according to company rules and conversant with PTW system
- Lead high-performing shift teams to achieve exceptional plant performance
- Ensure export of maximum power as per Declared Available Capacity and received demand from National Power Control Center(NPCC)
- Expertly coordinate operations and maintenance teams for seamless collaboration
- Guarantee optimal resource allocation for efficient plant operation
- Prioritize safety, reliability, and efficiency in all aspects of plant management
- Proactively manage routine, preventive, and predictive maintenance
- Monitor quality and defects to minimize downtime and unscheduled outages
- Analyze equipment parameters to predict potential issues and take swift action
- Oversee chemical processes, sampling, and water/steam parameters to keep within specified limits provided in O&M instruction manuals
- Making sure that all activities are being carried out in line with SOPs and O&M instruction manuals
- Raise work orders in system to report plant defects and follows up on progress
- Coordinate with the Senior Shift Engineer/Shift Manager and maintenance team to schedule planned and unplanned maintenance activities
- Prepare and issue safety documentation to ensure safe isolations from the system for the purpose of planned and unplanned maintenance activities
- Maintain high standards of management, ethics and leadership
- Establish and facilitate training programs for individual development and operational competence
- Lead performance management, setting objectives and targets
- Fostering a learning culture within team
- Establish and implement vertical/ horizontal communication within the shift team to ensure members are well informed
- Managing & training team of Control room operators and field operators
- Ultra-Super Critical Coal-Fired Power Plant 660 MW LEPCL Karachi
KEPCO KPS
Unit Controller MCR Operations
08.2021 - 02.2023
Job overview
- Company Overview: Ultra-Super Critical Coal-Fired Power Plant 660 MW LEPCL Karachi
- Responsible for preparation & implementation of all SOPs regarding unit operations, boiler/turbine auxiliaries operation, Electrical operation SOPs
- Preparing Permit to Work documents and preparing relevant isolations of equipment for maintenance activities
- Responsible for unit smooth operations, unit startup, shutdown, emergency handling in line with SOPs and O&M instruction manuals
- Hands on experience of performing operations through DCS and MARKVI
- Responsible for training team of field operators and Control room operators on simulator as well as on field/site
- Responsible for raising trouble memo to maintenance personal through SAP system for recitation of issues timely
- Ensuring equipment & human safety through implementing safety rules
- Monitoring and directly involved in the commissioning work of SEPCO III, on behalf of O&M team of KEPCO-KPS and Conducted complete commissioning activities of CFPP includes Pressure testing of the systems at their design and operating parameters, purging of the associated systems and leaks testing of all the system
- Developing Standard operation procedures for Process overview, Start-up, Shutdown, Trouble shooting, detection of equipment malfunctioning and taking measures to ensure operation safety
- Witnessed Boiler hydro-static test, Reliability Run Test, Initial Capacity test, Load rejection test, Vacuum tightness test, and many other test required during and after commissioning
- Generating correct onsite P&ID’s and evaluating designing flaws during the erection of this plant and sending design and operational recommendations on behalf of KEPCO-KPS to owner’s engineering consulting company FICHTNER
- Developing isolation procedure for all BTG systems
- Ultra-Super Critical Coal-Fired Power Plant 660 MW LEPCL Karachi
Power China Gansu Energy Investment Co Ltd
Operations Engineer CCR
01.2019 - 07.2021
Job overview
- Company Overview: 2
- 660MW Karachi Pakistan
- Got Trained under Chinese Operation Engineers in the following areas
- Theoretical training (6weeks)
- Boiler and its auxiliaries
- Steam Turbine and its auxiliaries
- Control System Engineering basics
- Electrical systems
- Environmental and chemical Engineering basics
- Practical Training (4 months)
- Extensively learned and mastered complete P&IDs of complete 660MW Coal fired powerplant that included major equipments Like Steam turbine, Boiler, coal mills, FD fans, ID fans, Motorized feedwater pumps, Turbine driven feedwater pumps, Vacuum pumps, Centrifugal cooling water pumps, Vertical centrifugal pumps and more
- Line tracing and understanding the flows of steam, water, coal, air and oil systems
- Learning on field the operating procedures and working of 660WM CFPP
- Successfully completed DCS simulator training
- Carried out operations of plant Startup, Shutdown, Handling of Runback due to major equipment failure on simulator
- Responsible for communication with NPPC, CPA for smooth synchronization/de synchronization, load Changing and other 500kV GIS operations
- Responsible for load changing operations through DCS on NPCC demand
- Responsible for boiler/turbine/Electrical routine work/ equipment changeover regime implementation
- Checking & maintaining all inspection and DCS log books
- Preparing shift reports
- Making equipment failure/tripping reports
- 2
- 660MW Karachi Pakistan
Education
Quaid-e-Awam University of Engineering Science and TechnologyNawabshah, Sindh
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering
University Overview
Skills
- Root Cause failure analysis
- DCS SCADA Emerson Ovation
- Mark VI
- PLC
- Control Room Operations
- Problem Solving
- Troubleshooting
- Team Leader
- Communication Skills
- MS office
Languages
English
Chinese (basic)
Urdu
Sindhi
Balochi
Pecno
Pecno
ELECT/81955Hseprofessionaltrainings
Hseprofessionaltrainings
- Health Safety and Environment & Process Safety
- Permit to work
- Fire safety
- Scaffolding
- Work at height training
- Hazardous communication and spill response
- Electrical Safety
- Risk Assessment/JHA
Timeline
Shift Engineer MCR Operations
Harbin Electric International
03.2023 - Current
Unit Controller MCR Operations
KEPCO KPS
08.2021 - 02.2023
Operations Engineer CCR
Power China Gansu Energy Investment Co Ltd
01.2019 - 07.2021
Quaid-e-Awam University of Engineering Science and Technology
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering
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