• Gender: Male
• Age: 70
• Designation: Vice President
• Highest Education Level: Graduate - Degree
• Current Gross Salary: INR  16 /Annum
• Expected Gross Salary: INR  18 /Annum
• Preferred Country: India
• Notice Period: 90  Days
• Preferred Location: Gujarat in India & Any location in abroad.
• Work Experience: 41.8 Year(s)

Education

B.E. Chemical Engineering, with I'st Class from Annamalai University in 1978

Skill Sets

Chemical Projects & Manufacturing

Work Experience

Vice President - Projects
Since 2011
Company Profile: One of the leading Anode Manufacturing Company.

Plant Details:
156TPD Membrane Cell plant (CEC Bipolar cells- n-Bitac 7 CD
Electrolysers - Under Erection)
120 TPD Membrane Cell plant (Mono polar Cells of Chorine Engineers Technology & Bipolar cells from UHDE)
140 TPD Caustic concentration unit.
150 TPD HCL Unit from Carbon Lorraine with steam generation facility.
Hydrogen Bottling plant.

Vice President – Operations
From 2003 to 2011
Company Profile: Is a major manufacturer of PVC resins, Caustic Soda, Chlorochemicals, Refrigerant gas and Industrial Salt.

Plant Details :
165 TPD Membrane Cell Caustic soda plant (Four Electrolysers of Bi Polar Membrane Cell Technology from Krup Uhde)
50 TPD Caustic Flaker unit –By Coen Bharat.
50 TPD Sodium Hypochlorite unit-By Protech consultants-Chennai
300 TPD Ethylene Dichloride Unit .
Marine Terminal Facility for import of Ethylene cargo & for Export of Caustic Lye shipments. (4000 MT Ethylene Tank & 5000MT caustic Tank linked to plant by cross country pipelines)
1200 KLD Desalination Unit to meet the Plant water requirements.
Two nos of Natural Gas Based Power Plants of 8.5 MW & 3.5 MW capacities along with Grid power supply catering to the total demand of 21 MW of Overall Power requirements.

Responsibilities:
Ensuring 165 TPD of Caustic Lye & 300 TPD of Ethylene Dichloride production
Upkeep of Captive Marine Facility & ensuring safe shipping operations including Caustic & Ethylene Shipments.
Reporting staff Ten Departmental heads, 140 Management staff & 300 contract workmen and three outsourced Agencies in Power plants, Marine Teminal & Desalination units
Coordination in overall recruitment & Training requirements with HR department.
Compliance to all statutory compliances pertaining to MOEF, Pollution Board,
Factory Inspectorate, Labour Department, Chief controller of Explosives, IBR etc.
Coordination of Integrated Management system Audits related to Safety, Environment & Health -ISO 9001, ISO 14000, OHSAS & SA 8000 and various internal &Safety Audits.

Manager –Process
From 1995-2003
Kothari Petrochemicals

Job Profile:
Project Stage :
Posted as ‘Site Incharge’ initially & was totally responsible for
Civil construction, procurement coordination, equipment & Piping erection, Preommissioning and commissioning activities.
Coordination with process consultants and various contractors for timely project completion.

Production stage:
Training of personnel, plant stabilization and carrying out guarantee run
Responsible for the entire site operational activities.

Technical Services Executive
1984 -1986
Punjab Alkalies & Chemicals
Job Profile:
Development of Downstream industries based on Chlorine’.
‘Conversion of Graphite Anodes to Metal Anodes’
‘Installation of Flaker unit’

Shift Incharge
1982-1984
MODI Alkalies & Chemicals

Shift Engineer
1978-1982
KOTHARI Caustic Chlorine Unit

Other Plant Exposures:
Between 1986 to 1990, worked in ‘ASIAN PAINTS’ in their Penta Erithyritol project at Cuddalore as Plant Manager.
Worked in ‘BUSH BOAKE ALLEN’ between 1990 to1995 – Multi National Company unit at Chennai as Plant Manager in their Aroma Chemicals unit.
Between 2004 –2006 posted at Chemplast Sanmar ‘s Mettur Plant as
‘ Plant Head’ Comprising of PVC Unit :66000 TPA, OXY EDC Unit : 30000 TPA
EDC Unit : 125000 TPA along with state of the art High Boils Incinerator. Got elevated to GM –Operations and Asst Vice President –Operations during my tenure there.

Future Goals

To use my project related production expertise in Caustic / EDC / Ethylene field usefully