Safalta Award
Received from Electrosteel Steels Limited for a cost-saving air-oil system initiative. The work involved replacing a faulty Woerner air-oil distributor with an in-house developed distributor and modifying the associated line.
Professional experience
The industrial work behind the lessons
This experience supports the teaching on this platform. If you are here to learn, start with the Learning Hub — this page is background.
Career timeline
Roles and professional scope
13 May 2025 — present
Fabrimetal MMD Group
Engineer, Wire Rod and Bar Mill
Dakar, Senegal
- Working on a 0.35 MTPA wire rod and bar mill supplied by SMS Group
- Installation of hydraulic, lubrication, grease and air-oil pipelines
- Mechanical clearance, loop-line preparation, pressure testing and punch-list completion
- Pickling and flushing of hydraulic and lubrication pipelines
- Maintaining required NAS oil cleanliness values
- Commissioning hydraulic, lubrication, grease and air-oil systems
- Erection of associated equipment
- Mechanical and hydraulic spare-parts planning and procurement
October 2021 — April 2025
African Foundries Limited
Assistant Manager, Wire Rod and Bar Mill
Nigeria
- Maintenance of a 0.3 MTPA bar mill supplied by Evergreen Engineering
- Shift leadership focused on maximising production availability
- Erection and commissioning of a block-mill lubrication system
- Pickling and flushing of hydraulic and lubrication pipelines
- Preventive and breakdown maintenance
- Mechanical and hydraulic troubleshooting
- Failure root-cause analysis
- Spare-parts planning and procurement
January 2015 — October 2021
ESL Steels Limited (Vedanta)
Assistant Manager, Wire Rod Mill
Jharkhand, India
- Commissioning hydraulic, lubrication, grease and air-oil systems
- Mechanical and hydraulic equipment erection
- Working with hydraulic and lubrication circuit drawings
- Contractor coordination
- Circuit modifications for improved maintenance
- Spare-parts planning and procurement
- Preventive and breakdown maintenance
- Shift maintenance leadership
- Mechanical failure root-cause analysis
July 2010 — January 2015
JSW Bhushan Power and Steel Limited
Engineer, Wire Rod and Bar Mill
Jharsuguda, Odisha, India
- Erection and commissioning of a 0.5 MTPA long-product alloy-steel wire rod mill
- Experience with Danieli, Morgardshammar and Kocks equipment
- Commissioning lubrication, hydraulic, cooling-water and air-oil dual-line systems
- Preventive, corrective and breakdown maintenance
- Hydraulic and pneumatic troubleshooting
- Maintenance planning
- Assistant shift leadership
- Mechanical failure analysis
Achievements
Selected engineering case studies
Improvement work carried out on plant, described without invented figures.
Pneumatic cylinder modification
Modified an obsolete pneumatic cylinder so that it could be used as an equipment spare.
Waterbox line improvement
Modified a waterbox line to reduce uncooled length and improve yield.
Shear number one modification
Modified the bottom arm to reduce end-cutting length and improve yield.
Education
Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering
Gandhi Institute for Technological Advancement
Biju Patnaik University of Technology
2006 — 2010
Professional tools
- SAP
- Microsoft Office
Languages
- English
- Odia
- Bengali
- Hindi