Rahul Ramachandran Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Validated and revised step-by-step procedures for Bombardier MRO job tracking and management software• Supported change management activities including preparing work packages for training site teams• Strengthened business process management by interpreting workflows through interfacing software.

New Delhi, India

• Coordinated diverse, multinational teams to prepare technical tender for 315 km Chittagong Dhaka Pipeline Project. • Managed various interdisciplinary teams to prepare tender for Rs 50 crore Oil terminal at Hissar.• Overhauled the project documentation system, increasing accountability and document traceability by 10%

Delhi

 Site Supervision of Cross Country Natural Gas Pipeline Project• Lead site activities for Auraiya-Phulpur Pipeline Project (Spread II) of GAIL (India) Limited by training and supervising a team of engineers to oversee all pipeline laying from stringing to backfilling.• Qualified NDT & welding procedures and conducted electrode qualification tests. Appointed good Welders and insulators that lead to expedited progress with remarkably low repair percentages.• Carried out NDT activities including Radiographic film interpretation & Ultrasonic Test interpretation• Successfully organised and implemented 24-hour high-pressure Hydrotest of 42 km pipeline section.• Supervised Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) procedure and water body crossing. • Lead laying activities for PAN India Pipeline Project (Gurgaon Section) and lent my hydrotesting expertise at Cauvery Basin Pipeline Replacement Project.  Inspection • Deployed to Jiangsu Shagang International Trade Co., Ltd., China to undertake coil inspection activities for GAIL (India) Limited and released 10,000 tonnes of finished plate for pipe making.• Undertook pipe inspection activities for LSAW bare and coated pipes and dispatched around 6000 pipes of various diameters and thicknesses to site.  Project Coordination and Tender Preparation• Issued assignments and co-ordinated with various departments to prepare numerous tenders based on site visits, survey data, design basis etc.• Designed General Arrangement Drawings based on P&IDs and site data for implementation of terminal works.• Determined eligibility of bidders by analysing bids and providing technical queries (TBA & TC) for various tenders

Ranchi Area, India

 Engineering and Project Co-ordination • Coordinated project activities in the steel sector with the client, contractor and various technological and service departments. • Evaluated fabrication drawings, basic & detail engineering drawings concerning valves, pumps & other mechanical equipment involved in reheating furnaces along with their arrangement.• Provided Technical Bid Scrutiny for prequalification of bidders for the respective tenders. Conducted Performance Guarantee Test for the normalizing and draw out furnaces at the new Rail Wheel Plant in Bela, Bihar.• Lit up and commissioned Wire Rod Mill reheating furnace at IISCO Steel Plant, Burnpur.

Underwent site training at SAIL's Bhilai Steel Plant.Coordinated Basic and Detailed Engineering drawing approvals for the Power Plant & Energy Section

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, 3.67

Activities and Societies: ● 1st place in the HEC Corporate Social Responsibility Challenge 2022 Case Competition. ● VP Finance.

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 7.06

Activities and Societies: ● Organized the NITK cultural fest INCIDENT 2009 & 2010 with over 4000 students from more than 100 colleges.