Vipin Bhandari Email and Phone Number

Member of Board of Directors of Engineers India Limited, a Navratna Company of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.Responsible for all HR, ER, IR, Estate, Administration, Corporate Planning, Communications, CSR, Training, L&D and Legal functions of the organization.Member of various Board Committees.Member of Ministerial Task Force for HR.Interaction with various Parliamentary committees, National Commissions, CIC etc.

In-charge of various project divisions as Executive Director (Projects):• Refineries/ Fertilizers/ Infrastructure• Planning and Scheduling• Power- Nuclear/ Thermal/ Solar initiatives• International projects/ Algiers & Skikda Refineries upgradation and Abu Dhabi engineering office• Regional offices

In-charge for diversification into Power sector.Headed the initiative and executed projects in Thermal, Solar and Nuclear energy including:• Nuclear Fuel Complex, Kota• Engineering Services Contract for Kudankulam Nuclear Project Ph-II of NPCIL• 125 MW Solar Thermal Project for Reliance ADAG• PV Solar projects• Developing Strategy for expansion of Power division

Various Refinery projects including:• Project Manager of Guru Gobind Singh Refinery Project- 9 MMTPA Grassroots refinery and petrochemical project of HMEL at Bathinda including 1011 Km Crude pipeline. Involved from concept to completion; project completed in record schedule of 42-44 M with insignificant cost over-run (2006-2010), USD 4B.Major Units- CDU/VDU, DCU, VGO-HDT, DHDT, FCC-Petro, Polypropylene, CCR, SRU, ARU, CPP• Project Manager of Essar Refinery at Jamnagar (2004-2006)

• Detailed engineering and design of various Hydrocarbon projects including Gas processing, LPG, Refinery, Petrochemicals, Offshore, Pipelines etc.• Group leader for project/ engineering office in Qatar for QP projects.• Engineering coordination.• Contributed toward the publishing of various national standards of BIS and OISD and authored many engineering standards and specifications of the company.• Developed several engineering softwares and a Document management system at a time when commercial softwares were not readily available.

Management Trainee at DCM Group posted to Shriram Fertilisers and Chemicals, Kota.