Rohit's CV
Profile summary
Experienced Lead Piping Engineer with 19 years shaping complex hydrocarbon, petrochemical, and energy infrastructure outcomes. Known for steering cross-functional engineering teams, technical assurance audits, and design governance across international FEED and EPC portfolios in the GCC and India. Committed to delivering rigorous technical standards and cross-cultural team leadership from pre-feasibility studies through plant commissioning.
Career highlights
Engineering Standards and Specifications: Authored the engineering design basis and 27 critical specifications and standards as inputs to the FEED package for offshore infrastructure projects.
Technical Review and Model Execution: Executed the 3D model review of the LSTK contractor with all stakeholders, achieving the 30% model review one month ahead of schedule.
Professional Certifications: Maintains active professional credentials including the Project Management Professional certification from PMI and the Lean Six Sigma Green Belt from TÜV SÜD.
Key skills
Professional experience
Reports to executive leadership while directing cross-functional contractor teams and joint venture stakeholders across petrochemical portfolios. Governs piping engineering strategy and technical assurance from pre-FEED through EPC phases. Oversees technical frameworks, audit standards, and design philosophies for site modifications and major capital projects.
- Reviewed and approved contractor documents as Technical Authority for offplot, ethane cracker, and polymer derivative units during pre-FEED phases.
- Established an in-house detail design engineering team to execute FEED and DEP packages directly.
- Conducted technical assurance audits at contractor offices and tracked audit findings to complete closure.
- Served as Department SES Committee Leader to implement value engineering practices, capture lessons learnt, and revise Sabic Engineering Standards.
- Evaluated technical queries, SES clarification waiver requests, material acceptance reports, and participated in licensor PDP and plot plan review workshops.
Shaped engineering standards and review schedules for major hydrocarbon processing proposals and execution projects. Steered cross-functional technical alignment, controlling document readiness and vendor deliverable approvals for international energy facilities.
- Prepared technical datasheets, request for quotation packages, and closed technical queries for piping specialty items, securing formal client acceptance.
- Executed model reviews with clients, managing internal tag point closures and verifying material take-offs prior to procurement release.
- Monitored technical document registers, evaluated third party material take-offs for commercial proposals, and coordinated piping and instrumentation diagram modifications.
Shaped technical strategy and steered cross-functional deliverables across oil, gas, and marine infrastructure operations for ADNOC Offshore and international partners, overseeing budget alignment and technical execution.
- Authored the engineering design basis and 27 critical specifications and standards as inputs to the FEED package, incorporating project specific requirements.
- Conducted site visits for data collection at offshore platforms and coordinated desktop studies to support early engineering works for Lower Zakum and Upper Zakum projects.
- Executed pre-feasibility studies for ammonia storage and off-plot piping systems, preparing pipeline design concept reports and supporting process team submissions.
Directed engineering operations for major refinery and petrochemical projects, reporting to senior leadership and overseeing large cross-functional teams across multiple international sites. Steered master planning, plant layout development, and multidisciplinary technical coordination for multi-billion dollar EPC and PMC installations. Managed end-to-end resource allocation, schedule adherence, and contract deliverables while aligning engineering outputs with statutory compliance standards.
- Led the Greenfield development and overall plot placement for process units, utility packages, tank farms, and pump houses to satisfy statutory norms.
- Led the 3D model review of the LSTK contractor with all stakeholders, achieving the 30% model review one month ahead of schedule.
- Guided designers and 3D modellers by delivering mandatory engineering inputs for plot plans, pipe rack sizing, and underground piping corridors.
- Executed technical evaluations and piping design reviews for the SRU and CBR project within the specified timeframe.
- Processed engineering data and generated layout configurations to support project requirements.
- Executed piping design reviews for the Euro-VI Project.
- Coordinated engineering deliverables for the FCC-GDS Unit.
- Managed technical reviews for piping layouts and equipment modeling to maintain alignment with project specifications.
- Coordinated interdisciplinary design reviews between piping, process, and civil engineering teams.
- Executed piping restoration procedures for the OHCU heater unit within the scheduled timeframe.
- Coordinated engineering tasks with site teams to complete maintenance objectives.
- Concorded engineering deliverables with project specifications for refinery installations.
- Coordinated workshare activities between engineering offices for Wells and RDS units.
- Supported project execution stages through technical alignment.
- Reviewed engineering drawings for the Ethylene Cracker Unit, aligning design outputs with project specifications.
- Coordinated technical deliverables with engineering contractors to maintain project schedule alignment.
- Executed piping arrangement drawings and routed process lines for refinery units according to engineering standards.
- Coordinated with multidisciplinary teams to resolve spatial clashes.
- Analyzed critical piping systems to ensure compliance with project specifications and safety codes during the FEED stage.
- Conducted stress analysis and reviewed piping layouts for the Sulphur Recovery Unit project.
- Aligned clients, contractors, and field execution teams under high-pressure site conditions to maintain project continuity.
- Conducted site-level discrepancy analyses to identify design gaps, engineering process improvements for the home office design workflow.
Education
Mechanical Engineering