Naveen Maram
Midlothian
Summary
Experienced Chemical Process Engineer with 8 years in process design, installation, and commissioning of chemical plants, including a 500 MT/month Silicon Tetra Chloride plant. Skilled in process optimization, equipment efficiency improvements, and risk assessments (HAZOP, PSSR). Expertise in P&ID interpretation, statistical data analysis, and business KPI standardization to enhance operational efficiency and compliance.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager: Projects
Sun TekServe
Mumbai
08.2021 - 07.2023
- Designed and executed a high-pressure cylinder gas filling station project worth ₹10 crore INR.
- Developed and executed a helium recovery process, leading a ₹3 crore pilot project at IIT Kharagpur.
- Led a cross-functional initiative to optimize procurement, manufacturing, and vendor processes, reducing delivery lead times by 30%, and improving on-time delivery by 20%.
- Developed KPI dashboards and data visualization reports in Power BI and Excel to monitor supply chain performance, reducing inventory discrepancies by 15%.
Lead Process Engineer
Sterlite Technologies Limited
Aurangabad
07.2015 - 07.2021
- Designing, engineering evaluation, layout finalization, preparing concept design, and basic design for a 150Cr INR SiCl4 manufacturing plant, reducing reliance on imports, and achieving cost savings of 0.75 USD per km of fiber.
- Designed a Si metal and chlorine handling automated system to increase SiCl4 purity.
- Reviewing and approving detail engineering drawings, P&ID, PFD, and calculations.
- Ensured 100% safety, reliability, by compiling HAZOP and SIL recommendations.
- Prepared standard operating procedures for reactors, columns, scrubbers, and other utility systems.
- 500 MT SiCl4 production planning, capacity mapping, process changes documentation, process design change, and overall equipment efficiency improvement.
- Calculation of business reports, like the cost of poor quality, quality health index, overall equipment efficiency, and customer complaints.
- Monitoring various process trends, stage-wise yields, and scrap calculation, first-time right, rework, and on-time delivery records.
- Performance of optical glass quality improved from 7% to 50% in one year by cracking the relationship between flame turbulence and SiO2 particle size growth.
- High-capacity outside vapor deposition machine designed by introducing a 3-burner movement technique. Glass fixed loss reduction by 4% with burner ON/OFF logic introduction in the OVD process.
- Capturing efficiency increased to 33 grams per minute from 28 grams per minute by improving the thermophoresis effect (temperature gradient study).
- I served initially as a trainee engineer and was promoted to lead process engineer for the fifth largest global optical fiber manufacturing company in recognition of excellent leadership.
Education
Masters - Decision Analytics
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA12.2024
Bachelor of Technology - Chemical Engineering
Osmania University
Hyderabad, India05.2015
Skills
- Process optimization
- Project management
- Critical thinking
- Team leadership
- Data analysis
- Installation and commissioning
- HAZOP and PSSR
- Process engineering
- BIM 360
- Project planning
Websites
Timeline
Manager: Projects
Sun TekServe
08.2021 - 07.2023
Lead Process Engineer
Sterlite Technologies Limited
07.2015 - 07.2021
Masters - Decision Analytics
Virginia Commonwealth University
Bachelor of Technology - Chemical Engineering
Osmania University
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