Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
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Sekar Palani

Summary

Possessing 14 years of expertise in GMP plant maintenance, shutdown planning, and project management within the Oil & Gas and EPCC sectors, I have successfully managed independent responsibilities across India and Singapore.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. E&I Maintenance Technician

Abbott Manufacturing Pte Ltd
01.2025 - Current

Sr. Maintenance Technician

Oaty Pte Ltd
09.2022 - 12.2024

Sr. Electrical Maintenance Technician

Sembcorp Ltd Singapore
09.2020 - 08.2022

Sr. E&I Maintenance technician

Exxon Mobil- SAR 2, Singapore
02.2014 - 08.2020

Sr. Electrical Supervisor

PEC. LTD (Singapore)
03.2013 - 02.2014

Electrical Technician

Kurihara Kogyo co. ltd Singapore
03.2012 - 08.2012

Technical Apprentice and Short time trainee

LUCAS TVS. LTD, India.
05.2010 - 01.2012

Education

Diploma -

Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Skills

  • Plant Electrical Maintenance
  • Instrument Maintenance
  • Mechanical Maintenance
  • Maintenance Planning
  • Estimation Engineering
  • Time Management
  • SAP
  • CMMS
  • Electrical Installation CP5-1998 Code of Practice

Certification

  • Compx-Ex 01-04
  • Singapore code of practice CP5
  • Oil and petrochemical Supervisor
  • Working and height supervisor
  • Confined space supervisor
  • Building and construction safety supervisor
  • Risk assessment management
  • Scissor lift operator course

Responsibilities Summary

ELECTRICAL:

Operation and Maintenance of 22KV/6.6KV& 415V substation

Preventive Maintenance of all HV, LV Motors (6.6KV, 415V)

Troubleshooting of 6.6KV, 415V motor starters

Maintenance of 12MVA, 5.5MVA, 3.5MVA (ABB), 2MVA and 1MVA transformers, HV & LV Switchgears

Preventive maintenance of VCB, ACB circuit breaker

Solo Run Testing of all HV, LV Motors & Testing and commissioning of HV and LV cables., Preventive maintenance and Corrective maintenance of CPTR

Preventive maintenance of 1500KVA and 320KVA Emergency Diesel Generator

Handling of SEPAM 80, 60, 40, 20 Relays for Transformer feeder and MV motor Starter control

Troubleshooting & modification of all type lighting in plant

Maintenance UPS, Battery Charger (GUTUR) & Batteries for All Substations

Operation and Maintenance of Electrical Heaters (Chromolex)

Attend three months Shut down activities in Petro chemical plant

Leakage current testing of HV cables and panel bus bar

ON LOAD checks for contracted operational requirements

Certification of hot commissioning checks for test charging as per test formats., Maintenance UPS, Battery Charger (GUTUR) & Batteries for All Substations

Operation and maintenance CCTV camera, Fire alarm, PA System

Attend every 6 months once Boiler Shut down activities in Cogen Plant

Study the cable routing drawings and arrange the trenches and Tray for cable laying., Installing Transformers, switch gears as per general arrangement drawing

Installation of power panel, control panel, Cable laying, glanding & termination in Power plant

Earthing of panels, switchgears, transformers, substations, and Plant earthing., Certification of hot commissioning checks for test charging as per test formats

Testing of H.V. Cables (Up to 6.6 KV) and H.T. L.T. Motor., Pre-commissioning activities for all switchgear equipment

Close out report NOTIFICATION to project team capturing works completed and pending works if any with design drawing reference


INSTRUMENT:

Maintenance & Calibration of Motor operated Valves (Rotork and Bernard’s MOV's)., Operation and Maintenance of Honeywell fire alarm system and N2 fire suppression system

Handling of different type of manufacture instruments like ABB, Rosemount, Foxboro, Honeywell, Yokogawa, Baumer, Think top V50, & V70

Perform the instrument SCD testing with initiator & final element (Bypass, online)., Maintenance and Troubleshooting FD (Flame Detector/UV, IR)

Maintenance and Troubleshooting GD (Gas Detector/HC, H2S)

Study Cause & effect table and perform function test accordingly

To assist loop, check and full function test various types of instruments

To develop the SCD instrument procedure

Preventive and Corrective maintenance including Calibration and troubleshooting various instrument


MECHANICAL

Maintenance of equipment's like pumps (PD/CF), Valves, Agitators and Mixers, Air Compressors and Heat exchangers

Pumps: Alfa Laval Double mechanical seal, Wattson Marlow, Diaphragm pump, lobe pump, Centrifugal pump

Multi cracker: Makoba, Cracker blades and MC11 disc

Colloid mill: Fryma Korma Mech seal, Stator and Rotor replacement

Big bag discharger, Enzymation, Alfa Laval Decanter

Heat treatment plate heat exchanger, CIP chemical Dosing pumps, Vacuum mixer, Blower., Valves: Gemu, Alfa Laval single seat and mix proof, Butterfly, Samson

Mechanical seals: Alfa Laval, Fryma korma

Heat exchangers, Steam Injectors and Load cell: Have skills on Heat exchangers. Mostly plate, spiral and tube-shell

Permit to Work System: Well versed in permit to work systems (cold work, hot work, Vessel Entry etc.,) of Ministry of Manpower, Singapore

Aircon maintenance & troubleshooting PM, CM

Chiller, AHU, VRV, ACMV, Units system maintenance

Donaldson Dust collector maintenance

Aircon filters, ACMV filters replacement

Cooling towers, UHT System.

Timeline

Sr. E&I Maintenance Technician

Abbott Manufacturing Pte Ltd
01.2025 - Current

Sr. Maintenance Technician

Oaty Pte Ltd
09.2022 - 12.2024

Sr. Electrical Maintenance Technician

Sembcorp Ltd Singapore
09.2020 - 08.2022

Sr. E&I Maintenance technician

Exxon Mobil- SAR 2, Singapore
02.2014 - 08.2020

Sr. Electrical Supervisor

PEC. LTD (Singapore)
03.2013 - 02.2014

Electrical Technician

Kurihara Kogyo co. ltd Singapore
03.2012 - 08.2012

Technical Apprentice and Short time trainee

LUCAS TVS. LTD, India.
05.2010 - 01.2012

Diploma -

Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Sekar Palani