KALEEM SYED
Windsor,ON
Summary
Professional Mechanical Engineer with combined 10 years of experience in project controls, maintenance, and reliability engineering. Safety focused, analytical, and collaborative with a strong foundation of project controls, variance analysis, cost and schedule performance reporting. Accomplished in principles of asset management, maintenance and reliability programing, and developing key performance metrics. Conscientious, adaptive, and flexible, I thrive in demanding and complex work environments.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Maintenance Manager
Air Liquide
Hamilton, ON
07.2023 - Current
- Reviewed completed work orders to ensure quality control measures are followed.
- Provided technical support in case of system malfunctions or breakdowns.
- Conducted root cause analysis on production downtime events.
- Managed a team of technicians responsible for performing proactive maintenance tasks on critical production equipment.
- Interfaced with vendors and suppliers regarding warranty claims, product returns, faulty components replacement orders, ensuring timely resolution of any issues encountered.
- Coordinated efforts among different departments within the organization, such as engineering, procurement, and logistics, in order to ensure efficient execution of reliability initiatives.
- Participated in budgeting process by forecasting future expenses related to maintenance activities and spare parts acquisition and replacement needs.
- Ensured compliance with safety regulations and best practices during all maintenance activities.
- Monitored performance metrics, such as mean time between failures and mean time to repair, to measure operational effectiveness.
- Organized scheduled shutdowns for preventative maintenance purposes so that production could be resumed without interruption.
- Analyzed data from various sources such as vibration monitoring, thermography, oil analysis. to detect any signs of system degradation or malfunctioning parts prior to breakdowns occurring.
- Developed strategies for optimizing spare parts inventory levels based on historical usage patterns as well as projected demand trends.
Team Lead, Maintenance Engineering (Mobile Equipment Fleet)
SUNCOR ENERGY INC.
Fort McMurray, AB
04.2021 - 07.2023
- Maintenance engineering team lead for surface mining heavy duty mobile equipment
- Day-to-day direction, performance management, and project assignments
- Lead Maintenance Programing initiative for surface mining group by developing and defining work processes for contractual component warranty claims
- Facilitate meetings and acquire inputs from cross functional teams, steer towards optimal spare parts, equipment maintainability and operability
- Lead technical engineering support for site on significant equipment failures to assist execution teams to return equipment to operation as soon as possible and without risk
- Empower and lead group of maintenance engineers who provide services to operations and maintenance teams
- Responsible for technical & site queries and effective management of change (MOC) process.
Maintenance & Reliability Engineer (Mobile Equipment Fleet)
SUNCOR ENERGY INC.
Fort McMurray, AB
07.2017 - 03.2021
- Surface mining operations maintenance and reliability engineer for heavy-duty mobile equipment such as CAT dozers, loaders, excavators, side booms, 797/930/980 haul trucks, P&H 4100, PC 5500/8000, and CAT 7495 shovels
- Developed maintenance strategy on custom and commercially manufactured tools, including adherence to manufacturers annual inspection schedule and ensuring legislated and regulatory compliance
- Initiated and led continuous improvement project that increased reliability and equipment productivity on shovel dippers by 1.2%
- Responsible for the management of Ground Engaging Tool (GET); responsible for reliability assessment, reviewing installation procedures, and compliance to target sustained performance
- Provided technical support to cross-functional teams to support cost optimization initiatives, precision maintenance such as procedures, tools, documentation, preventative maintenance audits and feedback, utilizing data driven decision making on assets
- Developed technical failure report to help identify root cause and actions required to prevent a failure, improve maintenance strategies, and increase overall fleet reliability
- Developed rebuild or repair scope of work for third party vendors to execute.
Project Controls Analyst
SUNCOR ENERGY INC.
Calgary, AB
05.2012 - 07.2017
- Provided project management services to a major capital and sustaining project portfolio (e.g., utilities and cogeneration plant, tailings pipeline, mining equipment replacement, etc..) during project execution phase in the areas of estimating, planning, cost management, and reporting
- Participated in interactive planning sessions to develop schedule from project scope, establishing key project milestones, individual discipline schedules as a direct input into cost tracking, and overall project progress and performance
- Collaborated with Project Controls Specialist to produce executive portfolio cost reporting, highlighting resource profiles and key milestones for stakeholders and project sponsors
- Utilized P&ID, PFD, construction work packages (CWP), issued for construction drawings (IFC), construction execution plans (CEP) to develop systemic relationship in schedule, track quantities installed
- Developed and maintained reporting for cost forecasting and change management tools
- Developed visual system-based milestone analysis tool to track cost and schedule, resulting in streamlined reporting and project alignment; tool was used by senior management for point in time updates
- Collaborated with multi-disciplinary teams and key internal and external stakeholders to establish and maintain a cost and schedule baseline, analyze performance trends, track and review change orders, and provide variance analysis on resources and contracts
- Developed a tool for camp usage tracking and cost recovery for lump sum contract management resulting in a realized savings of $5M over the course of the three-year project.
Engineering Intern
SUNCOR ENERGY INC.
Fort McMurray, AB
09.2011 - 05.2012
- Analyzed and tracked construction progress, incurred cost forecast versus budget, and prepared progress and performance reports
- Performed field verification and audits on weekly basis, providing reports to key stakeholders across the organization
- Responsible for daily data validation, schedule and cost reporting during turnaround; updating and collating departmental and contractor reports.
Production Technician (Student)
AGROPUR DIVISION NATREL
Toronto, ON
09.2007 - 01.2011
- Operated power equipment and followed safety procedures
- Practiced GMP, PPE, and HACCP procedures and food safety policies
- Executed and assisted in UHT and HTST product preparation tasks
- Displayed problem-solving and general troubleshooting skills during breakdown
- Displayed ability to work productively and constantly meet the production targets.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
Ontario Technical University
Oshawa, ONAssociate of Applied Science - Electro-mechanical Engineering
Centennial College
Toronto, ONSkills
- Cost Management and Control
- Planning and Scheduling
- Management of Change (MOC)
- Condition Based Monitoring
- Technical Report Writing
- Earned Value Management
- Primavera
- SAP
- Maximo
- PRISM
- EcoSYS
- MS Office
- SharePoint
- PowerBI
- Flexible
- Organized
- Reliable
Timeline
Maintenance Manager
Air Liquide
07.2023 - Current
Team Lead, Maintenance Engineering (Mobile Equipment Fleet)
SUNCOR ENERGY INC.
04.2021 - 07.2023
Maintenance & Reliability Engineer (Mobile Equipment Fleet)
SUNCOR ENERGY INC.
07.2017 - 03.2021
Project Controls Analyst
SUNCOR ENERGY INC.
05.2012 - 07.2017
Engineering Intern
SUNCOR ENERGY INC.
09.2011 - 05.2012
Production Technician (Student)
AGROPUR DIVISION NATREL
09.2007 - 01.2011
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
Ontario Technical University
Associate of Applied Science - Electro-mechanical Engineering
Centennial College
Certifications Memberships
- Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA)
- Member of Project Management Institute
- Member of Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International (AACEI)
References
References available upon request.
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