TARVINDER SINGH

• Perform preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance on Tetra Pak processing and packaging equipment, including homogenizers, high-speed separators, centrifugal pumps, valves, heat exchangers, and auxiliary systems, ensuring maximum equipment reliability and uptime.
• Lead on-site installation, commissioning, start-up, and performance verification of processing equipment at customer manufacturing facilities across assigned territories.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot complex electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, and control system failures using technical drawings, electrical schematics, diagnostic software, multimeters, insulation testers, and specialized service tools.
• Conduct overhaul, inspection, alignment, and performance optimization of high-speed separators and homogenizers, improving operational efficiency, product quality, and equipment availability.
• Perform maintenance and troubleshooting of plate and tubular heat exchangers, identifying fouling, leakage, pressure drops, and thermal efficiency issues while implementing corrective actions.
• Troubleshoot and repair centrifugal pumps, positive displacement pumps, actuated valves, control valves, solenoid valves, and process piping systems to maintain uninterrupted production operations.
• Execute root cause analysis (RCA) on recurring equipment failures and develop corrective and preventive maintenance recommendations to reduce downtime and maintenance costs.
• Collaborate with engineering, technical support, and customer maintenance teams to resolve complex operational issues and improve equipment performance.
• Provide advanced technical support during equipment breakdowns, emergency shutdowns, and critical production situations while ensuring adherence to safety and quality standards.
• Prepare detailed service reports, maintenance records, warranty evaluations, expense reports, risk assessments, and work orders using company service management systems.
• Deliver technical training to customers, operators, maintenance personnel, and junior service engineers on equipment operation, troubleshooting methodologies, preventive maintenance, and best practices.
• Evaluate equipment condition and recommend upgrades, retrofits, spare parts strategies, and reliability improvements to enhance production efficiency and extend equipment life.
• Build strong customer relationships by consistently delivering high-quality field service support, minimizing production disruptions, and ensuring customer satisfaction.
• Conduct equipment demonstrations, performance audits, and operational assessments while identifying opportunities for process optimization and future service offerings.
• Support food, beverage, dairy, and processing industry customers by ensuring compliance with applicable safety, quality, and operational standards.

• Coordinated and performed installation, commissioning, start-up, and performance verification of high-speed separators and decanter centrifuges for customers across the dairy, food & beverage, chemical, wastewater, and industrial processing sectors.
• Provided advanced technical support, troubleshooting, and maintenance services for GEA high-speed disc-stack separators, decanters, pumps, valves, instrumentation, and associated process equipment.
• Executed preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities on rotating equipment, ensuring maximum equipment reliability, process efficiency, and operational uptime.
• Performed mechanical overhauls and inspections of centrifugal separators and decanters, including bowl assemblies, spindles, bearings, gearboxes, lubrication systems, seals, and discharge mechanisms.
• Diagnosed and resolved complex electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, and process control issues using technical drawings, electrical schematics, multimeters, vibration analysis tools, and diagnostic instruments.
• Conducted equipment start-up support, process optimization, and commissioning activities while ensuring compliance with GEA operating procedures, customer specifications, and safety requirements.
• Traveled extensively to customer facilities throughout Canada and the United States to support emergency breakdowns, planned shutdowns, warranty services, and major equipment rebuilds.
• Tested and validated machine performance using electrical, digital, mechanical, and pneumatic control systems to ensure compliance with operational and product quality specifications.
• Collected, analyzed, and interpreted operational and vibration data to identify equipment deficiencies and recommend corrective actions for improved reliability and performance.
• Delivered technical training to customers, operators, maintenance personnel, and service technicians on separator and decanter operation, troubleshooting, maintenance procedures, and best practices.
• Participated in equipment audits, process assessments, and performance evaluations to identify opportunities for process optimization and equipment improvements.
• Assisted project managers, contractors, and third-party vendors during equipment installation, commissioning, and project execution activities.
• Prepared detailed maintenance records, service reports, inspection reports, warranty documentation, and customer recommendations in accordance with regulatory, corporate, and customer requirements.
• Collaborated with engineering, product development, and technical support teams to provide field feedback for product enhancements and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Recommended and implemented improvements to service tools, maintenance procedures, and operational practices to enhance service efficiency and equipment reliability.
• Developed spare parts lists, maintenance recommendations, and lifecycle service plans for customers and internal stakeholders.
• Built strong customer relationships by providing responsive technical support, minimizing production downtime, and delivering high-quality field service solutions.

To carry out breakdown, scheduled, and preventive maintenance of designated machines. ● Operation and maintenance of 2-stroke and 4-stroke marine engines. ● The operation, inspection, and maintenance of fuel oil and lubricant oil separators. ● Responsible for inspecting and maintaining the performance of heat exchangers. ● To read engineering drawings and perform maintenance work on centrifugal pumps, gear pumps & other auxiliary machines. ● Operation and routine maintenance of boilers and other pressure vessels. ● Check the function of the fire extinguishing system and auxiliary equipment. ● To carry out the fuel oil and lubricant oil purification by centrifuge. ● Experienced in conducting sea trials as part of the classification society, flag state, and other intermediary companies' vessel audits to evaluate the functioning of the ship's main engine and generators following extensive overhauling. ● To perform piping routing and transfer of internal and external fuel oil and lubricants. ● To check the operation of valves (isolation valves, gate valves, check valves, etc.). ● For continuous operation and maintenance of HVAC and refrigeration systems. ● Responsible for bunker operation (fuel and lubricating oil) on board. ● Preparation of documents for inspection by various flag states, port authorities, Coast Guard, and classification societies. ● Periodic inspection and maintenance of auxiliary machinery (air compressors, incinerators, freshwater generators, sewage treatment plants, freshwater generators). ● Carried out routine maintenance on heavy-duty electrical motors.

To carry out breakdown, scheduled, and preventive maintenance of designated machines. ● Operation and maintenance of 2-stroke and 4-stroke marine engines. ● The operation, inspection, and maintenance of fuel oil and lubricant oil separators. ● Responsible for inspecting and maintaining the performance of heat exchangers. ● To read engineering drawings and perform maintenance work on centrifugal pumps, gear pumps & other auxiliary machines. ● Operation and routine maintenance of boilers and other pressure vessels. ● Check the function of the fire extinguishing system and auxiliary equipment. ● To carry out the fuel oil and lubricant oil purification by centrifuge. ● Experienced in conducting sea trials as part of the classification society, flag state, and other intermediary companies' vessel audits to evaluate the functioning of the ship's main engine and generators following extensive overhauling. ● To perform piping routing and transfer of internal and external fuel oil and lubricants. ● To check the operation of valves (isolation valves, gate valves, check valves, etc.). ● For continuous operation and maintenance of HVAC and refrigeration systems. ● Responsible for bunker operation (fuel and lubricating oil) on board. ● Preparation of documents for inspection by various flag states, port authorities, Coast Guard, and classification societies. ● Periodic inspection and maintenance of auxiliary machinery (air compressors, incinerators, freshwater generators, sewage treatment plants, freshwater generators). ● Carried out routine maintenance on heavy-duty electrical motors.

To perform piping routing and transfer of internal and external fuel oil and lubricants. ● To assist senior engineers during major overhauling of machinery. ● To prepare inventory, maintenance, and daily engine room reports for the company. ● To calculate daily fuel-oil and lube oil consumption of the main engine, auxiliary engine, & other machinery. ● Carry out general maintenance of critical valves in the engine room. ● Keep spare parts in stock and request new parts accordingly. ● To assist 4th engineer for bunker operation (fuel and lubricating oil) on board. ● Preparation of documents for inspection by various flag states, port authorities, Coast Guard, and classification societies.