1. NIKET SONI
MIG 15/B, Sharda Vihar, Korba (Chhattisgarh)
Phone: +91-9981140144, +91-7759249114; Email:toniketsoni@gmail.com
MECHANICAL ENGINEER AND PLANNER
Seeking assignments across the Maintenance & Trouble shooting, Project Management, Erection,
Commissioning, Planning with a growth oriented organization of repute
PROFILE
 Accomplished professional with experience of over 11 years in overall management of maintenance
operations determined to carve a niche in the field of maintenance, presently spearheading with
Bharat Aluminium Company (Vedanta group, UK) as Associate Manager
 Possess experience of successfully executing the erection & commissioning of wire rod mills.
 Core competence in application of preventive, planned & predictive maintenance practices
ensuring maximum operational availability with expertise in ensuring adherence to Safety,
Environment and Health standards
 Proven track record of making significant contributions by deploying and setting systems, at the same
time bringing about considerable cost reductions, while ensuring efficiency and quality benchmarks
of operations
 Proficient in Coordinating Shop Floor Activities, Material Procurement, Compiling Production/
Inventory Reports, Facilitating Improvement and Developing Key Performance Indicators for Cost and
Quality Projections
 Through strong logical reasoning, linked field failures to plant process inadequacies by simulating
product & process analysis and FMEA – Design / FMECA (Failure Mode Effect and Criticality
Analysis).
 Responsible for WTW (waste to wealth) activities at plant level
 Driving cost reduction projects (project LeaP-RTS).
 Responsible for maintaining Maintenance related documents for ISO
 Looking into the material procurement ,controlling the inventory, processing various service bills,
material follow-up from commercial , budget monitoring, vendor development & business plan
creation.
Working in SAP ,doing the PM scheduling, BOM & PR creation & MRP.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
BHARAT ALUMINIUM COMPANY (VEDANTA GROUP, UK)
Since Jan 2006
Associate Manager E-3 in 2011
Associate Manager E-2 in 2008
Assistant Manager in 2006
Graduate Engineer Trainee in 2006
Annual Performance Grading and remunerations By Employer :
Year 2008-2009: Very Good
Year 2009-2010: Very Good
Year 2010-2011: Excellent
Year 2011-2012: Very Good
Year 2012-2013: Very Good
Year 2013-2014: Very Good
Year 2014-2015: Excellent

2. Year 2015-2016: Very Good
 Instrumental in planning and execution of maintenance activity, Observing standard procedures for
maintenance; and considerably reduced down time
 Responsible for 5S and quality improvements and Studying of the drawings of machineries
 Meticulously managing and updating scheduled data for capacity optimization etc and supervising
entire functioning
 Formulating plan for inspection, shutdown jobs preparation & execution, breakdown analysis &
action plans and preparation of annual maintenance plans
 Proactively identifying areas of obstruction/breakdowns and taking corrective measures / steps to
rectify the equipments through application of trouble shooting tools.
 Managing maintenance activities of cast house consisting of fully automated conveyorised ingot
casting M/c’s EOT cranes, melting & holding furnaces & circulating water pumps, wire rod mill.
 Spare planning and management, preparing bill of materials and material master, VED analysis,
ensure availability of critical spares, developing local vendors for spares to minimize lead time, assist
and coordinate with material procurement department.
 Dealt in various contracts.
 Handling trouble shooting activities for trouble free operation of Furnaces, wire rod mill & Ingot
Casting Machines and job scheduling to maintain optimum availability of men and material
 Implementing detailed engineering activities, finalization of requirements and specifications.
 Preparation of technical specifications, drawings & scope and deliverables, estimates and based on
requirements generated during detailed engineering of the project.
 Tracking with the spares stores for the availability of the same and indenting new spares
 Collecting and collating data; generated periodic reports and carried out value added analysis of the
reports to monitor the movement of key indicators
 Ensuring compliance with statutory requirements & liaison with Government authorities for clearance
& licenses
 Adhering to Safety, Environment and Health standards in all functional areas and developed &
implemented measures for enhancing safety levels
 Supervising and monitoring the performance level of the multi-disciplinary, multinational
workforce for ensuring accomplishment of the target using tools as MS projects.
 Asset optimization, preparing score cards, identifying areas of improvements, prepare action plan
and execute the same to maximize the asset optimization
 Pursuing improvement projects, modifications to improve the productivity and equipment
availability, cost reduction, installation of new equipment (financial approval from management,
procurement, erection and commissioning) to fulfill and expand capacity and utilization.
Achievements
 Played a key role in successful commissioning of 2 Wire Rod Mill (Shekhawat Engineering, Jaipur).
 Played a key role in commissioning of world’s first wire rod mill of 15T/HR,PROPERZI,ITLAY
 Played a key role in commissioning of 80MT,electric furnace, tilting type(Mechathrem,UK)
 Adeptly managed maintenance of 3 no.s of Ingot Casting m/c’s of 25 t/hr capacity (Remetal ,
Spain), Heavy Furnace oil supply system 2x20 Kl Tank capacity along with loading & Pressure
boosting , wire rod mill, LPG Storage & Supply System and 3 WMI Cranes

3.  Dexterous in handling Mechanical maintenance of Cast House equipments.
 Accredited with awards for various achievements for reducing maintenance cost and improving
productivity named as “CEO KITTY” & “ACHIEVEMENT AWARD”
 Using Six Sigma methodology, reduced cracks in wire rod/ingots & improved quality to 75 % from
65%.
 Core team member for SAP implementation & MDRM merger with group companies.
 Working as a team member for getting ISO Certification for Company.
EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIALS
Pursuing MBA in Operations
Symbiosis Course of Distance Learning (SCDL), Pune
B.E Mechanical 2005
MPCCET, Bhilai, Ravishanker University
HSC 2001
M.G.M School, BALCO, Korba
SSC 1999
M.G.M School, BALCO, Korba
Computing Skills
MS-Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel),MS -Project
Trainings Attended
 Condition based monitoring
 Proactive Maintenance by SKF
 Bearing Reliability by FAG
 Structural Problem Solving
 5 S
 6 sigma
 Structure problem solving techniques
Date of Birth: 18th
Feb 1983
Passport no. :J2184027
References: Available on Request
CTC:14 LACS PA
Notice period :2 months (max.)