Kunnath Vijayakumaran

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Kunnath P Vijayakumaran
8215 Ginger Park drive ,Baytown – Texas-77521.PH:281-515-5702 / 228-249-2160
(vijayvdev@yahoo.com)
OBJECTIVE
To obtain a position as QA/QC at the project site of an Engineering and Construction Company servicing the power plant, refinery or petrochemical industry Gas Plant etc…
EDUCATION
• High School (12th Grade) (Higher Secondary School ,Kerala,India)
• Welding Technology (Real Educators Pascagoula Mississippi.)
NCCER PLUS in Pipe Fabrication.
. Diploma in computer office automation
CERTIFICATIONS
• API 510/ 570 AND A.W.S./ CWI 13110141 . ASNT LEVEL II IN RT,
UT,MPT AND PT. Knowledge in PMI,FT,HT , PWHT and RT Film Interpretation.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

With more than 20 years of experience in Pipe fabrication and fitting, 20 years in installation, inspecting and construction of piping, mechanical equipment and structural steel in power plant, refining and petrochemical industry,. Understand and familiar with major National Standard Codes (ASME,ASTM, ASNT, API, AWS etc.)

Dec. 2014 : Foster Wheeler.
Jan 2016 : QA/QC LEAD INSPECTOR.

To direct and manage all personnel under the QC department, as well as outsourced QA/QC inspections and NDE Companies for work performed for HP Piping Solutions LLC. To be accountable for the successful functioning of the QA/QC Dept. in the company including, but not limited to: all work conforming ASME BPVC Section VIII- Div.1, NBIC, ASME B31.3 and ASME Section IX. To move the company to be in compliance with the development and implementation Certification while maintaining current ASME and ISO 9001:2008 certifications. Act as a focal point of contact, liaison proactively with company clients, suppliers, regulatory bodies, and third party certification authorities. Ensure effective measurement of quality performance, implementing audits, non-compliance investigations, and analysis of corrective action learning processes. Assist in maintaining a thorough and transparent document control system, ensuring that all documents in circulation internally and externally are current, traceable and distributed appropriately. Constantly acting as a catalyst in quality performance, building excellent working relationships with other internal departments.

Mar 2014 : TURNER INDUSTRIES DEER PARK SHELL REFINERY
Dec. 2014 : QA/QC LEAD INSPECTOR.

Follow assigned job packages to ensure the traceability of all welds and materials associated piping and vessels per ASME B31.3 and ASME BPVC Section VIII- Div.1.
Schedule, monitor and review all stages of inspection activities of the NDE Company as required for each stage of the project. Visually inspect flange makeups to ensure proper alignment, gaskets, and bolts. Witness hydro testing of piping systems and communicate with Shell PEI of project status.

Jan 2014 : AUSTIN INDL. At MARATHON REFENIRY Texas City Texas
Mar 2014 : LEAD QUALITY INSPECTOR.
• Plan and schedule unit inspections, make repair recommendations and supervise
• Contractors.
Provide technical support to the refinery through the inspection of fixed equipment a piping to ensure overall mechanical integrity, refinery safety and reliability.
• Gather equipment data and information in the field; perform visual inspections and non-
• destructive testing, recording data and information to assure equipment histories are current.
• Analyze inspection findings, develop recommendations, and prepare inspection reports
and perform basic calculations using corrosion data to determine inspection schedules
and equipment/piping remaining life
• Work with Mechanical Engineers to implement necessary equipment repairs and upgrades
providing inspection histories and data
Assist maintenance with routine inspection activities such as witnessing hydro tests,
scheduling NDE, support unit outages
• Assist and participate in RBI analysis and developing the inspection plans/frequencies for static.
• equipments, piping and pipelines replacement/re-rating requirements
• Supervision and coordination of all on-stream and shutdown inspection/NDT activities of plant
equipments and piping
• Carrying out in-service inspection of pressure vessels, heat exchangers, fin fan coolers, fired heaters, process piping systems, Pipelines and tanks to assure the mechanical integrity.
Identify suspected areas of corrosion under insulation inspection on piping, identify and marked areas
for NDT inspection
• Performed Dummy legs surveys
• External and Internal inspections of refinery equipments and piping to ensure vessel integrity

Feb :2013 KBR Elite Project at EXXOM MOBILE Baytown Texas
Jan: 2014 Working as a NDT CO-Ordinator and Quality Inspector.

• Perform quality Inspection, Quality Surveillances and Generate Inspection reports, NDE requests and document the results .Monitoring & follow up of Quality documents as per ISO standards
• Monitoring for all welding activities, including Checking weld joints Preparation ,fitup Alignment &Dimensional Inspection as per Drawings ,visually inspections.
• Verify bolting material, bolt tensions for all structural steel Boltings as required per project
specifications and ASTM
• Witness of Welder Qualification Test ,Review of Approved WPS and PQR, Monitoring PWHT, Hardness checking . Witnessing MPT,DPT,UT and PMI
• Review and evaluate NDE reports .Witnessing Hydro Test and Pneumatic Testing
• Generating weld maps, .Updating weld map, weld count and weld tracking document as required per Company manual .
• Familiar with welding process as GTAW,SMAW,FCAW and SAW, Compiling WPS WPQR and WQR and Witnessing Welder Qualification Tests
• Maintain and update all the Quality related documents daily basis on hard copy and electronically.
• Prepare weekly report and submit to QC Manager for the weekly meeting.

Feb 2010 : TUR NER GROUP LLC AT AIR PRODUCTS / VALERO REFINERY
Feb:2013 : PORT ARTHUR TEXAS AS A Q C INSPECTOR
. To direct and manage all personnel under the QC department, as well as outsourced QA/QC inspections and NDE Companies for work performed for HP Piping Solutions LLC.
• Plan and schedule unit inspections, make repair recommendations and supervise
• Contractors
• Provide technical support to the refinery through the inspection of fixed equipment and
• piping to ensure overall mechanical integrity, refinery safety and reliability
• Gather equipment data and information in the field; perform visual inspections and non-
• destructive testing, recording data and information to assure equipment histories are current.
• Analyze inspection findings, develop recommendations, and prepare inspection reports
and perform basic calculations using corrosion data to determine inspection schedules
and equipment/piping remaining life
• Work with Mechanical Engineers to implement necessary equipment repairs and upgrades
providing inspection histories and data
Assist maintenance with routine inspection activities such as witnessing hydro tests,
scheduling NDE, support unit outages
• equipments, piping and pipelines replacement/re-rating requirements
• Supervision and coordination of all on-stream and shutdown inspection/NDT activities of plant
equipments and piping
• Carrying out in-service inspection of pressure vessels, heat exchangers, fin fan coolers, fired heaters, process piping systems, Pipelines and tanks to assure the mechanical integrity.

• Identify suspected areas of corrosion under insulation inspection on piping, identify and marked
areas for NDT inspection
• Performed Dummy legs surveys
• External and Internal inspections of refinery equipments and piping to ensure vessel integrity

Oct 2008 : JV INDUSTRIAL PIPING.
Jan 2010 : QA/QC TECHNICIAN

Ensure that welders are knowledgeable and qualified in all approved welding procedures. Update Welder Continuity Logs to ensure welders maintain qualifications per DOYLES weld procedures. Coordinate the writing and qualification of weld procedures per ASME Section XIII, IX and API 1104. Directed welding required for Procedure and welder qualifications including NDE. Inspect production welds to ensure that all welding was code compliant and adhered to all engineering requirements. Interview and perform weld tests for welder candidates as required by ASME Section IX and API 1104. Diagnose and or coordinate the repair of welding equipment. Assist in welding as required to meet production schedule.

Feb 2000 Lahoud Engineering Company Dubai UAE.
Nov 2006 . QC Inspector & NDT CO-Ordinator.

Verifying all procedures are approved and in compliance with project requirements prior to the start of the project. Ensure the traceability of all welds and materials of each project that range from ASME Sec. VIII Div. 1, Sec. IX, AWS D1.1 and D1.5 structural steel fabrication and installation, and pipe fabrication and installation according to B31.3 and B31.1. Monitor and report on all stages of inspection activities and NDE as required. Assist in the verification of welder continuity and documentation thereof.

Mar 1996 Kharafi National , EQUATE with Foster Wheeler at KUWAIT.
Jun 2000 Start as a Pipe Fabricator

From 1997 to 2000 as a QC INSPECTOR.

• Maintain QA/QC files Quality records
• Monitoring welding activities as per WPS
• Monitoring of consumables Storage, Handling and drying temperature as per project approved procedure
• Visual Inspection of welded joints profile ,surface finish and defects

• Preparation of joints for NDE as per required inspection class ,offering of joints and organizing the NDE team
• Visual inspection of completed welds in the pipe spools and heavy structural steel and related documentation
• Monitoring PWHT, witnessing ,MPT,DPT , PMI and hardness testing
• Coordinated and communicated with fabrication supervisor ,fitters and welders
• Coordinate with 3rd party surveyor Inspector, client inspector representatives

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