Tahir Saleem provides his contact information and summarizes his 12 years of experience in maintenance management, industrial automation, project management, and problem solving. He lists his expertise areas and outlines his professional experience managing maintenance as Deputy Manager at Al-Tuwairqi Group and his previous roles as Electronics Engineer and Maintenance Engineer. Tahir Saleem also includes his education background and references.

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TAHIR SALEEM
Cell #: +92-333-3758463
Email: tahir.saleem1981@gmail.com
Skype ID: tahir.saleem81
Address: House # 1-J-7/6, Al-Madina Quarters Nazimabad # 1 Karachi-Pakistan
Career Profile
A Competent Professional with 12 years of experience in Maintenance Management, Industrial
Automation and Control systems, Project management and leading, Established proficiency in
implementing creative solutions, problem resolution and management for new and existing systems.
Accomplished communicator with strong Leadership and Interpersonal Skills.
Expertise in Maintenance Management, Quality Assurance, Cost Reduction, Erection &
Commissioning, Man Power Management, Resource planning, Inventory Management, Maintenance
Management, System Integration, Superior ability to resolve complex and usual automation systems
problems.
Field of Expertise
Maintenance Operations:
Planning and implementing proactive / predictive / preventive / shut down maintenance
schedules for machinery so as to increase up-time / equipment reliability.
Proactively identifying areas of obstruction/breakdowns and taking steps to rectify the
equipments through application of trouble shooting techniques.
Preparing SOPs, Manuals & Work Instructions for operations for the unit and maintaining
reports for facilitating decision making by management.
Undertaking regular inspections to prevent accidents and adhere to safety norms.
Executing cost saving and energy saving techniques/ measures and modifications to achieve
substantial reduction in O&M expenditures and work within the budget
Project Engineering:
Steering the overall planning, scheduling and management of modernization & capacity
expansion projects, ensuring completion of assignments within time and budgetary parameters.
Planning for materials, developing vendors to obtain timely procurement of materials and
equipments to facilitate smooth production process.
Monitoring projects with respect to Cost, Resource Deployment, Time over-runs, Quality
Compliance and Manpower planning to ensure timely execution of projects.
Erection & Commissioning:
Executing automation erection and commissioning of Equipment followed by trial runs.
Identifying project bottlenecks and undertaking corrective measures.
Ensuring effective site management and discipline to ensure safe & timely execution.
Erection and commissioning of equipment, followed by plant trial runs meeting targeted
performance quality & quantity parameters and thereafter handing over of the plant.
Preparing layout plan for erection of machines.
Man Power Management:
Leading, mentoring & monitoring the performance of the team to ensure efficiency in process
operations & meeting of individual & group targets.
Ensuring that teams adhere to all the quality tool & procedures.
Resolving interpersonal issues & working towards a harmonious work environment.

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Professional Experience
Al-Tuwairqi Group
ATH employs the most advanced gas processing plant (equivalent to Fertilizer / Oil and Gas) of
MIDREX technologies USA to extract iron through a chemical process. The project has been
commissioned with cost of 350 million US Dollars.
From Oct, 2010 to Present:
Designation: Deputy Manager (E&I Maintenance)
I was involved in complete project commissioning till the start of production, Worked as Lead
Commissioning Engineer (E&I) and currently serving as Team Lead for Plant maintenance during
Production Phase. The annual maintenance volume is 1.6 million US Dollars.
Key Responsibilities:
Ensuring implementation of Safety, Health, Environment and quality standards in the department.
Ensuring the implementation of Annual maintenance Plan.
Daily, weekly and monthly progress reporting to Plant Manager.
Ensuring implementation of Quality Management System ISO 9001
Collaborate with other department leaders for maintenance, operations and troubleshooting
schedules.
Established communication between CCR (Honeywell DCS) and Power House (LOVATO Energy
Meter) to obtain power consumption of Plant, MCC (MICOM Relays) to obtain Motors current,
voltage and winding temperatures and Soft Starters to obtain relevant data of every individual
motors and pumps through Modbus/TCP, Modbus RTU (232 & 485), Profibus DP and Ethernet
protocols.
Working Experience on Bentley Nevada BN3500 for Machinery Protection System
Allen Bradley Control Logix 1756 PLC based control system for 6.5MW centrifugal compressor &
also for its anti-surge control.
Mass Spectrometer VG Prima of Thermo Electron used for multi stream gas analysis.
Servomex 2500 NDIR & 2210/2223 Paramagnetic O2 (Oxygen) Analyzers.
Material Handling Systems, Conveyors and Silos Control Systems.
Commissioning of AC & DC drives for various applications.
Proficiency in understanding of Electrical & Control Drawings.
Working Experience on 400V LV Motor control center including Intelligent MCC (Simocode Pro V
Siemens), Siemens 3RW44 Soft starter, variable speed drive, direct online starter.
Fundamental knowledge of circuit breakers (MCB, VCB, ACB).
11/6.6KV Switchgear having feeder protection P143 & P142, P922 and motor management 242,
243 relays including relay Parameterization/Programming.
FIKE SHP-PRO and GENT (Honeywell) Vigilon Compact Control based Fire protection & alarm
system.
Good Knowledge of Industrial standards such as AGA, NEMA, IEC, API and Hazardous Area
Classifications etc.
Manage and Optimize inventory for Spares and Consumables.
Development of SOPs and work instructions to ensure appropriate handling of equipment.
Coordination with Procurement Department for material procurement, development of purchase
requisitions and service contract.

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Afroze Textile Industries - From Jan 2008 to Sep 2010
Designation: Electronics Engineer
Responsibilities:
Design, control and monitoring of projects in erection and commissioning phase.
Assisting commissioning team of foreign vendor’s during installation of PLC controlled machines.
Coordination with foreign consultants and contractors for the design & drawings.
Execution and monitoring of automation projects.
Preventive maintenance of all machines to reduce the downtime.
Formulating medium and long term maintenance strategies to ensure sound reliability of unit.
Developing and implementing maintenance cost reducing methodologies.
Monitoring day to day operational expenses on utilities and maintenance.
Rauf Textile & Printing Mills (Pvt.) Ltd - From Sep 2004 to Dec 2007
Designation: Maintenance Engineer
Responsibilities
Troubleshooting and Maintenance of PLC based Textile machinery
Configuration of Chemical and Water Flow meters.
Calibration of Load cells, Compensators and Level Sensors.
Instruct the preparation of Maintenance Chart, Health and safety plan and nominate who will
responsible for this preparation.
As a team leader making good team to organize the whole Industrial work.
Worked with electrical persons as well as mechanical persons to manage whole work with myself.
Worked by hand with electricians for main power and control cabling and checked cabling with
electrical drawing and also checked by Benninger technician at the end of every day.
Provide the project progress report to Technical Director with information relevant to Installation.
Make decisions with the permission of our Technical Director and make weekly meeting with
Benninger Engineer and our Technical Director for better progress of Project.
Also give daily progress report to M/S Benninger and their local agents M/S Acmatex.
Professional Trainings
Certified Training of Operations and Maintenance of DRI Plant from Foreign Experts.
Certified Training of Fire Fighting and Fire Management.
Certified Training of People Management Skills.
Certified Training of Pedagogical Skills.
Academics
Qualification Year Institution Division / Grade
B.S. Electronics 2004
Sir Syed University of
Engineering & Technology
1st
Div.
H.S.C 1999 Govt. College for Men B Grade
S.S.C 1997 Sindh Public School A Grade
Personal Details
Date Of Birth: 17 Aug 1981
Martial Status: Married
CNIC Number: 42101-1539879-9
References: Will be furnished upon request.