Vinay Kumar Mithal has over 36 years of experience in materials management, project management, and engineering. He is currently the Managing Partner of Atharva Partners LLC. Previously, he spent 32 years at Indian Oil Corporation Ltd, most recently as the Executive Director responsible for the $6 billion construction of a 15 MMTPA oil refinery in Eastern India. He has extensive experience in procurement, contracts management, project planning and controls, and logistics.

1. VINAY KUMAR MITHAL
Current Managing Partner
Atharva Partners LLC
Last Executive Director
Indian Oil Corporation Ltd., Refineries Headquarter, N Delhi
Education B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from GB Pant University of
Agriculture & Technology in 1977
Life is a wonderful journey. It takes us to different places, gives opportunity to work and interact with
different people of different nationality, religion having different culture, tradition and way of life. While doing
so, we also try to achieve our goals/targets/objectives for self satisfaction and fulfillment.
After having worked with few organizations of repute, I am currently associated as Managing Partner with
Atharva Partners LLC, a company dealing in earth moving machinery and equipments on rental basis.
www.atharvapartners.com
Having more than 36 years of overall working experience (nearly 32+ years in Indianoil Corporation Ltd), a
leading Fortune 500 company of India. Major area of work experience includes, Project Management,
Materials Management, Contracts Management, Project Planning & Control, Production Planning & Control,
Logistics, Freight Forwarding, Liaison functions etc. Spearheaded as Executive Director and managed
Engineering, Procurement, Contracts etc of US $ 6 Billion grass root Refinery of 15 MMTPA capacity on
Eastern Coast of India, largest ever project of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.
Played important role in addressing operational issues, resolving performance bottlenecks with expertise in
devising policies for improving project performance & achieving desired objectives & organizational growth.
Relentless efforts made to overcome obstacles, break paradigms & accomplish strategic initiatives. Ensured
nothing stood in the way of achieving corporate objectives of safe & timely construction and commissioning of
project.
Involved in devising measures for developing effective procurement & contracting strategies and policies to
achieve optimum cost of goods and streamlining existing logistics operations. Utilized latest techniques and
methods in tendering works contracts, service contracts & purchase orders with understanding of Industrial
Standards, ISO Procedures and Quality Management Techniques.
Established credibility in spearheading overall management initiatives, executing development operations
end to end right with key focus on bottom line profitability by ensuring optimal utilization of resources within
the set parameters and operational analysis. My core competencies lie in establishing & maintaining strong
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SUMMARY

2. working partnerships with key stake holders like top management, ministry officials, regulatory agencies,
vendors, consultants, contractors, engineers etc. for removing hindrances if any encountered for timely
completion of project and other assignments. Having expertise in determining appropriate end-to-end
processes and tools needed to achieve development, delivery, reliability and availability goals. Demonstrated
as a prolific leader with advanced negotiating skills, people impact sensitivity, equipped with outstanding
communication and motivational abilities to facilitate attainment of strategic goals and bottom line objectives
of the organization.
Willing to associate myself with non-profit organizations engaged in social, environmental and welfare
activities for the betterment of mankind
Strongly believe in hard work, honesty and sincerity in profession and personal life. I consider myself
fortunate to get the opportunity to work with world class organizations and wonderful people from whom I
have learnt a lot throughout my career. My sincere thanks and best wishes to all of them. Write to me @
vinaymithal@yahoo.com
INDIAN OIL CORPORATION LTD., REFINERIES HEADQUARTER
Executive Director (Projects) (Jun 81 to Sep 2013)
Career Path
@Delhi
Executive Director (Projects) (Feb.2012-Sep 2013)
General Manger ( Ptojects ) (Mar 2008- Feb 2012)
@ Mumbai
Dy General Manager (Mar 2004- Mar 2008)
Chief Resident Manager (Apr’1999-Mar 2004)
Sr. Manager (Jul1998- Apr 1999)
@ HQ, New Delhi
Sr Materials Manager (Feb1995- Jul 1998)
Materials Manager (Apr 1992- Feb 1995)
Dy. Materials Manager (Jun 1988- Apr 1992)
@ Halida
Senior Materials Officer (Apr’84-Jun’88)
@ Mathura
Materials Officer (Jun’81-Apr’84)
Last assignment with IOCL was construction and commissioning of 15 MMTPA capacity Oil Refinery at
Eastern Coast of India. A US$ 6 Billion project, largest ever by Indian Oil. Responsible for Design, Engineering,
Procurement, Contracts, Planning & Monitoring of the refinery project. Remained actively involved with the
consultants for procurement, engineering & design activities including FEED corrections necessitated due to
change in refinery configuration, 3D model reviews etc. for finalisation of design parameters. Also remained
actively associated in the process of devising tenders and award of BOO contaract for Hydrozen unit, BOOT
contracts for water line coming for a distance of 100 KM form Mahanadi in Odisha and tankages for storage
and distribution of intermediate and finished products. The BOO and BOOT contracts are pioneering in any
EXPERIENCE

3. grass root refinery in India. Coordinated with consultants, engineers at Hq and at site and also with the
Managing PMC Foster Wheeler UK for all day to day engineering, procurement and construction related
activities for minimising the delays by finding alternatives and for overall progress of the project. Coordinated
6-Sigma activities as a pillar for bringing wold standards at work place.
Extensive analysis of information on critical and high value purchase requisitions for project requirements
was also carried out routinely in order to ensure that the material/equipments comply with the organization's
standards viz. purchase form vendors of repute having proper PTR, items conforming to highest quality
standard and at reasonable price. As regards operational items for meeting the production requirements,
always ensured adequate availability so that no sock-out situation arose leading to production
hindrances/stoppages or items remaining un-utilized/under-utilized due to improper procurement or
otherwise under any circustances. Conducted routine inspection & stock audits to ensure reconciliation of
physical stock in store for proper stacking, preservation and issue to the user when required. Segregation of
faulty/damaged items, identification of non-moving and surplus items arising due to
redundancy/obsolecence, declare the same as surplus/scrap as per policy and disposal of the same was also
an exercise which used to be carried out routinely for proper upkeep and maintenamce of stores facilities.
Assessd cost and pricing data of critical and high vale items from vendors and performed contract audits as
and when required. Through scientific inventory management techniques including standardization, variety
reduction, value analysis & vendors evaluation & rating, ensured maintaining appropriate inventory of right
quality & price, so that it fully met the operational requirement of the corporation and that inventory of
stores and spares neither overflowed nor did fall below the required level at any point of time.
Studied the then existing manual/semi automated Materials Management System and operational Manual
related to procedure and policies involving procurement, expediting, inventory control, storage, preservation,
distribution systems & techniques. Actively involved in the excercise for devising new policies, systems and
procedures for efficient and computerised fully on-line management system at organisational level. It involved
designing structure for common codification of stores and spares, development of integarted uniform system
necessary for implementation of SAP based system in the organisation for on-line operation of all business
activities. Further improvements in procurement cost, quality, timely availability and accountabilty were
brought through adopting efficient procurement strategies and methods that included negotations, extensive
followup/expediting, cancellation of orders wherever required due to delays/non performance of vendor,
retendering, reordering, providing tecninical & finincial support to the ailing vendors wherever required to
quickly bridge the gaps for meeting the targeted project schedules.
Spearheaded the entire gamut of activities related to materials planning, ordering, logistics, freight
forwarding, Insurance, warehousing both conventional and custom bonded, storing, preserving, issuing to the
users, inventory control, surplus identification & disposal etc. Lining up of CHA’s, Freight Forwarders,
Transporters, Insurance agencies, Custom clearance of imported operational & project cargo, forwarding to
respective refinery/pipeline/project locations etc were also some of the activites performed. Faster,
economical and efficient Ocean & Air freight movement of imports and timely despatch to respective locations
was ensured by lining up world renownend freight forwarders and liners such as Panalpina, Khune Nagel,
OPT, Schenkers, Balmer & Lawrie, SCI etc through coordination with Transchart (Chartering wing of Ministry
of Shipping). Warehouse to warehouse delivery concept was also brought in some of the areas as required
form time to time.
Lining up of charter vessels and barges for movement of ODC consignments and bulk chemicals was also done
form time to time for refinery project and other operational requirements of Indianoil refineries and
Pipelines. Hiring/lining up of Shore tanks & tankers was done whenever required for providing ullage and
transportation of bulk liquid chemicals form port to the refinery locations. Whenever and wherever regular
jetties/roads/other infrastructure were not available due to national security reasons or other local issues,
alternate temoprary jetties/roads etc were made for movement of important ODC consingements safely and
timely to the required locations/destinations.
Forest clearances and ministry approvals wrere coordinated and expedited through MoE&F, MoPNG and
other relevant ministries/departments/cells to speed up the projects by cutting down the delays.

4. Worked as Engineer-in-Charge for drum plants (anciliary unit of the company) responsible for sourcing
imported/indigenous CR Coils, distribution to the drum fabricators and ensuring manufacturing quality
bitumen drums as per IS specifications for filling and suppply of bitumen from refinery to Marketing
locations/customers. Handled all quality related issues of CR Coils with the manufacturers and ensured supply
of proper quantiy of drums as per decided yield from each category/quality of steel. Proper accounting of
drums /re-conciliation of steel supplied to the fabricator as free isssue material was also a part of the assigned
job as Engineer-in-Charge of drum plant. Changes/modifications in drum IS specifications as required from
time to time due to available quality of drum steel was also coordinated and expedited through relevant
departments/authorities to ensure un-interrupted supply of drums to the bitumen filling area/units.
Facilitating project registration with Customs/ providing essentiality certificates through ministry/ obtaining
EPCG Licenses for project execution/ project closure & reconciliation with Customs/availing duty draw
back/establising LC’s for imports by refinery units / lining up of freigt forwarders, CHA’s and transporters etc
were also some of the activities handled at Mumbai port office of the corporation as liaisoning functions.
Worked as Production Planning & Control engineer and as a Stores Officer in the beginning of my carrer in
Calcutta with a renowned company engaged in manufacturing textile machinery, engineering goods like sugar
plant machinery, rolling stock, hydraulic structurs of dams, road rollers, job order steel and CI foundary etc.
Texmaco Ltd of Birla group was a pioneering engineering company in eatstern region. The job involved was to
ensure proper machine laoding for manufacturing of machine parts of required quality standards, out
sourcing critical parts for meeting the tarrgetted production & supply schedule of the organization. Also
worked as Stores Officer responsible for receipts, storage and distribution of stores & spare, inventory
control, planning/scheduling and providing logistics support for movement of materials.
Planned, implemented and rationalized processes to minimize direct and indirect costs of the organizations
viz. material cost, labor cost, transportation cost, wastage/surplus/redundancy cost, inventory carrying cost,
purchasing cost and indirect expenses & overheads without compromising on the quality and availability of
materials
TEXMACO LIMITED, Calcutta
Production Planning Engineer/Stores Officer (Dec’77-Jun’81)
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Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering 1977
G B Pant university of Agriculture and Technology
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