Rakesh Vavilipalli

Experience

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  SRI KRISHNA ENGINEERING WORKS - India

  Aug 2020 - Jun 2022

  • Significant experience in planning, design, fabrication, and maintenance of piping equipment (including valves and structural supports) and heat exchanger, and knockout pots.• Prepared and analyzed reports detailing project finance, bill of materials, inspection reports, piping history, excel sheets, P&ID, and isometric drawings for processing project bills.• Procured and effectively managed purchase orders for machine parts worth $0.5 million by analyzing multiple factors.• Created robust audit system for Kanban ensuring project success and reduced audit findings by 50%; executed daily audits, implemented actions against finding mitigating future challenges• Actively engaged in plant continuous improvement initiatives by providing analytics support to Kaizen Teams, 5S Teams, and Chief Manager Projects. Lead projects by implementing occupational health & safety protocols and conducted job safety and job hazardous analysis for critical jobs.• Agile in managing piping projects from inception through to commissioning and handled turn around activities; delivered $2.2 Mn worth jobs in CDU-1 within a month.• Improved efficiency for TIG and Arc welding processes for piping and structural with CS, SS, and alloy steel.• Fabricated and commissioned various hydrocarbon pipelines, utility lines and piping’s for cooling tower & effluent treatment plant. Also designed and commissioned fire sprinkler systems, and fire protection water lines.Analyzed Engineering drawings, designed instrumentation mechanical BOMs and material data sheets to identify the cost of driving factors, and performed cost/benefit analysis to determine alternate material strategy.• Identified potential reasons affecting the availability of parts and developed a model that could predict their future availability with an accuracy of ± 4%. Show less

  • Project Engineer

    Jul 2021 - Jun 2022

  • Mechanical Engineering Intern

    Aug 2020 - Jun 2021
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  Linamar Corporation

  Jun 2023 - Feb 2025

  • Process Engineer

    May 2024 - Feb 2025

  • Production Engineering Intern

    Jan 2024 - May 2024

  • Manufacturing Engineering Intern

    Aug 2023 - Dec 2023

  • Engineering Intern

    Jun 2023 - Aug 2023