AJAY VANIYA
Wentworthville,Australia
Summary
Australian PR holder with over 9 years of experience in thermal power plant operations and maintenance, focusing on boilers, turbines, generators, and rotating equipment. Expertise in preventive and predictive maintenance, safe work systems, and operational excellence in large-scale industrial settings. Demonstrated ability to enhance plant uptime, improve energy efficiency, and maintain zero-accident operations through effective procedures and team collaboration. Skilled in stakeholder management, leading shift operations, and executing mechanical and operational projects to ensure reliable and cost-efficient plant performance.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Manager - Mechanical Operations Engineer
Nayara Energy Limited
, India
04.2018 - Current
- Operated and commissioned PF boilers (2069 tph 750×2 tph), 600 MW steam turbines, and 110 MW×2 gas turbines in captive power generation environments.
- Designed standard operating and safety procedures, enhancing compliance across plant equipment.
- Led daily operations of captive thermal power plant, ensuring safe and reliable energy generation.
- Executed plant start-ups, shutdowns, load changes, and emergency responses per established protocols.
- Monitored performance parameters to optimize thermal efficiency and minimize heat rate losses.
- Implemented energy optimization initiatives that reduced auxiliary power consumption significantly.
- Planned and coordinated both planned and unplanned outages, ensuring compliance with safety regulations.
- Conducted root cause analysis on equipment failures, implementing corrective actions to boost reliability.
Mechanical Engineer - Field Operations
KSK Mahanadi Power Company
, India
09.2015 - 05.2018
- Monitored and controlled major power plant systems—boilers, turbines, generators, feedwater systems, condensers, cooling systems, burners, fuel handling, and auxiliary equipment—through control room operations and routine field inspections, ensuring consistent operational reliability.
- Execute safe and efficient start‑ups, shutdowns, load changes, and plant synchronisation in alignment with grid requirements and dispatch instructions.
- Maintain all process parameters within design and regulatory limits, ensuring optimal performance across temperatures, pressures, flow rates, steam conditions, vibrations, and emissions.
- Ensured strict adherence to SOPs, shift‑handover protocols, and logbook accuracy, maintaining operational discipline and compliance within regulatory standards.
- Led and coordinated plant improvement and maintenance projects, managing timelines and resources to ensure safe execution and timely delivery with minimal disruption to operations.
Education
Master of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering -Energy And Power
NPTI
New Delhi, India01.2015
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
Babaria Institute of Technology
Gujarat, India01.2013
Skills
- Power plant operations and maintenance
- Thermal and gas generation
- Boiler, steam turbine, and generator systems
- Balance of plant systems
- Preventive and predictive maintenance
- Plant commissioning and shutdown procedures
- Utilities and energy systems
- Process optimization and efficiency
- Root cause analysis and troubleshooting
- Control room operations and SCADA/DCS monitoring
- Work health and safety compliance
- Permit to work and lockout/tagout procedures
- Risk assessment and hazard identification
- CMMS maintenance planning exposure
- Team leadership and shift supervision
- Continuous improvement and cost optimization
Certification
1. Thermal Power Plant Simulator Training – 300 MW
Reliance Power, Rosa Thermal Power Plant, Shahjahanpur, India
2. Operations & Maintenance Training – 8 Weeks
Badarpur Thermal Power Station, Delhi, India
(Units: 2×210 MW and 2×95 MW)
3. Post Graduate Diploma in Power Plant Engineering (PGDC) – Industrial Internship
KMPCL (6×600 MW), Chhattisgarh, India.
Reliance Power, Rosa Thermal Power Plant, Shahjahanpur, India
2. Operations & Maintenance Training – 8 Weeks
Badarpur Thermal Power Station, Delhi, India
(Units: 2×210 MW and 2×95 MW)
3. Post Graduate Diploma in Power Plant Engineering (PGDC) – Industrial Internship
KMPCL (6×600 MW), Chhattisgarh, India.
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Manager - Mechanical Operations Engineer
Nayara Energy Limited
04.2018 - Current
Mechanical Engineer - Field Operations
KSK Mahanadi Power Company
09.2015 - 05.2018
Master of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering -Energy And Power
NPTI
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
Babaria Institute of Technology