Omkar Palit is a project manager with over 5 years of experience managing projects in the oil and gas, infrastructure, and power industries. He is currently a senior project engineer at Indian Oil Corporation, where he is responsible for developing project baselines, monitoring project execution, and ensuring projects are completed safely, on schedule, and within budget. Palit holds a post-graduation in project management and is a certified PMP professional.

1. OMKAR PALIT
E-mail: omkarpalit@gmail.com
Contact: 7894405542
Address: 1214-B Refinery Township, Paradip – 754141, Orissa
EPC Consultant / Project Manager
A high-energy professional with experience in executing prestigious projects of large magnitude within strict
time schedule, cost & quality
Industry Preference: Oil and Gas / Infrastructure / Power
Location Preference: Bangalore / Hyderabad / Mumbai / NCR
PROFILE SNAPSHOT
 PMP Certified professional offering over 5 years of rich work experience in Project Management
 Presently associated with Indian Oil Corporation Ltd., Paradip as Senior Project Engineer
 Expertise in managing project activities for multiple projects across all project phases including initiation, planning,
execution, monitoring, control and closure
 Proficient in communicating with project teams as necessary to ensure project deliverables are on schedule and within cost
parameters
 An enterprising & multi-functional leader with excellent analytical, troubleshooting and interpersonal skills
CORE COMPETENCIES
Project Initiation Project Planning & Execution Project Monitoring
Civil Engineering Risk Analysis Project Closure
Reporting & Documentation Safety Management Disaster Management
ORGANISATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Since Aug’10 with Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.
Growth Path / Deputations:
Sep’10 – Apr’11 Training Refinery Maintenance & Projects, Barauni Refinery
May’11 – April’14 Project Engineer, Paradip Refinery Project (Project worth: INR 350 Billion)
May’14 – Present Senior Project Engineer, Paradip Refinery Project
Key Result Areas:
 Developing project baselines & business case and getting preliminary approval for lining up of new contract; analyzing
requirements of a new project with respect to cost, time over-runs and quality compliance to ensure satisfactory
execution of projects while focusing on safety as per standard safety procedures & standards at project site
 Identifying new civil/structural jobs with the available organizational process assets and establishing the special
conditions as per requirement of the job
 Job execution as per laid down specifications and handing over of accepted deliverables
 Ensuring proper documentation of project documents
 Monitoring and control of works, administering change control and getting necessary approvals for amendment in
contract
 Steering the technical & commercial evaluation and analysis of time extension claimed by contractor as per agreed
contract, financial closure, procurement documentation & contract closure
 Dealing with vendors and negotiating & evaluating the billing schedule;
 Examining the daily progress through variance analysis & trend analysis as per approved scope, cost and schedule
baseline; conducting risk identification & analysis during the course of the project; forecasting expected progress in
weekly/monthly progress review with stakeholders
 Generating daily & weekly progress reports and communicating the same to the concerned departments and personnel
 Analysing the change requests and their technical & commercial effects on the contract as per the project; getting changes
approved as per change management plan regarding change of scope and amendment to the contract value from
respective competent authority
 Conducting tests on incoming material as per approved Quality Assurance Plan
 Ensuring site safety as per project safety guidelines

2. Highlights:
 Executed the following contracts in the Fluidic Catalytic Cracking and Propylene Recovery Units (both EPCM Projects)
Paradip Refinery Project:
o 1 Piling Contract worth INR 470 Million
o 1 Civil and Structural Contract worth INR 2720 Million
o Civil, Structural and Insulation works worth INR 1460 Million of an LSTK contract
o 1 Structural contract worth INR 396 Million
o 1 Miscellaneous civil contract worth INR 80 Million for assistance in commissioning
o 1 Insulation contract worth INR 75 Million
 Conducted a study on Prefabrication & Modularization of Structural / Concrete Structures and implemented the same
which resulted in the savings of cost & time by 30%
 Merit of being rated as outstanding in last 3 consecutive performance appraisals for overall management of projects
 As a client, coordinated with Project Management Consultants M/s Foster Wheeler and M/s Toyo Engineering India Ltd.
and contractors like L&T, NCCL, Punj Lloyd, Bridge and Roof etc to ensure engineering, supplies, construction &
commissioning activities within scheduled time & cost parameters
 Contributed towards estimations of total value of Refractory works during normal Refinery operations
 Achieved cost savings of approximately INR 20.5 Million through the execution of sourcing, negotiation with insulation
vendor and value optimization projects
 Working on Arbitration Case with Piling Contractor against Claims of INR 405 Million
 Implemented Safety measures for disaster management during cyclone ‘Phailin’ in Odisha in October 2013. Post cyclone,
worked for restoration of site to normalcy.
 Worked on successful commissioning of Fluidic Catalytic Cracking Unit and Propylene Recovery Unit of Paradip Refinery
Project.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
 Gained knowledge of:
o Refractory Works inside Equipment & Piping Systems
o Mechanical Completion and Hydro-testing of Piping Systems
o Flushing & Box-up of Piping Systems for Process Unit Start-up & Commissioning
CERTIFICATION
 PMP (Project Management Professional) certified from Project Management Institute, USA in 2015
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION
 Member of Project Management Institute, USA
EDUCATION
 Post Graduation in Project Management from School of Distance Education, National Institute of Construction
Management and Research, Pune in 2011 with 61%
 B.Tech. (Civil Engineering) from National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Karnataka in 2010 with CGPA of 8.5
ACADEMIC PROJECT
Project Title: Prefabrication & Modularization in Construction Industry
Organisation: National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Karnataka
Duration: 6 months
Description: Conducted a comparative study on similar jobs with & without using prefabrication technique
which concluded that there was a saving of 30% in both time & cost of the same job.
IT SKILLS
 MS Office and Primavera (Project Management Software)
PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of Birth: 10th July, 1988
Languages Known: English, Hindi, Bengali and Oriya