Vijay V. Bharati has over 34 years of experience in operations management, project management, manufacturing, and quality management. He has strong skills in areas like strategic planning, process improvement, HSE operations, and team building. He has worked in leadership roles for companies in India and the Middle East, managing factories, plants, and business operations. He aims to streamline operations, improve productivity, and achieve goals through analytical and organizational abilities.

1. Key Skills
Strategic Planning/ Business
Processes Improvement
Factory/ Plant Operations
Project Management
Erection & Commissioning
Sourcing/ Procurement & Vendor
Management
Quality Management
Profit Centre Operations& Business
Development
HSE Operations
Team Building & Leadership
Enterprising leader & planner with over 34 years of rich experience and a
strong record of contributions in streamlining operations, invigorating
businesses, heightening productivity, systems & procedures; targeting
assignments in Factory Operations/ Project Management in
Manufacturing sector
Location Preference: Western & Sothern - India/ Oman, Qatar - Gulf
Profile Summary
Hands-on experience in fabrication, welding, machining, assembly of
machine building equipment, automation and project management
Showcased excellent aptitude in procurement, planning, execution and
managing cost effective fabrication, erection & commissioning of material
handling system/ oil & gas projects
Excellence in deploying various methodologies to minimize escalations, enhance
productivity, reduce man days, low production cost, raw materials and energy
consumption, realize operational efficiencies, control variability & cost
Merit of visiting overseas for technology sharing
Skilled in developing and sustaining relationships with key clientele entailing
BHEL, AREVA, Ansaldo, FC-KCP, Alstom, Lentje’s and so on
Proven track record conceptualizing and effecting process initiatives to enhance
plant efficiency and productivity
Proficient in evaluating, selecting & implementing latest practices across the
plant and setting-up various new production plants & basic infrastructure
for manufacturing lines
An enterprising leader with strong communication, analytical &
organizational skills; possess track record to achieve corporate & personal
goals
Career Timeline(Recent 6)
Education
B.E. (Mech.) from B. V. B. College of Engg. & Tech., (affiliated to Karnataka
University) Hubli, Karnataka in 1982
VIJAY V. BHARATI
Head of Operations
vijay_bharati@hotmail.com
09677235495
Bharat Forge Ltd.,
Pune, India as
Manager
(Welding)
Al Hassan
Engineering
S.O.A.G. (EPC),
Muscat, Oman as
Head of SBU
Austrian Energy
& Environment,
Chennai, ISO
9001 Company as
Managing
Director
Sep’00-Apr’04 May’04 – Aug’07 Aug’07 - Dec’09
Ansaldo Caldaie
Boilers India Pvt.
Ltd., Tamil Nadu
as Chief
Operating Officer
Dec’09 - May’11
Danieli India
Limited, Sri City,
Andhra Pradesh
as Vice President
Manufacturing
Nov’14 till date
Velath
Engineering
International, UAE
as Head of
Operations
Jun’11 – Oct’14

2. Overseas Visits Merit of visiting overseas for technology sharing:
o HMIC, Gumi, South Korea: Study the online manufacturing of
marine dry freight container for improving the productivity and quality
o CDP – Bharat Forge Ltd., Daun & Ennepetal, Germany:For
Technology Transfer of Welding for Hot Forging Dies and maintenance
welding of press parts and automation
o HQ, Vienna, Austria: For review meetings and other European
countries for business development
Visited group companies in Italy, China, Thailand to understand the
systems and procedures to implement in Indian plant
Work Experience
Velath Engineering International, UAE as Head of Operations
Key Result Areas:
Leading activities related to:
o Production planning and ensuring utilization of all resources including
manpower, machinery & raw materials
o Regular production, troubleshooting & inventory control and
conceptualizing the strategies for accomplishment of production target
within specified time
o Maintenance of status for production volume; supervising the raw
material & component at regular time interval
o Guiding the Shop Floor Team to achieve the targeted production
o Achieving cost savings across assignments and minimizing performance
bottlenecks for achieving high productivity with optimization of men,
material and machine
Planning day-to-day strategies, budgets, infrastructure designing,
production schedules, along with resource allocation for optimum output
Executing strategic plans for the process
Minimizing bottlenecks for high productivity with effective utilization of
men, material & machine
Conducting root cause analysis of defects and developing & improving the
process by employing QC Tools to prevent any reoccurrence and defective
issue
Implementing cost saving techniques and modifications to achieve
substantial reduction in operations within budget
Managing business operations with focus on top-line & bottom-line
performance and ensuring adherence to quality and timely delivery
Developing long-term partnerships with local & outstation suppliers,
managing day-to-day supplies performance of vendors to ensure meeting
of service, cost, delivery and quality norms
Making effective use of cost analysis tools in support of strategic sourcing
process, procurement costs, cost reduction metrics and bottom line
performance indicators
Building and maintaining healthy business relations with clients, ensuring high
customer satisfaction matrices by achieving delivery & service quality norms
Key Projects:
At Factory:
Steered various projects entailing:
Trailer mounted Process Packages, ASME Pressure vessels, Heat
Exchangers, Skid Mounted Packages, Tanks, and Process equipment, Silos
and Heavy Structural fabrication
Key Clients: Shell, ExxonMobil, ZADCO (ADNOC), KNPC, Schlumberger,
Worley Parsons, Hyundai, Dragon Oil, Wood Group/TAQA and so on
At Construction site:
Prefabrication &erection of 21 nos. API650 Field Tank for Gulf Petrochem
FZC at Hamriyah Free Zone.
Construction of 16 nos. API 650 Field Erected Storage Tanks for Tata
Projects Limited at Hamriyah Free Zone approx. 1,900 MT.
Construction of 8 nos. API 650 Field Erected Storage tanks for Qatar Gas at
Nov’14 till date

3. Ras Laffan, Qatar, approx. 900 MT (Under Execution)
Highlights:
Evaluated methods for the Waste Water Recovery and Reduction plant
project as well as facilitated improvements in project work, these included
improved erection and installation procedure, automation in welding.
Initiated successful development and implementation of MIG welding
automation for cirseam and vertical joint welding mechanism as well as the
cost reduction in erection and welding by improving the productivity
activities related to field erection and welding of storage tanks systems
alongwith design selection & quality control activities
Recorded zero unsolved customer/ supplier related complaints defects, this
was mainly achieved through continual improvement programme and strict
quality checks across the production process including incoming material
measures
Played a key role in taking HSE initiatives such as Safety Audits, Analysis,
Operability Studies and Documentation of safety related information
Successfully executed plant expansion / modification / upgradation projects
such as automatic shot blasting and painting line, welding automation.
Steered the implementation of quality initiatives such as continual
improvement programme, forming quality circle with cross functional team,
reviewing customer feedback and complaint if any to arranging for
immediate implementation that instilled basic quality philosophies of doing
things right the first time, resulting in an 2.5% reduction in company
rework cost
Took initiatives for modifying the plant layout and right person for right job
to streamline/enhance processes
Conceptualized and executed a plan to rationalize the number of
contractors/ vendors/ suppliers from 18 to 12
Jun’11 – Oct’14 Danieli India Limited, Sri City, Andhra Pradesh as Vice President
Manufacturing
Role:
Managed the project of building modern manufacturing facility for steel
plant equipments with an investment of Rs. 600+ crores
Administered the project from the stage of land acquisition, statutory
approvals, plant layout, freezing the technical specs for machinery, getting
statutory approvals for construction and operation of facility.
o Overview of design and procurement of machinery
o Installation and commissioning of fabrication and machining related
machine entailing four roll plate bending, CNC oxyfuel/ plasma cutting,
pipes & tube bending, roll cladding, band saw, three axes/ five axes
CNC machines PAMA, Hyundai and so on
Leveraged skills in setting-up heat treatment furnace of 150MT capacity,
enclosed shot blasting and painting facility in the fabrication & heat
treatment shops
Merit of introducing advanced welding processes like Flux Core Arc welding
process, GTAW and SMAW, CNC Oxy fuel/ plasma cutting, automatic hard
facing of rolls, Babbitt welding and so on
Dec’09 – May’11 Ansaldo Caldaie Boilers India Pvt. Ltd., Tiruchirraplli, Tamil Nadu as
Chief Operating Officer
Set-up a fabrication unit for the boiler pressure parts and steel structure for the
Thermal Power plants of capacity 4000 MW
Aug’07 – Dec’09 Austrian Energy & Environment, Chennai, ISO 9001 Company as
Managing Director

4. May’04 – Aug’07 Al Hassan Engineering S.O.A.G. (EPC), Muscat, Oman as Head of SBU
for Fabrication Shop
Highlights:
Steered fabrication and assembly of equipment required for Gas, Process,
Power Plants, high pressure piping Prefabrication and Hydro Testing
Equipment for Oil wells like Oil inlet manifolds, MSV skids, Well Hook Up
Kits and Block valve station, Storage tanks as per API 650, ASME Pressure
vessels, Horton spheres, structure for substations
Acted as Project Coordinator for the largest Gas Plant Project at Saih
Nihayda Gas Plant (SNGP), Oman
Sept’00 – Apr’04 Bharat Forge Ltd., Pune, India as Manager (Welding) in Hot Forging
Dies Manufacturing Shop, Pune
Highlights:
Noted for establishing the new facility for Welding Hot Forging Die
consuming around 8 / 10 Tons per month of welding electrodes and
consumables
Played vital role in developing MIG welding SPM for welding hot forging die
at elevated temperature to achieve better quality, productivity (higher rate
of weld deposit @ 10 - 12 Kg / Hr.) and better die life
Credited for reducing the welding cost of the hot forging dies by 25 - 30%
by changing the strategy in welding
Jul’95 – Sept’00 Spacetech Cryo Equipments Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai as Manager - Works
Feb’ 91 – Jul’95 Nathani Steel Ltd., Vidyavihar, Mumbai as Deputy Manager
Aug’82 - Feb’91 Garlick Engineering Ltd. Ambernath, Mumbai Suburb as
Superintendent (Production)
Trainings Completed Training for Internal Auditor for ISO 9001/ TS 16949
Attended training on:
o Leadership and Communication Skills
o Environmental Awareness (Mandatory for ISO14000 Certification)
Certification Completed certificate course on ERP - SAP R/3 PP Module (Production
Planning Module Version 4.6C) in 2003
Personal Details
Date of Birth:29th August 1959
Languages Known: English, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi and Tamil (Intermediary)
Permanent Address: # 37, Hrishikesh, Nehru Nagar, Gokul Road (Airport Road),
Hubli 580030 (Karnataka State)
Marital Status: Married
No. of Dependents: Two
Nationality: Indian
Passport No.: J 2287786
Validity Status: 12/05/2021
Driving License: India and Sultanate of Oman