NITIN GAJMAL

PROJECT MANAGER

Aquachem • Full time

Jul 2025 - Present • 1 yr 3 mos

As a Project Manager, your role sits at the intersection of technical execution, resource allocation, and client communication. Your core responsibility is driving infrastructure and industrial projects—such as Water Treatment Plants (WTP) and Sewage Treatment Plants (STP)—from initial design and estimation through site handover and commissioning, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and to regulatory standards. Core Responsibilities & Focus Areas Project Planning & Scheduling: Developing comprehensive work breakdown structures, tracking milestones, and utilizing tools like Microsoft Project to manage Gantt charts and project timelines. Process Engineering Oversight: Reviewing and guiding complex technical design calculations, including hydraulic profiles, aeration systems, clariflocculators, and sludge dewatering units. Financial & Commercial Management: Overseeing cost estimations, preparing proforma invoices, managing billing milestones, and tracking project expenditure against baseline budgets. Regulatory & Statutory Compliance: Navigating local authority approvals, coordinating with Public Works Departments, and ensuring adherence to design manuals and standards (such as CPHEEO). Stakeholder & Resource Coordination: Serving as the primary point of contact between clients, internal design teams, site engineers, and external vendors to resolve bottlenecks and secure site extensions or handovers. Key Skills & Competencies Technical Proficiency: Deep understanding of water and wastewater treatment processes, plant hydraulics, and mechanical/civil design criteria. Execution & Delivery: Experience handling multi-MLD capacity projects from inception to completion. Cross-Functional Leadership: Bridging the gap between high-level client expectations and on-the-ground engineering execution.

DESIGN EXECUTIVE

Ion Exchange India Ltd • Full time

Jul 2023 - Jul 2025 • 2 yrs

As a Design Executive, your role is the technical backbone of environmental engineering projects, translating raw design criteria and regulatory standards into precise, buildable engineering solutions. You specialize in the detailed process design, hydraulic profiling, and sizing of water and wastewater treatment infrastructure—such as Water Treatment Plants (WTP) and Sewage Treatment Plants (STP)—ensuring optimal performance, efficiency, and compliance. Core Responsibilities & Focus Areas Process & Hydraulic Design: Performing rigorous engineering calculations for core treatment units, including cascade aerators, Parshall flumes, sequencing batch reactors (SBR), clariflocculators, chlorine contact tanks, and sludge dewatering units. Adherence to Standards: Applying established guidelines and design criteria from regulatory bodies and manuals, such as CPHEEO, to ensure system capacities and peak factors meet statutory requirements. Technical Documentation & Drawings: Preparing comprehensive design reports, process flow diagrams (PFDs), piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), and drawing submissions for project execution. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Working closely with project managers, site engineers, and drafting teams to ensure that design parameters align with structural, mechanical, and site-specific constraints. Optimization & Troubleshooting: Refining design metrics—such as food-to-microorganism (F/M) ratios for biological systems—to enhance treatment efficiency and operational reliability. Key Skills & Competencies Engineering Calculations: Advanced proficiency in wastewater treatment mechanics, biological process sizing, and plant hydraulics. Regulatory Compliance: Deep familiarity with public health and environmental engineering standards for municipal and industrial water infrastructure. Technical Precision: Translating complex theoretical parameters into accurate proforma data, specifications, and layout requirements.

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER

Aquachem • Full time

Jan 2018 - Jul 2023 • 5 yrs 6 mos

As an Environmental Engineer, your role focuses on developing, designing, and optimizing sustainable systems and infrastructure dedicated to water and wastewater management. You bridge environmental science with practical engineering to ensure clean water supply and safe sewage treatment, protecting public health and complying with environmental regulations. Core Responsibilities & Focus Areas Treatment Plant Design & Sizing: Performing complex technical calculations and process designs for environmental infrastructure, including water treatment plants (WTP) and sewage treatment plants (STP) featuring units like cascade aerators, clariflocculators, and biological treatment systems. Process Optimization & Biological Control: Managing critical operational parameters—such as food-to-microorganism (F/M) ratios in biological reactors (like MBR or SBR systems)—to maximize pollutant removal efficiency. Regulatory & Statutory Compliance: Designing systems in strict adherence to environmental standards and public health guidelines, such as CPHEEO manuals, to meet discharge norms and water quality criteria. Technical Documentation & Audits: Preparing comprehensive engineering reports, process flow diagrams, hydraulic profiles, and environmental assessments for municipal and industrial projects. Sustainability & Innovation: Exploring advanced methods for resource recovery, water conservation, and leveraging modern tools or automation to streamline engineering calculations and plant efficiency. Key Skills & Competencies Process Engineering: Deep expertise in environmental chemistry, fluid mechanics, and biological wastewater treatment kinetics. Regulatory Knowledge: Comprehensive understanding of statutory design criteria, peak factors, and municipal infrastructure standards. Technical Problem-Solving: Ability to troubleshoot operational bottlenecks and refine design metrics for maximum lifecycle sustainability.