Santosh Kumar

About Santosh Kumar

A senior business leader with over twenty-one years\' end-to-end Aluminium manufacturing experience in Asia, Europe and Africa. Qualification: Executive MBA from HEC Paris (FT rank #2, QS rank #5) and Chemical Engineering BITS India. Lean six sigma black belt certified.MNCs worked with: Norsk Hydro (Norway), Qatar Petroleum, Qatar Aluminum Limited (Qatalum), Vedanta Aluminum Limited, Bharat Aluminum Company Limited (Balco) and Polyplex Corporation Ltd.Technology: Hydro Aluminium (HAL 275 kA)(Norway), GAMI GP 320 kA and GP 525 kA (China).Domain: Project, production, process, quality, sourcing of raw materials and business excellence.Achievements:1. Experience in setting up Green Field mega projects. Concept, feasibility, execution and commissioning. Capacity 1.7 million tons, Location: Qatar and India. Project cost 8-10 bn USD.2. Leadership experience of leading team as diverse as thirty nationalities from Europe, Asia, China and Africa.3. Global exposure and know-how of best manufacturing practices from Europe and Asia.4. Qatalum achieved 3 rd best position in global cost curve of CRU London. Driver of improvement program for Reduction.5. Received various CEO awards for Safety, Quality and Productivity at Qatalum and Vedanta Aluminum Ltd.6. Successfully built ecosystem of – Qatalum, Qatar University, Qatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP).7. International publications in TMS USA, Gulf Aluminum Council Dubai and OmanBest-in class training on cutting edge technology and competence development from world class European smelters and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).Smelters visit: Sunndalsora (Norway), Slovalco (Slovakia), Hill side Aluminium Smelter (South Africa), Aluminium Bahrain, Chalieco (China) etc.OEM visit: fives Solios, REEL Alesa, Claudius Peters (Germany), R&D Carbon (Switzerland), Bruker (Germany), Hencon, Storvik, Hycast (Norway), Alstom (Norway), ECL (France) Outotec (Germany) etc.Sector: Metal & Mining

Experience

1. Head Alumina Handling Plant & Ftp

   Bharat Aluminium Company Limited

   Jun 2023 — Present

   Head Alumina Handling Plant & FTP Projects for Balco Growth Project for 1 million tons production capacity. Post expansion of 1 MTPA metal production Balco will generate 2bn USD revenue per annum.Growth Project Highlights: 1. First time GP 525 kA Technology potlines introduced in India.2. Integrated alumina handling system to cater optimized internal logistics of 2 million tons alumina/annum.

Education

• C. M. Sc. College, Bihar

  Intermediate of Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, English, Hindi, Vocational: Electronics

  1995 — 1997

• HEC Paris

  Global Executive MBA, MBA

  2013 — 2014

• BIT Sindri

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Chemical Engineering

  1999 — 2003

• M.L. Academy Darbhanga, Bihar

  Matriculation, Science, Math, Social Science, Advanced Mathematics, Sanskrit, Hindi, English, Social Science

  1991 — 1995

Skills

• Project Planning
• Materials
• Scada
• Condition Monitoring
• Commissioning
• Petrochemical
• Predictive Maintenance
• Iso 9000
• Factory
• Preventive Maintenance
• Process Control
• Procurement
• Iso 14001
• Operational Excellence
• Metals
• Six Sigma
• Iron Ore
• Mineral Processing
• Mining
• Project Engineering
• Change Management
• Safety Management Systems
• Epc
• Plc
• 5s
• Tpm
• Dcs
• Metallurgy
• Gas
• Root Cause Analysis
• Hazop
• Engineering
• Occupational Health
• Planned Preventative Maintenance
• Plant Maintenance
• Manufacturing
• Lean Manufacturing
• Process Engineering
• Ehs
• Quality Management