Shankar Narayan Ramanathan

About Shankar Narayan Ramanathan

Proactive, Self-Starting, Result Oriented, People Focused Chemical Engineering Professional with excellent Academic Performance willing to contribute in a Challenging role in a diverse, global environment. In the process, wish to grow professionally and continuously update the competence with respect to Process and Technology, Make contribution through Teamwork for sustainable future and Continuously explore opportunity to develop expertise and secure valuable professional qualifications

Experience

1. Run Plant Engineer

   Rio Tinto

   Mar 2025 — Present · Bessemer City, NC, US

   Responsible for safe and stable day-to-day operations of the production unit. Work with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment between EHS, commercial, manufacturing, and R&D. Focus on shorter-range process improvement initiatives. Support the site’s safety efforts through safety observations, safety improvement projects, and key safety procedure audits.Resolving day-to-day production issues and process problemsInitiate and approve MOC requests to include action items, training, PSSRs, etc, and communicate changes.Assist in incident investigations, identifying root causes and appropriate corrective actions to improve safety and environmental performance at the Bessemer City site.Analysis of Asset Utilization data for reliability and capacity improvement opportunitiesProcess safety assessment and improvement initiativesMaintaining accurate process technology informationDevelopment and execution of small-scale quality, yield, or capacity improvement initiativesCapital project supportPlant/process start-upsParticipate in Process Hazards Analysis teams.Support resolution of high-risk scenario action items generated from PHA teams, etc.

Education

• University of Pennsylvania

  Master of Science in Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

  2016 — 2018

• University of Pennsylvania

  Master of Engineering - MEng, Chemical Engineering

• Anna University Chennai

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Chemical Engineering

  2012 — 2016

• Sir Sivaswamy Kalalaya Higher Secondary School, Chennai

  12th Grade

  2010 — 2012

• P S Senior Secondary School,Chennai

  10th Garde

  2002 — 2010

Skills

• Leadership
• English
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• Powerpoint
• Matlab
• Cost Benefit Analysis
• Microsoft Office
• Hplc
• Communication
• Research
• Project Management
• Lean Six Sigma
• Hazop Study
• Reaction Kinetics
• Problem Solving Using Excel- Pwc Approach
• Problem Solving
• Chemistry
• Iso 14001 Lead Assessor
• Public Speaking
• Decision Analysis
• Oil & Gas Exploration
• Lead Assessor Iso 9001
• Customer Service
• Chemical Engineering
• Root Cause Analysis
• Engineering
• Quantitative Risk Analysis
• Teamwork
• R
• Minitab
• Process Optimization