Tushar Chitre

Background

About Tushar Chitre

Registered Professional Engineer with over thirty years of process engineering and project management experience in engineering, design, operations, and construction while working globally in North America, Middle East, Africa and Asia. • Nearly ten years of mid-senior level experience in process engineering and project management. • Worked as Owner Representative (Project Management Consultancy) for over ten years managing multi-EPC, multi-billion-dollar refinery mega projects ranging from USD five to fifteen billion. • Managed portfolio of decarbonization technologies such as Hydrogen, SAF, Renewable Fuels and Ammonia. • Successfully progressed career while working on several basic and detailed engineering projects in petrochemical, oilsands and refinery areas. • Effectively managed and mentored teams of up to thirty process engineers during design engineering and project management services for 5 mega-projects in multi-location matrix organizations. • Carried out Functional Management duties such as organizing, recruiting, staffing, and managing project manhour budgets, technical assurance plans and audits. • Worked closely with major refinery and petrochemicals technology licensors such as UOP, Shell Global, Lummus, Axens, Haldor Topsoe, MW Kellogg for technology selection and integrating into main project. • Experienced in multiple Blue and Gray Hydrogen technologies such as Steam-Methane Reformer, HTCR, Auto-Thermal Reformer and Gasification. • Experienced in major Licensor units such as Steam and Catalytic Crackers, Hydrocracker, Hydrotreaters, as well as Open Art Units, Utilities, Tank Farm, Offshore jetty and Crude terminal. In petrochemical area, Cumene-Phenol, Ethyl Benzene-Styrene, Polyethylene and PET fiber units • Worked in Technical Services providing improvements and solutions to operational issues, plant monitoring, troubleshooting, turnaround planning with catalyst changeover and managed capital projects. • On-site engineering experience during project execution, construction, commissioning, and start-up phases of various projects.