Ts.Dr.VIJEHY A/L BALAKRISHNAN
Chemical Engineer
Klang
Summary
Exploring opportunities to work and succeed as an excellent employee in a challenging environment where strong communication project management, troubleshooting and performance optimization skills can be effectively utilized with the organization.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Head of Product Commercialization and Export
Koperasi Serbaguna Kebangsaan Berhad
01.2025 - Current
- Drove adoption of best practices for project management within the organization as a whole by introducing standardized processes and documentation methods.
- Collaborated with sales and marketing teams to develop go-to-market strategies that maximized revenue potential.
- Conducted market research to identify new opportunities for growth, leading to the introduction of successful new products.
- Regularly reviewed competitor offerings to ensure our products remained at the forefront of industry trends and innovations.
- Spearheaded efforts towards achieving company-wide sustainability goals through sustainable materials sourcing and eco-friendly packaging initiatives.
- Oversaw budget allocation for product development projects, ensuring optimal resource utilization.
- Coordinated project planning and execution with team members and team leads.
- Led team of marketing professionals, offering mentoring and coaching to build knowledge and skills.
General Manager(Product Development Head)
Saha Asia Industries Sdn Bhd
01.2018 - 12.2020
- Established compliance of the Palm Oil authority for export on specialty fat under MPOB
- Developed HORECA sales in Malaysia for Edible Oils
- Developed export products for Asia and Gulf countries
- Developed Ingredients of Antioxidant from synthetic to Natural Antioxidants with collaboration of UTM and Polytechnic, Pagoh
- Accomplished ISO 22000:2018 , GMP, HACCP, Halal, MesTi and MPC certificate.
- Lead Project development with MIDA and MITI for Blended oil manufacturing on export market
- Lead Engineering Project phase 2 for Shortening plant with Alfa Laval Malaysia
- Lead and setup Jerry can Blow Mould as Phase 1 for integrated project for packaging.
- Lead Engineering Project with ISF Shortening plant for capacity upgrade Saha Asia for Phase 3
- Lead and accomplished Product development for Red Olein Europe Market
- Lead Synthetic antioxidant replacement for shortening products
- Lead IR4.0 under MITI with RA accomplished under SIRIM as first stage.
Remote Operation Engineer Asia Pacific
The Linde Group
01.2016 - 01.2018
- Responsible for the safe, reliable and efficient operations of multiple Air Separation Units(ASU) and CO2 within Regional South & East Asia(RSE) Principal responsible:
- Maintain safe, reliable and efficient plant operation.
- Response and troubleshooting of process upsets.
- Execution of plant loading changes as required by operations or logistics management.
- Communicate plant issues to local personnel.
- Communicate process plants performance to Logistics and Central Scheduling.
- Maintain individual plant logs(e-log)
- Improvement and innovation for HMI(PCS 7 Siemens, Wonder Ware, Emerson Delta V) for smooth process control and operation.
- Involved in Dhaka, Bangladesh ASU commissioning and remote plant operation system at Shah Alam.
- Mode transfer method for ASU in the fastest way
- Reduction on power consumption
- Process safety parameters control monitoring and visualization in daily operation report
- SOP created for process efficiency regarding plant mode shifting, Plant start up and shut down.
Production Executive
Basf-Petronas Chemicals Sdn. Bhd.
01.2014 - 01.2016
- Involved in OxO Plant Major Turn Around By prepared equipment’s for inspection with P&ID mark up and documentations
- Coordinated in catalyst replacement at Syngas and synthesis plant.
- Involved in DCS FAT with Honeywell Engineering for Aroma project
- Coordinated on Emergency drill for plant complex.
- Completed in-door training by prepared training materials for process understanding purposes
- Lead Commissioning procedures and preparation plan for Citral and Citranellol Process Plant
- Co-ordinating Loop check for DCS( Honey well Experion)
- Conduct process training for production technicians
- Lead Total Job Analysis procedure and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment for Citral and Citranellol Process Plant.
- Coordinate on DCS training and trending method for operation on selected parameters.
- Involved in 250barg commissioning of Citral Reactor with BASF, Ludwigshafen team.
- Process manual for citral and citronellol review according to site practice(KSP)
- Created On boarding Checklist for technician competency.
- Active in Hr department committee and took part in recruitments and interviews for new candidate.
Process Engineer
CARGILL PALM PRODUCT SDN BHD
01.2010 - 01.2014
- Oil process by using DCS system and educated in Siemens S7 controller
- Experience in hydrogenation, fractionation, waste water treatment, refinery, Neutralization, Winterization and soap stock splitting processes plant
- Well trained in vacuum system( 9-0.9 mbarA)
- Have experienced in serviced heat Exchangers
- Well trained in food safety(HACCP)
- Experience in waste water system for palm oil refinery.
- Responsible for training of new process plant operator
- Creating and updating plant log sheet according to correct parameters for ISO documentation
- Process Plant trouble shooting and created vacuum matrix trouble shooting for operation Surf
- Experience in Chiller compressor operation
- Experience in Ammonia compressor operation
- Experience in Nitrogen compressor operation(PVSA)
- Experience in wet and dry air compressor operation
- Knowledgeable in process plant instruments( flow meters, Prompt for TT, switches)
- Well train in High Pressure Boiler operation, maintenance, safety(CSD) and troubleshooting
- Successfully commissioned Hydrogenation plant, Fractionation plant, Refinery plant, waste water treatment Plant and Blending plant
- Knowledgeable in CSTR and SBR
- Well train in safety permit handling( 30 hours construction training)
- Able to use project management software
- Well trained in pipe sizing, valve sizing and material selection for oil & fat
- Well trained in pump head sizing and application
- Contributed in HAZOP( Hazards and operability of process plant) with Lloyd and Worley facilitators for Vendor DESMET BALLESTRA & ALFA LAVAL SDN BHD
- Minimized in waste oil by adding of design equipment’s such as ‘single cartridge filter’ for oil recovery.
- Well trained in P&ID drafting and contributed for Surf project at Surf tank farm design, blending system and utility of waste water system
- Well trained in ERT(Emergency Response Team) from BOMBA
- Experienced in Chill water and Hot well water Vacuum system
- Knowledgeable in PDS (Plant Design Specification).
- Involved in tank farm, pipe line gantry and utility design
- Involved in PSSR for Cargill PKFZ phase 2 expansion
- Experience in handling Oil & Fats Process plant equipment’s.
- Have experienced in handling CAPEX budget for Surf project tank farm & piping
- Have experienced in tendering for piping package, tank farm package, insulation package, valves package & utilities equipment packages
- Coordinating with EHS department with Pre-mobilization, pre-qualification of contractors and training arrangements together with government compliance.
- Implemented BBS program for Surf project with reporting efficiency.
Education
Doctor of Engineering - Process Plant Management
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
11-2025
Master Of Chemical Engineering - Entrepreneurship
Universiti Malaysia Pahang
01.2016
Bachelor in Chemical Engineering - undefined
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
01.2014
Diploma in Chemical Engineering - undefined
Malaysian institute of Chemical Engineering & Technology (UniKL)
01.2009
Skills
Technical: UV-VIS Spectrometer, Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), Gas Chromatography (GC), and High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
6.0 EXTRA CURICULAR
BEM Graduate Engineer IEM Graduate Engineer MBOT Graduate Technologist BEM Chemical Registered Graduate Engineer [100735A] IEM Chemical Registered Graduate Engineer [90358] MBOT FT Registered Graduate Technologist [ GT 22020944]
1.0 PROFILE
- MBOT registered for Professional Technologist (Food Technologist) [PT23020014]
- BEM registered for CHEMICAL GRADUATE ENGINEER [100735A]
- IEM registered for CHEMICAL GRADUATE ENGINEER [90358]
- Experienced as a Cargill Palm Product Sdn Bhd . Process engineer.
- Experienced as a Basf- Petronas Chemicals Sdn Bhd. Production Executive.
- Experienced as a The Linde Group .Remote Operation Engineer Asia Pacific.
- Experienced as a Saha Asia Industries Sdn Bhd .General Manager( Product Development Head)
- Graduated in Master of Chemical Engineering with Entrepreneurship
- Graduated in Bachelor of Chemical Engineering.
- Experienced in the field of processing oil and fat with Cargill Palm Products Sdn Bhd and Saha Asia Industries Sdn Bhd.
- Experience in the field of chemical process with Basf Petronas Chemical Sdn Bhd
- Experience in the field of Industrial Gaseous process with The Linde Group.
- Willing to learn and take new challenge.
- Knowledge of Oil and Fat processing with plant design added as advantage for soft oil and tropical oil Process Plant
- Experience in project engineering on schedule and cost driven projects.
- Skilled in designing with CAD software such as AutoCAD, SolidWorks and Aspen
- Able to work under pressure with minimum supervision.
- Initiative, result oriented and team player.
- Able to liaison between technical and non-technical persons.
Quote
Opportunities Don't happen.You create them.
Chris Grosser
Timeline
Head of Product Commercialization and Export
Koperasi Serbaguna Kebangsaan Berhad
01.2025 - Current
General Manager(Product Development Head)
Saha Asia Industries Sdn Bhd
01.2018 - 12.2020
Remote Operation Engineer Asia Pacific
The Linde Group
01.2016 - 01.2018
Production Executive
Basf-Petronas Chemicals Sdn. Bhd.
01.2014 - 01.2016
Process Engineer
CARGILL PALM PRODUCT SDN BHD
01.2010 - 01.2014
Master Of Chemical Engineering - Entrepreneurship
Universiti Malaysia Pahang
Bachelor in Chemical Engineering - undefined
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Diploma in Chemical Engineering - undefined
Malaysian institute of Chemical Engineering & Technology (UniKL)
Doctor of Engineering - Process Plant Management
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia