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Shaik Waquar Ahamed

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Shaik Waquar Ahamed

Dy. Manager

Essar Steel India Ltd

Brief description about me

I started my career in 2004 after completing Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from Sandur Polytechnic - Karnataka. I got campus placed in JSW steels Ltd and started working as Jr. Engineer. Working in the shifts, I joined full time Engineering college in 2005 to complete my graduation. I completed my B.E in Industrial and Production engineering in 2009. Now I am associated with Essar Steel India Ltd - Hazira and currently holds the position of Dy. Manager - Blast Furnace Operation. Team of 3 Asst managers, 10 engineers and about 140 associate workers are assisting me in achieving the set financial goals.

Challenges in job

The most challenging is risk taking, working or execution of job within time frame and in house development of projects to ensure operational availability of plant. Planning, risk taking ability and optimum use of available resources are most important for a leader to drive the plant in the direction of prosperity and so will be our future.

Job made easy

Proper planning, trouble shooting of problem and workout to avoid the problem at the initial stage to avoid unpredictable breakdowns.

Upcoming trends

Dip in demand for steel in world market and crises of quality raw material (Iron ore and coke) in India.

My point of view

Support or investment in the field of R&D in any of the Indian industries is comparatively less and we operate our R&D centers to support our existing facilities but not to develop or innovate new tech products.

My goals

Professionally I would be looking forward to lead Blast Furnace Operation team and apart from that I have vision to set up quality education center for the Kids.

family background

I am the only son of my parents and My father is a retired mining officer. My spouse is software engineer and she likes technical challenges.

Advice to professionals

Sweat to learn at the initial stage of your life so that you can reap the sweet fruits at the later stage of your career.

Advice to students

Free time of your's is the one you feel hard to spend at this part of time and later once you join any organisation, Its the free time which is hard to get. "Enjoy your life without hurting anyone and be prepared to enter into busy life for the remaining part of your life".