Kunal Singh
Infrastructure and Energy Professional with 6.7 years of experience across project execution, operations, procurement, commissioning, and technology development, driving large-scale infrastructure programs through stakeholder management, operational excellence, and cross functional leadership.
Work Experience:
6.7 Years
Industry:
Energy & Utilities | Government & PSUs | Manufacturing & Engineering
Function:
General Management | Operations & Supply Chain | Project & Program Management
Work Experience
NPCIL | Mumbai
Officer-D / Executive Engineer | NPCIL | Mumbai
- Managed a ₹10 Cr strategic delivery partnership with Tata Consulting Engineers (TCE), driving digital transformation of engineering delivery through 3D model-based (Digital Twin) workflows across 200+ multidisciplinary project deliverables, expanding engineering execution capacity by 5× while enabling an estimated ₹12.5 Cr lower engineering execution cost and accelerating project delivery by 2 years compared with an equivalent in-house execution model.
- Established robust deliverable tracking and engineering change-management mechanisms across large-scale infrastructure projects, enhancing stakeholder visibility, streamlining engineering coordination, and reducing approval-cycle delays by 50%.
- Steered a ₹2.29 Cr Prodok software program, driving digital transformation by replacing manual engineering drafting with software-enabled workflows, improving engineering productivity by 71% and increasing engineering drawing throughput by 3.5× using the same engineering workforce.
- Conducted techno-commercial evaluation for a ₹387 Cr strategic infrastructure project, supporting procurement and investment decisions of DAE review committees through stakeholder management, achieving >80% QMIS performance.
- Spearheaded development of 70+ project deliverables and ~20 bid documents across engineering, procurement, and regulatory stakeholders, supporting project execution while reducing execution time and costs by 10%.
- Led a 6-member team to deliver commissioning readiness for a ₹100 Cr infrastructure package, managing cross-functional site, engineering, and operations stakeholders to support India's first indigenous 700 MWe reactor project.
- Drove enhancement of 30+ critical infrastructure systems across fleet-mode reactor projects by integrating operational learnings and stakeholder inputs, improving deployment readiness, long-term system reliability, and reducing future fleet project timelines by an estimated 10%.
- Coordinated cross-functional stakeholders across two ₹10 Cr technology development programs, delivering 50+ project, quality assurance, and compliance documents to enable successful transition from design to prototype development, reducing development time by 5 months.
- Executed end-to-end procurement and commissioning of safety-critical systems worth ₹1.14 Cr+, managing vendor qualification, bid evaluations, commercial assessments, and contract recommendations to support critical project milestones.
Officer-C / Engineer | NPCIL | Mumbai
- Delivered a design optimization initiative across 70 safety-critical systems, improving lifecycle reliability and long-term asset performance by extending asset life 2× and avoiding an estimated ₹80 Cr in lifecycle replacement and obsolescence costs
- Served as Member Secretary of a cross-functional task force driving the indigenization of a First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) seismic instrumentation system for India’s first indigenous 700 MWe reactor project, delivering projected savings of ₹5.14 Cr while enhancing supply chain resilience and self-reliance.
- Supported execution of a ₹125 Cr strategic instrumentation project by coordinating procurement planning, vendor evaluation, and delivery of critical systems for indigenous 700 MWe reactor projects, achieving 90% KPI performance.
Trainee Officer | NPCIL | Rajasthan
- Completed NPCIL's one-year Nuclear Power Orientation Training Program at Rajasthan Nuclear Training Centre (NTC), encompassing 28 technical modules, extensive field training at an operating nuclear power plant, and multiple qualifying evaluations.
Accomplishments
- Promoted to Officer-D and consistently received Outstanding APAR ratings through the end of tenure.
- Secured All-India Rank 1 in the Electronics Engineering stream of NPCIL's Nuclear Training Program.
- Associated with the award-winning team that received the Best Poster Award at Indian Nuclear Society's International Conference (INSIC-2023).
- Authored two articles in Nuclear-Power international magazine on advanced radiation monitoring techniques.
- Selected by NPCIL as a team member of Computer and Information Security Advisory Group (CISAG) in conducting IT security audits of DCSEM, supporting enterprise cybersecurity governance and risk management.
Education
- B.Tech (Electronics & Communication Engineering) – MNNIT Allahabad (June 2015- May 2019)
Certification
- Artificial Intelligence CDAC Pune
- Machine Learning Specialization – Stanford/Coursera
- Pre-MBA Statistics – IIM Ahmedabad
- Excel Skills for Business: Advanced – Macquarie University
Extra-curricular
- Second Runner-Up, Embedded Systems Competition, Techkriti (IIT Kanpur)
- Second Runner-Up, Embedded Systems Competition, Avishkar (MNNIT Allahabad)
- Winner, Inter-department Football Tournament, MNNIT Allahabad (2015)
- Runner-Up, Inter-department Football Tournament, MNNIT Allahabad (2019)