Kunal Singh
Strategic leader with 6.7 years of experience in energy and infrastructure, solving complex business and execution challenges across ₹387 Cr+ strategic and transformation initiatives, with experience in digital transformation, techno-commercial evaluation, cross-functional leadership and stakeholder management.
Work Experience:
6.7 Years
Industry:
Consulting | Energy & Utilities | Government & PSUs
Function:
Consulting & Strategy | General Management | Project & Program Management
Work Experience
NPCIL | Mumbai
Officer-D / Executive Engineer | NPCIL | Mumbai
- Led a ₹10 Cr TCE partnership, driving digital transformation by shifting engineering processes to Digital Twin workflows across 200+ engineering deliverables; increased capacity by 400%, enabling ₹12.5 Cr lower cost and 2-year faster delivery.
- Led deliverable tracking and engineering change-management across large-scale infrastructure projects, improving coordination and reducing approval-cycle TAT by 50%.
- Led a 6-member team to deliver commissioning readiness for a ₹100 Cr infrastructure package, coordinating site, engineering and operations stakeholders for India’s first indigenous 700 MWe reactor project.
- Spearheaded a digital transformation initiative to replace manual drafting with software-enabled workflows, releasing ~18.2k engineering hours annually (~1 Cr); improved productivity by 71% and drawing throughput by 3.5×.
- Coordinated stakeholders across two ₹10 Cr technology development programs, delivering 50+ quality and compliance documents to enable prototype development, reducing development time by 5 months.
- Enhanced 30+ critical systems across fleet-mode reactor projects, integrating operational learnings and stakeholder inputs to improve deployment readiness and reliability while reducing future project timelines by 10% (~8 months).
- Spearheaded development of 70+ project deliverables and ~20 bid documents across engineering, procurement, and regulatory stakeholders, reducing project execution TAT and OPEX by 10%.
- Conducted techno-commercial evaluation of vendor bids for a ₹387 Cr strategic infrastructure project, supporting DAE review committees in vendor selection and PO placement decisions, delivering ₹62.04 Cr in savings.
- Executed end-to-end procurement and commissioning of ₹1.14 Cr+ safety-critical systems, leading vendor qualification, bid evaluation, commercial assessment, and contract recommendations to meet critical project milestones.
Officer-C / Engineer | NPCIL | Mumbai
- Designed and optimized a thermal-management solution across 70 safety-critical systems, extending asset life 2× and improving lifecycle reliability while avoiding an estimated ₹80 Cr in replacement and obsolescence costs.
- Led a cross-functional task force to indigenize FOAK seismic instrumentation for India’s first indigenous 700 MWe reactor, delivering ₹5.14 Cr in projected savings and strengthening supply chain resilience.
- Managed procurement planning and site execution for a ₹125 Cr strategic instrumentation project, aligning vendors, engineering and site stakeholders to drive timely deployment of critical systems for indigenous 700 MWe reactor projects.
Trainee Officer | NPCIL | Rajasthan
- Completed NPCIL's one-year Officer Training Program, covering 28 modules and field training at an operating NPP.
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 team receiving Best Poster Award at Indian Nuclear Society International Conference (INSIC-2023).
- Authored two articles in Nuclear-Power international magazine on advanced radiation monitoring techniques.
- Secured 99.1 percentile in GATE 2019 (EC), ranking 969 among 1.04 lakh+ candidates.
Education
- B.Tech (Electronics & Communication Engineering) – MNNIT Allahabad (July 2015- May 2019)
Certification
- Artificial Intelligence CDAC Pune
- Machine Learning Specialization – Stanford/Coursera
- KPMG Lean Six Sigma Green belt
- 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)