Personal Assignment: Personal Accomplishment

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I have known Utkarsh since October 2011, i.e. when he joined Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. or POWERGRID. I was his direct supervisor during this period. As Executive Trainee, his designated role was to look after the O&M of three different substations of the company in rotation. However, seeing his eagerness to contribute to a live ongoing project, I assigned him a role in the waylaid Rosa-Bareilly transmission line project. He was responsible for all site-related jobs such as tower erection, stringing, ROW (right of way) clearances, and crop compensation works. Although Utkarsh does not report to me anymore, I have kept close contact with him as his mentor and friend. Utkarsh is certainly one of the brightest and most talented engineers I have worked with. I have seen him handle managerial level jobs with ease. He is a quick learner and has extraordinary organizational and planning skills. When he joined the Rosa-Bareilly project, the project was lagging behind schedule by four months. His efficient resource planning played…show more content…
He was always ahead in completing his regular assignments and expected the same from everyone else on the team. He sometimes lacked patience with other departments and was disappointed if they could not be up to speed. He was distracted from his work due to such incidences. I discussed this issue with him and made him realize that these were issues that most organizations had to face and there was not much that he could do about it in this early stage of his career. I advised him not to lose patience and instead coordinate with other departments. He took my feedback with enthusiasm. He went a step further to develop friendly relations with other officers at his level from other departments. His quick follow up with department of Finance helped him arrange crop compensations quickly, which automatically resolved the right of way

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