Rajeev Chopra, Beach Rotana Abu Dhabi
About Rajeev
Rajeev Chopra is a qualified mechanical engineer with specialisation in refrigeration and air-conditioning and graduated with distinction. Previous to his employment at the Rotana Group, he was a senior project manager for the Utility Engineers Limited which he designed, installed and handled several projects independently. Later he was hired as a senior project engineer for the India Tourism Development Corporation before entering the hospitality industry. He joined Oberio Group of Hotels, New Delhi as senior maintenance / project manager, his special achievement during that time was the introduction of various energy conservation techniques resulting in reduced power use/cost of by 15%. In addition, he later was employed as chief engineer at various international hotel chains carrying out major renovation projects and maintaining the hotels to a higher standard. Rajeev was part of the team that opened the Kuwait Hilton Resort, a challenging and time intensive process; especially it was days of the pre-invasion and invasion of Iraq by coalition forces in 2002. He received the Hotelier Best Chief Engineer Award for Middle East in year 2004. Rajeev is an essential part of the maintenance of the hotel.
Above and beyond the call of duty…
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Rajeev has an excellent knowledge of the hotel engineering and under his guidance he continued to improve the overall efficiency of the department. Due to better maintenance and not outsourcing several projects the total POM (property, operation, maintenance) cost for Beach Rotana were controlled. As of yearend of 2011, 11.89% total expenses was saved from the budget and reduced to 5.89% compared to the actual total expenses from previous year (2010). In addition, as of year to date of the POM, the actual cost saving percentage is 4.43% versus the budget. The actual expenses and store inventory were also reduced by AED. 100,000 as of July 2012. Rajeev continuously supported not only the hotel but also other Rotana preopening properties by sending his teams for assistance, despite of having a shortage of his own department’s manning. Rajeev is also very pro-active; he had been handling several snagging works for other Rotana manager’s accommodations / housings. Rajeev never refuses works that comes to his hand, for him it’s a gift that you need to handle with care
Testimonials for Ranjeev
“What I remember with Mr. Rajeev is that during evening briefing, his asking every supervisor the results of the task delegated to us. Sometimes I can’t answer him because there are points that I forgot. I remember him saying “every one are busy and have lot of works to do, for me not to forget or miss any point is I have to write them down.” It’s a simple sentence, but I realized how meaningful it is. Mr. Rajeev trying to is lead by example, he could have told me, “Dissa write down so you will not forget!” He doesn’t try to dominate or control his team instead he leads and inspired them. I am where I am now because he inspired me. I truly believe Mr. Rajeev deserves to win the Hotelier Award; he works for customer satisfaction, hotel profits, quality of the work and takes care of his team.” Upali Dissanayake assistant chief engineer, Erbil Rotana – Iraq.
“Mr. Rajeev is capable to win the award as he is well experienced in all aspects in the engineering field. He always motivates his employees to the best of his knowledge and ensures that the departmental activities are well organized. He is easy to be with as most of his employees, colleagues and department heads enjoy his company resulting to good camaraderie.” Elisa Hernan, engineering secretary, Beach Rotana Abu Dhabi.
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