Assistant Commercial Manager
Infraroad Trading and Contracting (UCC Affiliated Company)
Total years of experience :12 years, 7 Months
Reporting to the Contracts and Commercial Director, I am closely monitoring and guiding a team of quantity surveyors and cost controllers to perform their daily activities and solve any rising issues.
Main Activities and Duties:
• Responsible for the final review of the contract documents prior to contract signature.
• Analyzing and evaluating the proposed contract terms and conditions.
• Established and monitored a monthly internal higher management report that includes the projects’ details and their performance to date. And standardized this report across the company.
Created a cost control procedures and cost code structure to become a standard practice and applied on all the company’s projects.
Reporting to the Managing Director, I was responsible for ensuring that all the engineering and construction works are carried out according to contractual requirements such as project time schedule, contract price, and scope of work
Main Activities and Duties:
• Prepared the master and milestone programs for projects including a complex residential project consisting of 70+ villas and 500+ residential units.
• Successfully managed to track and update the financial reports and change order logs for all the company’s projects.
• Prepared and tracked the projects budgets through each stage of the project life cycle starting from the preliminary design stage up until the completion of construction.
• Assisting the contracts department with preparing multiple construction contracts.
• Acquiring and follow up on project insurance policies, and successfully managed to secure a major C.A.R. insurance policy for a JOD 100M+ project with a 10% saving in budget.
• Preparing tender packages for construction projects.
• Experienced in the financial and technical evaluation of tenders.
Reporting to the Managing Director, Follow-up contractors’ works, activities, and compliance to the approved schedule, prepare the project’s documentation system and reports, studying the project’s changes and their cause, hold and attend progress meetings, monitoring and management of the project’s cost and budget.
Main Activities and Duties:
• Coordinate the works of multiple contractors on site
• Managed all the communications between the different project parties (Owner, Contractor, QS, and the Engineer/ Consultant)
• Verification of project payments and studying the impact of the variations orders on the project schedule, budget, and scope.
• Ensured that all the project submittals are replied to and closed within the contractual timeframe
• Organized a weekly progress meeting to solve any rising issues and follow-up on all the pending issues
• Completed the negotiations with the possible contractors to perform the works and secured contracts within the available budget.
• Made sure that all the PO for the project materials were completed and delivered within the tight schedule at a very critical stage of the project.
Estimation of construction projects (commercial, residential, and infrastructure), and involved in the technical assessment of major irrigation projects and pumping stations in Iraq
Main Activities and Duties:
• Estimation of commercial, residential, and infrastructure projects
• Review of tender documents prior to tender submission
• Preparing of financial and technical proposal for tenders
• Quantity surveying of projects in order to verify the quantities stated in the bills of quantities and secure a reasonable price for the supply of materials
• Contacting suppliers and issuing requests for quotations, in addition to negotiation for best proposals
• Experience in GIS mapping for the Strategic Study for Water and Land Resources in Iraq (SWLRI), including but not limited to the digitizing of GIS maps, and post processing of data
• Preparation of technical reports for major pumping stations as a part of the SWLRI project
• Responsible for testing a new system designed to stop medicine counterfeiting
• Training the staff in the participating pharmacies to use the new system
• Providing technical support for the participating pharmacies.
internship as a site engineer responsible for various construction activities and inspection
Dissertation: Risk Management Practice in Construction: Reflection on Profitability
Graduation Project: Design of a water treatment plant and a pipe network for the Jordanian village As’ara.