ISSA NABER, Project Control Manager

ISSA NABER

Project Control Manager

Time - Turner Middle East

Location
Jordan - Amman
Education
Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering
Experience
29 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :29 years, 1 Months

Project Control Manager at Time - Turner Middle East
  • Jordan - Amman
  • My current job since July 2015

PCS Manger at Turner International (TIME)
July 2015- present
St. Regis hotel Project; Al-Maabar Mixed Use Development, Amman-Jordan
As the project control manager, I am responsible for all time and cost control and issuing of
reports to client on daily weekly and monthly basis, in addition to that I am responsible for
managing and controlling the time extensions (worth 45 million JOD) also Planning, Scheduling
& Programming, Controls, Forensic Planning, Delay Analysis
The Project is a mixed use development comprising of the St Regis Hotel and Serviced
Apartments and a branded residence tower sitting atop a podium, with retail facilities.
Original Contract Value :139, 677, 868.00 JD

Senior Planning and Control Engineer at Dar Alhandasah Group
  • Jordan - Amman
  • May 2013 to July 2015

From May 2013 till July 2015 working for Dar Al-Handasah Consultants (Shair and Partners)
Senior Planning Engineer- Group leader in the Project Management and Contracts Department. Extensively involved in developing project schedules for featured construction projects, and conducting Delay Impact and Schedule Analyses for claim purposes.
Planning and generating time and bar schedules on primavera including assigning all kind of resources like manpower and plants and materials and cost and loading in to Primavera, issuing monthly progress reports for several projects based weekly and monthly progress and according to the terms and conditions of the contract.
Projects I was involved in :
-International Convention Center - Saudi Arabia: with a gross land area of approximately 91000sqm consisting of the Main Convention Center building (large theatre ), Banqueting and Facilities Halls, Meeting Rooms, Service Rooms, together with an underground and above ground car parking and a Utility building and all the associated infra-structure works
I was involved in the tender prequalification and the tender technical and commercial evaluation

-Accra Sunrise Development - Ghana: mixed-use development project comprising hotel, offices, retail and residential uses located in a 7 acre premium site in Accra
I was involved in the tender prequalification and the tender technical and commercial evaluation

Takoradi Super Base Project, Ghana
Schlumberger intends to build a multi segment base for its oilfield services operation in the region of West Africa. A land with an area of around 200, 000 m2 in Takoradi, Ghana for this purpose. The anticipated facilities will provide a covered floor area of approximately 30, 000 m2 that will cater space for workshops, laboratories, offices, storage, cafeteria and recreation. In addition, there will be a provision for road network, site infrastructure, services facilities, and more than 55, 000 m2 of uncovered areas for storage leaving more than 100, 000 m2 for future expansion and duty free zone.
I was involved in the tender prequalification and the tender technical and commercial evaluation
-Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Causeway Project (Main Link) across Kuwait Bay between Kuwait City and Subiyah New Town Development a 36KM bridge with 2 interchanges andf embankment at the start and end to link to exisiting roads and Two reclaimed artificial islands, Bay lsland South and North, will accommodate bridge control and safety operations as well as Marina facilifies.
The Employer is The Ministry of Public Works, Kuwait
The Engineer : Dar Al Handasah Shair and Parthners
Contractor (Consortium ): Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. Ltd /
Combined Group Contracting Co. (KSCC)
Duration : 1827 Days ( 5 Years ) Contract Amount : KWD 738, 750, 000 (2.7 billion US$)
Worked as Senior Planning manager from the consultant side responsible for developing the preliminary schedule to a detailed schedule and setting it out as baseline in addition to setting out all the tracking progress and cost sheets for deliverables design procurement and construction and issuing consultant monthly progress report as well as consulting the contractor for issuing his own monthly progress report

Senior Planning & Control Engineer at Anham LLC (Nour USA Group)
  • Jordan - Amman
  • January 2008 to May 2013

Working for Anham LLC (one of Nour USA Group of companies ) as senior planning and control engineer for several projects in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait and Algeria on multibillion $ projects using several methods for planning and control Such as Primavera P5 and P6, MS Office, SAP and others. Also was part of the estimation and projects controls department involved in preparation of bids financial and technical parts, the tenders were mainly with USACE tenders (US Army Corps of engineers) projects in different countries in Kuwait, Afghanistan, Iraq and Algeria and Various Projects involving Infrastructure and utilities projects for the US Army camps and other related army facilities

Senior planning and head of department at Abdali Investment PSC
  • Jordan - Amman
  • September 2006 to May 2008

Lately and since March 07 : joined Abdali Investment group as a senior planning and control engineer and head of planning department, The Abdali Urban Regeneration Project is a unique endeavor in smart urban planning where business, living and leisure smoothly intertwine to create a model of modernization in Jordan and the region.

Valued at more than UD $3 Billion, the Abdali project is expected to start welcoming visitors by 2010. Once completed, it will create a new visible centre for Amman and act as the major business district for this ever-thriving city. Amman’s new downtown that Abdali Psc is creating will cater to the needs of thousands of Jordanians and foreigners who choose Jordan as their living and investment destination.
Built on a total land area of approximately 447, 000 m2 with a built up area of approximately 1, 730, 000 m2.

worked from Sep2006 with Dar Alhandasah Group worked as senior planning and control engineer for the expansion of the Arab Potash Company plant which is a 200 million US$ EPC Contract, Dar Group and Hatch consulting from Canada was a consortium for the project management(PM), being responsible for management of all the engineering, procurement and construction phases and the Cost control and earned value of the project (Certificate Attached )

Senior Planning & Control Engineer Head of department at CCC Consolidated Contractors International Co.
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • November 2005 to July 2006

worked with CCC Kuwait in an infra structure housing project which includes 601 plots with all the services roads stormwater sanitary sewer telephone and electrical networks
and three schools and 2 mosques and shops the project is about 50 million US$ and is supervised by the Ministry of Housing Welfare in Kuwait

Head of Planning and Control engineer at CCC Consolidated Construction Company
  • Oman - Muscat
  • August 2004 to September 2005

Planning and control lead engineer in Oman in the Project MSCP which is a crude oil pipe line 270 km from Muscat to the port at Sohar with 12 Block Valve stations and receiver and launcher station at both ends, also a gas pipe line 40 Km’s with BVS’s and Launcher and receiver . the project is an EPC project, Engineering, procurement and construction project
I was responsible for planning and control department for the whole project leading a team of total 5 people planners, cost controllers, data entry consisting the planning and cost control department

Planning and cost control engineer at Black Cat Construction
  • Qatar
  • November 2003 to August 2004

One of the leading Construction Companies in Doha Qatar Involved in Different Oil/Gas Projects in Qatar and an EPIC : Engineering procurement Installation & Construction Company, I was senior planning and cost control engineer and I was responsible for issuing monthly payment for several projects based on the % progress according to weekly and monthly progress reports and according to the terms and conditions of the contract and also making different projects Planning and generating time and bar schedules on primavera including assigning all kind of resources like manpower and plants and materials and even money and cost and loading them in to Primavera , and also making budgets for various projects all around Qatar and that’s all during the planning stage before the project begins, and which is called making budgets for these projects . and after the project begins monitoring our time schedules and monitoring and controlling these hours for the manpower and plants and cost on monthly basis during the project progress to determine the position of the project and the situation each month and comparing it to the original budget .

Also monitoring progress and updating the time schedule on weekly or monthly basis and submitting it to the client and to the management to be able to determine the right position and how much delay or good progress the project is doing . all this is done only if hours for manpower and plants is provided and recorded on daily basis and provided to the planning department using special data basis on Microsoft access and also special data basis for the cost control system to record materials consumption each day and unit cost for them.

Also making income projection for one or two years which involves projecting to the management what are the requirements for the projects in progress and the future projected projects either manpower and labours requirements or plants and equipments and machines requirements .

Planning and costing engineer at Diran Contracting Co
  • Jordan
  • April 2002 to October 2003

Co (In the studies department doing costing and planning & control for various projects) one of the most reputable companies in Jordan and First degree Classification for Ministry of Public Works in Electro-Mechanical works and in Water (Drainage & Drinking Water)and in Building Works Worked as Head of Planning and Cost Control Department, and I was Responsible for Making Cost Estimation for Several projects and also for making Planning, monitoring and control for various projects in the field of Building and waste and drinking water and also in Electro-mechanical works and some of the projects I worked on are : Constructing Mu`ta Pool Sport Arena, The Renovation Works for the Jordan National Medical Council Auditorium, also the Rehabilitation of the Greater Amman Water Supply Network (C15), The Zarqa Military Camps Restructuring and recently the Lajjoun Water Supply Project Stage 4 . I was involved in Planning and controlling these projects preparing time Schedules and implementing various Cost Control System for monitoring the projects using Primavera project planner and other .

Planning and control Engineer at (J&P) Joannou & Paraskevaides (Overseas) Ltd
  • Greece
  • March 2000 to March 2002

in Planning and cost control Department, I was responsible for the activities :
Planning and putting time and bar schedules on primavera including assigning all kind of resources like manpower and plants and materials and even money and cost, and also making budgets for various projects all around Libya for J&P (overseas)Ltd and that’s all during the planning stage before the project begins,
schedules and monitoring and controlling these hours for the manpower and plants and cost on monthly basis during the project progress to determine the position of the project and the situation each month and comparing it to the original budget, Also monitoring progress and updating the time schedule on weekly or monthly basis and submitting it to the client and to the management to be able to determine the right position and how much delay or good progress the project is doing . all this is done only if hours for manpower and plants is provided and recorded on daily basis and provided to the planning department using special data basis on Microsoft access and also special data basis for the cost control system to record materials consumption each day and unit cost, also preparing project status report for the company projects during which all the necessary information needed and updating it on monthly basis to be able to provide for all the other department crucial information about each individual project like start and end date and contract information and status of progress and how many manpower and plants are on the project, Also making income projection for one or two years which involves projecting to the management what are the requirements for the projects in progress and the future projected projects either manpower and labors requirements or plants and equipment and machines requirements, All this mentioned was done on a very big and huge budget projects all around Libya

Project Engineer at Al Tajamouat Industrial Zone
  • Jordan
  • January 1995 to March 2000

Worked for Al Tajamouat Industrial Zone which is a QIZ (qualified industrial zone licensed to exporting to the USA duty free) Area 3000M2 and involved in building factories for foreign investors interested in manufacturing and benefiting from the QIZ which is one benefit of the free trade agreement between Jordan and the USA.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering
  • at Teshreen University
  • January 1995

B.Sc. Degree in Civil Engineering Tishreen University Lattakia-Syria Graduated in 1995. Project Management Specialty

High school or equivalent, Science
  • at Terra Santa
  • January 1990

Terra-Santa College - Amman - Jabal Alweibdeh

Specialties & Skills

Control
Forensic Schedule Analyst
Cost Control
Microsoft Office
Primavera P6
Planning and control engineer
MS Office
Cost Control/Budgeting
MS Project
Primavera 5,6
Time and schedule analysis
primavera p6
procurement
primavera

Languages

English
Expert
French
Beginner
Arabic
Expert

Memberships

Jordan Engineering Association
  • engineer
  • January 1995
Save INTERNATIONAL
  • Value Engineering
  • August 2009
PMI Project Management Institute
  • member
  • January 2014

Training and Certifications

PMP (Training)
Training Institute:
PMI
Date Attended:
January 2011
Duration:
25 hours
Planning and scheduling (Training)
Training Institute:
CMCS Oracle Primavera P6
Date Attended:
November 2006

Hobbies

  • Swimming,traveling ,deiscovring and adventure