Cost Controller
Tabreed National Central Cooling PJSC
Total years of experience :34 years, 6 months
Project: Dubai Metro Green Line Chilled Water supply. UAE (Project cost 0.5 Billion AED) Project Department-UAE.-Lead Cost Controller.
Upcoming Projects: Dealing with Estimation with various options liaison with commercial department, allocating budget, Tendering & Contracting
Contracts at close out: Construction of chilled water plants (total capacity 20, 400TR), 22 ETS rooms & 15, 000m chilled water pipeline at Dubai Metro Green Line.
Responsible directly to Consultants & Contractors regarding all costing, Contractual & commercial issues on behalf of client-Tabreed PJSC.
Costing, tendering & Estimation At Completion (EAC)
Make sure that Projects carried out within the budget.
Tendering, Evaluating & finalization of contract documents especially regarding BOQ, financial terms, penalty, LD, etc liaison with procurement department.
Evaluate all bids & forward recommendation for decision making.
Identify the cost activities, assign the correct cost code, and create work packages (purchase order), trending, forecasting & cost reviewing. Allocate the budget among various packages & pay items.
Creating WBS .Verifying & approving the invoices & creating vouchers. Estimate & preparing of variations orders, (Soft ware JD Edward).
Analysing delay, EOT claims etc. Dealing with Liquidated Damages, penalty clauses & back charging.
Carrying out of Risk analysis & Value analysis.
Quantity take off & preparing BOQ
Providing Cash flow statement & control the monthly payments
Reference :
Sr. Quantity Surveyor at the project - Construction of Anantara -Banana Doha Island 5 star Resort & Marine Works (Cost QAR 1.6 billion, Included Construction of two break waters * revetments) since Feb 2013 to date. Work with main contractor Urbacon Contracting Co. LLC
1) Head of the QS at ADIR projects & Managing the QS team
2) Preparing progress Payment certificate & negotiate with the all consultancy groups & finalized the main contractor’s claims.
3) Budgeting, Forecasting & preparing EAC, Cost analyses & cost report for the management review & preparing Final account.
4) Take all effort that project to be completed within budget, on time & required standard liaison with project/Construction/Procurement Managers/Directors.
5) Estimation & negotiation with variation claims of main contractor with the client.
6) Quantity take off & evaluate the sub-contractor claims/variations/EOT & applying of LDs etc.
7) Issuing Site work instructions, liaison with issuing work service orders/contract agreement etc.
8) Certifying the material quantity for purchasing. Verifying to go quantity /cost control/coding of the cost.
9) Review & confirmation of PO & Contract Agreement (Standard ASHGHAL). Raising the Purchase Requisition. Preparing BOQ & WBS etc.
Evaluation, Budgeting, costing, Accounting, Quantity take off, Estimation, cost control etc. & managing QS team
Project: Emal Aluminium smelter Project. UAE (Project cost 6 Billion US $) Department Project Control & Cost Control-UAE .Quantity Surveyor
Finalise Contract awarding & dealing with contractors.
Prepare cash flow statement & control the monthly payment schedule.
Forecasting cost of various work packages & trend it & updating of the Estimated at completion.
Estimation of various claims &trending.
In charge of monthly progress billing.
In charge of establishing payment terms & maintaining payment terms register.
Verifying the payments & quantities as per quantity take off, contract agreement, variation orders & site instructions etc.
Quantity take off for unit rates packages
Dealing with contract administrators & contractors regarding disputed invoices.
Dealing with variation orders /EOT with contractors.
Monitering with progress with planners
Software used PM+ project Management SNC -Lavalin
Number of active contract packages averagely per month 90 to 100 .Monthly total progress bill around 150 millions US$,
Other administrative works.
Following major Infrastructure works included in project scope.
Construction of road from Taweelah Junction to Aluminium smelter project 24 km.
Providing permanent power from Taweelah power plant to new roads & smelter project.
Adding 1000MW to existing power plant also done under Aluminium smelter projects
Quantity Surveyor
(Standardize: Bechtel).
Finalize contract award & Liaison with all stake holders.
Involve in QURR & calculate the performance indicators (cost & schedule) & inform to the field engineer where required more resources & acceleration.
Allocate all the hours & quantities to in correct cost codes.
Quantity taking off for Infrastructure, Utilities, Office Building, Substation, Pot Lines, Mechanical Work Shop, Loading Station, Storage, Ware house Etc.
Quantity take off above ground & Under ground piping lines.
Quantity take off for structural steel .
Quantity take off of for mechanical quantities
Preparing of BOQs for all the take off.
Providing forecasting quantity
Verifying to Go Quantity.
Verifying of subcontractors’ quantity reporting.
Estimating for Final finishing works Ponds, Culverts, Roads etc.
Ref: Manager- Project Control, Elrahimy Karim, kmelrahi@bechtel.com,
Manager Estimation International. Denis Liedstrand
Following major Infrastructure works included in project scope.
Construction of new road from Sohar -Muscut road to to Aluminium smelter project 10 km.
Construction of Truck-haul road from Sohar harbour to Aluminium smelter 20 km.
Providing of permanent power from Sohar power plant to Smeltor projects & Street light(new Roads).
Construction of road inside the plant, Irrigation channel around the plant & roads, Storm water lines, Drainage, Culvert, portable water line, sewerage lines, water reservoir, water treatment plant, sewerage treatment plant etc
Commodore Qatar Contracting Co. -Main Contractor for High Rise Building -Qatar: Department -Pre Contract.-Quantity Surveyor
Standardize: ISO 9001 & FIDIC
Quantity taking off for high-rise building (Civil & Mechanical) & preparing BOQs
Bidding for contracts. Evaluation & purchasing of main mechanical Item.
Preparing contract, award the contract dealing with insurance, bonds etc.
(Main work carried out for 5 story building US $ 30million , 29 story building US $150million)
Standardize: ISO 9001 & FIDIC (Position as Project Manager & Engineer)
Major Task: Complete the project within the budget.
Mapping out the scope of project & preparing strategic planning of whole the business of turn key projects.
Estimating of project (Infrastructure development ) cost & budgeting the turn key projects
Determining of overhead & profit factors ROI, WACP(weighted average cost of capital), MRRR etc.
Preparing of work done certificate.
Making a execution plan of the projects liaison with stake holders & share holders
Project name: Samanalwewa Hydropower electric project -Wet Blanketing (43million US$)-Designation: Project Engineer
From Sep1997 to July 1999.
Major Scope of works.
Wet Blanketing remedial action for water leaking from the dam.
Construction of road from Balangoda Junction to Samanalawewa reservoir 18 km.
Providing the electricity power to Samanalawewa area & newly constructed town due to evacuation of civilians effected from constructions.
Preliminary estimation, liaison with all stake holders, procurement/shipment of major equipment/vessels/Items.
Project Name: Textures Jersey Lanka (UK) Ltd Garment Factory. 300 million US $
From 2001January to 2002 December; Designation: Project Manager:
Major works involve: Installation of Central AC, Chillers, Boilers, Affluent line, Hot water, Process water, Steam line, water treatment plant, Fuel & water tankers Fire ring main system etc.
From 2002-2004- Project Manager. Major refurbishment works to Neelaweli beech Hotel Sri Lanka. (US $ 2 million). Major Task :Contract & execute work on time because hotel rooms already book by the various tourist internationally
AsTechnical officer -Procurement:
President & member of evaluation board, Tendering, purchasing of Major engineering items/craft/ships/vehicles/engines/spare parts etc.
As chief Engineering Officer:
Planning of preventive maintenance of all type of machinery & equipment related to marine/mechanical, land & auto vehicles& ships & crafts.
Installation, testing & commissioning of verious pipe lines (fuel, oil, fire, affluant, process, hot, steam, potable water, sewarage etc)
Installation, testing & commissining of verious machinery (diesel engine, compressors, pumps, boilers ets) .
Outsourcing of repairs which beyond workshops’ capacity.
Planning & ordering of necessary spare parts & maintaining of stores procedure
Execution of repairs, maintaining of documentation .(including job cards), using of work shop manual, service manual, spare parts catalogues etc.
In Charge of installation of debunkaring fuel line (2 km ) from Storage facility to Prima jetty in Sri Lanka.
Cost analysis & estimation .Standardize: ISO 9001 & ICTAD-SL
Important appointment held(Lieutenant Commander -Engineering Office)
Chief Engineer on board ship
Engineer -work shop
Repair Cost Engineer
Engineer-Procurement
Other relevant details:
Following major estimation carried out during my career.
SHAMS 01 Plant Expansion (2, 5000RTx4=10, 000RT)-Abu Dhabi-UAE-45 millions UAE Dirham
Limitless Abu Dhabi UAE (2X7500=15, 000 RT) Plant Construction- 66 millions UAE Dirham
UAE, Dubai Metro Green Line ( Chilled water Plant & Piping scheme)- 500 million UAE Dirham
Sri Lanka, Wet Blanketing & Infrastructure development Samanalwewa, Balangoda-US $ 45 million
Ready to take any challenge & very keen to learn any task.
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Master of Business Administration .UK (selective subjects International Finance & Negotiation)
Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (UK)
Marine Engineering Specialization course. (Duration one year) That course is required by SL / Indian Navy in order to work as Chief Engineer on Board ship.
Master of Science (Mechanical Engineering) Production of machines Specialized in Technology of Metal cutting machines & tools