Abdelkader Kalash, Deputy Operations, Planning & Construction Manager (OPC)- PMO

Abdelkader Kalash

Deputy Operations, Planning & Construction Manager (OPC)- PMO

ALSTOM

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical engineering
Experience
19 years, 9 Months

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Total years of experience :19 years, 9 Months

Deputy Operations, Planning & Construction Manager (OPC)- PMO at ALSTOM
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since August 2018

Riyadh Metro Project Package 3 - FAST consortium.

Deputy Project Construction Manger (Transit Systems)
(Deputy Operations, Planning & Construction department Manager - PMO)

Supporting Management on site construction issues, leading progress monitoring and reporting, PMO works, Finding progress blocking issues. Reporting progress to client. Representing Transit systems in front of other consortium entities and external stake holders. Reviewing all lines weekly reports, monthly MPR reports, and all client reports in terms of operations and installation/construction works.
Advisory to management on civil, construction and MEP matters, risks, interface issues. Updating construction risk register to project risk register. Participating in Rolling stock temporary operations and turnover to T&C. managing & follow up punch-list register to close out. Monitoring IAT (installation acceptance testing) progress to reach IRN
Acting as point of contact for construction-contracts matters, preparing contractual letters, supporting claims & contracts department and advising them on construction issues

Construction Manager Line 4, Transit Systems at ALSTOM
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • May 2016 to August 2018

As part of the Riyadh Metro Project - FAST consortium Sets to deliver turn key Design & build lines 4, 5, & 6.

FAST Consortium includes: FCC, ALSTOM SAMSUNG C&T, Strukton, ATKINS, TYPSA, Freyssnet & SETEC.

ALSTOM is in charge of turnkey transit system, Rolling stock, track works, signaling, energization, SCADA, CCTV, Track-side equipment, Passenger information systems, Depot Rolling stock maintenance equipment

Incharge of all PMO, Operations, planning and coordination, design and interface issues for Metro Line 4 transit systems, including, Power supply systems, signaling systems, Platform screen doors, Depot Equipment, Rail/track interface. Work permits, Work train vehicle management. represent Transit systems in Line Consortium meetings, client meetings and external stake holders.

Testing Commissioning and Project Close out manager at Saudi Oger Ltd.
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • September 2015 to May 2016

Assisting Company to close out several projects with focus on MEP delays, claims, project close out documentation and how to reach mechanical completion and final hand over. for Special Forces unit complex, including, Water treatment plant, Power grid, Officers club pools, all BMS, SCADA and ACID systems.

Site Project Manager at Saudi Oger ltd.
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • March 2015 to September 2015

• New Modifications at Al-Salam Royal Palace & Island (Jeddah)
Role: Site Project Manager - Support Team (since March 2015)
Work Scope: Turn Key Project Management, Site Construction, Structural/Civil works, Finishing Renovations, MEP Retrofitting, VIP works, Manpower control, subcontract management, Risk management, PMO reporting.
Client: MOF - Ministry of Finance (Royal).


Highlights
- Leading Construction team, assigning supervisors, foremen, planning manpower.
- Planning on the go due to Rush project execution, and working on achieving targets with Maximum productivity.
- Laying realistic project execution plan and implementing it throughout project echelons.
- Resource management, logistics planning, & construction work flow.
- Supporting other teams/sites to complete certain tasks for rush hand over of critical technical rooms.
- Coordinating with client for existing building services assessment and claiming further work for renovations.
- Coordinating for finishes, selection and implementation.
- Handing over Renovation works for Royal fire Brigade within 3 weeks
- Handing Over Royal Mosque Extension works within 4 days.

Technical Manager at Saudi Oger Ltd.
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • April 2012 to March 2015

• 600+ Million SAR, Mechanized Brigade at Al-Hassa (King Abdullah Military City Ph2)
Description: Military project comprising Infrastructure, Command, Accommodations, Utilities, support, with total built up area of 175, 000 m2(without variation orders).
Role: Technical dept. Manager (since Jan 2014), Project Procurement Manager (since Apr 2012) & Sr. Project Mechanical Engineer (since May 2010).
Work Scope: Design & Build of Military city.
Client: Saudi Arabian National Guard- SANG.
Client Representative: JET- Joint Engineering Team (SANG Technical Div&US Department of Defense)

Highlights (Procurement)
 Achieved 98% delivery of all long lead material ahead of schedule.
 Streamlined project purchasing flow by process debottlenecking and cleared backlog of 85% pending requests.
 Created a cohesive and high performing team capable of working with minimum intervention.
 Accurately forecasted procurement budget and monthly cash flow for timely allocation & disbursal.

Highlights(Project Engineering)
 Spearheaded mechanical design and technical deliveries for HVAC, BMS, Plumbing, Firefighting, Services& external works at site including design team management, development & delivery of drawings, evaluation of technical proposals, selection of materials & equipment, and recommendation to suppliers’ proposals.
 Prepared tenders & evaluated offers, followed up procurement, managing change orders.
 Delivered all design drawings, and shop drawings on time with minimal rejection by client representative.
 Finalized all work packages, and placed orders of long lead material ahead of schedule.
 Assisted corporate procurement in finding alternative source for low cost procurement through value engineering.
 Issued 275 nos. of shop drawings, and verified/approved 415 nos. of material submittals.

Technical Support Manager & Regional Sr. Project Coordinator at Saudi Oger Ltd.
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2014 to March 2015

• 8 Billion SAR, KAP -1 (King Abdulla Project for the development of security and civil defense facilities Kingdom wide project under Ministry of Interior, Saudi Arabian Government)
Role: Technical Manager - Project Region Coordinator (since Jan 2014)
Work Scope: Construction of Police stations, Civil defense facilities, Fire stations, etc.

Client: MOI - Ministry of Interior.
Consultant: Khatib & Alami.

Highlights
 Leading project engineering, procurement & logistics operations up to final site delivery/handover.
 Successfully completed engineering database, updated drawings & generated composite coordinated drawings for 8 sites within a period of 3 months with limited engineering staff. And further 88 sites for South Region within 6 months.
 Established smooth flow of materials with coordinated logistics for 8 sites successfully meeting delivery targets.
 Received team award for excellent engineering management 8 sites, and entrusted to coordinate 80+ more sites at southern region to assist the projects regaining construction momentum and resolve technical bottlenecks.

Senior Engineer, MEP at Saudi Oger Ltd.
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • May 2010 to January 2014

Design / Technical Team Leader for Mechanical Discipline
Handling of design changes, implementation on drawings, technical proposal evaluation. Selection / recommendation of material, equipment & suppliers proposals.
Mechanical: HVAC, BMS, Plumbing, Firefighting, services, & external works.
Preparing Tenders, Technical Analysis of offers, Procurement follow up, reviewing contracts & negotiation, verifying project plan and budget, managing change orders upstream (client) and down stream (subcontracts).
Reporting to technical manager (for engineering matters)
Reporting to project manger (for tendering, procurement and budget matters)

Project: Mechanized Brigade at Al-Hassa (King Abdallah Military City Ph2)
175, 000 sq.m. Total built up area
Client: Saudi Arabian National Guard
Consultant: US Department of Defense (JET: joint engineering team)

Electromechanical Department Head at Saudi Oger Ltd.
  • Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
  • April 2008 to May 2010

Promoted to Manage both Mechanical & electrical departments of the same previous master plan project as a main contractor.
- Member of site management team, reporting direct to P.M.
- Managing, supervising subcontractors.
- Planning manpower levels and completion dates, in coordination with management.
- Reviewing and approving technical submittals, shop drawings, calculations & verifications.
- Material Procurement and stock management.
- Following up with suppliers & manufacturers.
- Liaising with client for approvals, change orders, commissioning, & handing over. Attaining completion certificates, supervising and directing training for client personnel as per contractual stipulations.
- Coordinating / directing Electro-mechanical Testing and commissioning of: pumps, chillers, AHU's, Package substations, RMU's, BMS system, fire fighting systems, & plumbing networks.
- Assessing staff performance and providing leadership & team work spirit.

Project Mechanical Engineer - Section Head at Saudi Oger Ltd.
  • Saudi Arabia
  • July 2006 to April 2008

Project: MASTER PLAN Community Project for Khafji Joint Operations (KJO),
- Housing 300 no. two story Villas
- Government Buildings
- 3 schools
- 3 mosques
- 3 story Hotel
- HRD Building
- Chiller Plants 4 nos. serving the community buildings
including Pre-insulated RTR pipe for chilled water
distribution network.
- Infrastructure: Storm water, Sewage, potable water
network, irrigation, fire water, and chilled water network.
- Building Internal works: BMS systems and control, HVAC,
FireFighting, Plumbing, Irrigation.

Client: Saudi Aramco Gulf operations (AGOC) and Kuwait Gulf Oil Company (KGOC)
PMC: Dar Al-Handasah
Consultant: Saudi Consult
Saudi Oger as Main Contractor

Job Scope:
- Incharge of Technical works, managing material submittals and reviewing mechanical shop drawings.
- negotiating & discussing w/ consultant for approvals.
- Technical proposals and field adjustments.
- Representing company and liaising with client / consultant, for mechanical matters.
- reviewing project change orders, & variation orders.
- Issuing work orders for subcontractors.
- Mechanical Department in charge to supervise contractually the subcontractor's works and ensure timely progress as per project specifications.
- Coordinating w/ site project manager and site coordinators for proper and economic execution of mechanical works at site.
- Coordinating with suppliers, manufacturers for selection of materials and their timely delivery.
- Guiding central store for management of mechanical equipment, (schedules, tables, follow up w/ manufacturers)
- Approx. 2700 nos. DX-FCU/ACU (for 300villas)
- Complete plumbing fixtures (for 300Villas)
- Water heaters (entire project)
- Approx. 1500 nos. exhaust fans (300 villas)
- Coordinating w/ QA/QC for technical support and solving site matters.
- Supervising initial start-up commissioning, and balancing for ensuring proper systems operations.

Mechanical Site Coordinator at Saudi Oger
  • Saudi Arabia
  • May 2006 to July 2006

Mechanical site coordinator for Office Park Project consisting of: ARAMCO & Kuwiat Gulf Oil Head Quarters Building,
Client: Aramco / Kuwait Gulf Oil Co. (KJO)
PMC: Dar Al Handasa
Consultant: Zuhair Fayez Partnership
Saudi Oger as Main Contractor

Mechanical works: HVAC, Plumbing, Fire Fighting systems, BMS.
- 27 units chilled water AHU's
- chiller plant: 7 units Carrier 350 ton chillers w/ pump room.
- Fire piping, brazed copper pipe
- BMS: HoneyWell
- Plumbing, sanitary and water supply, plumbing fixtures



Current Job scope: Part of site Coordination team representing mechanical department supervisng, guiding and coordinating subcontractor works at site, to optimize project progress efforts and achiving weekly accomplishment for progress and recording weekly claim to client with planning department.

Coordinate and solve problems at site requiring engineering decision within contract and project budet

Using Project assets to push works and open activities for other trades.

Mechanical estimation at Saudi Oger
  • Saudi Arabia
  • February 2006 to May 2006

Working in Riyadh Head Office Branch
Review Drawings, specifications & BOQ to make take off of materials, for project support for different sites in the kingdom (especially Saudi Oger Projects for ARAMCO/Kuwait Oil in Khafji)

Maintenance & Production coordination at Furnishing House Factory
  • Saudi Arabia
  • November 2004 to November 2005

Furnishing House Factory (FHF) is a company well known in casework manufacturing, we are specialized in kitchen mass production, wardrobes closets, & vanities, FHF also has a department for wood working projects.

My job in "FHF" was to maintain the CNC machinery involved in furniture manufacturing (3-axis router & boring machine, 1-axis board cutting machine) and other traditional machines involved in carpentry, also my job is to maintain the facility's wellbeing and saftey of the personnel. Also upgrading machines and implementing material handling systems for production efficiency.

As a production coordinator i had to coordinate with all the company's departments and especially between the sales and production to organize and control the sales order and products coming out from the factory stores to the customers, also I contact customer to solve their technical problems and apply quality & followup of our installation teams.
My work also dictates me to use computer software to schedule production & installation operations. I manage stocks of artificial marble and organize purchase requests for this material by using simple forecasting and market statistics.

I also assist the plant manager in overseas contacts for purchasing raw material and supplies, also assist in worker evaluation and motivation.

My ambition in FHF and in any other future industrial facility is to be the plant manager, that is why you notice the variety of tasks i had taken with high motivation.

Baz Industrial Establishment at Baz Industrial Establishment
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • June 2003 to August 2003

My position was a trainee, for one and a
half months from 30th June until 15th August 2003.
"Baz industrial establishment" (Com. Record 64712) is a well acknowledged firm in the Lebanese industry, specialized in the field of plastic rotational molding and construction of relevant factories. Its activities and exports
are to different counties like Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan and some African countries.

I had gained experience in the design and production of industrial machines specialized in plastic rotational molding. I was personally involved in helping in the design and drafting of several industrial machines.
(i also woul like to note that i had worked as a part time employee during the academic year 2003-2004).

AlYemni Motors Company at AlYemni Motors Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • July 2002 to August 2002

I had worked as a trainee for one month
From 13th July until 15th August 2002.
YEMCO is an authorized dealer for ISUZU
Vehicles in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

My training was in the field of vehicle maintenance and engine overhauling, especially in diesel engines of light transportation trucks and 4X4's.

The training was fruitful due to the direct contact with mechanical hardware, tools and engines. Also I had gained experience in handling and cooperating with mechanics from different countries like the Philippines, India and Pakistan.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical engineering
  • at Beirut Arab University
  • July 2004

Achieved the bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering. Majored in mechanical engineering and considered as an above average student. Achieved a degree of excellence in the courses of Production Engineering, Operations Research, Management courses and Engineering Economics & project management & marketing Senior project (graduation project) titled "The Virtual Factory" a Supply Chain Management, GIS, and Production Simulation approach, which was supervised by the Dean of Engineering at the, Beirut Arab University, "Prof. Dr. Aziz Ezzat Elsayed".

High school or equivalent, Official Lebanese Scientific Baccaleaureate
  • at Bchamoun public high school
  • July 1999

Completed high school under the science division (focus on mathematics, physics & biology) with official final testing grades of 78%

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Engineering
all windows office applications (word, excel, power point).
AUTOCAD engineering drawing program
MATLAB programming
MS Project
Mechanical Desktop 5.0
BIM, AUTODESK REVIT MEP 2014

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
German
Beginner

Memberships

Order of Engineers and Architects of Lebanon
  • Profession
  • December 2005
ASHRAE American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Airconditioning Engineers
  • Member
  • August 2008
Saudi Council of Engineer
  • Engineer
  • April 2011

Training and Certifications

AutoDesk Revit MEP 2014 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2013
Valid Until:
January 9999
Conflict Resolution (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2014
Valid Until:
January 2014
Critical Thinking (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2014
Valid Until:
January 2014
Revit MEP 2014 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2013
Valid Until:
October 2013
NFPA 20 Standard for Installation of Stationary Pumps for Fire Protection (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2010
Valid Until:
June 2010
NFPA 72 , National Fire Alarm & Signaling Code (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2011
Valid Until:
January 2011
Green Buildings Design & Construction Techniques & Implementation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2011
Valid Until:
January 2011
NFPA 25 Installation, Inspection, Testing & Maintenance of water based Fire protection systems (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2010
Valid Until:
June 2010
NFPA 101 LIFE SAFETY CODE (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2011
Valid Until:
January 2011
NFPA 13, Code for Sprinkler System (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2010
Valid Until:
May 2010
PM process Tools & Techniques, Soft skills for Construction management, as per PM-Book (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2009
Valid Until:
August 2009

Hobbies

  • Photography