ABDULAZIZ AREKAT, Senior Technical Manager, Projects Manager

ABDULAZIZ AREKAT

Senior Technical Manager, Projects Manager

Spectrum International for Renewable Energy

Location
Jordan - Amman
Education
Bachelor's degree, V.GOOD
Experience
17 years, 11 Months

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Total years of experience :17 years, 11 Months

Senior Technical Manager, Projects Manager at Spectrum International for Renewable Energy
  • Jordan - Amman
  • My current job since July 2016

Project Manager for the following photovoltaic projects:
Macdonald's (4.6 MW)
USA Embassy(1 MW)
Ward Resturant (1 MW)
Jabal Alzayton Hospital (1 MW)
Istiklal Mall (2.3 MW)
Speciality Hospital (2.5 MW)
Royal Hashemite Court (16 MW)
Bank of Jordan (4 MW)

Projects Manager at Al Yacoub Contracting Establishments
  • Jordan
  • July 2015 to June 2016

Shams Maan Solar Power Plant 52 Mega

Projects & Engineering Department Manager at Daman Development Corporation
  • Jordan - Amman
  • August 2009 to June 2015

Main tasks:
1-Prepare/ Review/ Implement company action plan/ project phases.
(Infrastructure, sub-structure, Super- structure)
Roads (Arterial, Primary, local), Buildings (Cast in situ, Precast), Hangers (Pre-engineering, Hot rolled), Sewage Treatment plans (Centralized, Closed package), Water Center(Underground, Ground, Elevated tanks), Telecommunication center and lines, Pumping station, Electrical substation, Electrical underground/ overhead line, Sewage and water pipe line and house connection.
2-Preparation of Initial Cost estimate for the projects needed (Budget purpose).
3- Preparation of TOR/ RfP for Contractor and Consultant.
4- Review the design submitted by Designer.
5- Prepare Contract document (Invitation to tender, BOQ, Specs, General and Special conditions,
6- Advertizing bids in the newspapers, selling contract documents, and answering bidders questions/clarifications by sending addendums.
7- Study and review bidders prices and send the recommendation to the top management for the approval/ awarded/ commencement the works to the selected contractor and prepare the contracts to be signed.
8- Handing over the site& ordinates to the contractor/ consultant.
9- Attend Progress meeting/ management level.
10- Review the program/ cash flow/ materials and provide comments/ approval.
11-Review all deliverable/ claims submitted by consultants and contractors and provide comments and monitor their performance and take the necessary action/ Approval/ interact.
12-Audit the Invoice &Provide recommendations on releasing payments guarantee and bonds security.
13- Study, Analysis, amend and Approve the master plan (21, 000, 000 sqm) in coordination with Investment Authority & others.
14- Prepare periodic and non-periodic reports.
15- Provide the location and coordinates to the new investors based on the land use and connect them to the infrastructure.
16- Participate as Coordination Engineer with a lot of international and local third party consultant (Halcrow, Dar al Handasah, Cammilin Denny, Bearing point, …etc) to make the studies like (Site Condition, Market analysis, land& Infrastructure demand, Topography studies, Concept Master plan, Detailed master plan)
17- Secretary of the board of director for Irbid Development Corporation.
18-Acting as a Project Manager/ Client representative for the below Projects:-
- Construction of Road17&19/ Mafraq/ 5, 500, 000JD. /Running project.
- Construction of Solar Road Lighting / Mafraq/ 1, 000, 000JD. / Running project.
- Construction of infrastructure project (Water, Sewage, Storm, Electrical &Telephone network, sewage treatment plant and water center /6, 000, 000JD. /Running project.
- Construction of Underground electrical cable (33KV)/ (160, 000 meter)/9, 000, 000JD/Running.
- Construction of three Community services steel Hanger / Mafraq/ 750, 000JD. / Running project.
- Construction of Nine Investment steel Hanger / Mafraq/ 1, 000, 000JD. / Running project.
- Construction of Commercial steel Hanger / Mafraq/ 250, 000JD. / Running Project.
- Construction of security building/ Mafraq/ 350, 000JD/ Running Project.
- Construction of early intervention infrastructure project (5, 000sqm/10, 000, 000JD/Completed.
Water, Sewage, Storm drainage system, Electrical &Telephone network, Biological Sewage treatment plant, Water center (Elevated& Underground water reservoir).
- Construction of several Road projects (37 km)/ Mafraq./29, 000, 000 JD/ Completed.
- Construction of three smart building/4, 000, 000 JD/ Irbid./Completed.
- Construction of road #1& Ring road/ 1, 000, 000 JD/Irbid/ Completed.
- Construction of electrical Substation (160 Mega watt)./17, 000, 000 JD/ Completed.

Planning & Co-ordination ENGINEER at ACTCO GENERAL CONTRACTING COMPANY
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • April 2007 to July 2009

Projects:-
1- Pipe Steel Factory.
2- Tammer Factory.
3- Tawelah Power Plant

Work involved construction of ( Piles, earth works, Concrete & Steel buildings, Hangers, Retained wall, High voltage cable route, Pipe rack, Trenches, Ducts, asphalt Roads &Pavement.

Tasks:-
- Understand work scope, quantity and familiar with logical sequences in terms of engineering and construction .
- Conduct field scoping to clarify scope as required.
- Prepare WBS structure, and work with management and project/ team in the development of work break down structure for progress measurement, scheduling, cost estimating and project control.
- Prepare and manage overall master schedule integrating work breakdown structure using scheduling software.
- Understand contractual matter.
- Coordinate schedule from multiple contractors and incorporate the information gathered into the overall project master schedule.
- Prepare cost estimation and schedule bar chart plan considering all inputs (manpower, equipments and materials ) availability, production and construction sequences.
- Develop work method of statement or procedure as required.
- Prepare weekly and monthly report as required.
- Evaluate allocation of resources and provide recommendations to maintain required progress.
- Develop and implement plan versus actual progress charts (histograms/S curves).
- Reports and analyses deviations from plan.
- Track, monitor and forecast progress of all activities and deliverable such as products, engineering documents, fabrication status and construction of all discipline.
- Analyze gaps between the planned and actual progress and highlight the areas of concern which required action of the associate task member.
- Perform probabilistic analysis of completion dates and potential alternatives.
Prepare and update three weeks and three months look-ahead schedule that reflect the priority activities.
- Participate all meeting ( i.e schedule review meeting, progress meeting, coordination meeting, constructibility review meeting and so on ).

PRODUCTION ENGINEER at Sabri Farah Precast Concrete Factory
  • Jordan
  • June 2006 to March 2007

Production Engineer in sabri farah pre-cast concrete Factory.
Production of the below elements in line with Design unit :
Precast beam, Column, WT beam, solid slab, Parapet, stair, wheel stopper, Retained wall, Foundations, Prestressed slab.
Color pigmintation & Logo

Education

Bachelor's degree, V.GOOD
  • at CIVIL ENGINEER
  • February 2007

MU’TAH UNIVERSITY: BCs. in CIVIL ENGINEERING with V.GOOD grade , Rated FIRST in Civil engineering

Bayt Tests

Business Strategy Test
Score 62%

Specialties & Skills

Planning
General Construction
Primavera
Civil Engineering
AutoCAD
Autocad
Prokon, STAAD Pro, Etabs
Microsoft Word, Excel, Access , power point , Internet &C++.
Primavera
Enviromental Assessment
Project Management Professional (PMP)

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

Abu Dhabi Transmission & Despatch Company (TRANSCO)
  • WORK PERMIT HOLDER
  • February 2008
TTOEM
  • WORK PERMIT HOLDER
  • November 2008
JORDAN ENGINEERS ASSOCIATION
  • STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
  • March 2007

Training and Certifications

Arc GIS 1 (Training)
Training Institute:
Esri Group
Date Attended:
January 2010
Arc GIS 2 (Training)
Training Institute:
Esri Group
Date Attended:
February 2010
Primavera 6 (Training)
Training Institute:
Ocean Academy
Date Attended:
September 2007
Duration:
42 hours
Arc Gis 3 (Training)
Training Institute:
Esri Group
Date Attended:
February 2010
Project Management Professional (Training)
Training Institute:
Ocean Academy
Date Attended:
November 2014
Duration:
40 hours

Hobbies

  • ✦ Scuba diving, ✦ Creating software, ✦ Fishing, Playing chess