Abdulkarim Zidan, Sr. Construction Manager

Abdulkarim Zidan

Sr. Construction Manager

Royal International Construction

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering
Experience
22 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :22 years, 0 Months

Sr. Construction Manager at Royal International Construction
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since February 2016

Project: Life Line Hospital Expansion, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Responsibility :

• Liaise with client, PMC, and engineers and Authorities, to make the project happen.
• Planning, organizing, supervision, and implementing all construction activities to be carried out on project in compliance with specifications, method statement, drawings, schedules, site QA/QC, safety and environmental procedures, and programmed requirements (Project Management Plane) within the approved budget.
• Manage and control labour and material cost at site to deliver the project within the budget.
• Identify and recommend proposals of potential variations to commercial department and provide technical support for the contractual claims.
• preparing the site and liaising with other construction professionals such as architects, engineers, estimators, MEP, and surveyors before construction work starts
• Developing the programme of work and strategy for making the project happen.

Acting Construction Manager (Sr. Project Engineer) at Habtoor Leighton Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • April 2015 to February 2016

Project: Bay View Hotel, Dubai, UAE (Five Stars Hotel), Value: AED 200 millions
Responsibility :
• Planning, organizing, supervision, and implementing all construction activities to be carried out on project in compliance with specifications, method statement, drawings, schedules, site QA/QC, safety and environmental procedures, and programmed requirements (Project Management Plane) within the approved budget.
• Manage and control labour and material cost at site to deliver the project within the budget.
• Identify and recommend proposals of potential variations to commercial department and provide technical support for the contractual claims.
• preparing the site and liaising with other construction professionals such as architects, engineers, estimators, MEP, and surveyors before construction work starts
• developing the programme of work and strategy for making the project happen

Package Manager (Sr. Project Engineer) at Habtoor leighton group
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • April 2011 to April 2015

Package Manager from Apr 2011 - Apr 2015
Project: Al Mafraq Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Value: AED 2.2 Billion
Responsibility: Determine subcontractor scope of work, and negotiate with them to award the package within the budget.
• Making the technical review of subcontractor submissions, and ensure their compliance with project specifications and drawings.
• Provide guidelines to subcontractor for their submissions (materials, and shop drawings submittals), review it and transmit it to consultant, then conduct meetings and discussions with consultant to get approval, within the time schedule and site requirement.
• Manage and control subcontractor materials delivery schedule as per site requirement and project time plan.
• Manage site works to ensure timely delivery of the project within safety and quality requirement of our company and client.
• Identify and recommend proposals of potential variations to commercial department and provide technical support for the contractual claims.
• Liaise with consultant to solve site and design clashes.
• preparing the site and liaise with other construction professionals such as architects, engineers, buyers, estimators, MEP, and surveyors before construction work starts

Sr. Project Engineer at Habtoor leighton group
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2008 to April 2011

Project: P457FZ JAFZA Convention Centre Projects (611), Dubai, UAE; Value: AED 1.91 Billion
Responsibility :
• Planning activities, and man power distribution at site
• Manage and control the construction works at site, to deliver the work within the time, safety and quality requirement of our company and client.
• Manage and control subcontractor works and material delivery schedule.
• Checking drawings and submittals and make sure the work are executed on site in accordance with the approved shop drawings, materials, and method statement
• Manage and control labour and material cost at site to deliver the project within the budget

Project in charge at Al Ahmadiah Contracting and Trading
  • United Arab Emirates - Umm Al Quwain
  • June 2006 to August 2007

Projects: Beach palace for HH Sh. Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum Value: 120 million
Responsibility: Responsible for managing and delivering the assigned Works: Palace
projects within the period and within set quality standard and budget this ranges from analysis, design, development, and
adoption to staffing of the project team and setting the priorities.

Site Engineer/ QA/QC Engineer at Al Ahmadiah Contracting and Trading
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2004 to June 2006

Role: Site Engineer/ QA/QC Engineer
Projects: JBR - 5 (5 Towers + Podium) Value: 750 million

Responsibility: Responsible for managing simultaneous work group with all Works: Tower
aspects of tasks development; follow up task progress and time schedule for the projects. Checking work quality on site and ensure to be as per specifications and project budget.

Site Engineer at Al Ahmadih Contractin and Trading
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2003 to June 2004

Role: Site Engineer
Projects: Al Murooj Complex Value: 320 million

Responsibility: Monitor project activities and program target schedule. In Works: Building
charge for pre cast cladding panels for all the towers.
Coordinated amongst the subcontractors ensuring proper
sequencing and preparation of work. Check work quality on site and ensure to be as per specification and project budget.

Previous Career History

Structural designer and construction/finishing, supervisor at Safeer Consultants
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2002 to June 2003

From - To: Jan 2002 - Jun 2003
Company: Safeer Consultants
Role: Structural designer and construction/finishing, supervisor
Projects: N/A Value: N/A
Responsibility: Responsible for structural design and drawing. Supervise all Works: N/A the activities on all sites to ensure it's going on as per
specifications and within time frame. Solve the entire
problem related to the structural work. Follow up structural
work and drawings to get approvals from Dubai municipality.

Previous Career History

Site Engineer at Arabian Union Company
  • Syria - Damascus
  • August 2001 to December 2001

From - To: Aug 2001 - Dec 2001
Company: Arabian Union Company
Role: Site Engineer
Projects: Al Mujtahed Hospital (Maintenance) Value: N/A
Responsibility: Overall in charge in supervising and maintaining structural Works: Building and finishing activities and responsible for supervising. Maintenance


Corporate CV - Abdul Karin Zidan Updated: 29 Mar 2012

Education

Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering
  • at Damascus University
  • January 2001

Specialties & Skills

Construction & Property
Construction
Engineering
CIVIL/STRUCTURAL
ENGINEER
FINISHING
PROGRESS
Managing

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert

Training and Certifications

PMP (Training)
Training Institute:
MISP
Date Attended:
September 2012