Ahmed Elhaj, Regional Quality Manager

Ahmed Elhaj

Regional Quality Manager

Arcadis

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering
Experience
15 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 7 Months

Regional Quality Manager at Arcadis
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since June 2014

My duties consist of :
• Development of MER Integrated Management System
• Provided Management System training to approx. 340 Arcadis staff to date.
• Performed internal reviews/audits to most of the active projects - more than 60% of the scheduled review/audit in 2014 and more than 80% of the scheduled review/audit year to date. A total of 106 audits conducted.
• Lead internal audits for both entire business legacy EC Harris and Hyder consulting.
• Facilitate external audits
• Regional coordination for registrations and certifications with defernt certification bodies (BSI and LRQA).
• Facilitate the closure of all internal and external audit reports
• Assist with transitional arrangements of ISO9001, OHSAS18001 and ISO14001 to one certification body
• Arcadis Quality Management Systems training
• Team Management
• Personal Development Plans - Teams
• Project Governance (all projects)
• Training Delivery
• Producing Monthly Quality Shares
• Support Electronic Platform Development and the development for the new intranet for QA
• Audit Management & Support a cross the region.

QA/QC Engineer at Husam Group
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2012 to June 2014

King Abdullah Financial District (Chilled Water Plant Plot 6.23 & 6.27)
•Responsible and reporting to the Project Manager. • Reviewing Contract Documents and studying drawings in detail ensuring their clarity and adequacy. • Advanced from quality analysis to production control management role, responsible for $10M in purchasing, inventory, and warehousing across 2 facilities as well as diverse financial, administrative, operational, and compliance functions. Coordinated with third-party local / international service, supply, and transportation providers. Selected Contributions:. • As Quality Analyst, provided training, mentoring, and supervision to team of internal auditors, directing inspections, SNC / ISO 9001:2000 audits, root cause analyses, and corrective action reporting; managed document control for 100+ procedures—including reformatting and updating of all 100+ documents—and launched intuitive, dashboard-style performance reporting tool. •Earned Certificate of Achievement for consistently delivering measurable process improvements. From Stanley Associates (now CGI) - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. • Raising Material Inspection Request for all the materials as per delivery to site. • Checking the Materials and Reports (Fit up & Dimensional, Welding visual, NDT and Painting reports) before raising the Inspection Request. • Coordinating with client and sub-contractors throughout the various phases of the contract. • Following up with safety erection method statements and making arrangements of site survey and executing the Erection work as per the Project Specification, ITP & Method Statement. • After erection of steel beams, hollow sections (both rectangular, circular and square), arranging and coordinating with surveyor in checking the alignment and levels of steel structures to get the site survey reports. • Coordinating and arranging Third Party personnel for inspection. • Carrying out preliminary inspection of materials of construction and reviewing the material mill test certificate. • To check all repairs are perform correctly and non destructive tests are regularly repeated. • To keep a report file for all non-destructive tests. • Identifying and issuing of non-conformity as observed during working. • Implementing the QA/QC procedure during erection. • Planning work execution as per work vender specifications / requirements& work target.

Procurement Engineer at SINOPEC International Petroleum Service Corporation.
  • Saudi Arabia - Khobar
  • October 2008 to December 2011

Well experienced in tendering and procurement, Demand forecasting, supply planning, MIS Reporting, Inventory replenishing and planning, and rate management of materials for various Heavy Engineering projects, Oil and Gas industry, Gas Pipelines projects, Oil Hook up wells, Oil field projects, etc..
▪ Well experienced in handling and preparing of technical specifications
▪ Well experienced in handling procurements and service contracts for EPC Engineering Projects from vendor selections, technical and commercial discussion, establishing of PO’s, arranging and getting the items with third party Inspection.
▪ Well experienced in procurement of Capital items for Fabrication workshops and Engineering Projects on large scale.
▪ Well experienced in procurement of welding electrodes, filler wires and slag as per the AWS specification.
▪ Well experienced in developing procurement strategies and biding processes for various projects, capable and experienced in vendor assessment, evaluation and development*
▪ Well experienced in getting the materials inspected as per various quality procedures and client requirements. ▪ Leveraged Lean Six Sigma techniques to improve purchase request processing, delivering 75% increase in processing time and establishing formal PO tracking procedures
▪ Take initiate for Cost saving/ Cost Reduction programmed.
▪ Well experienced in operating MS office, MS Project, etc
▪ Well experienced in studying and converting ―Key Performance Indicators‖ into goals and performance objectives in line with the overall organization requirements.
▪ Well Conversant to ISO 9001 2000 Quality management Systems and procedure.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering
  • at sudan unversity
  • September 2008

Specialties & Skills

Lean Sigma
Six Sigma
Welding
Procurement
Quality Inspection
Microsoft Office

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
  • 100068998
  • February 2009

Training and Certifications

CSWIP 3.1 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2011
Valid Until:
October 2011
PMP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2013
Valid Until:
February 2013
CSSBB (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2013
Valid Until:
June 2013