Andrew Grant, Senior Project Manager

Andrew Grant

Senior Project Manager

Spie Fondations

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Higher diploma, Civil Engineering
Experience
42 years, 5 Months

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Total years of experience :42 years, 5 Months

Senior Project Manager at Spie Fondations
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since July 2018

Reem Island Plot C16 Enabling Works. Diaphragm walling, rotary bored piles, 3 levels of struts plus capping and waler beams, bulk excavation and dewatering. CV 10m USD. Manage all aspects of work including, planning, safety, quality, manpower, equipment, contract, finance.
Relevel tilted tank in Ruwais facility
Tender in head office for projects

Operations Manager at Mastec Canada Construction
  • Canada - Alberta
  • October 2016 to July 2018

Supervise all aspects of work from contract award to project close out including tender input, manpower, equipment, planning, monitor & service as required of day to day running of multiple concurrent projects, Manage Project Managers & Superintendents. Complete monthly reports. Projects included work at Suncor, Fort McMurray,
Keewatinohk Manitoba, various bridge projects in Manitoba & projects in and around Edmonton & Alberta. $20 to 40M CAD
annually. Type of work included drilled cast in place piles, Berlin walls to upgrade existing mine crusher unit, driven steel tubular
piles, driven H piles, combination walls and sheet piling works.

Senior Project Manager at Pacer Foundations Corporation
  • Canada - Alberta
  • August 2012 to October 2016

Manage all aspects of work from start up to completion. Working to highest safety, quality work procedures as in oil & gas environment. Working in Fort McMurray Northern Alberta Oilsand mines (CNRL, Syncrude, Shell & Kearl), small jobs in Fort McMurray, Shell &
NWR refineries in Edmonton, BHP Jansen potash mine in Saskatchewan & for Manitoba Hydro in Winnipeg performing drilled cast
in place piles, shoring walls, tangent walls, low headroom piles, Osterberg load cell tests, driven steel tubular piles with caps, screw
piles, sheet piles and minor concrete works. Total Contract Value CAN$80m. Average contract value $5 to 10m CAD.

Construction Manager at AECOM Russia
  • Azerbaijan
  • October 2011 to August 2012
Owner’s Representative at AECOM Russia
  • Azerbaijan
  • April 2011 to September 2011

Supervising Main Contractor & Subcontractor to ensure large diameter bored piles to 70mts deep under bentonite /barite for 2 high rise towers and
podium for Phase 1 constructed to Specification, Quality & Schedule . Pre-plan and cost for phase 2 hotel works. Phase I contract value $21mUSD & Phase II $25mUSD

Senior Project Manager at Group Five Construction
  • Qatar - Doha
  • May 2010 to April 2011

Passenger Railway System Station Box.
Doha, Qatar. Construct first metro station box at New Doha Airport via top down method. Recruited specifically to support and motivate foundation subcontractor for diaphragm walls, large diameter piles some with plunge columns, Pre-plan, direct and monitor follow up heavy civils concrete, bulk earthworks, state of the art monitoring and dewatering. Resolve complex technical and quality issues direct with RE. Attend all meetings.
Transferred to Amman Jordan on water conveyance pipeline project from April 2011 to September 2011 .

Project Manager at Swissboring Qatar ( part of TREVI group)
  • Qatar - Doha
  • October 2007 to May 2010

Carry out all duties of Project Manager. ( planning, execution, monitoring, contractual, extra works etc.)
1.4km of perimeter secant wall with tiebacks, load bearing piles and pile testing via traditional & Osterberg cell methods, bulk
excavation, breaking down piles to cut off and dewatering for a 9 Towers, hotel, and large podium development. The job was
performed in 3 phases. Perimeter secant wall first, foundation piles, dewatering & bulk excavation and pile testing second, followed
by precise excavation to building foundations profile for towers and podium cap followed by pile breaking and pile integrity testing.
Total contract value was $58m USD.

Project Manager at TREVIICOS
  • United States - Massachusetts
  • October 2004 to October 2007

Carry out typical duties of Project Manager ( plan, execute, monitor, contracts, change orders, correspondence etc.) Worked 1 year in Lake Worth Florida on I-95 widening project for piles under bentonite. Then worked in and around Boston area on for various piling and diaphragm wall projects, Diavik Diamond Mine project in the North-West Territories of Canada for a deep jet grout
cut off wall 40m deep for the A-418 dike ($15m) and a slurry wall using a hydromill for the ground zero rebuild at the World Trade
Center, New York ($35m).

Production Manager at Trevi Foundations Nigeria
  • Nigeria
  • February 2001 to October 2004

Worked in Lagos Nigeria as the Production Manager responsible for all aspects of work including pre-plan, manpower, equipment, day to day servicing of multiple concurrent sites for their needs, manage project managers and superintendents for each site, write contractual correspondence to Client(s) and submit change orders and claims etc. Annual turnover of work 20 to 40M USD.

Site Engineer at Bachy Soletanche Ltd
  • United Kingdom - London
  • January 2000 to January 2001

Site Engineer working in Large Diameter Auger Division. Worked on piling contracts on site in London at various sites and Sunderland Metro. Organise and plan mobilisations to site, take care of all the typical site engineer duties on site on a day to day basis, handover required documentation to Client at end of job & demobilize.

Contracts Engineer at Taylor Woodrow Foundation Engineering
  • United Kingdom - London
  • January 1997 to January 2000

Office or site running multiple job sites as required, taking care of the pre-planning, job tracking, site visits,
contractual issues, safety, quality and job close out. Type of work included rotary bored piling dry or under bentonite, CFA,
diaphragm and plastic walls (rope & hydraulic grab) with & without membrane, mini-piling and grouting. Steel tubular driven piling for
marine works and steel sheet piles.

Site Engineer at Taylor Wooodrow International
  • Malaysia
  • January 1996 to January 1997

Large diameter rotary bored piles cast under water and polymer in various jobsite locations in Kuala Lumpur for new Star Light Railway viaducts and station
structures.
Typical site engineer duties, take care of manpower, equipment, planning, call off rebar, concrete, supervise construction and quality, post concrete pile tests, complete in depth pile logs.

Civil Site Engineer at Self Employed
  • United Kingdom - London
  • January 1990 to January 1996

Worked self employed in London on a jobbing hourly basis on various sites, but also Included working for John Laing Civil Engineering for 3 years at Sizewell B Nuclear power station as a site engineer in the structural
steelwork section, Wimbledon Tennis Club for Westpile Ltd piling for a new stadium and media centre as a site engineer for 8
months, one year working for Whessoe Projects PLC as site engineer in Motola, Mozambique constructing a new grain jetty and
refurbishing an existing oil jetty for the Overseas Development Agency. Jobs typically involved RC frames, internal works and housing developments for
ground beams, slabs, drainage and roads in and around the London area for various contractors.

Site Engineer at R O'Rouke and Sons
  • United Kingdom - London
  • January 1982 to January 1990

Worked as a Site Engineer for approximately 1 year each for R O'Rourke and Sons, Christiani & Nielsen and Sir Robert McAlpine.
Prior to that 2 years for the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Highway Maintenance Division as a Graduate Engineer.
Prior to my studies I worked at Husband &Company Consulting Engineers in Bishops Waltham Hampshire as a Technician in the Highways and Structures Departments,

Education

Higher diploma, Civil Engineering
  • at North East London Polytechnic ( now University of East London)
  • July 1986

HND Civil Engineering

Specialties & Skills

Oil and Gas
Deep Foundations
Concrete
MICROSOFT WORKS
DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
ENGINEERING
FRAMING
OIL PAINTING
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
MICROSOFT OFFICE