Project Controller
Foster Wheeler
Total years of experience :21 years, 11 Months
Heydar Aliyev Oil Refinery (HAOR) Modernization & Reconstruction Project (Baku, Azerbaijan)
- Deciding on proper engineering techniques and milestone sequences for each project stage
- - Set targets for activities based on each phase of a project plan and ensure it meets Client’s specifications.
- - Make estimations for timescales and costs using specialized design software packages
- - Monitor day-to-day work progress for a project and provide accurate weekly and monthly reports by swiftly communicating potential progress delays or project slippages
- - Continually make comparisons between planned progress and actual progress and report any differences to Project Manager.
- - Analyze expenses and identify opportunities to save cost, make sure the project is handled on time and on budget by overseeing the project planning, inventory services, cost control, team leadership, and project management.
- - Works closely with others involved in the project and directs the daily workload of subordinate team members.
Ninawa Power Plant Rehabilitation Project (Iraq)
- Preparing brown field turn key complex project baseline L1, L2 and L4 schedules including commissioning and start up
- Completing PMO check list
- Man loading schedule and exporting relevant reports
- Preparing and managing reports (S Curves, Histograms, commodity tracking - cable pulls, terminations, welding dia inch, steel, concrete, and GA progress MAP updating)
- Supporting EPC schedule development and integration including logic validation and forecasting (importing/exporting)
- Preparing project histograms
- Provide weekly CPM and summary status reports.
- Updating PMO cost/pacing file
- Materials shipping reporting
- Claims documentation preparation and management - including data validation
- Milestones preparation and reporting
EPC for Tie-in Works of Existing & New Wells and Flowlines (UAE); Client is ADNOC (Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Petroleum Operations)
- Guide and direct resolution of project difficulties and complex control problems.
- Interact with clients and attend regular meetings and provide reports.
- Determine design changes and schedule slippages impact.
- Develop and maintain establish standards to exhibit schedule and plan hierarchy and inform project and company management.
- Review prepared reports and advise corrective actions
- Recommend and customize project control systems to satisfy project requirements.
- Coordinate with cross functional team with professionalism, courtesy and tact.
- Determine significant irregularities, trends and variances and suggest corrective action.
- Gather inputs and update standard management reports.
- Coordinate with project management staff to ensure project objectives and timelines.
- Identify construction and maintenance costs on materials, equipment and labor.
- Create, review and manage project schedules to identify progress, lead times and project sequences.
- Develop project controls personnel
- Sufficient technical understanding to administer scheduling activities through project set-up, Engineering and Procurement or Construction, Systems turnover and Commissioning phases under supervision.
- Understand the project life cycle and able to develop Level 5 project networks in accordance with the project requirements
- Produce graphical and tabular reports from Planning systems and provide basic narratives on reliability of source data and key areas of risk. Provide basic analysis of reports in written format
- Analyse logical problems or problems with several obvious relationships
- Recognise several causes or consequences of actions
- Systematically break a complex task into more manageable parts and identify the critical component of a problem and follow existing guidelines to resolve issues
- Communicate potential solutions to supervisor
- Work both independently and within a Team to achieve common goals on multiple simultaneous site projects
- Utilise Primavera and Microsoft Excel to schedule multiple on-going projects
- Understand all relevant documentation pertaining to the project including scope of services, conditions of contract, project execution plan, project schedule, etc
- Work within the standard Planning / Scheduling procedures
- Ensure that these procedures fulfil Client requirements and develop additional project-specific procedures where necessary
- Produce current physical progress reports in line with project requirements
- Prepare and issue project action reports (monthly) to Project Manager
- Maintain accurate schedule and control curves in an updated condition and prepare forecasts of trends
- Responsible for formulating manpower and man hour estimates for proposals or any other future work
- Provide and maintain planning and scheduling statistics derived from completed projects
South Caucasian Gas Export Pipeline Expansion Project for Shahdeniz Offshore Gas Field (Value USD 735 mln.); Client is BP
- Review and understand all relevant documents and conditions pertaining to the project.
- Attend the formal handover from Proposals and Estimating at the start of the project in accordance with Corporate Procedures.
- Establish and define any job oriented project control procedures and identify the level of resources required to operate them.
- Develop in conjunction with the Project Manager and Client a suitable Work Breakdown Structure for the project.
- Establish and agree the level and frequency of reporting required by the project.
- Establish and communicate cost and schedule baselines and ensure control mechanisms are in place to monitor performance.
- Review overall project status with the Project Control team and Project Management and recommend corrective action where necessary.
- Ensure that all cost, planning and document control reports are prepared and issued in accordance with the Project Coordination Procedure.
- Supervise the activities of the PDC group both in their productivity and the technical adequacy of their output.
- Liaise with other Departments at all meetings relevant to project operations and ensure that the time and cost plans are updated to reflect latest information..
- Execute change management process to approve schedule changes.
- Issuance of Daily, Weekly & Monthly Reports to PMT & Client
- Preparation of Progress Measurement System in accordance with Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Facility & Construction Department - Control & Coordination Section-
Multibillion Halfaya Oil Project in Iraq (Work by 28/28 days rotation)
This large onshore project covers a few Phases and comprises numerous packages inside each Phase (Central Processing Facilities - Phase 1, 2 &3, Power Plants, Gas Receiving Station, Oil & Gas Export Pipelines, Well Pads Construction, Source Water Plant, Source Water Pipeline, Additional Tanks, Pump Stations etc.)
• Ensure that the Health Safety Environmental and Quality Policy is implemented and understood by all supervised staff and that all Compliance and Code of Ethics requirements are appropriately embedded within the Project and Document Control organization.
• Review and understand all relevant documents and conditions pertaining to the project.
• Ensure that the requirements of the contract are followed and reflected in the provision of the Services.
• Attend the formal handover from Proposals and Estimating at the start of the project in accordance with Corporate Procedures.
• Develop any job specific project control procedures for approval.
• Prepare and maintain the manpower projection plan for the project control team and liaise with the Manager, Project Control and Chief Engineers to ensure that the project is provided with sufficient resources at the required level.
• Establish the specific responsibilities of the Lead Engineers and supervise the activities of the project control team for technical
Chirag Offshore Oil Project (COP) operated by BP
Construction of subsea jackets for oil platforms
- Involvement in collecting and capturing contractors data for input into Client’s Forecast model
- Prepare Value Of Work Done (VOWD), calculation and submission for review
- Monthly variance analysis where required, reviewing and approval of Contractors monthly valuations / payment certificates
- Capture data relating to Project Management and workforce labor in order to perform validation, productivity and forecasting information
- Preparation of data files using Excel, Access / Other databases for man-hour analysis by discipline
- Participation in periodic audits of contractor records, interfacing with Cost and Contracts to provide most up-to-date data
- Understand work scope, quantity and familiar with logical sequences in terms of engineering, manufacturing and construction disciplines.
- Conduct field scoping to clarify scope as required.
- Understand WBS structure, and work with management and project/maintenance 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, earn value method, familiar with scope management and change control.
- 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 in puts (manpower, equipment and materials) availability, production and construction sequences.
- Develop work method of statement or procedure as required.
- Understand and able to utilize planning tools such as MS excel, Access, MS Project, Primavera, Maximo, SAP and ERP.
- Develop and update resource (manpower and equipment) histogram weekly or monthly as required
“Four Seasons” Hotel Construction Project - Baku, Azerbaijan
- Preparation of monthly Project Progress Claims for Client’s review
- Prepares and submits master program of the project in consultation with Project Manager
-Prepares and submits Planning Data’s to be incorporated to the submittal of Project Progress Report (weekly/ monthly) in coordination with Project Manager and Site Quantity Surveyor and submit same to the Consultant / Client for Approval.
-Submits planning report such as preparation of manpower requirements for the project, preparation of material procurement report in accordance with approved program.
- Coordinate with Project Manager the effective implementation and monitoring of Look-Ahead-Schedule including the project actual accomplishments.
- Reports to the Project Manager the status of project progress against the plan schedule and provides corrective actions necessary if the planned schedule is not achieved
- Development of monthly cost summaries including actual and committed costs
- Management of all budget revisions and schedules
-Support of the construction team by building finance database of current projects in the core areas of the Client's operations
- Cost estimates and associated production profiles
- Calculation of actual costs and earned value figures
- Perform a variety of cost engineering functions encompassing estimating, cost control, budget preparations, forecasting, cost reporting under limited supervision
- To perform and ensure effective cost control functions for ongoing projects
- Maintain a current cost control database
- Review proposed cost changes with construction personnel, client and contractors.
- Development of cost charts for various work sections
- Support of Project Manager on ad-hoc assignments
- Propose, get approved and update the Projects general work breakdown structure (WBS) and its schedules; tracking actual activities Progress and forecast schedules. Propose corrective action if necessary.
- Propose, get approval for and update the Projects Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS).
- Establish, on a timely basis, provisions for committed cost and payments.
- Predictive control (trends analysis): Prepare and submit to the Management reports about the produced deviations related to the costs and schedule estimates, including, if needed, proposals for the corrective actions to be taken.
- Evaluate and inform the Project leaders about impact caused by Design and Scope Changes proposed and authorised.
- Supervise the cost control reports issued by the contractors and incorporate the different cost controls reports provided by the Contractor to the General Costs Control database.
- Supervise and check compliance to the requirements of invoices.
- Support the management and project engineers in negotiations with contractors for settlements of contradictory prices.
- Verify the correct integration of the Project disciplines and contractors execution programs into the Project General Schedules.
- Verify the implementation and application by the contractors of the costs control procedures.
- Supervise the work units and prices of the work units in the WBS to be executed.
- Validate the system used by engineering sections and contractors to evaluate the project progress through the combination of physical quantifiable quantities supplied and/or installed as well as delivered drawings, plus charts with progress key dates, weighted values for each task / activity and amounts to be paid.
- Evaluate the regular progress and trends reports and analyse the planned / actual progress curves, histograms, tables, status reports, bar charts and computerised lists presented by the contractor about the Engineering procurement, construction and start up works, issuing the corresponding report to the Project leaders.
- Assist Planning Engineer in execution of duties and other activities as assigned from time to time.
- Assisting the preparation, maintenance and review of contract programs.
- Assist in monitoring the progress of projects.
- Assist in the preparation of Extension of Time, Variation and revised/Acceleration programs for review by Contract Planner or Senior Planning Engineer.
MBA in Project Management