Quality Control Engineer
Arabtech Jardaneh
Total years of experience :11 years, 10 Months
mmam, Eastern, Saudi Arabia
• Quality control work maintaining up to 19 projects with TBC across eastern province varies in scope nature (newly constructed and renovation).
• Successfully produced 5 complex quality plans (including detailed ITP).
• Closed out Al-Forsan School project successfully.
• Conduct weekly quality control visits to each site providing observation and instruction to both contractor and consultant team.
• Handles all performed tests and audits the result per specs and codes. furthermore, prepare summary reports for major tests (such as slab load test, zone load test.
• Direct a variety of concrete building renovation work including steel and concrete jacketing, slabs, and beams support with steel beams.
• Ensure precises project status by generating weekly quality reports for related parties.
• Coordinate various disciplined IFC drawings providing feedback to the technical office.
• Establish clear procedures for execution by reviewing method statements for major projects activities.
• Mentor the consultant team in the inspection process providing a checklist, detailed instruction, and technical support.
• Coordinate between consultant teams in the inspection process to avoid miscommunication.
• Review and approve all structural materials to be used in the project, securing its compliance with Saudi building code and project specs.
• Supervise inspection of all supplied materials and ensure its compliance with the approval.
• Oversee the process of submittal upload to the unifier by the contractor.
• Conduct a quality visit for newly submitted suppliers to ensure compliance with the client's standard.
• Issue site instruction for major concerns within the project and follow up on it.
• Issue NCR (Non-conformance report) along with clear suggestive action and coordinate the settlement of the matter with the project manager.
• Cost engineering work maintaining up to 4 concurrent projects totaling around SAR300 million related to 2 different programs. It includes the following tasks:
- Ensure above 90% efficient cost reporting by designing and implementing the MIS (Monitoring information System) while integrating with cost accounting and project teams.
- Produce the project planned cash flow in coordination with the planning team, ensuring an accurate funding plan for each project.
- Produce a comprehensive monthly cost management report utilizing earned value management and present the periodic project status to concerned stakeholders.
- Review the commitment report produced by the cost accountant team.
- Monitor and control equipment, material, labor, subcontractor, and indirect costs with budget outputs.
- Guide the project management team utilizing areas of concern in conjunction with the recommended preventive and corrective action to concerned stakeholders results in cutting up to 5% of the project cost.
- Preparing claims and identify the cost impact for any potential change orders ensuring clear communication with stakeholders successfully claiming up to 7 million SAR.
- Manage subcontractor processes from a cost perspective, starting with the planning phase by assessing the subcontractor prices to monitor the progress and review the invoices up to the closing phase reducing up to 500 thousand SAR in cost.
- Audit and approve civil-related purchase orders from a cost perspective verifying scope, cost, coding, and payment terms compatibility with contract saving up to 4 million SAR in the process.
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• Budget control work including:
- Provide the required rates and productivities for the tendering team and aiding them in the tendering process.
- Initiate and Support stakeholders in formulating the original budget for all company projects with 1.9 billion of value.
- Create a unified cost coding and budget format for all company projects to improve transaction review by almost 50% and Enable reporting on different levels.
- Review and Update the original budget as per the company standard rates and Project performance.
- Create, update, monitor, and audit the projects’ budget on the Oracle ERP system with over SAR 5 billion of value.
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• Prolog® (Trimble software for project management control) administration work including:
- Design procedures and manuals to suit the company’s cost reporting and train 10 users from the cost team.
- Troubleshooting any prolog issues in coordination with the technical team.
• Recommending 2 new courses that were added to the department curriculum.
• College admission.
• Teaching and grading work for up to 2 classes.
• Research support.
• Mainly supervision and inspection over the process of delivering and casting of concrete.
• Supervision and inspection over the different construction stages of a villa from excavation to finishing.
• Overwatch the contractors’ engineers (Al Qabbani) and how they tackled daily work and emergencies
Bachelor in civil engineering with a focus on structural engineering. Full concrete design for overpass and underpass intersection with several alternative solutions for the high water table for the graduation project.