Bijan Ashraf, Planning Engineer

Bijan Ashraf

Planning Engineer

Hitachi Energy

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering
Experience
8 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :8 years, 7 Months

Planning Engineer at Hitachi Energy
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since October 2021

• Perform the role of a Planning Engineer, leading a team of Site Engineers, Technicians. Reported directly
to the Dept. Manager.
• Perform project planning and resource planning for 3 major projects of Kahramaa and other non
Kahramaa projects.
• Formulate project parameters, assign responsibilities to employees and monitor the project team.
• Coordinate and propose Weekly Activity Outage plans with Kahramaa.
• Prepare and submit daily/weekly reports of Kahramaa projects.
• Prepare preliminary project schedule of Kahramaa for tender submission.
• Successfully prepared and managed flow charts, schedules and step by step action plans.
• Monitor and Track the overall project progress of projects.
• Closely work with clients and project managers to execute the works planned.
• Collaborated with Project Team and Engineers to create project efficiencies and project profitability

Events Coordinator at Heya Arabian Fashion Exhibition
  • Qatar - Doha
  • November 2020 to December 2020

Event Coordinator - (Short term assignment)

17th edition of Heya Arabian Fashion Exhibition 2020, Doha Qatar

Managed every aspect of the Event planning / coordination as the only Event coordinator appointed for the project.

Construction Project Coordinator at Mesco Builders
  • India - Kozhikode
  • January 2016 to June 2019

• Performed the role of a Project manager, leading a team of site engineers, supervisors and accountants. Reported directly to the Managing Director.
• Performed exceptional project planning and resource planning for 4 major construction projects and ensured successful completion and delivery within the set deadlines.

o Holiday Hills - Villament project, India of 41 units including amenities.
o Handed over 14 storied apartment building “PLANITO APARTMENTS”, India.
o Completed the finishing works of Commercial Building “ROYAL ENCLAVE”, India.
o Contributed to Preliminary stage of French Riviera apartments 70 units, 85000 sqft, India (ongoing).

• Oversaw all aspects of projects, set deadlines, assigned responsibilities and monitored the progress of the project ensuring timely reports to the upper management on the project status.
• Prepared and maintained Project Documents and Collaterals.
• Performed estimation of quantities residential/industrial/commercial buildings
• Handled contract preparation and negotiation with Clients/Vendors
• Facilitated and supported internal and external meetings with stakeholders, contractors/clients, managed minutes of meeting and monitored progress as well as timely completion of actions.
• Served as focal Point of Contact for Vendors and Clients.
• Monitored project schedules and tracked project performance to analyze the successful completion of milestones, short terms and long-term goals.
• Identified the required resources in terms of manpower, materials etc. and managed procurement of building materials.
• Managed budgets and reported on Return of Investment.
• Ensured compliance and Issuance of all appropriate legal paperwork (E.g., Contracts and terms of agreement)
• Created and maintained comprehensive project documentation, plans and reports.
• Successfully prepared and managed flow charts, schedules and step by step action plans.
• Carried out Inspection of construction site to ensure appropriate level of quality control during project lifecycle.
• Pro-actively identified risks and mitigation plans.
• Enabled checkpoints to ensure quality in products/services being delivered.
• Verified invoices, requests for payment and confirmed the pay-outs for vendors.
• Proactively tracked market trends and monitored competition.
• Collected and maintained competitive information to present complete market evaluation for project
• Monitored project sales & analyzed pricing, reviewed promotional materials resulting in increased profit.
• Built and maintained the Company website
• Successfully created and executed Email marketing campaigns.

Project Quantity Surveyor at Malabar Developers
  • India - Kozhikode
  • February 2015 to August 2015

• Performed the forecast cost of different materials needed for the project planning.
• Prepared Bill of Quantities, Contracts, Work Order, Purchase Orders and other contract related documents.
• Compared and negotiated the quotations of various items and issue work order and purchase order for the works of the projects.
• Prepared “Extra Work” bill for the “Extra Work” done for clients.
• Managed the process of Vendor Management.

Quantity Surveyor Site Engineer at Mesco Builders
  • India - Kozhikode
  • May 2013 to January 2015

• Performed estimation of the quantities of residential/industrial/commercial buildings.
• Setting out of the projects at sites.
• Carried site supervision during the time of concrete and other major works.
• Designed structures like retaining wall, column, beam, slab.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering
  • at Calicut university
  • April 2013

Specialties & Skills

Coordination
Quantity Surveying
Project Management
Costing
Planning
Marketing
Costing
Project Coordination
Planning and Scheduling
Cost Controlling
Quantity Surveying
Tender Management

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Malayalam
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

PMP (Certificate)
Quantity Surveying (Certificate)
Quantity surveying (Training)
Training Institute:
institute of Quantity surveyors
Date Attended:
September 2015
Primavera P6 Software (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2016