Charbel Farraj, Senior Mechanical Field Engineer & MEP Coordinator

Charbel Farraj

Senior Mechanical Field Engineer & MEP Coordinator

Almabani

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, MME - Applied Energy
Experience
14 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :14 years, 1 Months

Senior Mechanical Field Engineer & MEP Coordinator at Almabani
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since June 2015

Senior construction engineers in a broad range of construction engineering work within a specific engineering discipline for a particular area of the project. Provides engineering assistance to superintendents, directs assigned personnel in meeting cost and time schedules, verifies materials, equipment, and quality and assures results meet design requirements.

- Responsible for the activities of assigned construction engineers, such as the application of drawings, specifications, and subcontracts.
- Review quantity listings of contractor field purchased material and equipment. Initiates requisitions for field purchases.
- Review preparation of construction drawings and schedules. Review contractor design of temporary construction facilities and ensures preparation of “as built” drawings and other job plans.
- Assists subordinate construction engineers and superintendents in:

- Interpreting design drawings.
- Monitoring equipment installation and planning for delivery of construction materials and equipment.
- Assuring that proper warehousing and storage exists to ensure environmental protection.

- Reviews specifications, purchase orders, subcontracts, inspection reports, delivery schedules, instruction manuals and technical data.
- Administers assigned subcontracts to ensure contract remains up to date in areas such as drawings, specifications, cost and schedule.
- Coordinates with the Field Construction Manager on activities affecting the contract administration operation.
- Coordinates with engineering design on constructability issues.
- Supervises subcontractor work efforts and administers routine subcontract changes and interfaces with client personnel. May represent the company in contractual discussions and negotiations.
- Reviews and/or supervises, as assigned, the preparation of construction estimates, cost engineering studies, schedules and budgets.
- Analyzes assigned construction activities to determine the scope, time and resource requirements.
- Ensures that vendors’ bids for material and equipment are in conformance to specifications.
- Coordinates the interfacing between the construction automation plan and the project controls program at the jobsite. Reviews project controls documents on progress relating to cost and schedule.
- Performs personnel evaluation of assigned subordinate personnel and ensures they receive progressive training.
- Involves punch listing in project closeout during initial acceptance and final acceptance.

Works with various functions to ensure the project achieves corporate goals set for environmental, safety & health, quality, cost, and schedule.

Electro-Mechanical Engineer at ITTCO - Electro-Mechanical Contracting
  • Djibouti
  • April 2013 to March 2015

Responsible of budgeting MEP projects: Plumbing, Fire Fighting, Fire Alarm, BMS.

Responsible of shop drawings, and execution.

Head of Maintenance Department at Hospital Notre Dame Du Liban
  • Lebanon
  • November 2011 to August 2012

• Supervise the maintenance team
• Distribute jobs of corrective and preventive maintenance
• Launch tender of purchasing new equipment

Mechanical Engineer Site Engineer at Hachem Engineering & Contracting
  • Lebanon
  • November 2009 to November 2011

• Working Schedules
• As Build Drawings
• Purchase Orders for Site
• Participated in several projects:
o Wines Of Lebanon - Basbina, Batroun
o Institut Technique Cortbawi -St. Coeurs, Jounieh

Trainee at Dar Al Handasah - Shair & Partners
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • August 2008 to September 2008

• HVAC Design
• Plumbing and Sanitary Design

Trainee at BETON W.L.L. Ready-Mix
  • Qatar - Doha
  • June 2008 to August 2008

• Machine Maintenance
• Build a Chiller Station and a Ice Maker Station

Education

Master's degree, MME - Applied Energy
  • at American University of Beirut
  • June 2018

The master's of mechanical engineering in applied energy is designed to educate engineers to design and manage efficient energy systems for buildings with high-quality indoor environments; to integrate renewable energy technologies with conventional energy systems to improve sustainability of energy supply systems; to understand the economic, policy, and regulatory frameworks within which decisions on sustainable energy utilization practices are made; and to assess and evaluate the impact of technical developments in energy systems on society, the environment, and the economy.

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineer
  • at American University of Beirut
  • October 2009

Courses Taken: Design of Thermal Systems, Thermodynamics, Fluids, Passive Building Design, Solar Energy, Control and Automation, Instrumentation. Dean's Creative Award on the Final Year Project. Projects: • Micro Car Contest: Group project consisted of designing and building a micro car. We won the first place in speed performance. • Factory Machine: Designed and built an automated conveyor belt system that sorts out good products from bad ones according to given constraints by interfacing the sensor circuits with the computer by means of the NI-ELVIS. • A.I. Robot: Winner of ASME Lebanon contest Description: A vehicle that climbs up a stair and bumps and take gravels.

High school or equivalent, General Science
  • at Antonine Sisters School
  • July 2005

Specialties & Skills

Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Excel
Preventive Maintenance
AutoCAD
AUTOCAD
BUYING/PROCUREMENT
ENGINEER
INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY
PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE
PURCHASE ORDERS
PURCHASING
Revit MEP
Operation & Maintenance
Firefighting
Planning
Plumbing
Project Management
procurement
project planning

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Building Management System (Siemens) (Training)
Training Institute:
Khater Engineering & Trading
Date Attended:
April 2013
KNX Basic Course (Training)
Training Institute:
Building Automation Training Center
Date Attended:
October 2012