Craig Swartz

The Jaidah Group is a conglomerate that has been operating in a wide array of business sectors for over 100 years. Jaidah is invested in both sales and leasing of some of the world’s top brands in vehicles and heavy equipment such as Hyundai, Genesis, Chevrolet and Isuzu in vehicles and Linkbelt and Sany Cranes, Kumatsu, Bobcat and Stihl civil equipment.

Responsibilities:
•Responsible for management of P/L and Accounts for cost and revenue purposes
•Developing relationships with key clients and organizational heads to create a consistent resource of new, timely local market information and business development ensuring growth of market share and growth of the business
•Developing, gaining consensus for, and implementing the Management Plan for assigned assets
•Managing Grow Perform Succeed (GPS) and effectively develop sales and marketing team through performance development processes
•Providing leadership by making hiring and pay decisions, developing performance plans, directing work, coaching staff and evaluating performance
•Working closely with the Company Owner, Chief Operating Officer and the Management team to ensure the highest operation standards and business development.
•Assessing departmental and company performance and devising plans for improvement
•Overseeing day to day business operations
Achievements:
•Responsible for growing the business by 75% within my first 2 months in the position and maintaining further growth within my tenure
•Increasing utilization on my Equipment Leasing Division from 25% to 95%
•Demonstrated effective management, leadership, coaching and development of the Leasing Division building the most effective team to run the business
•Successfully located and consolidated all company owned assets in an orderly fashion in order to better manage the distribution to prospective clients and better serve current clients.
•Reduced the fleet of over depreciated equipment and vehicles successfully as to improve the bottom-line figures.

was founded in 1979 as an inland transportation company. Over the years the company has gone through significant change. The JTC brand is associated with four core activities that serve a variety of markets throughout the Middle East and beyond. The core activities are delivered through our four operating divisions:
Ports Management, Contract Logistics, Equipment Leasing and Power Rental focussed mainly on the Oil and Gas sector.

Responsibilities:

As with the JTC Group, I am responsible for the following:

•Responsible for management of P/L and Accounts for cost and revenue purposes
•Developing relationships with key clients and organizational heads to create a consistent resource of new, timely local market information and business development ensuring growth of market share and growth of the business, servicing mainly the Oil and Gas sector
•Developing, gaining consensus for, and implementing the Management Plan for assigned assets
•Managing Grow Perform Succeed (GPS) and effectively develop sales and marketing team through performance development processes
•Providing leadership by making hiring and pay decisions, developing performance plans, directing work, coaching staff and evaluating performance
•Working closely with the Company Owner, Chief Operating Officer and the Management team to ensure the highest operation standards and business development.
•Assessing departmental and company performance and devising plans for improvement
•Heavy Equipment Leasing (focused on crane and labour hire) and the logistics thereof
•Spearheaded the management of major projects and minimizing exposure of risk on the same as per HSE standards for both equipment and operators
•Ensuring Deadline Management e.g. shutdowns of oil and gas sites.
•Overseeing day to day business operations

Achievements:
•Expedited the expansion of the brand-new business venture into East Africa, working in alignment with the Tullow Oil Projects/ explorations. Territories included Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia
•prepared route surveys for this region to accommodate movements of equipment
•Facilitated export of equipment (Middle East to Kenya), driving the cranes in convoy of 10 x AC80 TEREX cranes from Mombasa to Lake Albert, Uganda
•Launched the local operation
•Established the Forward Operating Base
•Formalized local recruitment and manpower
Other Achievements in Qatar Business:
•Established Qatar JTC business as legal entity of the local market
•Successfully managed and developed the Qatar business into the most profitable and lucrative division within the company
•Decreased staff turnover by 10% and increased staff compliment by 50%,
•Gained a profitability of 70% and a growth by 60% in the market

Future Engineering services the onshore and offshore oil & gas industry as well as petrochemicals, fertilizer, steel mills and utility industries in the state of Qatar. They offer a fleet of different Construction & Fabrication Equipment with drivers/operators. Their areas of specialization include Workshop Services, Fabrication Services, Project Execution and Marine Services.

Responsibilities:
•Managing work force of 350 staff including Engineers, Fabricators, Operators, Riggers and admin
•Project Execution and management including shutdowns, prevention and prediction of breakdowns and Maintenance requirements and therein coordinating and overseeing the service and repairs on the same
•Overseeing plant and maintenance department
•Upkeep of third party and QP (Qatar Petroleum) certifications and standards on equipment
•Tendering, executing won tenders of major projects by ensuring necessary crane, equipment and manpower allocation and facilitating the logistics thereof
•Overseeing required fabrication and/ or procurement of equipment needed for the various sites and sectors
•Recruiting, training and development of staff
•Developing and establishing staff and company policies
•Management of Labour accommodation
•New Business Development