Darar Azzam

Projects Corporate Manager
Consolidated Contractors International Company (CCIC), Qatar

Reporting to the Area Managing Director. Provide expertise to ensure successful planning, execution, and performance of a portfolio of projects.
• Keep track of projects performance and ensure effective implementation of project control system and processes.
• Monitor works toward contract obligations and achieving contractual milestones. Ensures timely issuance of contractual notices.
• Identify and analyze tasks to improve performance.
• Monitor progress and conduct weekly progress review. Identify areas of concern and ensure corrective actions are agreed and implemented at the appropriate level.
• Monitor engineering, procurement and construction progress. Interact daily with discipline managers and provide guidance. Attend meeting with vendors and subcontractors.
• Conduct a weekly progress meeting with PMT, assess deviations and discuss rectifications, and monitor required actions execution by PMT.
• Review of baseline schedule on regular basis, assess feasibility, identify challenges, and suggest modifications as necessary.
• Conduct regular meetings with planning team and ensure timely receipt of reports and execution of required actions.
• Ensure weekly and monthly progress are issued according to procedure. Review reports and ensure integrity of figures and information.
• Monitor and review manpower productivity for different disciplines and ensure manpower availability according to approved histograms and suggest modifications as necessary.
• Monitor and review subcontractors schedules, performance, and progress. Identify concerns, review action plan with PMT and monitor execution
• Ensure overall project progress can meeting contractual milestones. Attend war room to ensure mitigation plan is in place to rectify deviations.
• Evaluate expenditure approvals requests by project directors according to financial authority limits. Review decision supporting document, ensure consistency and highlight deviations.
• Provide feedback to senior management to support decisions. Prepare recommendations and way forward actions for the best interest of the company
• Provide solutions in order to resolve or avoid any concern that may impact performance, productivity, or profitability.
• Monitor cost reports regularly and ensure expenditure is in line with the approved budget. Liaise with the cost control team and monitor expenditures.
• Manage the establishment of performance KPIs in line with corporate goals. Track implementation, monitor, and rectify deviations.
• Review of projects KPIs with PMT and ensure proper action are in place to comply with planned objectives.
• Ensures contracts are executed in accordance with corporate guidelines.
• Provide support regarding correspondences, notifications, variation requests, and claims preparation and ensure timely delivery by the PMT of the supporting documentation for claims and counterclaims negotiations.
• Monitor correspondence by analyzing incoming and outgoing correspondences.
• Monitor requests for variations, change orders, site instructions, and extensions of time. Provides follow-up, as necessary, to drive to transactional closure.
• Provides proactive advice on specific issues, risks, and contractual activities taking into account the contract and business objectives.
• Develop or customize project management procedures and processes for effective administration to drive financial performance.
• Review plans for different activities and contracts. Advise constraints and make recommendations to the planning team.
• Conduct research, recommend areas of

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Commercial Manager - Assets and Projects

In charge of oil & gas projects in Qatar, Africa, and Latin America. Represent QP’s commercial vote in the asset management team. Report to and advise assets’ board of directors, and manage decisions with very significant monetary value and impact.
• Manage commercial aspects and ensure assets and projects are executed as per approved plans, resolve operational issues, optimize costs, setup and monitor KPIs. Ensure effective processes, reporting, and monitoring are in place.
• Liaise and interact with IOC and NOC partners, operators, and governmental bodies ensuring alignment on major investment decisions, and resolution of commercial issues.
• Build excellent relationship and influence strategy with operator and provide support in order to resolve or avoid any concern that may impact progress, productivity, or profitability.
• Evaluate, assess, and approve asset or project development plans and related capital and operational expenditures.
• Act as a member of the asset or project advisory committee responsible for reviewing different techno-commercial subjects, provide recommendations to support operation, and take necessary actions and follow-ups.
• Perform due diligence review at project or major task start up with operator and ensure all requirements and obligations are properly identified and addressed for prudent project management and efficient progress.
• Interact on daily and weekly basis with operator. Ensure daily, weekly, and monthly asset or project related reports reflect an informative status. Flag any concerns and follow up actions.
• Attend regular meeting and lead discussions with operators, and stakeholders to resolve obstacles and issues, and to align positions. Monitor progress and implementation, and provide corrective actions.
• Review planned tasks and activities with associated schedules and budgets and ensure effective governance and control are in place all the time.
• Keep track of the project performance and ensure effective implementation of project control system and processes. Ensure deliverables are met in a timely manner.
• Review and assess project services functions and ensure compliance with contracts and agreements requirements. Liaise with the support functions team to evaluate effective control and suggest enhancements.
• Conduct visits to operator offices and ensure proper management and processes are resourceful and competent.
• Review organization structure and provide input to the staffing plan.
• Provide approval to operator’s bidders’ list, oversee operator’s bidding process, and provide approvals for bids award beyond threshold value.
• Attend progress meeting, discuss concerns, highlight variances, and follow up corrective measure and processes enhancements.
• Manage commercial and economic evaluations related to operating assets, projects, acquisitions, upside opportunities, extensions of licenses, and change in commercial and fiscal terms.
• Lead negotiation and development of complex projects agreements. (PSC, JOA, farm-in, DFA, HOA, shareholders, investment). Manage implementation and flag deviations, variances, take necessary measures, provide support to operations and liaise with legal.
• Assess project development plans related activities. Provide guidance and support to technical team, optimize as necessary, and eliminate non feasible proposals and suggest alternatives.
• Discuss, review, and approve work program and budgets. Monitor progress, completions, and variances. Assess and discuss deviations with operators, evaluate implications on profitability and advise enhancement to project controls as necessary.
• Set along with partners and approve projects table of financial authorities, manage requests for approvals of expenditure, and monitor cash calls according to related agreements and effective reporting.

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Oil & Gas

In charge of development and evaluation of mega projects and opportunities in the refining, petrochemicals, and manufacturing with multibillion US dollars value.
•Manage Evaluation and development of various downstream opportunities and projects.
•Promote downstream business with international partners.
•Lead development process through the project development stages.
•Ensure projects are executed as per approved execution plans, optimize costs, and monitor performance and progress.
•Ensure effective processes, reporting and monitoring are in place.
•Perform due diligence review at start-up of each stage of the project and ensure all requirements and obligations are properly identified and addressed for prudent project management.
•Manage deliverables required from engineering contractors, market consultants, and technology providers as relevant to the project stage under evaluation.
•Ensure daily, weekly, and monthly project related reports reflect an informative true status. Flag any concerns and follow up actions.
•Review planned tasks and activities with associated schedules and budgets and ensure effective governance and control are in place all the time.
• Keep track of the project performance and ensure effective implementation of project control system and processes. Ensure deliverables are met in a timely manner.
•Review and assess project services functions and ensure compliance with contracts and agreements requirements. Liaise with the support functions team to evaluate effective control and suggest enhancements.
•Conduct visits to contractors offices and ensure proper management and processes are resourceful and competent.
•Supervise the development and amendment of project economic models for proper assessment at each decision gate of the project development stages.
•Evaluate the project CAPEX, OPEX, and project total installed cost estimates.
•Manage project work program and budget for different development phases. Ensure effective reporting system is in place. Monitor expenditures and control variation.
•Supervise tender documents preparation, evaluate bids received from Pre-FEED contractors, FEED contractors, EPC contractors, technology providers, and market consultants from techno commercial aspects.
•Conduct reviews, clarifications, and progress meetings with contractors, consultants, and technology providers.
•Provide recommendation for approvals of bids awards.
•Submit analytical reports and recommendations to the high management.
•Negotiate and conduct discussions with oil and gas companies with the potential to develop refining and petrochemical joint ventures with QP.
•Advise industry and business perspectives to the high management. Provide timely progress report on projects and prepare necessary presentations.
•Negotiate agreements and contracts (CA, LOI, MOU, HOA, JVA, MA) with JVA partners. Feasibility, FEED, and EPC contracts with engineering contractors. Licensing agreement, engineering agreement, guarantee agreement with technology providers. Liaise with the legal and finance department.
•Conduct marketing studies in the petrochemicals and refining sectors, provide insight for industry long term trends and margins, benchmark and evaluate impacts on the company’s competitiveness.

Oil & Gas

•Evaluate and develop various downstream opportunities and projects.
•Lead selection process of potential JV partners, contractors, technology providers, and consultants.
•Manage techno-economic evaluations for the different project development stages.
•Assess the costs details and uncertainties.
•Develop and amend project economic models for proper assessment at each decision gate.
•Lead negotiation and conduct discussions with international partners.
•Coordinate tender documents preparation, evaluate bids received from Pre-FEED contractors, FEED contractors, EPC contractors, technology providers, and market consultants from techno commercial aspects.
•Evaluate project work program and budget for different development phases. Monitor expenditures, report variations, and follow up.
•Manage development of specialized consultancy studies.
•Evaluate project execution schedules for accomplishing different development stages.
•Review planned execution program tasks and activities with associated schedules and budgets and ensure effective governance and control are in place all the time.
• Keep track of the project performance and ensure effective implementation of project control system and processes. Ensure deliverables are met in a timely manner
•Provide input, implement corrective measures for variations, and provide support to ensure compliance to targeted time and milestones.
•Prioritize business proposals according to the downstream business strategy and investment guidelines.
•Participate in JVC board and executive committee meetings and defend the company’s positions regarding resolutions and action items.
•Provide strategic positions and recommend tactical positions in negotiating and safe guarding the company’s interests in agreements and contracts during negotiation.
•Assess risks and lead the implementation of appropriate risk management approaches.
•Conduct research, recommend areas of business development, and formulate a strategic plan and goals portfolio of specific downstream value added projects based on Qatar's available feedstock and comparative international advantage.
•Liaise with legal, finance, and strategic planning departments as necessary.
•Represent the company in conferences and forums.

Proposal Leader, Projects Proposals Department

In charge of leading development of projects proposals including technical, commercial, and contractual aspects for a wide range of EPC projects in the Middle East and Gulf area in the oil & gas, petrochemicals, refineries, pipelines, power plants, and industrial projects.
• Lead cost estimation activities and ensure estimates have the required accuracy.
• Manage preparation of bidding proposals. Present proposals at tender board meetings.
• Manage commercial and technical deliverables of the estimates proposals.
• Lead multi discipline engineers and coordinate required inputs to the proposal.
• Manage preparation of EPC projects master development plan.
• Establish division of responsibility matrix and monitor progress and deliverables.
• Review and comment on contractual requirements and prepare change notices.
• Prepare scope verification procedures, and manage variations.
• Identify technical and commercial risks and prepare risk management plans.
• Provide inputs and comment on project schedules and milestones.
• Lead negotiations with clients, partners, and major vendors.
• Manage preparation of procurement scope of work and request for quotation of the major equipment packages.
• Evaluate and analyse subcontractors and major vendors technical and commercial bids, and recommend successful subcontractors.
• Prepare manpower and equipment histograms and project staff organization charts.
• Prepare and evaluate financial models and cash flows.
• Prepare project mobilization and demobilization plans.
• Manage communications and data distribution among concerned parties.
• Coordinate activities after contract award and provide support to the project execution.
• Prepare lessons learned reports and work plans and share findings with the management.
• Engage in engineering activities and conceptual designs.
• Supervise plant performance guarantees obligations and their commercial impacts and risks.
• Provide construction support and conduct site visits for assessment.

Siblin Cement Factory

•Lead commissioning activities, inspections, tests, settings, and energizing of different process controls, instrumentation, rotating equipment, and electromechanical systems.
•Attend meetings with client and consultant concerning inspections and tests.
•Supervise scheduling and issuance of commissioning reports.
•Supervise completion of the final hand over dossiers.
•Supervise allocation of the commissioning manpower and manage working teams efficiency.

Project Engineer - Zahrani Combined Cycle Power Plant

• Handle contracted scope of work, scope variations, and control procedures.
• Coordinate execution plans, overall planning, provide inputs to execution schedules, and resolve conflicts and deviations.
• Prepare erection procedures and method statements.
• Handle quality control and quality assurance plans.
• Handle cost control functions, budget reports, and variance reports.
• Supervise preparation of progress reports.
• Implement budget based on work breakdown structure and supervise expenditure.
• Conduct progress review meetings with the client and consultants.
• Supervise preparation of manpower productivity reports.
• Prepare manpower distribution and levelling plans.
• Participate in resolving disputes based on contract terms.