Construction Planning Manager
Civilian Technologies Ltd.
Total years of experience :13 years, 11 Months
• Leading operations of creating comprehensive detailed planning schedules using Primavera P6, and MS project, tracking daily schedules while overseeing multiple projects.
• Planning resources, conducting costing activities, and managing bid and proposal phases.
• Minimizing lags by leading, scheduling, and implementing new protocols and plans.
• Collaborating with technical and administrative teams to develop and implement successful corrective plans.
• Creating new methodologies to improve the planning process and results.
• Collaborating with company leaders to support consistency and best practices.
• Preparing and submitting any EOT, conducting full claims reports and records, and following up with related parties on unresolved issues in this regard.
• Overseeing training and onboarding process for all newly hired employees within the planning and follow-up department.
• Working closely with project managers to create project work scopes and schedules.
• Monitoring activities for adherence to vital milestones and deliverables.
• Updating logs and submitting timely reports (weekly and monthly progress reports and schedules update) in line with regulatory standards.
• Recognizing low-cost suppliers and managing deliveries to cut downtime and save costs.
• Monitor the progress on site against the approved schedule.
• Monitor the procurement schedule and delivery process.
• Prepare looks-ahead schedules for the project managers.
• Assisting with internal financial planning, analysis, and budgeting.
• Meeting with senior leadership to complete under-budget, on-time management on complex issues.
♦ Good experience in construction site activities (skeleton and finishing works).
♦ Good experience in infrastructure activities.
♦ Good experience in MEP activities.
♦ Good attention to detail with the ability to work to challenging deadlines.
♦ Numerical and analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and information and produce it in a clear and logical format.
• Assessed and optimized design plans for construction for United Nations facilities (7 projects).
• Applied critical path method (CPM) to project planning, reducing dependencies and shortening overall completion timeframes.
• Generated quantities surveys, cost estimating, and variation orders for various projects using United Nations in-house estimating software.
• Completed daily construction tasks while providing safe working conditions and standards, staying on budget, and meeting project deadlines.
• Determined and scheduled priorities as required to progress engineering work.
• Reviewed contractor proposals and sets of drawings prepared by firms to identify missing information, generate questions, and align budgets.
• Assessed qualifications and experience of contractors and prepared RFP packages.
• Prepared tender plans.
• Project reports on schedule milestones, budget, forecast, risks, and opportunities.
• Document controlled (letters, shop drawings, material submittals, VOs, RFIs, RFPs, RFQs).
• Prepared logs that control office transmittals.
• Supported donors throughout decision-making by providing regular constructability reviews encompassing independent, structured assessment of construction bid documents.
Part-time
• Academic Excellence Award
