Fadi Al-Masri

 Project- Kuwait National Guard Projects at Liberation Camp in Kuwait.
1) Project Name: Armory Hangers Complex @ Tahreer Camp (Project Value: KWD 6, 000, 000).
2) Project Name: Dental Clinic Building @ Tahreer Camp (Project Value: KWD 1, 000, 000).
3) Project Name: Military Police Building @ Salem Al- Ali Al-Salem Camp (Project Value: KWD 1, 000, 000).
4) Project Name: Military Vehicles Hangers Building @ Sheikh Salem Al- Ali Al-Salem Camp (Project Value: KWD 1, 150, 000).
5) Project Name: Fencing of @ Sheikh Nawwaf Al-Ahmad Camp (Project Value: KWD 3, 500, 000).
6) Project Name: Multi-Story Car Park @ Tahreer Camp (Project Value: KWD 6, 000, 000).
Roles & Responsibilities:
• Full time supervision of all construction works / activities for the project.
• Organize approval to contractors shop drawings, product data sheets, samples.
• Refinement of works breakdown structure.
• Monitoring the progress of work with the Master construction schedule.
• Prior flagging of anticipated bottlenecks and analysis of its reasons.
• Day to day correspondences including contractual issues.
• Change order management for design changes and extra items.
• Quality assurance and control to ensure conformance to drawings and specifications.
• Organize Progress review meetings on weekly basis.
• Collect, review and maintain all the records of contractors’ daily progress reports.
• Submitting Weekly and Monthly progress reports.
• Controlling the progress of the project, ensuring resource availability and allocating the same, coordinating with various departments and external agencies, and reporting.
• Developing and maintaining detailed product schedules
• Ensuring active engagement of team members by delegation of tasks to the appropriate person both on a long term and on a day-to-day basis
• Ensuring adherence to recommended best practices such as the critical path method based on pert and the like
• Ensuring adherence to quality standards such a total quality management or six sigma by ensuring employees follow quality standards and by using quality control checklists
• Application of various project progress methods to ensure the project schedule is on track to meet deadlines or deliverables
• Devising strategies to overcome roadblocks or delays through various methods such as using industry related technical knowledge, innovating short cuts or alternative ways, improvising with available resources, scheduling overtime to meet the deadline, and the like
• Ensuring compliance with safety standards
• Developing and monitoring project cost forecasts
• Providing vital inputs to daily and periodic project progress and status reports to top management and other stakeholders

• Controlling the progress of the project, ensuring resource availability and allocating the same, coordinating with various departments and external agencies, and reporting.
• Developing and maintaining detailed product schedules
• Ensuring active engagement of team members by delegation of tasks to the appropriate person both on a long term and on a day-to-day basis
• Ensuring adherence to recommended best practices such as the critical path method based on pert and the like
• Ensuring adherence to quality standards such a total quality management or six sigma by ensuring employees follow quality standards and by using quality control checklists
• Coordination and regulating various meetings such as project progress review meetings, quality circles, and the like
• Application of various project progress methods to ensure the project schedule is on track to meet deadlines or deliverables
• Devising strategies to overcome roadblocks or delays through various methods such as using industry related technical knowledge, innovating short cuts or alternative ways, improvising with available resources, scheduling overtime to meet the deadline, and the like
• Ensuring compliance with safety standards
• Developing and monitoring project cost forecasts
• Providing vital inputs to daily and periodic project progress and status reports to top management and other stakeholders
• Monitoring, tracking and reporting project cash flow
• Planning and preparing man hour budgets, and schedules
• Preparing and submitting financial analysis reports.

• Identify the best partners to undertake the project (architects, contractors, site managers, labor contractors, vendors)
• Estimating the resources required, cost and time factors, etc.., independently.
• Carrying out negotiations with various entities in terms of cost, quality and time factors.
• Forecasting the fund requirements and arranging the prompt payments so that the momentum of work is not disturbed.
• Keep track of all the project activities and insure that the project deadlines are met.
• Liaise with all the parties (internal and external) who are involved in the project.
• Ensuring the receipt of regular reports and updates and addressing the flaws and inefficiencies in the reporting mechanism.
• Any other tasks that are assigned from time to by the management.

 Key Accountabilities

• Identifying the Risk factors and preparing them as early as possible.
• Timely completion of projects without compromising the preset quality parameters.
• Quantifiable saving in cost and time by making optimum use of the resources.
• Timely and accurate reporting of the activities.

• Working with all project disciplines to ensure understanding of total project cost budget allowances and targets.
• Tracking all Project Activities to ensure both time and cost constraints are met.
• Responsible for total integration of required cost control and reporting activities.
• Supervising and directing the obtaining of required cost information for all cost analysis and reporting functions from various sources, both on and off project. i.e. Tendering.
• Identifying areas of budget concern and potential impact on project financial performance.
• Planning, organizing and supervising collection of data and issuing of project cost reports and preparation of cost forecasts.
• Operation and monitors work productivity against established norms.
• Assisting in performing planning engineer functions as required.
• Reviewing of cost data source documents (PO’s, Subcontracts) and similar documents for assignment of correct cost codes.
• Marinating project records of cost data for all cost analysis and reporting functions from various sources.
• Assembling data for preparation of project cost reports and cost forecasts.
• Applying Company policies and procedures and Country labor law as related to manpower daily and overtime rates for forecast and future planning reports.

1. Estimating, Planning and Pricing Department
Al-Ahlia Contracting Group (March 2008-Presesnt)

Assigned as an estimating, Planning and pricing engineer for the tenders and was totally involved in pricing Government, Commercial, Residential Projects and Tenders and Private Villas.

The responsibilities for this role include:

• Reviewing draft tender documents to ensure all systems and components of the tender are included.
• Preparing tender documentation queries to consultants/clients to confirm and collect any missing data including; shipping costs, insurance, and any regional requirements.
• Developing tender cost summaries including equipment, materials and labour calculations for final approval.
• Interpreting & reviewing system drawings to identify any difference to tender requirements and raise queries against specification.
• Preparing specification documents to submit to vendors for quotations of cost/price of materials and equipment and evaluate same against tender specifications to include in final tender documentation.
• Preparing cost estimates for construction projects or services to aid management in bidding on or determining price of items and assist the Estimation Manager in Cost Estimation at tender stage and in the negotiations of project contracts as required.
• Preparing cost estimate breakdown to assist in the evaluation of bids.
• Pricing tenders using CCS software and preparing worksheets of civil items.
• Preparing comparisons reports for subcontractor’s adjudication packages of all trades..
• Developing a database for comparisons of various types of projects and tenders in terms of rates per meter squared.
• Participating in the review of the subcontractor cost estimation for awarded tenders and projects.
• Updating the project cost estimate database in Candy Software.
• Provide consistent budget quantity project cost estimates.
• Building relationships with internal customers and external suppliers and vendors.

** Fetooh Al-Falah six villas in Yarmouk- Kuwait
Al Ahlia Contracting Group(October2007-2008
Project value: 1.250 million Kuwaiti Dinars)

Assigned as a project engineer for the six villas and had an assistant engineer in the project and was responsible of all the site staff. All previous tasks were included in my role as a project manager including coordination with all electromechanical services.

** Australian College Of Kuwait in Meshref-kuwait
Al Ahlia Contracting Group ( july2006-september2007
Project value: 2.25 million Kuwaiti dinars)

Assigned as a project engineer for the project and as an assistant projects manager for the ACK project which includes three main buildings:
the aviation air craft hanger steel complex, the aviation workshop and the engineering or simulation centre building and the landscaping. The main responsibilities include all the previous assignments.

** School Of Child Evaluation & Teaching (Phase 2) in Surra-Kuwait
Al-Ahlia Contracting Group (February 2006-july 2006)

Assigned as an assistant project manager for the phase2 project which included all finishing and landscaping works for the two buildings: the gymnasium and the cafeteria and art building, In addition to all previous assignments, there were some additional tasks:

• Preparing and finalizing all subcontractors’ payments at the end of each month.
• Preparing monthly reports submitted to owner
• Attending all coordination meetings held wit the owner or subcontractor
• Ordering all materials required to complete the works
• Planning, scheduling and updating the time schedule of the project

** Mubarak Tower-Kuwait City-Kuwait
Al Ahlia Contracting Group (August 2005-February 2006)
Project value: 2 million Kuwaiti dinars)

Assigned as a project engineer in the early stages of the project and is responsible for the following:

• All civil and finishing works for the tower which consists of 21 floors and two basements.
• Participation of planning prior to construction.
• Following up with contract time schedule and comparing it with the actual progress
• Pushing the contractors to perform the work with a very good quality in the shortest time possible to be ahead of the estimated contract time
• Coordinating with the project managers and all subcontractors to avoid contradictions
• Solving problems which faces the work as much as possible and trying to find the best solutions with the minimum effort and cost
• Following up with the project requirements such as manpower needed, material and equipment to ensure its existence in the appropriate time.
• Contribution in subcontractors monthly payments
• Studying the designed and shop drawings.

** School of Child Evaluation & Teaching in Surra - Kuwait.
Al Ahlia Contracting Group( June 2004 - July 2005)
Project value: 3 million Kuwaiti dinars)

Assigned as a site engineer for the project which included all excavations, concreting works and all finishing works. The major responsibilities included the following:

• Participation in planning prior to construction
• Following the project time schedule and comparing it with the actual progress
• Finding solution of problems facing subcontractors and also consultants
• Checking the quality of work and workmanship
• Participating in subcontractors monthly payments and rechecking the quantities executed
• Participating in the project monthly reports data for executed works
• Studying the designed and shop drawings
• Following after the site foremen to ensure the progress and the quality of work
• Applying the safety factors and regulations and the site cleaning
• Participating in preparation of detailed shop drawings for concrete, excavations and finishing work
• Following up with the project requirements such as manpower needed, material and equipment to ensure its existence in the appropriate time
• Preparing the activities daily reports for the project
• Coordinating with the project manager and the subcontractors
• Ensuring the quality of work by pushing the subcontractors to achieve the best work and minimizing waste

* Al-Ghamdi Warehouse and Office In Dammam -KSA Finishing Stages.
( December 2003 - June 2004 Project value: 6 million Saudi Riyals)

Assigned as a project engineer to handle the project in its finishing stages till handing over of the project to the client.
Finishing works included gypsum ceiling installation, granite stone fixing, painting works, doors and windows installation, waterproofing of roof external cladding metal works externally and internally, asphalting, electromechanical and pluming works and landscaping.

* Alyaf Factory Expansion Project -Dammam 2nd Industrial City-KSA (January 2003 -October 2003, Project value: 3 million Saudi Riyals )

Assigned as a Project Engineer for the Pre Engineered Steel Building,
Underground utilities, Electrical room, Guard house and Asphalt finishes.

• Supervising the manpower at all construction levels.
• Monitoring the actual progress of the project.
• Controlling the progress of work as per the time schedule provided.
• Requisition of material, equipment, manpower and the tools required for accomplishment of works.
• Studying the shop drawings and coordinating with the supervisor (foreman) to organize the work.
• Coordinating with the subcontractors to avoid contradiction between project activities and preparing subcontractors monthly payments as per actual progress.
• Witnessing concrete pouring at all times.
• Preparing material submittals and inspection check list request to be approved by the client representative.
• Preparing monthly invoices as per the contract terms and submitting it to the client representative.

* Bahrain Aqua Park - Durrat Al Bahrain-Phase
(December 2001-January 2003 Project value 12 million Saudi Riyals )

Assigned as a Site Engineer for the following purposes and responsibilities:

• Supervising the manpower at all construction stages.
• Assisting the project manager in monitoring the progress of the project.
• Checking the manpower productivity in certain locations and activities.
• Quantity estimation of the materials to be ordered.
• Concrete ordering and bookings from the batch plant and witnessing the concrete pouring at all times.

* Head Office:

1-Quantity Estimation
2-Planning
3-Pricing Departement Assestant---

Field:

4-Site Engineer For Nalko Factory in Dammam