Fayssal Dridje

Worked within Arcadis's Project Management team on major national infrastructure programs for Amprion GmbH and TenneT/TransnetBW, supporting the planning and delivery of Germany's largest HVDC transmission projects. Responsible for project controls, stakeholder coordination, interface management, planning, quality assurance, Agile delivery, and leadership of international multidisciplinary teams.

Client Project: Rhein-Main-Link (RML) | Client: Amprion GmbH | Project volume: €500 million

Supported planning and design of the 530 km HVDC underground cable connecting northern and southern Germany, transmitting approximately 8, 000 MW of renewable electricity.

Served as Scrum Master and coordination lead for the Crossing Management Team across Germany, Romania, and India, applying Agile principles to improve collaboration and delivery.
Led a Quality Check team of up to 10 members while coordinating with two development leads overseeing more than 30 engineers.
Facilitated weekly project meetings, retrospectives, and stakeholder workshops to align engineering, QA, and client teams.
Coached team members in Agile practices, promoting continuous improvement and self-organization.
Removed delivery impediments, coordinated cross-functional dependencies, and supported planning decisions with engineering, QA, and client stakeholders.
Managed scope changes through structured impact assessments, protecting delivery milestones.
Applied Kanban, RACI matrices, velocity tracking, WBS, and standardized workflows to improve planning, transparency, and resource management.
Monitored project performance, risks, and recurring issues while driving lessons learned and process improvements.
Developed a Power BI dashboard providing real-time progress reporting for approximately 500 crossing dossiers.
Supported the transition from Agile to a hybrid project management approach to meet evolving delivery requirements.

Client Project: SuedLink (SL) | Client: TenneT TSO GmbH / TransnetBW GmbH | Project volume: €1.5 billion

Managed planning and design coordination for a 96 km section of SuedLink, one of Germany's largest underground HVDC transmission projects.

Managed the crossings planning scope, coordinating interfaces between underground cables and roads, railways, waterways, pipelines, and utility infrastructure.
Defined project scope, objectives, stakeholder requirements, and success criteria with clients and infrastructure operators.
Developed and maintained integrated schedules using Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project, coordinating milestones, dependencies, and engineering deliverables.
Established and maintained project risk registers, implementing mitigation strategies for schedule, approval, interface, and resource risks.
Designed standardized workflows, quality checklists, acceptance criteria, and documentation processes to improve consistency and quality.
Planned resources, allocated responsibilities, optimized international staffing, and trained new team members.
Led and coordinated more than 30 multidisciplinary team members across Germany, Austria, Romania, and India through servant leadership and effective stakeholder engagement.
Prioritized workloads, removed project impediments, coordinated engineering disciplines, and managed client interfaces.
Oversaw preparation and quality assurance of approximately 800 operator-approved crossings plan booklets.
Facilitated regular project meetings, monitored scope, schedule, cost, quality, risks, and change requests using Jira, implementing corrective actions to maintain project objectives.
Led project closeout activities, including operator approvals, acceptance documentation, lessons learned, and formal project completion.

Project volume: confidential
Managed schedule and quality oversight for the Rhino Pagoda, a 14, 000 m² habitat project for one
horned rhinoceroses, and modeled on the animals natural
• Managed the construction project schedule and monitored progress
• Communicated with project stakeholders, including sub-contractors, clients, engineers, and architects
• Identified and resolved problems and challenges during the construction process
• Ensured high construction quality standards and managed defects processes
• Assisted with the commissioning and handover of completed construction projects with the sub-contractors
• Handled change order management and invoice verification

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• Schedule management: planned, communicated, and monitored the schedule; attended meetings with clients,
contractors, and designers
• Quality management: conducted site inspections, checked plans, and prepared notices of defects and hindrances
• Worked in accordance with German standards HOAI, AHO, and VOB
• Assisted with the organization´s workshops and prepare presentations

Managed credit and collections activities for the UK, France, Luxembourg, and Belgium portfolios across the Bitumen
and Fuel business lines, using SAP to monitor accounts receivable, track KPIs, and coordinate payment follow-up with
international stakeholders to reduce outstanding debt and maintain healthy cash flow.
• Managed debt collection and cash distribution activities across French, UK, Luxembourg, and Belgian accounts,
reducing overdue debt on the French portfolio from 13% to 3%
• Ensured collection of customer receivables in line with agreed payment terms and the Downstream Credit Manual
• Followed escalation procedures during debt collection activities
• Managing of the orders that triggered credit holds
• Managed stakeholder relationships with Sales, the organization, and relevant Finance Operations business partners
• Initiated and monitored dispute resolution in accordance with defined SLAs
• Handled customer enquiries, including those escalated from the Customer Service Centre
• Investigated payment discrepancies and recommended increases, decreases, or revocations of credit line
• Contributed with management team for process improvements and optimizations

Single-family residential projects and one administrative building, Algeria
Construction and renovation of single-family homes and new construction of an administrative building.
• Design and metric calculations (quantitative and qualitative)
• Preparation of specifications, reports, and associated data tables
• 2D and 3D modeling (CAD, ArchiCAD, Revit, and 3ds Max)
• Post-rendering using Photoshop and Illustrator
• Involvement in project planning and cost estimation
• Construction supervision