Contracts Manager
Diriyah Gate Development Authority
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :26 years, 9 أشهر
Contracts Manager
Highlights:
• Successfully reduced the budget for operation and maintenance for the year 2016, by about 80 million SAR.
• Standardized and applied global standard bench mark for water consumption.
• Reviewed and awarded national transformation projects worth a total of one billion riyals, for the establishment of infrastructure in Riyadh, Jeddah and Mecca.
Key Responsibilities:
• Review and finalize bill of quantities before issue of “request for proposal” for procurement of materials and services and issue of operation and maintenance contracts.
• Scrutinize and carry out techno-commercial evaluation of the proposals and determine costs involved before finalization of contracts.
• Analyze the proposals to find out the scope and opportunities for cost reduction in order to negotiate the prices and the other terms and conditions with the vendors and subcontractors.
• Whenever necessary, follow up with the vendors and subcontractors for timely submission of offers and provide necessary clarifications, sought by them.
• Finalize the prices and commercial terms and conditions with the vendors or subcontractors to arrange preparation, approval and release of contracts.
• Provide guidance to the concerned employees for collection of historical data and the requirements for the planning period for consolidation and preparation of annual budget for operation and maintenance section.
Highlights:
• Regularized collection of monthly payment on time as per terms of the contract by instituting suitable monitoring system.
• Improved stability of water services to ensure timely supply of adequate quantities for customer satisfaction.
• Upgraded the quality of water supplied to the consumers by adopting appropriate water treatment processes.
Key Responsibilities:
• Was responsible for administrative, managerial and technical activities in directing operation and maintenance of 20th Riyadh water branch to meet consumer demand within approved budget.
• Coordinated the activities of major maintenance and repair work as necessary for water treatment plants, reservoirs, wells, booster pumping stations, and distribution and transmission mains.
• Regularly supervised and evaluated the contractors’ performance to improve the quality of service to the consumers and sustain the same.
• Coordinated water utility projects with the internal project team, contractors, other government departments and the general public.
• Instituted continuous water quality monitoring system to ensure that the quality specifications were always maintained, by proper water treatment processes.
• Evaluated the tenders received from the vendors and subcontractors for technical validity and commercial competitiveness for short listing for negotiation.
• Negotiated most competitive prices and terms and conditions with the vendor/ subcontractor for finalization and preparation of operation and maintenance contracts for Riyadh region.
• Coordinated with all the departments, provided guidelines for collection of past data and the annual requirements for the next plan year, consolidated and refined the cost data to finalize the annual plan.
• Met with customers, developers and contractors, personally investigated complaints and took necessary actions to correct problems, answered questions related to billing, discussed options for payment, assisted customer in determining cause of water loss.
• Determined operational needs of the community, developed and implemented long term capital improvement plans to meet those needs.
Highlights:
• Succeeded in reduction of spare parts losses by implementing proper security and vigilance system.
• Successfully reduced repair time by planning the resource in advance and proper why-why analysis for every case of breakdown.
• Reduced over time by proper administrative action and implementation of preventive and corrective maintenance plans.
Key Responsibilities:
• Was responsible for daily workshop activities, such as checking of vehicles, evaluation of defects, maintenance planning, and preparation of work order.
• Consolidated information on operation and maintenance of all the vehicles, prepared reports in the standard format and submitted to the management for information and advice.
• Monitored the activities of the employees to ensure that the tasks assigned to them were carried out as per quality procedures within scheduled time.
• Estimated costs of various maintenance jobs to determine opportunities for cost reduction and seek necessary approval of management as per authority.
• Developed and implemented preventive maintenance schedules and check lists, undertook corrective maintenance work to minimize breakdowns and improve availability of vehicles.
• Carried out inspection of quality of incoming spare parts to ensure that quality specifications are met and recommended quality up-gradation to improve useful life.