Project Planning & Control Senior Specialist
Qatar Petrochemical Company (QAPCO)
Total years of experience :20 years, 9 Months
• Planning and advising on implementation strategies for new projects.
• Selection of appropriate techniques and sequence of events for a particular project.
• Establishment of Systems and Procedures for the Projects including but not limited to Progress Measurement Procedure, Progress Reporting Procedure and 2 Year SPIR procedures.
• Review and Analysis of Contractors and Subcontractors Project Plans & Procedures sent for approval.
• Review and approval of Weekly and Monthly Progress reports by Contractor and Subcontractors.
• Monitoring and review of Contractors Progress with regards to Baseline at the lowest WBS and activity level considering weight assigned to a particular activity and progress achieved for the whole project.
• Creating action items and close follow up of the open actions with team members to close the actions in-time and avoid any delay in the project.
• Preparation of QAPCO Monthly Progress report for distribution to Project Team, Executive Committee & GM.
• Critical Path Analysis for the entire project considering the number of critical paths and their prioritization.
• Monte Carlo Simulation for Critical Path Analysis.
• Focal point for review and approval of Erection & Commissioning, Capital and 2 Year SPIR.
• Review and check the invoices by Contractor sent for approval with regards to progress and Milestones achieved.
• Handling of all the change orders and their impact on the overall cost of the project.
• Planning and Scheduling of all the upcoming minor and major modification projects.
• Monitoring of the projects from Basic Design to Closure including procurement and execution.
• Productivity and efficiency curves analysis, schedule interfaces with engineering, procurement and construction.
• Assisting Finance Department for the preparation / revision of Construction Budget.
• Establish code of accounts and cost distribution criteria for the program of works.
• Enterprise Resource Planning and Generation / Updating of Progress S-Curves and Preparation of Cash Flows Reports.
• Conducting coordination meeting with different package contractors and solving critical technical and contractual issues.
• Determining of critical path activities for work areas and/or work disciplines and monitor schedule deviations and proposes corrective action/work around solutions
• Analysis of the Subcontractor’s Schedule, manpower requirement and work sequence.
• Preparation of 28 day Lock Plan, 90 days and 18 Months Look Ahead Plan.
• Review of 28 days lock plan in weekly review meeting.
• Prepare the monthly cost summary report and oversee the preparation of the monthly progress report.
• Generation of Work Orders and purchase requisitions in Maximo for all the projects as a part of synchronization of Maximo and Primavera and recording actual inputs.
• Planning/Scheduling of minor and major modifications of Process area including Crude Distillation Unit, Vacume Distillation Unit, Visbreaking Unit, Gas Con. Unit, DieselMax Unit, NHT unit, CCR unit, Sulfur Recovery unit, Sulfur Solidification Unit.
• To review/issue daily schedules and verify work orders received in Maximo from different areas and checking their scheduling view of priority and resource availability.
• Coordination with Engineering, Technical Services and the Operations department in planning and execution of maintenance works but not limited to minor/major overhauls, modification works of plants/equipment, pipelines and other installations in the assigned areas.
• To generate, issue and follow up of Preventive Maintenance Plans (Monthly, Six Monthly and Yearly) consisting of approximately 300 work orders per month for plant maintenance, and issuance of their respective PM Reports.
• Follow up and monitoring of preventive and planned maintenance/modification schedules to avoid any plant/ equipment outage and keep the plant running in a safe manner.
• Planning, preparation of work packages, time schedules, and monitoring of shutdown jobs and assist maintenance team in emergency shutdown for availability of material, spares.
• Preparation of cost estimation/back charge reports including manpower/spares/ equipment costs for modification and major shutdown jobs including repairing of exchangers, mechanical seals damages of pumps.
• Preparation of monthly progress reports with graphical representation for management review: reflecting planed and actual man-hours comparison, job history of critical equipments and failure reports.
• Making Job Plans for all the major and routine activities.
• Making Material Issuance Voucher (MIV) against work requests.
• Sufficient awareness of P&ID’s, Process Flow Diagrams and Isometrics.
• Compliance with all company’s Health, Safety and Environment Policies as well as Work Permit policies and Procedures.
Dolphin Onshore Gas Processing Plant at RLIC Qatar
Routine Activities:
• Making overall schedules of the project on Primavera Project Planner.
• Determining the milestones to support project schedule, including identification of contractual milestones.
• Identifying inter-discipline restraints or interfaces which define activity sequences and work with the performing organizations and units to coordinate work sequences within total project plan.
• Determining of critical path activities for work areas and / or work disciplines and monitor schedule deviations and proposes corrective action/work around solutions.
• Daily, Weekly and Monthly Efficiency reports on the basis of Actual Man Hours and Earned Man Hours.
• Project Top Sheet Analysis (Histogram and S Curves)
• Making latest forecast plans on the basis of progress reports.
• Assisting in the development of manpower requirements for specific work disciplines and assist in resource leveling analysis to perform quantity and manpower resource loading for assigned schedules.
• Preparing schedule, manpower, and quantity progress and performance reports.
Qatar Liquified Natural Gas Plant at RLIC Qatar
Plant Shut Down 2004 & 2005:
• Planning all the activities of Shut Down on Primavera Project Planner.
• Planning the manpower and other resources like consumables, spares & mobile equipments.
• Daily Progress monitoring and Efficiency Reports.
80.20% aggregate with Honors