Head of estimation
Wood Group Engineering
Total years of experience :18 years, 11 Months
• Ensure that the department operates in accordance to the company's Quality Assurance and Health, Safety and Environmental procedures.
• Enquiry and contract review, estimation and costing, planning for production.
• Raise actions required by other interfacing and affecting departmental requirements and commitments.
• Receive enquiries from Sales as arising and acknowledge receipt thereof.
• Process customer’s enquiries, which normally arrive in the form of detailed component and fabrication assembly drawings with bills of materials. Coordinate with Sales team to convert into quotations following the company costing systems to generate a total project cost.
• Propose submission date and update General Manager with time scale or bid extension requirement.
• Allocating the enquiry to the respective team member.
• Prioritizing the enquiry as per the dead line with team member and submitting the quotation.
• Liaise with procurement/w-shop to assess for material pricing /availability and labour.
• Review material and labour requirements, to determine whether it is more cost-effective to produce or purchase components.
• Produce costing sheet for every enquiry and prepare quote to send through General Manager.
• Maintain and update Sales Force.
• Select and maintain relations with suitable subcontractors as required.
• Interpret customer drawings and specifications and liaise with the customer for any required clarifications.
• Revise and update timeline for projects / repairs / fabrications based on standing enquiries / orders and priorities.
• Clarify the work scope with the customers and interpret the technical requirements in order to provide estimates/bids to the sales team/clients in the oil and gas sector. Products covered include rotating equipment, valves and oil field API components.
• Participate in Contract review processes.
• Site visits / meeting for tender purpose.
• Management of the Estimation team members, carries responsibility for their target setting, completion of their assessments, ensures holiday cover etc.
• Ensuring compliance with company’s documented Quality and HSE System’s.
• Report to the General Manager and lead a team of 48 in managing the operations of the mechanical department.
• Look after efficient operations of the machine shop in completing various jobs on time and in the maintenance of rotating equipment like pumps.
• Plan and schedule production activities to achieve targets of assembling and delivering finished equipment on time meeting quality standards.
• Execute mechanical jobs - erection, alignment, commissioning, maintenance and shutdown - at onshore and offshore sites of customers including supply of manpower materials and tools.
• Participate in vendor evaluation and development for various components and processes to assure uninterrupted cost effective supplies.
• Contribute to estimation and preparing bids against tenders and negotiations with clients for finalizing orders.
• Liaise with customers and resolve issues for smooth on time completion of jobs.
• Conduct internal ISO 9001 audits and audit vendors and suppliers to meet quality system requirements.
• Major projects handled
• Replacement of the booster pump and installation of separator, ZWSP CSP.
• Pipeline modification at GASCO ASAB.
• Installation and replacement of pumps with double seals, Ruwais Refinery TAKREER.
• Replacement of the above ground potable water piping network at Zirku works, ZADCO (EPC contract).
• Replacement of 3 bleed air coolers for PGB gas turbines 1, 2 & 3 at ZWSC, ADMA (EPC contract).
• Replacement of 32 pumps at Ruwais Refinery TAKREER.
• Refurbishment of pig receiver and pig launcher, ZADCO.
• Fabrication of re-boiler for ADOC Japan.
Project Management (PMP)