Kush Maddumarachchi, Electrical Resident Engineer

Kush Maddumarachchi

Electrical Resident Engineer

Aecom Arabia Limited

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Experience
19 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :19 years, 4 Months

Electrical Resident Engineer at Aecom Arabia Limited
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since March 2015

Senior Electrical Engineer for King Khaled International Airport (KKIA) Development Project. Part of a project management and engineering team looking after multiple EPC contracts associated with the KKIA development project. The contracts are Airfield upgrade, terminal building upgrade and new terminal building construction, electrical and mechanical load center construction.

- Review of Designs and design specification produced by the EPC contractors
- Participation and facilitation of various design meetings and design coordination meetings
- Interfacing between the client and the contractor to facilitate the decision making process
- Provide technical assistance to the client when required
- Ensure the designs are prepared in compliance with design specifications and current applicable standards and guiding the designers where necessary.

Electrical Engineer at OPUS International Consultants
  • New Zealand
  • February 2014 to March 2015

Building Services Engineer - Electrical

- Responsible for all aspects of electrical design, coordination with other disciplines, preparation of construction specifications.
- Undertaking site inspections of ongoing construction activities.
- Design project management
- Supervising and mentoring junior engineering staff.
- Interfacing between the senior management and design team

Electrical Engineer, Project Manager at Aecom
  • New Zealand
  • August 2010 to June 2013

Project Manager/Electrical Engineer
 Project management of multidisciplinary substation design projects
 Project risk analysis, risk mitigation and risk management
 Project planning and programming
 Financial control including budgeting, tracking and project health checks
 Scope management and preparation of variations
 Client and subcontractor relationship management and development
 Preparation of site work safety plans
 Tender preparation and bidding
 Detailed design of HV and LV electrical systems
 Primary plant systems design with strong focus on safety by design
 Design report writing
 Procurement and construction specification
 Construction cost estimation to +/- 10% accuracy

Other non-electrical work - Christchurch Earthquake Recovery
 Emergency lifelines utility coordinator for Canterbury Civil Defense
 Earthquake recovery coordination of lifeline utilities including power, water, telephones, fuel, sewer etc.
 Liaison with the Police, Fire services, USAR to facilitate the lifeline recovery effort.

Electrical Engineer at Parsons Brinckerhoff
  • New Zealand
  • June 2006 to August 2010

Electrical Engineer \n Design of LV and MV distribution systems for hydro and geothermal power plants, and desalination plants \n Fault studies and Protection coordination studies \n LV protection system design \n Design and review of control and instrumentation for hydro power schemes and desalination plants \n Development of Distributed Control System for hydro power plants \n Detailing of IT requirements for power plants \n Preparation of tender documents including technical specifications and schedules for power station electrical plant. \n Transformer condition assessment \n Preparation of bids, cost estimates \n Preparation of construction cost estimates \n Project planning and project management

Graduate Electrical Engineer at Contact Energy New Zealand
  • New Zealand
  • June 2004 to June 2006

Grad. Electrical Engineer \n Conceptual design of distributed control system architecture for Clyde and Roxburgh hydro power plants \n Assisted in preparation of tender specification \n Prepared spillway and sluicegate maintenance procedures \n Managed the development of the KKS plant identification systems \n Review and development of the alarm escalation philosophy for plant alarm management and emergency call outs system \n Designed the dam sump pump controls including sizing of the pumps \n Developed skills and gained knowledge in day to day plant operation and maintenance work \n Received valuable training in work authority, work permits and access control etc

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • at University of Canterbury
  • November 2003

Specialties & Skills

Electrical Engineering
Project Management
Power Generation
Transmission
Control System Design
Lighting design - DiaLux
Auto CAD
Cost estimation - US Cost success estimator
Microsoft office (word, excel, project)

Languages

English
Expert

Memberships

IPENZ
  • Graduate Professional
  • June 2006