MAHATISAGAR SHAHA

Project Control, Cost Control

Project & Cost Control

Kuwait National Petroleum Company, (K.S.C)
Kuwait
EPCC of Al-Zour Refinery Project, Kuwait (Oct 2015 -

Project Execution
Role:
* Defining & Planning the activities from conceptualization to execution including finalization of various
procedures, procurement activities, progress monitoring, resource planning
* Establishing Project & Cost Control Procedures, Project Progress & Cost reporting, Progress & Cost
commitment Evolution tracking and various procedures to be adopted at the Home Office Centre and at the
Site Office
* Establishing and managing a cost control system in order to support the PM decision-making process and
allow him to complete the project within the approved budget
* Preparing and updating project schedule, budget, cash flows and various cost reports, man-hour and
material estimates, and various periodical reports
* Monitoring, controlling & executing all activities through all phase of project life cycle as per agreed schedule
* Implementing Engineering, Procurement and Construction Progress Measurement Procedure and Invocing
Procedure
* Deploying various methodologies to analyze progress, cost, recommending modifications to minimize
escalations & rejection
* Contributing day-to-day managerial inputs covering entire gamut of techno-commercial functions to ensure
project accomplishments within defined time-quality-cost parameters
* Coordinating with Site Team to get all information related to construction activities to forecast the
completion schedule of balance activities, catch plan for delayed activities and ‘To Go' cost
* Ensuring any deviation from scope of work is promptly spotted and analyzed, final impact of change on
schedule and cost is estimated and conveying the same to client and the effect of corrective actions taken
is monitored
* Ensuring to review and verify monthly progress of all sub-contractors
* Structuring annual operational budget and implementing control measures to contain expenses within
defined limits
* Customizing order classification by establishing a sophisticated system of order settlements and cost centre
assessment cycles; setting up profile for cost centre, activities, statistical key figures and cost element
planning
* Creating the operating concern, configuring costing based profitability analysis, defining the reporting
characteristics, value field, profitability segments used in Profitability Analysis
Selected Achievements:
* Coordinated with various clients (ONGC, KNPC, IOCL, NPCIL) and Project Management Consultants (AMEC
Foster Wheeler, EIL, Van Voor) to ensure various metholodies are implmented to monitor Project progress
and cost
For Essar Projects Limited, Kuwait:
* Deputed as ‘Cost Control Lead’ for Al-Zour New Refinery Project of KNPC at Kuwait