Mahmoud Abdelsattar, Lead Project / Cost Control Engineer

Mahmoud Abdelsattar

Lead Project / Cost Control Engineer

Archirodon N. V.

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, MBA
Experience
13 years, 5 Months

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Total years of experience :13 years, 5 Months

Lead Project / Cost Control Engineer at Archirodon N. V.
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since March 2024

• Prepare Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS) in accordance with Company’s guidelines, WBS and Contract’s pricing structure.
• Prepare initial Project Budget in accordance with the Scope of Work and tender pricing documents.
• Perform the Earned Value Management (EVM) for both Manhours and Cost.
• Preparation of monthly Manhours and Cost forecasts for Project Management,
• Monitors project actual costs, determine and analyses cost variances and develop cost trends and projections.
• Prepare cost reports.
• Maintain records of actual cost elements (materials, equipment, manpower etc.) to use in the Project Close-Out Report and to provide feedback to tendering department.
• Liaise with project different sections in cost allocation, accounting and control matters.
• Participate in preparing the Project Close-Out Report and Lessons Learnt.
• Prepare regular billing to the Client, provide necessary supporting documents and communicates with the Client for certification and payment.
• Reviews Subcontractors invoices along with supporting documents.
• Participates in periodic site meetings to elaborate the project cost reports. In addition, to record any suggested changes and/or deviations from the plan and to advice of its effect on the overall budget.

Cost Control Team Leader at ACC - Arabian Construction Company
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2021 to March 2024

• Building Cost control team through training and familiarizing the team with the company’s procedures and standards.
• Providing cost control team members with Information, Training and Help to advance their abilities and performance
• Supervise the preparation of all project’s reports, with increased focus on both accuracy and elimination of double work by automating reports creation using advanced data analysis methods.
• Reviewing all subcontracts vs budget and analyzing subcontracting trends.
• Controlling both direct and indirect expenses for the whole region.
• Providing estimation and procurement teams with precise feedback to help with the new projects’ estimation and budgeting process.
• Assisting Project controls manager with needed information and trends.
• Providing Contracts and Commercial Departments with costs information related to claims and variation orders.
• Providing Human resources department with updated staff plan based on both project needs and staffing budget.
• preparing regional projects control dashboards including all controlling aspect (Time, Cost, finance and Quality) for top management to review.

Cost Consultant and Financial Analyst at Elite lifts Manufacturing and Trade
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • March 2021 to March 2024

Managing time and material consumption control.
Managing costing process for new orders.
Managing expenditure trends analysis.
Creating Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly costs control reports.
Estimating costs at completion for on-going projects based on earner Value Analysis
Managing the costs posting system and creating process standardization.
Planning the expansion process and capacity maximization.

Factory Manager and Costs consultant at Elite lifts Manufacturing and Trade
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • April 2019 to March 2021

- Planning the expansion process and capacity maximization
- Supervising Time and Material consumption.
- Supervising Design and costing processes for new orders.
- Supervising supply chain and subcontracting processes.
- Supervising standardization of processes and techniques
- Supervising the protective maintenance plan and implementation.

Cost Control engineer at ACC - Arabian Construction Company
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • September 2015 to March 2019

Monitor, identify and analyse all projects costs with a view of facilitating the completion of the project at minimum cost and within budget limits.

Provide overall supervision to the subordinate engineers carrying out the functions of planning, cost control & quantity surveying.

Monitor all change orders and variations to the contract.

Supervise the preparation of the weekly and monthly cost reports.

Supervise the preparation of the cost to complete and cost at completion reports.

Monitor Materials wastage and usage efficiency

Monitor Manpower distribution efficiency and productivity rates

Design engineer at Zamil steel
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • March 2012 to August 2015

Role: Special and PEB steel structures Design engineer,
responsible for preparing structural analysis models, full design of structures members and connections between various steel members.
in addition to preparing all the IFC drawings and the keyplans for connections of such complicated structures.
creating price estimation sheets and papers helping our marketing dept. achieve our huge company's goals as a 1st class competent in the middle eastern market of steel fabrication.

Team leader at AIC "arabian interanational company"
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • December 2011 to March 2012

Role: Design team leader, Responsible for checking the designs and design drawings of steel members connections in various kinds of steel structures using both American and British codes. Beside designing excel sheets for various patterns of connections using the same codes.Responsible for leading a team of 4 engineers with means of team work and co-operation to achieve company's goals and make its strategic plan come true.
projects:
* ARAMCO-DOW Co-project "SADARA 30, 000 tons Piperack" under the consultancy of FLUOR(R) .

Design engineer at Ecogim "engineering consultant office -prof. d. gamal bashat sherif"
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • December 2010 to December 2011

Role: Design Engineer, responsible for modeling, Design and preparing design drawings for various kinds of structures.
projects:
* Tahta, Dessouk, Beheira & kafr El-sheikh Silos (Design and drawing)
* Hawawesh school (Design and drawing)
* CarGas and Gastech gas stations steel sheds and slabs on grade (Design and drawing)
* 15 floors Residential tower in Jeddah (Design and drawing)
* Qassim university mosque (Check Design)
* Steel Fire stairs (Design and drawing)

Education

Master's degree, MBA
  • at Liverpool John Moores University
  • November 2027

(In Progress)

Bachelor's degree, Civil engineering - Structural and geotechnical engineering
  • at Ainshams university - faculty of engineering
  • July 2010

accumulative grade is good last year grade is good final project grade is excellent final project is made of 2 units: unit 1: design of the geotechnical work of a 3 floors garage of an hotel including excavation process and deep excavation supporting system of diaphragm walls supported by 3 rows of anchors unit 2: performing calculation and full design of soil improvment techniques 2 improve the characterestics of a clay soil 2 support a liquid gas tank of 40 m hight and 60 m diameter

Specialties & Skills

Construction Design
Project Work
Company Development
Steel Design
Team Coordination
Microsoft word
Microsoft project
Autocad
Primavera
Microsoft Excel
Power BI
SAP GUI
Cost Control
ms project
project planning
project estimation
primavera p6
quotations

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
Spanish
Beginner

Memberships

Egyptian Syndicate of Engineers
  • Member
  • September 2010
PMI
  • Project management Professional (PMP)
  • November 2014

Training and Certifications

Business Growth Strategy - University of Virginia (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2016
Advanced Business Strategy - University of Virginia (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2016
PMP (Certification serial: 1775172) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2014
Valid Until:
December 2017
Primavera P6 _ Advanced (Training)
Training Institute:
Yat Training center
Date Attended:
June 2014
Duration:
48 hours

Hobbies

  • Drawing
    I draw portraits mainly, n i enjoy drawing using either graphite pencils or edrawing tools.