Senior Planning Engineer
National Investment Corporation (PJSC) NIC
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :17 years, 11 أشهر
NIC is a leading developer throughout the UAE. Its mission is to provide shareholders with lucrative returns and to provide the community with excellence through thoughtful planning, sustainable developments, and vibrant ideas that NIC brings to life. It also manages Marina Village Office Park & introduced Marina Sunset in 2018, featuring 67 villas & 210 residential apartments.
Accomplishments:
• Head-hunted by NIC to contribute to its esteemed legacy of landmark developments like Marina Mall and Marina Royal Complex. Entrusted with extending Marina Mall- the premiere shopping destination in Abu Dhabi for significantly increasing footfall.
• Led master planning of large-scope projects from start to finish. Served as Trusted Advisor to the management team on planning, and shared reviews of the advancing year plan portfolio of projects.
• Served as a top-notch project scheduler whose expertise leads to the successful realization of envisaged project goals.
• Introduced Extension of Time (EOT) reviewing and evaluation processes, providing final assessments to management.
Responsibilities:
• Commanding project planning, schedule control, cost monitoring, and reporting for high-profile projects on behalf of NIC (National Investment Corporation), the client.
• Authorized to finalize the Project Integrated Master Schedule for high-end projects. Developing program-level cost and resource-loaded schedules, collaborating with the Commercial team for labor, plant, and material.
• Establishing the program's baseline master schedule, work program, and contractual milestones for each phase. Implementing action plans to quickly course-correct and safeguard future success
• Chairing meetings with Consultants/Contractors to formulate coordinated schedules and recovery schedules.
• Reviewing critical construction milestones for inclusion in tender documents, engaging in detailed discussions with project teams and independently evaluating interfaces between buildings/infrastructure.
• Generating concise weekly/monthly project review reports and multi-discipline dashboards for senior management.
Sharing powerful perspectives & practical strategies to elevate results.
• Working with the best and brightest Project Managers in the organization to help them build, maintain, track, and manage their project schedules.
Established in 1980 as Mazroui Construction Technology, Mazcot has matured into a renowned general contractor in the building construction sector in the UAE. It has successfully delivered significant construction projects in the arena of senior living, commercial, and retail-related constructions.
Joined the organization as Quantity Surveyor & Tendering Engineer, moved on upward career trajectories, to merit multiple promotions to the position of Planning Manager
Designation Chronology:
Sept 2016 - Oct 2021: Planning Manager
July 2013 - September 2016: Senior Project Manager
February 2011 - July 2013: Construction Manager
August 2008 - February 2011: Quantity Surveyor & Tendering Engineer
Accomplishments:
• Results-driven Strategic Planner with expertise in planning, executing, and spearheading high-end projects.
• Known for driving project performance metrics by establishing roadmap and management best practices.
• Superintended a team of world-class Project Planners/ Schedulers, functioned as Stealth Leader, Synergist, and Culture Builder- who sets clear strategic objectives, and motivates and trains teams to deliver exceptional results.
Responsibilities:
• Directed project planning and schedule control, cost control, monitoring, and reporting on high-end projects.
• Owned pioneering vision, shaped the project controls culture at MAZCOT, and embedded these in the organization’s operations' behavior and day-to-day activities.
• Prepared program-level cost and resource-loaded (labor, plant, and material) schedules. Produced program cash flows in consultation with other Commercial team members.
• Established the program's baseline master schedule, work program, and contractual target milestones for each phase based on the project plan. Actively seek out schedule optimization opportunities together with project teams.
• Led workshops with clients, consultants and contractors to develop coordinated schedules and recovery schedules.
• Reviewed critical milestones for the construction stage for inclusion in tender documents through detailed discussions with individual project teams & undertook an independent evaluation of interfaces between buildings/infrastructure
• Generated weekly/monthly project review reports and multi-discipline dashboards for the senior management.
• Guided Project Teams in the evaluation of the extension of time claims, including concurrent delay, self-delay & making apt recommendations. As well as in evaluation of variation orders, including breakdown (labor, equipment & material).
• Led project teams in their analysis of actual progress in the field to assist with the evaluation of progress planned vs actual, payment certification, and claims.
Accomplishments:
• Utilized broad competencies in project management, provided solutions for both straightforward and complex projects, and commissioned/executed projects, ensuring delivery on time, within budget, and with unbeatable quality and service.
• Expert in areas including project scope definition, project methodology, and resource allocation.
• Spearheaded crucial financial aspects, and ascertained optimal usage of all available resources to execute delivery as per schedule and within budgeted overheads. Enforced budgetary guidelines, cost control, and cost-cutting measures.
Responsibilities:
• Mastered delivering the next-generation planning solutions and provided progressive technical vision and leadership.
• Authorized to design and sign off on contracts. Led administration of the main contract in line project’s requirements, compliance with contract notification, certification, and response timeframes, tracking changes and monitoring each change through a change order process.
• Exhibited expertise in conducting earned value, productivity, and risk analysis. Conducted project review and collated detailed reports for Executive staff.
• Endeavored to optimize and improve processes and the overall approach. Provided an escalation route for project risks and issues, and ensured early identification, communication, and corrective action.
• Analyzed the basis and extent of change, tracked claims, and monitored progress through the claims resolution process.
• Analyzed claims, identified merit/validity, managed disputes, commercial interface/reporting with the client and other parties analysis, and valuations of work done.
• Earned accolades for delivering challenging projects on agreed project scope, budget, schedule & client expectations.
• Acted as liaison between operations to provide client contract mgmt. & guidance on resolution of contract issues.
Responsibilities:
• Presided over day-to-day construction activities and supervised the site construction staff at the site.
• Planned and controlled materials movement. Ensured the quality of materials and installation of work followed the acceptance criteria identified for the Project and the company quality system.
• Enforced implementation of Quality Assurance System procedures for execution of project.
• Mentored the Site Engineers / Project Engineers and foreman-construction teams and supervised subcontracts on site, to ensure project milestones and commercial controls were achieved by effective planning including logistics.
• Planned and scheduled for forthcoming weeks and advised the Project Manager of any discrepancies to allow for changes.
• Handled documentation, maintained, tracked, and reported on project deliverables - schedule, cost, quality of work, safety and environmental compliance, issues, and resolutions.
Responsibilities:
• Managed the elements of tender planning and prepared tender project brief, documented the scope of works, project staging, and structuring including timing and interface risks.
• Verified bill of quantities and its compliance with the project drawings and contract conditions. Managed Quantity calculation/ material requirements for successive months.
• Compared different suppliers/subcontractors based on tender documents & discussed with Senior Estimation Engineer
Responsibilities:
• Communicate, orally and in writing. Preparing correspondence, written reports, presentations, for Clients, for Authorities, and company senior management personnel.
• Manage interdisciplinary teams of professionals and supporting labor categories.
• Integrate competing and/or conflicting elements into the planning and execution processes to insure the project requirements flow smoothly.
• Issue and follow-up Authority processes, procedural requirements, review requirements, and approval requirements.
• Mobilizes company resources, through liaison with support departments, other offices, or subsidiaries, to create project teams capable of completing effective, quality work.
• Discussing the qualifications required of the key project positions in specific detail with the profit center and department managers.
• Acting as the Company representative with the client and selected subcontractors during the program execution.
• Negotiating changes to the scope of work with the client and key subcontractors.
• Responsible for following up on instructions and commitments associated with the project.
• Enforced implementation of Quality Assurance System procedures with regard to execution of project, Health and Safety Plan, and other documents as required.
• Establishing the program requirements for all areas of the project, and monitors the draft and final deliverables for adherence to these criteria.
• Working with other managers, project engineers, and discipline to develop budgets, schedules, and plans for the various elements of a project.
• Working with the key project individual to devise and execute actions plans to rectify potential cost overruns or delays, or to accommodate significant changes to the scope of work. Advise the client and company management of any such changes.
• Monitoring and reporting to management on the progress of all project activity within the program, including significant milestones, and any conditions, which would affect project cost or schedule.
• Establishing weekly meeting to review project status and formulate action items.
Higher Diploma Civil Engineering /Structure Division, Tishreen University, 2006
Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering /Structure Division, Tishreen University, 2005