Marwa Abo samra, Cost Control Team Leader

Marwa Abo samra

Cost Control Team Leader

Orascom Construction Limited - Other Locations

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Master's degree, Administration And Business Administration
Experience
12 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :12 years, 8 Months

Cost Control Team Leader at Orascom Construction Limited - Other Locations
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since January 2021

Project: Al Mansoura 6 residential compound New Capital with
contract value 4 billion EGP which consist of four projects.
- Achievements:
* Keep the profit and make a saving in direct and indirect and
conserve a contingency, although the project time extended for more
than 12 months and scope increased without increasing project
revenue.
* Increase cost control awareness in the project between all the, so
that all the department not only cooperate to keep the profit, but also
get the highest quality and knowing the impact of the time extension.
- Key responsibilities:
* Issue the project budget baseline, including the required analysis and breakdowns for manager review.
*Assisted in interim payment plans, project total profit and underbilling items.
* Prepare the project cost plan and project cash flow.
* Prepare final cost status of all projects for top management review.
* Discussed variances and delays with the project director for action and propose needed corrective action.
*Forecasting for projects cost and revenue trends and propose needed corrective action to mitigate the delays and concluded risks.
*Support Tender team with lesson learned and item pricing.

Acting Team Leader Cost Control Engineer at Orascom Construction
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2019 to December 2020

Project: Al Mansoura 6 residential compound New Capital with contract value 4 Billion EGP which consist of four projects. *Supervise the team and provide technical leadership in creating and establishing cost processes and procedures and support to them in order to ensure accuracy and quality of work. * Issue the project budget baseline, including the required analysis and breakdowns for manager review. *Assisted in interim payment plans, project total profit and underbilling items. * Prepare the project cost plan and project cash flow. * Prepare final cost status of all projects for top management review. * Discussed variances and delays with the project manager for action and propose needed corrective action. *Forecasting for projects cost and revenue trends and propose needed corrective action to mitigate the delays and concluded risks. *Attended technical and contractual meetings as a key member of the project team and coordinate with other departments’ teams. *Review variation orders cost breakdown and prepare claims with contract team. *Support Tender team with lesson learned and item pricing.

Senior cost control Engineer at Orascom Construction
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • March 2018 to December 2018

Project: Al Mansoura 6 residential compound New Capital with contract value 1 Billion EGP. *Technical supports for mid-level and junior cost control engineer. *Revise reports prepared by junior cost control engineer. *Monitoring and controlling the projects by: -Generate projects monthly cost control reports. - Analyze cost and reporting problems or potential problems to the Cost Control team leader for action. - Monitors and evaluate man-hour performance, equipment, material and subcontractors on weekly and monthly basis and prepare the executive monthly Productivity report.

Senior cost control engineer at Gama for construction
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2017 to March 2018

-Technical supports for junior cost control engineer.
-Responsible for more than project with work volume more
than EGP 500 million.
-Analyzing cost and revenue trends and reporting problems or
potential problems.
-Develop projects budget cost for construction.
-Analyzed project cost distributions to ensure accurate posting
to correct project and make necessary adjustments.
-Monitoring, reporting, and forecasting for projects cost and
revenue trends.
-Prepare and support the provision and analysis of any costs
related to claims.

Cost control engineer at Gama for construction
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 2014 to December 2016

Monitoring and controlling the projects by:
-Providing project manager with monthly cost report on detailed WBS, using earned value technique and calculate CPI that reflect cost progress status.
-Preparing project's budget cost with project manager.
-Calculating estimate at completion for project.
-Analyze material purchase orders compared to budget as part of the review process for the monthly reports.
Projects worked in:
1- Hanger 7000 - Egypt air.
2- Polygon building - Sodic.
3- Mivida FM - EMAAR
4- New Giza compound - Residential project.
5- Alstom- Badr Electrical substation.
6- Triangle administration building.

Tender Engineer at Burhan international construction company (BICC)
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • May 2012 to October 2014

A- Tender Engineer:
-Packaging including Medical Packages and Offers.
-Revises the offers to accommodate client’s comments
whenever required.
-Identify opportunity and risk during the tender process.
-Prepare the financial/technical offer.
-Item pricing for architect packages.
-Quantities surveying.
Project:
1- Water Security Mega Reservoir. “Awarded”
2- Jabber Al Ahmed City. “Awarded”
3- New Jahra Hospital in Kuwait. “Awarded”.
4- Ali el Sabah’s Hospital in Kuwait."2nd place"​
5- Renovation and development of ministries complex Buildings project in Kuwait. “ 3th place”.
6- Ali el Sabah’s Military Academy in Kuwait. "3th place”.
7- Health care center in Qatar.
8- East Hidd Housing in Bahrain.

Junior architecture at Sovana for construction and tourism
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • September 2011 to April 2012

Design
Design development
Work shop drawing
Landscape design
Quantities ans specificatiions

Education

Master's degree, Administration And Business Administration
  • at Eslsca University
  • July 2025

Feb 2023 - Feb 2025 Studying in my second semester in Eslsca university.

Bachelor's degree, Architecture and Urban design
  • at Ain shams University
  • May 2011

Faculty of Engineering Ain Shams University, Bachelor of Architecture and urban planning. (September 2006 - June 2011)

Specialties & Skills

Estimating
Quantity Surveying
Project Management
Value Engineering
sketch up
Revit architecture
Autocad 2D/3D
Communicator
Ms Office (excel,word.ppt
Primavira
Photoshop

Languages

English
Expert
French
Intermediate
Arabic
Native Speaker

Memberships

EYE
  • project management trainet
  • November 2008
AYB
  • Quality Management
  • February 2010
pirates
  • HR
  • February 2008
Acess
  • Career shifting workshop
  • October 2008

Training and Certifications

CCP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2017
Solving Business Problems (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2020
Preparing For_Successful Communication (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2020
PMP preparation course (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2020
PRMG (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2014
Valid Until:
January 2041
Architect engineer (Training)
Training Institute:
Eng. Adel Mokhtar for design and landscape
Date Attended:
July 2009
Duration:
480 hours
Summer training (Training)
Training Institute:
Egy build company
Date Attended:
July 2008

Hobbies

  • Reading
  • Travel
  • self learing
  • listening to Music
  • aerobics