Michael Turner, Commercial Contracts Manager

Michael Turner

Commercial Contracts Manager

Hill International (Middle East) Limited

Location
South Africa
Education
Bachelor's degree, Quantity Surveying
Experience
27 years, 11 Months

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Total years of experience :27 years, 11 Months

Commercial Contracts Manager at Hill International (Middle East) Limited
  • Qatar - Doha
  • April 2014 to September 2015

Seconded to a large international contractor working on the Lusail City Enabling Project in Doha, Qatar.

Project Manager at Uranium One Ltd
  • May 2013 to March 2014

Client’s Team)
Role Profile
Managing the DFS & FEED Phases of the Mkuju River Uranium Project in Tanzania (new uranium mine, surface works and power plant

Commercial Manager
  • November 2012 to April 2013

Overseeing the Commercial (Risk Management) and Contracts activities on the Benga Coal Expansion Project in Tete Province, northern Moçambique.

Project Manager at Anglo American Thermal
  • June 2009 to October 2012

Providing a solid, responsive, proactively reliable Commercial link in the chain between the technical and procurement operatives at the Thermal Coal operations and those in the specialist category teams at the centre of Procurement & Contracts. Coal-related capital projects, including water-reclamation plants and power plants.

Group Manager: Project Services at Lycopodium Minerals (Pty) Ltd
  • Australia
  • July 2008 to June 2009

Overseeing and assuming responsibility for the smooth operation and integration of all project commercial functions. Gold mining project in Tanzania.

General Manager: Project Services at GRD Minproc
  • South Africa
  • May 2004 to June 2008

Project Services encompassed all project commercial, contracts and procurement disciplines ab initio. Emigrated to Australia in ’08-’09

Projects Manager at Fluor Daniel
  • South Africa
  • July 2000 to April 2004

During my term at Fluor I managed a number of projects and assumed responsibility for a number of project roles. Duties included contract and commercial management, managing construction claims, and close client liaison. Oil & gas, petrochemicals, diamond and gold mining.

Project Manager at SNC Lavalin – EMS Joint Venture
  • November 1998 to June 2000

Project Management duties included the full spectrum of activities encompassed by the construction and service contract disciplines, i.e. tendering, adjudications, risk identification and mitigation, negotiations, contract award and formulation, administration on site, claims management and final formal close-out of each contract. Mozal aluminum smelter project.

Project Manager at Kellogg-Brown & Root Southern
  • July 1997 to November 1998

Providing commercial and contractual (legal) advice and support to project teams, tendering and frequent visits to remote construction sites, mainly in northern Angola (oil & gas projects in Malongo and Soyo bases in the Cabinda enclave) and brewery projects in Zambia.

Project Manager at Bwana Mkubwa Mining
  • Zambia
  • May 1997 to July 1997

Providing initial Project Management direction to the project in order to establish bidders’ lists, set up requests for tenders for the various identified packages, design and draft contract document formats incorporating claims mitigation and avoidance mechanisms and then hand over to the indigenous team and step back. Copper mining and electrowinning project.


April 1997 Bechtel-LTA Process Engineering Joint Venture
Commercial & Contracts Representative on Proposal team
Role Profile

Assisted in drafting the Procurement & Contracts section of the bid document for the EPCM of the Mozal Project, to be constructed by BHP Billiton. Identifying areas of potential involvement then meeting with team members to confirm my identified packages, drafting the framework documents for inclusion in the bid package and finally presenting to the BHPB bid adjudication team, after numerous dry-runs. Preparing bid proposal for Mozal aluminum smelter project.

Commercial Manager at Saldanha Steel Project Client’s team
  • August 1995 to March 1997
Project Manager at Columbus Stainless Steel Project Client’s Team
  • December 1993 to August 1995
contracts specialist
  • to August 1995

based initially at project head office in Johannesburg then later relocating to site in Saldanha Bay. Steel plant project.

Contracts Manager at Oil & Gas
  • South Africa
  • January 1992 to September 1993
Claims Consultant at Philip Loots & Associates
  • April 1991 to December 1991
Project Manager at Aquafund (Pty) Ltd
  • December 1990 to March 1991
Recyclables Project at Lurgi S.A
  • December 1989 to March 1991
Contracts Administrator at E.L. Bateman (Pty) Ltd
  • August 1987 to November 1989

Platinum Mine)

PROJECT MANAGER
  • South Africa
  • to
Senior Consultant
  • to

Construction Risk, Contracts & Claims, preparing, appraising and defending claims for extensions of time, prolongation costs, disruption costs, acceleration and recovery of disputed variations.

Project Manager at Petrochemicals Plan
  • to

Education

Bachelor's degree, Quantity Surveying
  • at University of Cape Town
  • December 1972

Specialties & Skills

Quantity Surveying
Contract Administration
Contract Management
Negotiation
Commercial Management
CONSULTING
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
FEASIBILITY STUDIES
GENERAL MANAGEMENT
MANAGEMENT
OIL PAINTING
PROCUREMENT

Languages

Afrikaans
Expert
English
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