Mubarak Ali Thiwan, Senior Manager - Field Operations

Mubarak Ali Thiwan

Senior Manager - Field Operations

Al Futtaim Engineering Co. LLC

Location
India
Education
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering
Experience
34 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :34 years, 4 Months

Senior Manager - Field Operations at Al Futtaim Engineering Co. LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • June 2010 to August 2016

Business Activities: Design, Sales, Installation and Maintenance of Elevators, Escalators & Travellators of reputed brands such as Hitachi, LM & BLT.

Responsibilities: Execution of projects in both installation and maintenance
Ensure completion of projects in line with contractual requirements with highest quality standards of the products.
Establish polices, procedures and development of strategies for efficiency improvement of the human potential to cater the division needs

Major Achievements:
• Attained a net profit of 8% on year to year basis
• Achieved the goal of adequate and qualified staff
• Completed high profile projects like Abudhabi Investment Council HQ, Nation Towers, ADNOC HQ to name a few without any technical hitches and commercial impacts
• Achieved 5% reduction in direct installation and maintenance expenses
• Reduced Callback Ratio (CBR) to 4% from 5.5%

Deputy General Manager at Three Diamond Contracting Est
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2006 to March 2010

Business Activities: Installation and Maintenance of Elevators, Escalators & Travellators of reputed brands such as Mitsubishi, Schindler, KONE and Fuji.

Responsibilities: Complete operation in terms of sales, installation, commercial, finance and administration
Ensure timely or advance completion of projects in line with contractual requirements with highest quality standards of the products.

Major Achievements:
• Attained a net profit of 20% on new installation sales
• Tripled the staff within 6 months to achieve great growth

Regional manager at Mitsubishi Electric Saudi Ltd.,
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • July 1992 to August 2005

Business Activities: Sales, Installation and Maintenance of Elevators, Escalators & Travellators

Responsibilities: Sales, Sales engineering Support, Installation, Maintenance, Quality Control, ISO, Training, Safety, Commercial, Accounting and Administration for Central and Eastern, Makkah regions
Budget preparation, securing of new sales to meet / exceed the targets, Installation of units on contract stipulated period in accordance with the manufacturers' quality standards and guidelines, converting all the installed units into annual maintenance contract in an efficient and cost effective way to achieve overall profitability in line with company's objectives.
Participating with HR for staffing with qualified technical manpower and developing strategy training needs to have wealth of resources at company disposal to meet tough challenges ahead.
Achieving maintenance contract sales target through engaging current and new customers with maximizing customer satisfaction through prompt and efficient handling of customer inquiries, by reducing break down calls through reduced downtime of equipment by maintaining optimum spares inventory and continuous improvement of technical skills of staff.
Establishing policies, procedures and development strategies in setting up of a Quality Assurance facility comprising the various departments - Training, Quality Control, HSE and ISO.

Major Achievements:
• Brought to the market leader position from 4th level
• Achieved profit margin of 15% on a yearly basis
• Strategic planning and its’ implementation
• Exceeded sales target by 20% on a yearly basis
• Improved installation efficiency by 5% on a yearly basis
• Converted 90% of the installed units into annual maintenance contract
• Reduced Call Back Ration to less than 3% countrywide
• Executed highly complicated projects like Al Faisaliah Center, Kingdom Center and Development of King Abdul Aziz Endowment
• Successfully carried out multiple responsibilities concurrently
• Established new business set up in Jordan

Manager - Elevator System at MEMCO - EMCOP Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • August 1991 to July 1992

Business Activities: Supply and installation of Mitsubishi based security system and installation of Mitsubishi vertical transportation equipments

Responsibilities: Execution of 55 Mitsubishi lifts at First Makkah Residential and Commercial Complex Makkah Saudi Arabia
• Established the branch in Saudi Arabia
• Achieved the project profit margin of 35%
• Completed and handed-over 6 months ahead of schedule

Project Engineer at Saudi ETA Ltd.,
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • April 1983 to May 1991

Business Activities: Supply, installation and maintenance of Dover and Goldstar vertical transportation systems and electro-mechanical contracts.

Responsibilities: Complete installation and T & C works at King Saud University Riyadh, ARAMCO Health Complex - Dhahran, King Abdul Aziz University Jeddah

Engineering Trainee at ETA MELCO Company LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • September 1981 to March 1983

Business Activities: Supply, Installation and Maintenance of Mitsubishi vertical transportation equipment.

Responsibilities: Complete installation and T & C works at various projects

Education

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering
  • at Alagappa Chettiyar College of Engineering and Tecnology, Madurai Kamaraj University
  • August 1981

Specialties & Skills

Customer Focus
Forward Planning
Performance Management
Commercial Awareness
Contract Management
Time Management
MS Office
Finance as a Non Finance person

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate
Tamil
Native Speaker

Memberships

Institution of Engineers
  • Associate
  • April 1980

Training and Certifications

Leaders for Growth (Training)
Training Institute:
Hay Group Dubai UAE
Date Attended:
May 2015
Duration:
40 hours
Cross Cultural Management (Training)
Training Institute:
Association of Overseas Trainee Scholarship, Tokyo Japan
Date Attended:
April 1993
Duration:
120 hours
Technical Instruction Program (Training)
Training Institute:
Dover Elevator System Memphis, Tennesse USA
Date Attended:
May 1988
Duration:
96 hours
Time Management - First Thing First (Training)
Training Institute:
Franklin Covey Co. Ltd., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Date Attended:
April 1995
Duration:
16 hours
Safety Training (Training)
Training Institute:
Trained Right, Toronto, Canada
Date Attended:
January 2006
Duration:
32 hours
Business Finance and Strategy (Training)
Training Institute:
Zodiac Dubai UAE
Date Attended:
June 2011
Duration:
16 hours
Finance for Non Finance manager (Training)
Training Institute:
Earnest and Young International, Riyadh Saudi Arabia
Date Attended:
May 1996
Duration:
24 hours
FIDIC Contracts and Its Management (Training)
Training Institute:
Dubai Institute of Management
Date Attended:
November 2010
Duration:
20 hours