Senior QS / Cost Control Engineer
DAR AL-HANDASAH (Shair and Partners)
Total years of experience :27 years, 8 Months
As Senior QS / Cost Control engineer, managing a staff of 12 quantity surveyors at HHR project, Phase1 (Stations & Route Civil Works) which worth about 22 Billion SAR, my responsibilities are including:
• Setting and Implementing a unified system for handling the payments, variations and cost control for the several contractors (4 contractors for the stations + Joint Venture (of other 4 contractors) for the route civil works)
• Final review & approval the contractors payment certificates.
• Review, evaluating / approval of variations & contractors' claims
• Analysing, approval of costs related to contractors’ EOT claims.
• Preparing monthly reports that tracing the variations, the claims & cost saving items that have been raised or may be raised by the contractors.
• Final review & advice for contractors’ take-off sheets covering different items of work.
• Sharing in review of complying the contract documents & drawings to assure the full coordination between different trades during the redesign & shop drawings stage.
• Participating in preparing Monthly Progress Reports & High Level Summary Reports in coordination with stations managers, contract administration & planning team.
1- For the Projects in Hand
• Developing generic projects Cost Structure under standard work breakdown structures for various generic project types.
• Initiating tender packages after receiving the design documents & managing bid evaluation processes in coordination with design review department for technical issues.
• Preparing Contracts for various packages of projects, following up any contractual issues.
• Process & Approval of new purchase requests & contracts assuring it is allocated within the project estimated budget.
• Revising & Approval of Variation & monthly contractors invoices.
• QS Check & reporting the major changes in the invoices quantities in comparison with the original BOQ, to prepare the forecasted changes in budgets.
• Recording & allocating any contract, purchase order, invoice or any expenses to the relevant cost accounts.
• Preparing a monthly Cost Status Report for every project.
• Developing customized software package for building cost control database, automatic and easy reporting.
2 - For Internal Cost Control to the Company.
• Developing & implementing the Standard Costing System and ensure efficient functioning of Costing System up to expectations of Management and Interrelationship between Clients & company related to working progress in issuing invoices and approvals, process through accounting department.
• Preparing project cost estimate of resources and other expenses through discussions with functional leaders in a timely manner using generic cost structure, which is suitable for cost tracking in the project life cycle.
• Monitoring Staff time allocation to the projects assuring compliance with the estimated hours.
• Preparation of the Project Management Team cost report. This report encompasses all man-hour costs for management team personnel and all associated costs.
• Planning, follow up & monitoring the performance of projects assuring executions according to time schedules, quality and budget.
• Reporting the problems facing the projects so the higher key persons can find solutions to keep it on track.
• Preparing the variations and, claims for the projects and handling the contractual matters with the clients
• Approval of monthly contractors invoices assuring that it matches the original contracting rates and contract conditions.
• Recording & allocating any contract, purchase order, invoice or any expenses to the relevant cost centers.
• Prepare a monthly Cost Status Report for in hand project, which indicates the projects’ various packages status, showing the original budgets & any assigned amounts also including the balance of approved certificates & the balance of cost until the projects finish dates.
• Approval of Variation Orders submitted by the sub contractors
• Setting up & directing this 'new' department at the factory which is responsible for the preparing of invoices to the clients & DEPA projects for the works., controlling costs
• Preparing a Cost Control Reports declaring the amount spent cost against budget at every stage of production & highlighting the points of weakness which lead to losses at this product (Estimating stage, Shop drawings stage, Productions Various Stages or Installation).
• Responsible for preparing & obtaining the approvals of variations & change orders
Project : Sheraton Heliopolis Extension
As a member of this project team, where scope of work includes the public areas finishes for 3 floors of this project, with a value of 25 millions L E . My duties including
• Preparing the monthly Main & Sub contractors Payments.
• Estimating the cost of the new items “Variations” & obtain its approval from the consultant.
• Monitoring budget status through various project stages & prepare a monthly report
• Preparing Monthly Reports that tracing the variations in contract and the claims that may be obtained from the owner & against the sub contractors and the tracing cost changes for BOQ items.
• Assuring the economic execution methods in coordination with project manager & site manager.
• Review of complying all the contract documents to & drawings to assure the full coordination between different contractors trades during the redesign & shop drawings stage.
As a member of the project work team; my duties includes : · Preparing the monthly Main & Sub contractors Payments · Quantity surveying & takeoff different items of work · Review of complying all the contract documents to & drawings to assure the full coordination between different contractors trades during the redesign & shop drawings stage. · Managing the meetings with the consultants and sub-contractors to advise the project further requirements for the proceed of the work.
CRC, Head Office, Commercial Division
Duties : As a member of the Commercial Division, that Studies Bids for prestigious projects with large capitals, English documentation, FIDIC Contracts and International specs. Such as “AUC New Campus”, “The Children’s Oncology Hospital in Cairo”., , , etc , my duties include:
• Review of contract conditions and state the main areas that seek qualification/ clarification.
• Review of complying all the tender documents to each other and preparing a list of queries to the consultant.
• Preparing breakdown for the cost some items & estimating total cost for this items as a guide to the team leader.
• Quantity surveying of different items of work and comparing with related BOQ items.
• Monitoring the different items of work that may be missed on documents or BOQ & obtain its quantity and/ or its cost effects on the other items.
National Société Générale Bank, Cairo Office Complex Project
Duties : As a member of the project work team; my duties includes :
• Preparing the monthly Main & Sub contractors Payments.
• Estimating the cost of the new items “Variations” & obtain its approval from the consultant.
• Preparing Monthly Reports that tracing the variations in contract and the claims that may be obtained from the owner & against the sub contractors and the tracing cost changes for BOQ items.
• Quantity surveying & takeoff different items of work..
• Review of complying all the contract documents to & drawings to assure the full coordination between different contractors trades during the redesign & shop drawings stage.
• Assuring the economic execution methods in coordination with project manager & site manager.
• Managing the meetings with the consultants and sub-contractors to advise the project further requirements for the proceed of the work..
• Preparing necessary detailed shop drawing for various small items to help on coordination’s process& as built drawings
April, 96 to July 99 CRC, Head Office, Commercial Division
Duties : As a member of the Commercial Division, that Studies Bids for prestigious projects with large capitals, English documentation and International specs., my duties include:
• Review of contract conditions and state the main areas that seek qualification / clarification.
• Review of complying all the tender documents to each other and preparing a list of queries to the consultant.
• Quantity surveying of different items of work and comparing with related BOQ items.
• Sharing in cost estimating for some items