Osama Saad, Senior Planning Engineer

Osama Saad

Senior Planning Engineer

China State Construction Engineering Corporation

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, MBA
Experience
13 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :13 years, 10 Months

Senior Planning Engineer at China State Construction Engineering Corporation
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since January 2019

• Develop cost and resource loaded baseline schedules integrating design, subcontractors and material supply schedules into master construction schedule.

• Prepare and issue project management related correspondences to the Engineer and Nominated Subcontractors (e.g. notices of delay, performance issues, etc)

• Ensure timely and accurate project status reporting for management and client review. Developed detailed periodic reports that ascertain schedule and cost variance explanation and corrective actions required.

• Coordinate schedule data with the project team during weekly meetings. Identified and communicated schedule and cost issues to the team.
• Monitor and Control work progress for Nominated Subcontractors and report the required action to management.

• Incorporate performance issues/delays into the project schedule and developed Time Impact Analysis (TIA) to claim for Extensions of Time (EoT).

• Prepare progress status presentation for clients during weekly progress meetings and conduct effective discussions with regards to current project status.

• Assist in planning and controlling projects costs and generated regular forecasts and S-curve to ensure EAC was within estimated budget.

Lead Planning Engineer at Al Shafar National Contracting
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • December 2015 to January 2019
MBA Intern at Emerson Process Management
  • United Kingdom
  • September 2014 to September 2015
Planning Engineer/Scheduler at Contrack International, Inc.
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 2011 to July 2014

I worked in two large construction projects ($50, 000, 000) and ($70, 000, 000) respectively. The scope of work included multi-service buildings, K-Spans, infrastructure, roads, and civil, architectural, electro-mechanical tasks. I utilized my planning expertise to help the company win construction claims and complete the project on time with the targeted profit margin.

Planning and Cost Control Engineer at Warner Lewis Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • August 2010 to October 2011

• Scheduled construction and procurement activities and monitored the project cash flow.
• Gathered project status information and generated progress reports for management review.

Internship at Orascom Construction Industries
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • April 2010 to July 2010

I did my graduation project around construction engineering management for three areas in Cairo Festival Cities. These areas are: multiple stories garage, Marks&Spencer and IKEA store. The project included the development of resource and cost loaded baseline, risk management, cash flow analysis.

Education

Master's degree, MBA
  • at University of Durham
  • September 2015
Higher diploma, Professional Program in Project Management
  • at American University In Cairo ( AUC )
  • January 2014
Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering
  • at Cairo University
  • May 2010

Specialties & Skills

Planning
Scheduling
Consultancy
Business Analysis
Project Control
Primavera P6 , P3
• Primavera risk analysis v8.7, v7.7
• Microsoft project 2007
• Auto CAD 2007
• Sap 2000

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert
Spanish
Beginner
French
Beginner

Memberships

Project Management Institute
  • Member
  • June 2012

Training and Certifications

Construction Quality Management for Contractors (Training)
Training Institute:
United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
Date Attended:
April 2012
Duration:
30 hours
PMI-RMP exam preparation course (Training)
Training Institute:
VTC
Date Attended:
December 2012
Duration:
30 hours
PMI=Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2012
Valid Until:
November 2018
Project Management Professional (PMP) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2012
Valid Until:
June 2018