Paul Richardson, Regional Lead & Principal Consultant

Paul Richardson

Regional Lead & Principal Consultant

Intertek

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Higher diploma, Engineering
Experience
22 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :22 years, 6 Months

Regional Lead & Principal Consultant at Intertek
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • October 2021 to August 2023

Key Deliverables:
• Analyze operations and provide cost-effective solutions for improvement.
• Streamlining processes so that the business operates at maximum efficiency.
• Achieve business goals and revenue targets.
• Recruiting, training, and conducting quarterly performance appraisals.
• Overseeing operations, managing budgets, and setting performance objectives.
• Coordinate the Intercompany reports/presentations to US VP and Regional CFO.
• Preparing and presenting monthly, quarterly, and annual statements, analyzes, and reports of operations and finances.
• Managing internal and external stakeholder relations and negotiating contracts.
• Evaluate project documents to assess elements having potential red-line items.
• Ensuring company standards and procedures are followed.
• Attend high-level meetings with Civil Defence, Clients, Consultants, and Architects.
• Provide technical and commercial advice to all stakeholders.

Senior Facade Consultant at Intertek
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • November 2016 to October 2021

Key Deliverables:
• Provide technical input at project throughout the project life-cycle.
• Bidding of new projects as part of a multi-disciplinary group.
• Generate reports, specifications, submission reviews, etc.
• Hands on design and interfacing with Authorities Having Jurisdiction, Architects, Engineers and Contractors.
• With support from the Director, manage design and technical excellence within the technical department and control risk associated with technical documents submitted.
• Manage costs and resources at project level.
• Prepare monthly project invoices and take responsibility for cash collections.
• Providing building enclosure commissioning and consulting services.
• Assisting project teams with completing building enclosure design reviews, such as reviewing fenestration, vertical façade, roofing systems, and waterproofing assisting with performing technical reviews.
• Provide team leadership and support in completing on-site installation inspections, forensic investigations and functional performance testing of enclosure systems.

Project Design Manager at Al Ghurair
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2016 to November 2016

Key Deliverables:
• Negotiate contracts with external vendors to reach profitable agreements.
• Collaborate with engineers, architects, consultants, contractors and suppliers etc.
• Ensure the successful delivery of the project in terms of progress, quality and cost
budgetary constraints.
• Monitor project deliverables are met with the agreed standards and stakeholder requirements at each stage of the project.
• Develop and establish the policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing, and controlling the project schedule, including monitoring project tasks and workflows in order to complete the project on schedule.
• Identifying issues that impact the project and managing them through to resolution.
• Develop a robust change control system by setting a project baseline and identifying, reviewing, approving and monitoring proposed changes to the project scope.
• Provide technical input and support design and engineering team throughout the project life-cycle.

Project Design Manager at Al Abbar
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • October 2007 to December 2015

• Responsible for, and managed the complete project life-cycle from pre-contract negotiation, project award, conception to project handover.

Design Team Leader at Portal Limited
  • United Kingdom - London
  • March 2001 to October 2007

Key Deliverables:
• Responsible for reviewing contract documents.
• Engaged in technical and commercial meetings with all stake-holders.
• Provide system designs conforming to contract and project documents.
• Generated weekly technical and commercial reports.
• Managed the value engineering process.
• Facilitate the coordination with the design and engineering team to identify project issues and develop solutions.
• Managed packages being performed by external resources.
• Responsible for document review and approval prior to issuing for client approval.
• Delivered technical advice throughout project life-cycle.
• Prepared die drawings for manufacturing and coordinated with extruders.
• Conducted on-site inspections ensuring installation complied with design drawings.

Education

Higher diploma, Engineering
  • at Brooklands
  • July 2002

Specialties & Skills

International Expertise
Project Bidding
Code Compliance
Consultancy
Work Ethic
Strategist
Communicator
Leadership
Organized
Motivator

Hobbies

  • Rugby
  • Golf