Prabhu Chakravarthy Rathinavadivel, Senior Planner

Prabhu Chakravarthy Rathinavadivel

Senior Planner

SIEMENS

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, Project Management
Experience
23 years, 10 Months

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Total years of experience :23 years, 10 Months

Senior Planner at SIEMENS
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since May 2010

Software’s Used - Primavera 6.1, MSP & Excel
- Establishing the design schedules as envisaged right from the project conceptual stage.
- Responsible for increasing the design activity output with increased productivity by implementation of excel macros to reduce man-hours for preparing ferrule list. Which Potentially saved 1Million in every project.
- Responsible for timely issue of project planning deliverables & progress reports.
- Assist design engineering with the detailed schedule
- Develop & update various project monitoring packages
- Assimilate scope of work and conceive the project in terms of schedule.
- Assist HOD in development activities.
- Monitor the work in progress with respect to the approved schedules/milestones
- Preparation of weekly/ monthly progress reports.
-Perform any other duties and responsibilities as and when directed by the HOD.
- Controlling & Monitoring “triple constraints”—project scope, time and cost
- Processing Budget information’s & Updating it with actuals
- Preparation of Metric reports on the basis of baseline, actual values for costs, schedule, work in progress, and work completed & reports Project Progress

Project Planner at Al Fanar Co.
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • August 2007 to April 2010

Software’s Used - Primavera 6.1 & Excel
- Establishing the schedules as envisaged right from the project conceptual stage.
- Responsible for timely issue of project planning deliverables & progress reports.
- Assist HOD in development activities.
- Develop & update various project monitoring packages
- Assimilate scope of work and conceive the project in terms of schedule.
- Assist engineering & procurement disciplines in with the detailed schedule
- Timely issue of quality project planning deliverables.
- Monitor the work in progress with respect to the approved schedules/milestones
- Preparation of weekly/ monthly progress reports.
- Review proposals from subcontractors on project execution and schedule.
- Keep PEM & Planning Manager appraised of the status/ constraints.
- Analyze the schedule and communicate to the Lead project control engineer/ Project Manager on observation of any instance across disciplines for any major variance
between the actual work in progress and the approved schedules.
-Perform any other duties and responsibilities as and when directed by the HOD.

Planning & Project Coordinator at Raissy Trading and Construction Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • July 2004 to August 2007

Mechanical engineer - Position in the Planning & Coordination department in the Company which is pioneer in the field of Mechanical & Electrical construction and maintenance of SCECO Power Plants & Transmission Lines .
- Tracking Contractor's Project Progress, Comparison of the actual with the planned progress and implementing the corrective action,
- Scheduling manpower for the project which also involves in local hiring, subcontracting & Time sheet scrutinizing
- Coordination between Client and the Contractor
- Monitoring Subcontract progress and preparing the recovery schedule
- Coordination with suppliers for quotation's, clarification's and finalize the General Terms for P.O. And also in preparing submittals to the day of final acceptance certificate..
- Preparing Inquiry, Invoice and payment vouchers for the supplier
- Drafting of Letters Of Intent upon receipt of written instruction to proceed with subcontracts.
- Drafting of Supply Agreements intended for the selected supplier of a Project.
- Drafting of Subcontracts Agreements intended for the selected subcontractor of the Project.
- Prepare Payment Certificates for Agreements entered into by other Head Office Department.
- Check all Payment Certificates / Invoices received from various sites.
- Check all Subcontractors' Statement issued by the site for entry to EDP.
- Initiate a request to obtain values of all Projects estimated future work forecasts.
- Prepare an updated list Bank Guarantees issued and held .
- Drafting of correspondence to inform clients and Managers regarding validity and expiration dates of bank guarantees.
- Check all initial budgets and budget updates of all contracts for entry to EDP.
- Attend to queries from all QS' and Cost / measurement Engineers.
- Attend to queries from other Departments and Area Offices including queries on payments from Subcontractors and Suppliers.
- Drafting various types of contractual correspondence including drafting of Amendments to existing Agreements.
- Monitor project / projects job costing, budgets, man-hours overruns plan vs actuals, prepare weekly / monthly look ahead costing project's forecasts.
- Consolidate weekly / monthly cost planning schedules in coordination with Project Schedules .

Jr. Production Engineer at Reiter Lakshmi Machine Works
  • India
  • February 2002 to July 2004

Production in charge Supervision of production activities , Scheduling for Working Shifts and Planning of Material, coordination with Clients & Subcontractor

Jr. Production Engineer at Sam Tourbo, Engineering
  • India
  • July 2000 to January 2002

Production in charge Supervision of production activities , Scheduling of Working Shifts, Planning of Material, coordination with Clients & Subcontractor

Education

Master's degree, Project Management
  • at Alagappa University
  • December 2009

Masters in Business Administration Specialization in Project Management

Bachelor's degree, Business Administration
  • at University of Madras
  • May 2003

Bachelor in Bussiness Administration Duration : 3 Years

Diploma, Mechanical Engineering
  • at Coimbatore Institute of Technology
  • April 2000

Diploma in Mechanical Engineering Major : Mechanical Elective : Automobile Engineering Duration - 3 Years 1997 - 2000

Specialties & Skills

Quality
Cost Control
Planning
Procurement
Planning and Scheduling
Ms office Packages
CNC programming & Operating
Network and Hardware
Procurement
Quality

Languages

English
Beginner
Tamil
Beginner
Hindi
Intermediate
Malayalam
Intermediate
Arabic
Beginner