Senior Project Officer
Naufar
Total years of experience :17 years, 3 Months
Working as a Senior Project Officer in Project Management Office under the Office of Strategy Management of the organization.
Working in the capacity of a Senior Planning Engineer reporting directly to the PMO Manager and collaborating with the senior project management team.
• Primavera Unifier System Administrator & Primavera P6 EPPM v15.2 Super Administrator
- Administer 10 Primavera P6 Users and 25 Primavera Unifier in-house Users and all contractors or partner companies and manage licenses and user privileges to ensure access and usage of the Enterprise & Project Management Solution.
- Manage technical and functional issues of the applications, collaborate and coordinate with IT department and Primavera Oracle representatives to receive the required level of support.
- Facilitate primavera unifier user trainings and workshops conducted by Primavera Oracle representatives and provide administrative support to all end users. Provide in-house training for new users
- Oversee the system implementation and work together with Primavera Oracle representatives to ensure smooth transition of the web base application. Set up enterprise data structure to meet project management division standards and requirements. Lead the review and testing of business processes through a pilot project.
- Set up new projects and business process, assign project teams and arrange user access and privileges. Arrange document folder structure as per the project management department standard and adjust it according to assigned project manager preferences
- Arrange different dashboards according to different stakeholder/end user needs. Develop concept reports in Primavera P6 and coordinate and seek approval with the department heads to meet reporting requirements.
- Prepare Primavera applications user and administrative step by step guidelines for knowledge transfer and work delegation purposes and usual business processes procedures.
• Project Supervision Department - Quantity Surveyor & Planner/Scheduler (Post Contract)
- Assist in the development and update of department’s internal policies and procedures and project operational procedure manuals and guidelines.
- Review and approve contractor’s submitted baseline schedule and manage changes on updated schedule with actual status.
- Collaborate and coordinate with the contractor together with the project team and agree the methods of measurement to be taken up for work packages and activities during the course of the project.
- Work together with the project manager and the project team on supervising construction projects, support project managers on evaluation of contractors and end users change requests and assist in preparation of change orders.
- Assist project managers on the review of payment requests and evaluation of schedule of values and other supporting documents as per the agreed terms of payments within the signed contract.
- Use earned value management system in determining the project schedule and cost performance with the aid of planning and scheduling tool Primavera P6.
• Design Development Department - Quantity Surveyor & Planner/Scheduler (Pre-contract)
- Assist the Design Team in preparing the Bill of Quantities of the proposed project and consolidate other tender documents such as design drawings and specifications for tender issue.
- Assist in developing schedule specifications, creation of project work breakdown structure and identification of Key Milestones to be part of tender documents as the basis of contractor’s preliminary schedule to be submitted together with the bid documents.
- Assist project managers of different sections in preparing budget estimates of the proposed projects. Assist the design team in the quantity take off particularly in Architectural, Civil and Structural Sections.
• Manage PMO and project-related documents within the electronic document management system using SharePoint online.
• Develop and maintain the tools & templates needed for the implementation of PMO methodology and practice within the project environments.
• Assist with the development and consolidation of project detail plans, identify dependencies between the various project areas and work with project teams to manage individual schedules as well as the master timeline.
• Track and manage all project-related incoming/outgoing communications and documents, support project document management needs and manage project team roles/access/permissions for the document management system.
• Train and educate project teams on PMO requirements and standards; assist Functional Project Managers with application of the methodology & tools to their projects.
• Prepare and consolidate monthly project reports/dashboards and executive summary reports for senior stakeholders.
• Assist program areas with the development, maintenance and regular review of their project schedules, keeping a PMO master schedule of all projects/programs to ensure alignment between dependent projects/programs.
• Assist project teams with implementing project controls according to Project Office Operation Manuals requirements to ensure projects meet resource, program and document management requirements.
• Assist project teams in implementing reporting & communications plans within projects, following content and format standards for monthly project status reports.
• Assist project teams in implementing risk management protocols and procedures
• I am involved in program management wherein I am supporting different project managers handling different projects in the same timeline. Develop the schedule management plan and schedule design for the assigned projects, facilitate the development of project plan and master construction schedule.
• Prepare and interpret project plans and establish key performance indicators (KPI’s). Develop activity weighting system that enables a representative measure for the project progress to be determined.
• Create a work breakdown structures for each project as per the construction approach, and contract requirement or as per the BOQ organized in CSI divisions, develop different WBS templates for different type of project, develop activity steps for different work package
• Update and adjust the project plans and schedule to bring the deviating activities back in line, prepares extension of time request, and facilitate the re-base lining of project scope, cost and schedule
• Participate in project management meetings concerning project plans and schedule, coordinate to project team and carry out site visits to collect required data for project monitoring and control purposes
• Perform Earned Value Analysis in monitoring and tracking project schedule and cost, provide recommendation, alternatives and solutions to forecasted issues and trends
• Provide wide range of reports for consultant & management like weekly and monthly reports, presentation of graphs, bulls-eye charts, histograms, & s-curves
• Supervise and review the preparation of schedule of values, monthly payments/invoice & claims
• Reporting to the Project Manager and carrying out his directives with respect to field operations
• Being thorough familiar with the requirements of the General Contracts, and thereby identifying changes, conflicts, that are beyond the scope of company responsibility
• Studies and interpret structural and architectural drawings in detail to have a good judgment in field operations
• Determining whether all Subcontractors are providing sufficient workforce and hours of work to actually achieve committed promises of performance
• Prepare monthly payments and schedule of values
• Working to assure adequate staffing of the workforce, supplies of materials and complete information as necessary for assembly
• Supervising the structural work from sub-structure such as pile driving activities, pile capping concreting of foundation
• Overseeing superstructure works like erection of steel structure and post tensioning works
• Supervising rebar works as well as shuttering of forms and pouring of concrete and assures the quality of the work done
• Supervising waterproofing works and related roof system activities
• Developing the schedule with the Project Manager and Project Engineer
• Monitoring actual versus required performance by all parties; working to bring the deviating performance back in line
• Reconcile with Construction Management Engineers regarding status of works and accomplishments
• Settle with Subcontractors regarding claims and variation orders
• Keep the records on site such as test results, information, clearance, back charges and invoice as well
• Prepares Daily Report, job diaries and other special documentation
Study in progress