Project Engineer
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مجموع سنوات الخبرة :16 years, 10 أشهر
Employed for a contracting firm, with a fully integrated yard providing ship repair, and engineering solutions to serve the offshore and marine industry. My duties included:
• Project Planning: Building strategy by Framing work breakdown structure, resources and material planning
• Budgeting: Project cost control by calculating Man hours. Budget control to meet project targets on time and within cost
• Operation: Resolution of issues, project management and planning for the yard utilization & facilities to monitor and track project success.
• Execution & Delivery: Ensuring project completion, preparing and updating detail-engineering deliverables register to finalize delivery.
Assignments include project scheduling, estimating BOQ, managing payrolls and linking with clients interested in performing the following jobs:
• Shipbuilding on site, ship repair, Rehabilitation of steel structures through sandblasting.
• Protective coating Applications / anti-corrosive & anti-fouling Paints to meet MPI specifications
• Steel welding & Fabrication for offshore utilities such as containers, tanks, skids for elevators etc...
• Pipeline wrapping / Insulating onshore and offshore equipment in addition to fire proof applications.
• Theoretical and practical training for safe & secure hydraulic jacking for the tank using presentation tools, visual assembly, fitting, erection & welding defaults to mantle the different constituents of the jacking equipment.
• Equipment Installation, Working as the middle company man connecting and interacting with the jacking expert sent by BYGGING and collaborating with the local technical work force, engineers and GM at the EGC & TOTAL
• Using communication skills to overcome any language barriers within the team, providing competent & professional engineering terms translation from Urdu & English to Arabic.
• Periodic inspection plan intervention, provided critical engineering thinking to resolute solutions for any complicated issues or Operational troubleshoots.
• RISK ASSESSMENT and EVALUATION PLAN implemented when controlling all operation parameters such as pressure, temperature, and levels testing.
• MAINTAINING the pump in case of a power pack sudden break down, leakage of oil or rupture TROUBLESHOOTS.
• CHECKLISTS revision and testing, before initiating a real jack.
Responsible for a videography team to Provide TOTAL a full time lapse footage, Shooting the TANK's building process for every stage like:
1. Including all the work done starting from the base civil work adding stones, cement, soil and steel rods to strengthen the base and place the tank FOUNDATION.
2. Adding bitumen when laying the bottom plate, roof top structure fabrication, lifting and alignment
3. Each stage's steel plate walls coarse erection, support holder placement, and finally Jacking the tank after completion of every stage depending on the tanks tonnage, no of jacks to be used and the wall plate height in each stage.
4. Constructing external ladder, relief v/vs, fire extinguishers and SAFETY hoses as a precaution and preparation for any possible hazards to occur or in case of EMERGENCY INCIDENTs
5. Taking internal footage for the sand blasting, painting layers & fiber insulation installment on final tank day
• Practical enrollment at the “ETSDC” on survival techniques of helicopter ditching & Escape fire systems in case of Smoke and fire emergencies using Mask and Air breathing apparatus. Learnt Emergency escape plans on how to respond in hazardous areas of NDC Jack-ups, using different detector types and “air hose” to detect wind direction, such as in in-case of H₂S Toxic gas leakage, all to ensure safe drilling policies are met. Practical training for the Elementary first Aid applications in case of crew injury.
• Green Hats Health & Safety orientation programme at NDC Habshan camp training centre: introduction to NDC`s values, mission and vision. Underwent Practical and Theoretical simulating program for Advanced Drilling on MODU ( Mobile offshore drilling units ), which included tasks such as tripping in & out, while controlling the different loads like the weight on bit. Introduced to latest electronic controlled Main engine systems on a rig. Recognized operations Data noted in log books, tanks capacity in Oil record books, maintenance checks carried periodically for the machinery and marine equipment on the rig to ensure valid certification & documentations at time of surveys to meet classification society’s codes & legislations placed by the IMO.
• Completed NDC teaching course of “Marine operations on self elevating platforms, under approved supervision of the NDC Marine & offshore operations dept-head. This academic training programme included stability calculations on Jack-ups within 6 degrees of freedom. Stability (positive GM, GZ) has to be maintained at all times considering internal forces like movement of cranes on board, internal factors such as: vibrations due moving machinery, drilling on the rotating table and heavy load handlings. and external factors, such as wind, current and waves. Calculations like trim & heel moments, drafts. Determination of centres of gravity and buoyancy, free surface correction, metacentric point. Load distribution on tri-legs during elevating operations and pre-loading .Underwater flooding targeted on non-water tight doors calculated at one side of the upper deck compartments, Righting Lever arm moments i.e the internal stored energy that restores the rig to its normal position when tilted, Free surface correction; i.e. Disposition of the Centre of Gravity due to the loading, discharging, dislocations of the derrick; slacking effect of partially filled water, chemicals & fuel tanks and movements of crew and the variable loads such as hoisting of the drill pipes from the rack on the catwalk through winches or cranes. Moments are calculated for the fixed machinery and variable loads acting at different positions along the vertical, longitudinal & transverse particular axis of the offshore structure.
• Acknowledged safe Cantilever skidding operations when sliding the derrick to a max permissible distance out of the hull, ensuring the max and min safety heights at which the hull can be raised at “pre-loading” preparations and when in normal operations, supervising safe hoisting, handling and lifting procedures such as maintaining max allowable distance between derrick and winch, max wind speed in knots at which cranes are to be shunned from operation. Derricks are slided and centered at different positions on the platform where the drilling is to be performed. When relocated after a short or long rig move, whether towed by tugs or through self-propelled structures, ensured Safe ascending and descending of Jack-up legs using the “Rack and pinions” principal to transform the mechanical rotating movement of the reduction gears to linear motion at very slow velocities, powered by an electric system. Ensuring spud-cans (cone shaped tanks at legs bottom) are fixed on the sea-bed and water ballast systems tested when preloading and when spud cans get stuck, a water jet Punch through done. Maintaining the correct Air-Gap distance between Keel and water surface during elevation process.
Performing the national service as a 2nd lieutenant on an offshore supply Vessel that provides fresh water, fuel oil bunkering & standby Emergency fire fighting Unit to Military stations in Port Said. (Main Engine: Yanmar 4 stroke Diesel Engine -1500 HP)
• Working as a machinery operative on a production line for “Industrial Temps”
• Inspecting machinery and assisting with its troubleshoots at all times
• Regulating equipment`s different parameters, throughout the production stages.
• Supervising product packaging and assuring quality control of final Outcome to meet the required
Maersk Sealand & Nedlloyd Senior Marine Cadet Engineering Officer Mar 05 - Sept 05
Served as an Engineer Cadet on a Maersk container-ship (2 stroke Diesel Engines, 12, 410 hp)
* Managed and monitored main engine and auxiliary machinery systems.
* Organised control systems data in log books and assisted in office admin work.
* Prepared and lead fire, Safety and emergency drills at corresponding stations on board.
* Gained professional experience of working in both large and small teams.
* Performed a PowerPoint presentation on 'Marine pollution' involving a verbal discussion.
* Experienced technical work in main engine unit surveys, crane lifting and ship bunkering.
* Completed training with 'Good Conduct' rating on container ship Maersk Ahram (Gross Ton: 14063)
AIDA-IV (Platform Supply Vessel) Aug 2004 - Feb 2005
Guided training scheme aboard a PSV Aida IV, 4 stroke Diesel Engines), which included:
• Maintenance of main engine units, Diesel generators and oil purifiers.
• Small-scale project team work to analyse shear stress and bending moment on the ship.
• Operating ballast systems and calculating GM, to maintain draft and stability on board.
• Surveying machinery on board such as pumps, compressors and fresh water generators.
• Designed a mechanical clamp using Autodesk inventor and ANSYS to evaluate the stresses.
• Completed training with excellent rating on board Aida IV ( Gross Tonnage: 3105 )
(Primary subjects are Mechanical Engineering & Marine Technology). This course has been developed in consultation with the offshore industry in order to meet its increasingly specialist demands. Most of my modules involved using sophisticated computing software that is used in structural ship design and experimental laboratories, such as towing tanks used in ship modelling, to achieve the optimum design specifications.
Designed a mechanical clamp using Autodesk inventor and ANSYS to evaluate the stresses. • Completed training with excellent rating on board Aida IV ( Gross Tonnage: 3105) EducationalQualification University of Newcastle, UK 2002-2008 Bachelor of Engineering, 2:2 honours in Offshore Engineering (Major: Mechanical Engineering & Marine Engineering Technology) Modules studied with brief descriptions: Drilling Engineering: Provides an introduction to an oil rig with a detailed understanding of the various components on a derrick and the drilling process. Marine Informatics and Engineering Application: This module involves stability experiments on ship flooding, workshops on strut design, and individual and team projects on feasibility study of ship building. All these applications contribute to the Marine diligence. Offshore Marine Vehicles: This module briefly describes offshore operations for marine vehicles, such as submersibles, submarines, and dynamic positioning of ROVs. Moreover, it encompassed deep water operations like pipe welding, underwater pipe corrosion control, secure diving, trenching, dredging, and pipe laying. Resistance and Propulsion: Evaluating the resistance opposing a marine vehicle, and the efficient properties required for a propeller to induce a maximum thrust, enhancing the design of a propeller and its blades, minimizing cavitations and the wake regions where vortices are to occur. Project on Pipelines: Final year project and research proposed by GE (General Electric) involved an innovative feasibility study of converting National Grid's natural gas transmission pipeline to transport LNG. Skills Gained: Enhanced IT skills using software: Lab VIEW®, Autodesk Inventor®, and Advanced MS Excel for optimisation Analytic methods for solving sophisticated data, in addition to using Mat lab Communication skills, including with people within the academia and the marine industry consultancy Gained acknowledgment towards an innovative subject (Aerogel Insulation) Improved researching skills and team work. Learnt to work under pressure and meet deadlines in report writing. Accept challenges for innovative technologies and achieve specified goals.