رياض عواد

• Managed company fleet operations as per the projects requirements at oil & gas field, while ensuring the effective optimal deployment & implementation of Quality Management procedures
• Led all personnel working in the PMV department and ensured proper adherence to all company policies for safe working procedures & environment
• Developed, an advanced department manual in-line with the ethics and procedures to facilitate the provision and operation of plant services to the high standard of performance expected in the organization
• Reinforced a strong physical inventory verification of assets spread over different areas of operations
• Conducted a thorough technical & commercial evaluation writing off redundant assets using financial resources at no returns; initiated savings of 85%
• Established high and minimum stock levels of spares & consumables for business continuity

• Continually monitored and promoted the methodology and efficiency of the key personnel running operations at different areas in the region.
• Performed major role in assets mobilization/demobilization plans over the operational areas
• Designed and delivered cost effective company operations across UAE, KSA, Egypt, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Qatar, Kuwait & India

• Installed and operated the highest construction hoists in the globe (828meters) at zero accident and contributed to innovations of certain components adapting to word record of working at height
• Led the modification of tower cranes to undergo different configurations of installation saving the company USD 5 Million, and reduced activities time by 60%
• Ascertained adherence of company policy in availing, operating and maintaining a very large fleet of construction equipment (more than 3, 000 piece at peak) in line with projects requirements, while managing team of 4, 850 (at peak) including 300 staff members (engineers, administrators and officers)
• Extended technical support to company project running outside UAE
• Ensured completion of tower cranes and hoist activities within minimum time, and led remarkable control of asset components,
• Defined standardized workshops layout including segregation of responsibilities & duties within each section, and developing competent team members to key positions
• Ensured the implementation of the scheduled preventive maintenance tasks in line with the manufacturer guidelines along with tracking and analyzing the respective costs and cost savings at breakdowns in return
• Attained a monthly profit worth AED 8 Million, prior to recession; designed & applied strategies to minimize severe impacts of recession
• Contribution to the group polices and strategies while being a Board Member at three subsidiaries of Arabtec Holdings (Gulf Steel Industries, GSI, Austrian Arabian Ready Mix Company, AAC & House of Equipment, HOE)
• Inspected operations at Third Party to source-out deficient plant requirement using most cost- effective approach

• Directed the workforce comprising 114 employees to ensure timely execution of scheduled maintenance programs and major breakdown repairs of mobile equipment & light vehicles as per Adma-Opco Policy
• Ensured availability of alternative spares & repairs for equipment discontinued at OEMs
• Successfully accomplished comprehensive refurbishment operations for fire tenders, that prolong working life of Dennis Trucks fleet by additional 5 years of life span
• Furnished engineering hand drawings of isometrics of obsolete spares when outsourced at European principals and advanced mathematical calculations of design requirements of “Byham” Depth gauges at foam tankers

• Managed a team of 135 foremen, mechanics, drivers and operators to manage repairs & scheduled equipment service at workshop and on-site
• Established and organized workflow, and monitored fuel quality to minimize engine breakdowns

• Ensured preventive maintenance were appropriately scheduled & accomplished; improved maintenance processes & personnel performance to achieve enhanced levels of efficiency at different projects
• Successfully did a transmission overhauling of Cat 938 (hands on) wheel loader and led cost effective welding repair of fractured boom stick of a Cat 225 excavator.

• Directed a team of 49 employees including Foremen, Charge Hands and Mechanics
• Acted as a core member of pioneer team at site, to ensure evacuation of equipment prior of occasional water floods, mobilizing & demobilizing equipment along step, long and rough access valley, adapting to locals of exotic & aggressive attitude, withstanding the sever conditions of the civil war triggered in May 1994

• Accomplished design & manufacturing of a cooling tower utilizing local and cheap resources to make up the oxygen plant requirements of cooling water
• Led a team of 12 to install, commission and operate an Oxygen plant producing 150 cubic meter/hour of high purity oxygen gas of a cooling tower while implementing several optimization techniques
• Initiated cost savings of 35% through materials localization, innovative solutions to welding problems in joining metal alloys, verification & prediction of cost effective cabling size of main electrical power lines, competent leak tests and trainings of newly employed operators