MEP Manager
BILFINGER Construction (Qatar up to Oct 2013)
Total years of experience :15 years, 11 Months
PROJECT EXECUTED :. . . . BARWA CITY
Project Value: . . . . ., , QAR7.3bn (US$2bn)
Role: . . . . . . . . . . . . . MEP Project Manager
PROJECT SCOPE: . . . . . . . .The project is comprised of 128 Multi-storied Buildings, 2 Utilities Compounds, 27 11KV Power Substations, 2 District Cooling Plants, Drainage, Water Supply, External Chilled Water Network, Street Lighting, External Fire Fighting, Gas Network and Gas Plant
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Review and control of subcontract agreements with 5 No’s MEP subcontractors and other specialist suppliers.
2. MEP technical and planning review. Monitor and control the progress of MEP works.
3. Instrumental in leading a team of 5 MEP Senior Engineers, 45 Site Engineers and 14 Office Staff.
4. MEP works supervision, administration, QS, cost control, QA, and logistics activities related to MEP.
5. Staff appraisals, scheduling and assigning tasks and recruiting new staff.
6. Monthly and quarterly review of financial statements. Evaluating and certifying monthly progress payments.
7. Overview of initial budget and necessary follow up until project completion.
8. Negotiating supplementary work and variations with, client and MEP subcontractors.
9. Chairing weekly site meetings and overview shop drawings and materials transmittals.
10. Resolving technical and commercial disputes with the subcontractors, consultant and client.
HIGHLIGHTS:
• Played a stellar role in rescuing a failing project significantly behind schedule due to accumulation of technical problems, delays in approvals of shop drawings and materials due to ongoing disputes, all resolved by:
o Rescheduling operations and focusing on resolving outstanding problems; this resulted in saving a considerable amount of money for the company and allowed work to be accelerated and to proceed in rush program.
o Undertaking extensive review of the protocols for variation order evaluations, discovering anomalies and delays involving revision of procedures & stricter monitoring of subsequent proposals; this resulted in quicker acceptance by the client with and prevention in further delay in receiving payments
• Reorganized the operation teams by recruiting experienced 2 team leaders, redistributed and revised assignments of existing teams.
• Consequently, efficient & effective control and better quality achieved on work execution and client satisfaction was granted. All within the cost allowed by the budget and wherever possible saving was achieved.
• Overall result was smooth handing over acceptance by the client on completion of the project. Thus the company enjoyed reasonable snag list, quick final payments including profitable settlement of variations and claims.
PROJECTS EXECUTED:
Sky Gardens Tower and other projects in Dubai.
Projects Value: AED220Mn
HIGHLIGHTS:
• Excellent track record of representing the company in a major claim for losses against a client that collapsed due to deep recession in Dubai; liaised with a specialist Lawyer and successfully obtained a positive court decision thereby saving the rights of the company for reimbursement for the cost of losses
• Holds the distinction of being selected by Board of Directors to guide the production and sales teams for the separate HVAC factory owned by Almulla Group in Dubai; successfully developed their sales activities, recruited additional staff and added Abu Dhabi area for the factory sales areas; also managed complete administration of HVAC Factory
• Introduced special weekly meetings to review progress and to resolve all problems as soon as arisen; the meetings with the main contractors initiated very effective tool to keep tracking of monthly payments and variations evaluations and to keep them in control of early approvals and payments from our clients during Dubai recession
• Introduced the new client is the Engineering Office of Dubai Ruler H.H. Shaikh Mohamed Bin Rashid and was successful to obtain new contracts signed and with advantage of high cash flow specially that H.H Engineering Office was interested to maintain his good reputation by awarding contracts every now and then and further more by releasing monthly payments on time and every month without fail nor delay.
PROJECTS EXECUTED:
7 Public Schools, Al Sadd stadium upgrade to centrally cooled, Playground, 2 Luxurious Villas in Qatar
Projects Value: QAR72M
HIGHLIGHTS:
• Set up new Electrical Division as follows:
o Established Electrical Contracting Division from scratch and independently managed the entire gamut of operations of this Division involving project management, procurement section, estimation, tendering and commissioning
o Granted and successfully obtained Electrical Contracting KAHRAMMA Class A License for the new electrical Division established for Tadmur Trading and Contracting
• Steered the acquisition of own personal KAHRAMAA Grade A Electrical Engineer Certification, thereby leading the organization to qualify for Class A Electrical Contracting License
• Excellent track record of delivering extensive high profile projects of 7 main schools involving upgrading of Al Sadd Stadium with a special HVAC System, totaling QAR 50 Mn; awarded 2 major buildings of library and research at Qatar University for value of QAR 50 Mn
• Instrumental in recruiting & leading a team of 6 Section Managers and Project Managers and 50 staff members with overall responsibility for 750 skilled/semi-skilled labour force
• Played a key role in developing vendors and procuring resources & materials at best value; kept close track of budget to ensure spend within targets and achievement of forecasted profits
MAJOR PROJECTS EXECUTED:
1- Etisalat Dubai HQ & Communication Building, Dubai
Project with MEP Value: AED 85 Mn (19.4M+65.6 Mn)
2-Eisalat Abu Dhabi Region HQ Administration and Communication Building
Project with MEP Value AED 72Mn.
HIGHLIGHTS:
• Successfully carried out complete installation, testing, commissioning of prestigious MEP projects worth AED 160M
• Excellent track record of independently handling day-to-day contractual & commercial matters; developed financial forecasts and schedules for all supply & installation activities
• Recruited & directed large multi-disciplinary teams including engineers, designers, planners and technical staff
• Played a key role in submission of new contract opportunities, providing estimates for electrical work for MEP tenders
• Merit of taking over the responsibilities for all relationship with the difficult client Etisalat:
o Obtained full trust enabled smooth approvals of shop drawings, materials and variations while in the same time maintained agreed schedule of completion to be reasonable for all parties.
o Maintained the relationship based on professional approaches and mutual understanding keeping the project cost within allocated budget and without sacrificing quality.
• Recruited and mobilized complete teams for MAPCO in Dubai in order to operate and manage the new project by office teams existing locally in Dubai to build competencies of teams because existence of MAPCO company teams and operations were at that time limited to Abu Dhabi Emirate.
• The following are additional projects received from our satisfied Client due to excellent services and on-time delivery of projects under my MEP project management:
o Etisalat Dubai HQ and communication building project was awarded to MAPCO as a result of excellent satisfactory performance in Etisalat Abu Dhabi Project.
o By invitation in my name, Turner International the project manager of my project Etisalat Dubai, awarded my company AED500 M contract, MEP Package of Dubai Mall.
