Facilities & Transportation Director
American University In Cairo
Total years of experience :29 years, 10 Months
. compiled annual recommendations for the end-of-fiscal-year budget; the budget was cut by 6 million EGP over the preceding three years.
. Develop a custodial services plan for each building that outlines the tasks of and expectations for custodial employees, indicating a detailed daily and periodic schedule for cleaning and simple repairs of the facilities
. Plan and oversee the bus service and fleet tendering process, which involved compiling REQ, technical requirements, and evaluation standards for the daily bus services for staff, teachers, and students (13 routes to serve locations in the greater Cairo area).
. Managed a fleet of more than 185 vehicles, 50+ utility vehicles, 150+ electric cars, and 100+ buses. having a 65 million EGP annual budget overall. 85 total people employed
. Established a work timetable and work plan for the AUC fleet's drivers (including routine operations, administrator-assigned cars, high-caliber visits, and transportation for events).
. Managed and monitor job order execution in accordance with AUC facilities M&O policies.
. Designed and implemented changes to the CMMS to more efficiently track and complete work.
. Managed the daily transportation of 9000 employees, students, and teachers.
. Devised an employee manual for the department that includes a training matrix
. Reduced overhead by taking on duties with administrative and creative tasks Coached employees, managers, and supervisors in technical and communication skills
. Executed a plan for comprehensive fleet remarketing and premises renovations and achieved in 5 years
. facilitated 5 lectures throughout the United States while representing the AUC at three exhibitions relating to the fleet.
. 25% reduction in CAPEX and OPEX budget during the past three years
· Directs, selects, interviews, trains, evaluates, assigns, and supervises all materials and operations personnel in all activities.
· Prepared evaluation reports and appraisals of transportation and maintenance Staff, as well as various reports needed with regard to all transportation activities (technical, mileage statistics, …etc.).
· Developed new and/or improved methods for optimum efficiency and cost control; and works with appropriate supervisory personnel on plans and programs for improvements within the department and services offered.
. leading the facility and fleet management software installments and upgrade
- Ensured that maintenance technicians were adequately trained, equipped, and motivated to accomplish the maintenance program in a safe, timely, and cost-effective manner.
- Communicated regularly with all maintenance technicians, both individually and as a group, to ensure good two-way communication concerning maintenance issues.
- Created an inventory system and procurement policies to be used by all newly hired logistics team members.
- Established new vendor assessment procedures and policies, negotiated with vendors for new prices and EHS measures.
- Hired, trained, and coached all base personnel.
- Conducted employee performance reviews based on job descriptions to determine the competency, knowledge, and contribution of maintenance technicians.
- Maintained and updated operating and training manuals for the maintenance department.
- Ensured that all maintenance technicians were trained on the most updated version of operating procedures.
- Monitored the operation of plant equipment and systems.
- Reviewed the operation of plant equipment and systems constantly to minimize unplanned downtime, anticipate and solve problems in a timely manner, and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Initiated and carried out projects that improved efficiency and/or reduced operating costs.
- Tracked, analyzed, and improved key maintenance parameters such as asset utilization.
Key Projects to Credit:
• Constellation2 rig
-Installation and maintenance for TWMA waste management equipment.
• Rig Pride of North America
- Installed two triplex mud pumps.
• BHPP, Pakistan.
- Provided drilling cutting rototruck for treating 3000 tons of cutting.
• RAK Oil, Dubai.
- Supplied RD26, an oil based mud cutting unit to three oil wells across Sharjah
Key Responsibilities:
anticipate in objective setting, plan development and performance
review of Base performance.
· Initiates, implements, and manages the plant maintenance program based on best
practices in the oil& gas industry, with an emphasis on
planning/scheduling and preventive/predictive maintenance.
· Monitors the use and inventories of spare parts, maintenance
supplies, and equipment and initiates reordering when necessary.
· follow and train the maintenance team on the computerized
maintenance management system (CMMS) for tracking work orders,
spare parts, and maintenance history of Base equipment.
· Prepares reports, analyzes data, and makes recommendations for
• Planning, controlling, monitoring, and managing multiple projects including maintenance to best meet project objectives and adhere to project scope, time, cost and quality constraints.
• Orchestrating the plant maintenance schedules and ensuring the implementation of the same.
• Inspecting, evaluating and making recommendations on overhaul and repair of equipment.
• Conducting periodical preventive maintenance, deputing technicians as per expertise for specific problems/tasks to reduce the stoppage time and augment the reliability of the machineries.
• Ascertaining that the assessment of all the plants and equipments are conducted as per procedures and interacting with working supervisors in case of any operational glitches.
• Maintaining critical rotating equipments, proactively performing troubleshooting for plant machinery and equipments to ensure glitch-free operations and communicating with vendors in order to avoid any malfunctioning
• Constantly interacting and negotiating with the vendors to procure cost effective materials of the projects.
• Utilizing MS Project software to plan, track and report on multiple projects; synchronizing set up facilities in accordance with strategic utilization, deployment of available material and resources.
Key Responsibilities:
• Directed, monitored and coordinated, sectional processes, evaluations and plans to guarantee standard running conditions of all utilities and plants.
• Ascertained proper repairs and introduced processes that ensure timely repair, assembly and delivery in compliance with company’s quality standards.
• Identified requirements for plant modifications and managed the implementation of modifications by constantly interacting with management.
• Delivered optimum performance from mechanical systems by focusing on defect elimination and by refining maintenance strategies and practices.
• Conducted periodic oil analysis in coordination with the external laboratories.
• Reviewed safety manuals, conducted monthly safety audits for all sections of the plant, and ensured operational readiness in the company by executing monthly maintenance checks as per checklist.
• Mentored contract workers to ensure safe and effective implementation of daily routines.
Key Responsibilities as Maintenance Engineer (Part-time), Gebril Seals (Nov ’95 - Nov ‘97).
• Performed preliminary checks prior to seal installation, reassembled and installed new or repaired mechanical seal and disassembled failed mechanical seal.
• Proffered regular maintenance service to the stuffing box of the plant in order to reduce the leakage.
Jul ’94 - Nov ’95: Site Engineer, Care Maintenance & Contractors.
Key Responsibilities:
• Designed waste water treatment plants, collection systems and wastewater conveyance as well ad developed the designs for a dependable collection and treatment plan that is crucial to maintain the quality of water supplies.
• Provided maintenance of water/wastewater projects for activities including the preparation of design forms, manual, training, program planning and scheduling.
• Reviewed and redrafted drawing submissions of water distillation plants to ensure conformance to project specifications and scope.
• Ensured procedural adherence, and resolved unexpected technical difficulties in the distillation plant by providing appropriate recommendations.
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