Senior Project Control Engineer
Nesma Holding
Total years of experience :14 years, 4 Months
PLANNING AND SCHEDULING:
• Development of Project control procedures based on best international practices and Standards like AACE & PMI.
• Facilitates development of the work breakdown structure. Develop Review & approval of Contract baseline, Recovery & Revised Schedule.
• Liaise with project teams to ensure the correct utilization of the project control system based on project requirements and corporate guidelines
• Verifies Schedule critical path and interfaces between Engineering/Procurement /Constriction/Test & Commissioning activities.
• Establish progress measurement system & proactively monitor and forecasts current Project status against an established baseline schedule to detect any delay and initiate necessary corrective action to bring project on track.
• Prepare & submit weekly/monthly progress reports and quarterly Executive reports to in-house management and to client/consultant.
• Implements and maintain Earned Value Management System. And prepares cash flow, Progress S-carve, histograms & look ahead Reports.
• Record and facilitate change management process. Perform delay analysis and negotiate extension of time (EOT) & cost claims.
• Supervise/review the sub-contractor schedule to match and integrate with master project schedule.
• Facilitate monthly project review meetings with internal team and client to analyze the progress & formulate an approach for timely execution of project deliverables & record MOM
• Ensure timely delivery of project deliverables by coordination with various internal team/consultant & Clients.
• Prepare As-build Schedule /submit the project closure report to customer and internal management.
COST CONTROL MANAGEMENT:
• Develop cost breakdown structures (CBS), work package (WP) and cost codes for project execution.
• Prepare Project Budget, update actuals, and estimate to complete (ETC) as well as EAC on monthly basis and highlight project P&L.
• Prepare project efficiency report to analyze the overall efficiency of projects.
• Prepare monthly project invoice (revenue claim) & co-ordinate for approval & payment receipt from client.
• Review and validate the sub-contractor billing schedule and certify the monthly invoices claimed.
• Prepare/present monthly project revenue status to management- project cash flow, receivables from client and feasible revenue generation to meet the quarterly financial targets.
• Prepare management information systems (MIS), dashboards highlighting physical, financial & constraints of project
• Prepare project “key performance index” (KPI) - SPI, CPI & TCPI to reflect the cost & schedule performance of the project vs. target budget.
• Active involvement in the change management process.
CONTRACT AND COMMERCIAL MANAGEMENT:
• Work with Legal department to prepare a consolidated analysis of the contract, highlighting schedule obligations, e.g. guaranteed date(s), interim milestones and project specific insurances, securities and bonds.
• Provide the required contractual support on all aspects of contractual activities covering claims, variations, invoicing and payment certificates
• Proactively manage comprehensive claims documentation and provide detailed evaluation of potential claim impact, to project management.
• Facilitate project hand over process in coordination with Project and operation Manager.
• Coordinate with site team relating to contractual compliance and/or commercial issues and scope related issues.
• Good interpretational skills and knowledge about legal practices, law of contracts and industry practices
RISK MANAGEMENT:
• Conduct risk & opportunity brainstorming workshop, record identified risks (in a register) and mitigate action plan.
• Update risk and opportunity register and change status to maintain risk statistical model, current forecast and contingency levels.
• Facilitate development, implementation and tracking of mitigation actions and provide monthly risk reports.
o Prepare detail Baseline Program for new awarded projects as per the scope of work by using Primavera P6 advance version.
o Development of progress measurement systems and cost performance indicators (percent completes, EVM, etc.) as per best practices and industry standards (PMI/AACE/IPMA).
o Develop and maintain plans and schedules deliverables at all levels of management with inputs from engineering, Procurement, construction, operations, maintenance and commissioning.
o Develop the program/project management plan including various subsidiary plan like scope management plan, schedule management plan, cost management plan, risk management plan, etc.
o Maintaining project schedules by collecting progress data, updating schedules, developing and implementing status report
o Applying critical path methodology to develop schedules and complete project planning
o Providing Resource Requirements to management using current scheduling techniques and through histograms and ‘S’ Curves
o Analyzing budget by WBS, earned value and performance factors to provide accurate and timely forecasting on
project execution status to the Project Manager.
o Communicating and co-ordinate the master schedule with project team
o Support project manager in developing the program charter, identifying stakeholders, securing necessary resources
o Provide support to the project managers in managing the projects in order to achieve the program objectives.
o Manage projects within the defined framework and processes to remain focused on the organizational program.
o Review & analysis of Contract documents for each Construction Package and advice the Projects Manager of any
Planning deficiencies from scheduling point of view.
o Perform delay analysis and negotiate extension of time (EOT) & cost claims.
o Ensure that client relationships are maintained at all levels within the projects.
o Procurement &Project Close out and Issue final report & Lesson Learn documents.
o Development of Base Line Schedule using Planning Software PRIMAVERA (P6).
o Resources & Cost Estimation and Loading in Primavera P6 program.
o Preparation of Weekly; Monthly & Quarterly look-ahead Schedule.
o Updating actual Progress and all related information & comparison analysis.
o Preparation of weekly and monthly project progress reports.
o Tracking and maintain scope changes of all civil & MEP items and its effect on the overall project schedule.
o Estimation of Manpower Requirement for the Project based on standard productivity norms.
o Monitoring of actual resources availability & analysis using Histogram.
o Preparing progress % calculation systems, earned man-hours, productivity & Trend analysis.
o Progress Measurement using S-Curves.
o Preparation of Executive Progress Summary Report / Presentations to the Top Management on Project Status for periodical review.
o Request for Material as per the lead time and follow up.
o Monitoring anticipating any possible delays and advance actions.
o Take corrective actions to make up for delays / deviations.
o Getting timely approval of specialized items from client and architects.
o Co-ordination with client / vendor for timely supply& payment.
o Communication of planned methodology to all concerned
o Attending Site meeting, preparation of MOM / CC within 24 hours.
o Follow-up &Interaction with other departments.
.Good exposure in LSPB or FP, CR and T & M Contracting Methodologies.
• Good exposure in EPC, Bridges, Infrastructure, Commertial, Resendital & Skyscraper building, Hotel & township development, Utilities & Piping, STP, WTP projects.
• Developed and Programmed various Levels of CPM schedule in primavera P6.
• Work Breakdown Structure development and implementation.
• Cost and schedule baseline development and implementation.
• Earned value measurement development and implementation.
• Reviewing & tracking the progress and updating the same to top management.
• Issued monthly project status report to communicate milestones, cash flow and forecast cost.
• Monitoring anticipating any possible delays and advance actions.
• Take corrective & Preventive actions to make up for delays / deviations.
• Perform delay analysis using internationally accepted methods of analysis such as Prospective Analysis & Retrospective Analysis Techniques for getting extension of time (EOT) & cost claims
• Forensic planning, delay analysis and Perform integrated change control.
• Reviewing and validating all planning fragnets proposed in addition to the windows analysis model.
• To complete project on budget and schedule, conducted a schedule re-baseline / recovery and cost definitive estimate.
• Proficient with PMBOK approach to Project Management techniques.
• Managed risk effectively by conducting quarterly risk workshops on cost and scheduling contingency. Reviewed Risk Register monthly to manage risk.
• Ability to multi-task in a demanding engineering environment.
• Ability to build strong working relationships with key stakeholders.
• Develop and make a formal presentation & Process Improvement.
• Preparation of cost estimate, monitored cost expenditure, performed earned value analysis,
• Responsible for monitor and control project total expenditure, prepares cash flow, S-carve, Efficiency and variance Reports.
• Provide critical assessment of all budgets and cost projections
• Develop and Issue Weekly & monthly Project Executive cost report
• Analysing budget by WBS, earned value analysis to provide accurate and timely forecasting on project status.
• Preparation, Review and approval of interim applications, change management, variation evaluation.
• Monitoring Cost and progress throughout all phases and comparing to the Approved budget & baseline.
• Generation of S-Curve & Resource Histogram.
• Review and evaluate the subcontractor’s invoices, payment & reports.
• Schedule Updates, Progress monitoring and reporting through primavera P6.
• Preparation of Complete Technical Submission for Various Tender Projects.
• Request for Material as per the lead time and follow up.
• Attending Site meeting & prepared of MOM / CC within 24 hours.
Two years post graduate program in construction management.
Civil Engineering.