sohail zaffar, Senior Planning Engineer

sohail zaffar

Senior Planning Engineer

Al Ayuni Investment and Contracting Company

Location
Saudi Arabia - Jeddah - As-Safa
Education
Bachelor's degree, BE Mechanical
Experience
22 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :22 years, 3 Months

Senior Planning Engineer at Al Ayuni Investment and Contracting Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • My current job since October 2016

• Responsible for the preparation of Baseline Schedules for two separate projects i.e. Link Road (Including Roads and Bridge) and Infrastructure & Utilities Project s per contract documents.
• Prepared a robust schedule, consisted of approximately 1800 activities for 01 Project. All construction activities assigned with Cost and resources. Project schedule comprised of the following WBS: Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Testing and commissioning, close outs and handovers.
• Presented daily / weekly / Monthly progress reports and dash board reports.
• Monitored project schedules on weekly basis as well as progress updating in Primavera P6 Version 8.3.
• Prepared the EOT Claims and revised the Baseline after approval by client.
• Analyzing reports identified delayed activities & advised corrective actions.
• Responsible for contractual correspondence with client & subcontractors related to project schedule.

Program Manager at China Railway Construction Corporation Limited-Saudi Branch
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • June 2015 to October 2016

Responsible for Project Planning, Scheduling, Cost controlling, Progress reporting,

PLANNING ENGINEER at CHINA RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION JEDDAH KSA
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • December 2009 to June 2015

• Preparation of Baseline Master Schedule with in Primavera, by going through estimated budget documents, contract info, scope of work & drawings.
• Creating W.B.S of Civil, Mechanical & Electrical activities and weightage distribution up to level-4.
• Analyzing and presenting to management Critical Path Analysis, exposing all critical activities.
• Allocation of Manpower & Equipment to all the phases of project.
• Preparation of Weekly & Monthly Reports as per client demand.
• Preparation of Progress & Resource S-curves.
• Implementation of Base-line schedule on site, identification of LD's.
• Preparation of Recovery Plan to restrict project closer to the base-line.
• Updating the schedule weekly and giving Alarm against the potential forecasted problem to the management such as delay, etc.
• Controlling the project by noting the negative float and providing available alternative area's to keep progress on track.

• Preventing project from over budgeting at any stage by comparing Planned Revenue with Earned Revenue.
• Calculating and presenting Cost Performance index, Schedule performance index, Cost variance, Schedule variance and % Productivity to client and management.

Project Planning Engineer at M-S- Al-Suwaidi Industrial Services
  • Saudi Arabia - Jubail
  • June 2006 to August 2009

Planning, Scheduling For CFC phase out project for SADAF, a group of SABIC, this project includes the replacement of 15 Nos of Compressors and Refrigerent R134a instead of R12 from June 2006 till Mar 2008. Served as Snr Planning Engineer at Saudi Kayan Petrochemical Complex from Mar 2008 till August 2009.

Planning Engineer at DESCON Engineering
  • Pakistan
  • March 2005 to June 2006

Planning, Scheduling, Progress monitoring for Fabrication, Errection and commisioning of 6700TCD Cement plant

Design Engineer at Heavy Mechanical Complex
  • Pakistan
  • April 2003 to March 2005

Involve in designing and Detail Engineering of Pressure vessels and heat exchanger

Maintenance Planning Engineer at Indus Polyester Company Ltd.
  • Pakistan - Peshawar
  • October 2001 to April 2003

Resposible for the planning and scheduling of maintenance of plant, this is a polyester plant.

Education

Bachelor's degree, BE Mechanical
  • at U.E.T Taxila
  • October 2001

BE Mechanical Engineering

Specialties & Skills

Master Scheduling
MS Office tools
Primavera P6
Primavera
Project Planning
Planning Engineer Mechanical

Languages

English
Intermediate

Memberships

Pakistan Engineering Council
  • Professional Mechanical Engineer
  • June 2001
Saudi Council of Engineer-Saudi Arabia
  • Mechanical Engineer
  • January 2011

Training and Certifications

PMP (Training)
Training Institute:
Knowledge Square-Saudi Arabia
Date Attended:
November 2015
Duration:
35 hours

Hobbies

  • Hockey, Cricket, Movies