Suhail Nabeel Sembawa, Senior Specialist - Projects

Suhail Nabeel Sembawa

Senior Specialist - Projects

Redsea Global

Location
Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
Education
Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering
Experience
7 years, 3 Months

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Total years of experience :7 years, 3 Months

Senior Specialist - Projects at Redsea Global
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • May 2023 to May 2024

Assigned for 2 packages as Senior Project Specialist at Project Delivery Department in AMAALA destination, Concrete and Structural package, and Secondary infrastructure and landscaping package. The following responsibilities describe the work I am handling:

Pre-construction:
1-Review concept and schematic design for secondary infrastructure and commenting ( IFT&IFC)
2-Review BIM360 against the concept and schematic design and raising issues to management
3-Review of Project execution plan (PEP) and BIM execution plan

During construction stage:
1. Monitoring construction progress and reporting delays according to approved baseline plan
2. Prepare project dashboard for utilities and producing quantity take off for monitoring and costs
3. Review contractor baseline planning and reporting discrepancies in terms of logic, applicability and project constraints
4. Monitoring contractor progress materials submittals, risk assessments and method statements, inspection and testing plans and work permits
5.Monitoring direct procurement for infrastructure items and engaging with the contractor in the event of items delay, design issues and contacting the supplier for solving the problem
6.Reviewing and monitoring the 2 stage bills of quantities for costing and procurement
7. Preparing quantified daily progress report in centralized platform to ease accessibility
8. Monitoring and measuring contractor productivity per labour per day for 192 direct and indirect workforce and reporting performance on weekly & monthly basis
9. Reviewing IFC revisions and producing comparisons
10.Brainstorming for risk register preparation
11.Reviewing BIM360 model and produced effective sections to highlight clashes for the presentation

civil engineer (building) at dar alomran engineering consulting company
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • December 2021 to April 2023

The role involves project supervision on-site for large-scale project, and the responsibilities such as the following (but are not limited to):
Construction Phase:

Infrastructure:
•Overseeing the main contractor for the daily shoring works
•Monitoring and reporting the water level table across the site through the deep wells
•Dewatering works supervision
•Material Inspection Request( MIR )
Structure:
•Monitoring the daily progress of construction activities
•Inspection of the works( Piling, Tower crane, Raft reinforcement and concrete works )
•Witnessing Plate load test On-site, Concrete Compressive strength test in laboratory

Geotechnical:
•Review of Soil Report
•Supervising Pile sheet works
•Supervising earthworks on-site

Safety:
•Assisting the safety manager on-site to implement and oversee safety measures

Design Phase:

Building:
•Gathering the utilities data for local authority coordination
•Overseeing the demolition sub-contractor (building and suspended water tank)

Structure:
•Monitored and Supervised As-Built and Structural assessment works for historical buildings as well as façade assessment and structural integrity
•Daily Construction Activities Supervision

Administration:
•Verifying and certifying payment (PO)
•Issuing site instructions/memo, and Non-Compliance Report (NCR)
•Assisting the project manager for weekly and monthly report
•Producing daily report for site activities
•Developed report sheet for water table monitoring
•Assisted the stakeholder/authorities officer for gathering utilities data on-site for ownership transferal and design implementation for infrastructure

Civil Engineer at hazim consulting
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • June 2021 to August 2021

As part of my rule, I had daily responsibilities such as:
•Coordination between the client and local authorities
•Overviewing BOQ submittals for approval
•Daily Check-up of AutoCAD drafts and submittals
•Assisted the client for road design to comply with AASHTO Standards
•Weekly technical support services for municipality of makkah and transport comittee in order to ease the traffic flow over makkah region

Civil Project Engineer at self employed
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • September 2020 to March 2021

Refurbishment of Existing Building Project
•Assisted the owner for labours Contracting for civil and fit-out works
•Performed daily Inspection of the work to ensure quality control
•Performed Closing tour with the client for the works and handed over the project
•Achieved 50% savings in total costs in comparison with the market contractors

Acting Student Representative at city,university of london
  • United Kingdom - London
  • October 2019 to August 2020

The role involves leading the cohort and represent them in front of the civil engineering department board committee over the academic year performing duties such as:

•Delivering the students concerns to academics personnel to find solutions for their academic obstacles
•Attending meetings with the civil engineering department board committee and related academics to discuss possible solutions to deal with student obstacles
•Delivering the outcomes of each meeting to the students to ensure them that their voice is heard and progress is ongoing
•Engineering library had been created as a result of the discussion with the board committee as an achievement, and students obstacles related to their final year graduation project were eased

Owner and founder at Happiness Maker Establishment
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • March 2018 to February 2019

Beauty products supplier through online store for either Wholesale or Retail .

Sales Data processing specialist at Sunbulah group
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • January 2018 to March 2018

As a sales processor, in order to satisfy all the requirements, I was responsible to perform duties such as:
•Arranging the orders depending upon the urgency level
•Data entry for the orders through the SAP for invoicing
•Instant check-up for all the details to ensure the information entered are correct before proceeding
•Performing availability check for the stock
•Daily available credit check before releasing orders
•Release the orders from the credit managers to the customer through the warehouse immediately

Gained fast data entry skills

Jewellery and diamond salesman at Joyalukkas
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • November 2017 to December 2017

•Assist the customers to buy Jewellery and diamond as per allocated budget and needs
•Produced invoices through the company system and stamped warranty for the products

gained the ability to calculate the cost of gold per gram for 18, 20 and 24 carat

Civil and Site Engineer intern in Riyadh Metro Project at Gulf elite
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • July 2017 to September 2017

As the role indicates, I was responsible to manage the progress of the riyadh metro project and ensuring compliance with the project schedule plan
• Obtained the Management of 37 labour for installation of at least 300 brickwork on a daily basis (CMU)
•Performed daily inspection of the work and reporting to the senior site engineer
•Attending day-to-day safety meetings with the consultants and recorded the minutes of meetings to keep track for the progress and documentation
•Assisted the carpenter for Installation of framework safely
•Supervised the scaffolds erection as well as performing inspection in weekly basis
•Ensuring to Maintaining excellent daily housekeeping
•Assisted the senior site engineer to utilize resources on weekly basis for lifting and shifting materials from site to site
•Controlling quality by following the approved method of statement for masonry works
•Application of anti dust, water proofing, fire resistant and high temperature insulation are observed in addition to application of plastering and epoxy

Acting Student Representative at City, University of London
  • United Kingdom - London
  • October 2015 to September 2016

The role involves leading the cohort and represent them in front of the civil engineering department board committee over the academic year performing duties such as:
•Delivering the students concerns to academics personnel to find solutions for their academic obstacles
•Attending meetings with the civil engineering department board committee and related academics to discuss possible solutions to deal with student obstacles
•Delivering the outcomes of each meeting to the students to ensure them that their voice is heard and progress is ongoing

Salesman and Visual Merchandiser at alshaya international company
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • April 2012 to August 2012

As Part of my role, I performed daily duties in the store such as :
•Providing the necessary assistance for the customers to provide the desirable products
•Supported the store manager to perform the visual merchandising for the entire store regularly
•Leading the team in the absence of the store manager
•Handling the duties for the cashier and producing the invoices

Achieved the store targets before the end of the quarter

Education

Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering
  • at City, University of London
  • July 2020

Developed the fundamental knowledge about the Structural mechanics and analysis in framed and non-framed type of structures for uniform and non-uniform loadings Gained the ability to understand the behaviour of the fully, partially and unsaturated soil when subjected to the load in different configuration including the drained and undrained conditions. In addition, testing the soil in shear box and consolidation tests through lab experiments Understanding the knowledge of geotechnical engineering and effect of fully/partially and unsaturated soil in slope stability and retaining walls stability considering factor of safety, and types of ground improvement Gained the fundamental knowledge of hydraulic engineering, mechanics and applications using Bernoulli's equations, and the effect of hydraulic jump in energy losses Gained solid knowledge for designing merged or submerged hydraulic structures. In addition, Designing ogee spillways, sluice gate and culverts for water diversion in marine construction as well as load assessment on wind-turbine in deep or shallow seabed

High school or equivalent, high school
  • at alaqsa private school
  • July 2011

Specialties & Skills

Project Supervision
Technical Review
Leadership
Project Management
Civil Engineering
Communications
Creative , Critical and Reliable thinking
Project Management
Strong leadership, administration and planning
Project execution
Strong negotiation, persuasion and influencing
Problem solving and decision-making
Project supervision
Team-working
Communication skills
structural integrity assessment

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker

Memberships

Saudi Council of engineers
  • Member
  • October 2017
institution of civil engineers
  • Full cover of membership
  • September 2016
Institution of structural engineering
  • full cover of membership and participants
  • November 2016

Training and Certifications

fundamentals of metallurgical engineering (Training)
Training Institute:
saudi council of engineers
Date Attended:
August 2022
Duration:
15 hours
lighting design and human behaviour (Training)
Training Institute:
saudi council of engineers
Date Attended:
August 2021
Duration:
15 hours
Introduction to project management (Training)
Training Institute:
saudi council of engineers
Date Attended:
August 2022
Duration:
15 hours
construction health and safety (Training)
Training Institute:
OSHA
Date Attended:
July 2022
Duration:
30 hours
Entrepreneur Skills (Training)
Training Institute:
Arab open University
Date Attended:
October 2017
Duration:
9 hours
Project Management Professional (PMP) (Training)
Training Institute:
Saudi Council of Engineers
Date Attended:
November 2020
Duration:
15 hours
Revit structure 2021 (Training)
Training Institute:
Autodesk
Date Attended:
December 2020
Duration:
15 hours
Internship certificate as Civil engineer (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2017
Construction quality inspection (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2021
Evaluation and Inspection in bridges (Training)
Training Institute:
Saudi Council of engineers
Date Attended:
August 2021
Duration:
15 hours
Procurement management in projects (Training)
Training Institute:
Saudi Council of engineers
Date Attended:
August 2021
Duration:
9 hours
Performance measurement in projects (KPI) (Training)
Training Institute:
Saudi Council of engineers
Date Attended:
August 2021
Duration:
6 hours
Construction quality inspection (Training)
Training Institute:
Saudi Council of engineers
Date Attended:
January 2021
Duration:
50 hours
Existing building inspection (Training)
Training Institute:
Saudi Real Estate Institution
Date Attended:
December 2020
Duration:
20 hours
Existing building inspection (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2020
construction site management and supervison (Training)
Training Institute:
saudi council of engineers
Date Attended:
August 2021
Duration:
9 hours
risk management systems ( ISO 31000 ) (Training)
Training Institute:
saudi council of engineers
Date Attended:
August 2021
Duration:
9 hours
building information modelling ( BIM ) (Training)
Training Institute:
saudi council of engineers
Date Attended:
August 2021
Duration:
15 hours

Hobbies

  • construction project management
  • trading stocks & forex
    having a wide range of stocks share in saudi stock market having a running online forex account in FXCM company
  • Daily Reading economical news
    Started trading stocks in Saudi and making profit 10-25 % yearly from the capital