Senior Planning Engineer
Dar-Ul-Hindsaa
Total years of experience :25 years, 0 Months
•Evaluation and review of contractor baseline programme of works. Review of Planning Package inclusive of Critical Path Analysis, Progress Measurement System, and Resource Productivity Analysis etc.
•Carrying out regular site inspections to assess contractor’s work progress based on approved schedule; planned versus actual progress.
•Preparation of monthly and weekly progress reports.
•Reviewing and evaluating contractor look-ahead schedule, previous month’s progress, and effectiveness of the mitigation measures.
•Expertise in leading from the front, providing robust change management techniques and forward-looking delay analysis on projects at hand to predict the realistic outcomes and propose most workable mitigation strategies for potential delays costs, disruption, programme critiques and delay analysis critiques
Working on three Local Roads & Drainage Projects (LRDP) as a Senior Planning Engineer.
Planning & Project Controls Responsibility:
•Evaluation and review of contractor baseline programme of works. Review of Planning Package inclusive of Critical Path Analysis, Progress Measurement System, and Resource Productivity Analysis etc.
•Carrying out regular site inspections to assess contractor’s work progress based on approved schedule; planned versus actual progress.
•Preparation of monthly and weekly progress reports.
•Reviewing and evaluating contractor look-ahead schedule, previous month’s progress, and effectiveness of the mitigation measures.
Claim Assessment Responsibility:
•Extension of Time determination on Projects and Delays apportionment worked out in detail and reflected clearly with substantiation in line with the contractual requirements.
•Draft Quality Contractual Narratives with detailed delay event chronology and cause and affect analysis.
•Detailed Assessment of Prolongation Costs. Determination of Concurrent Delays and Consequent Disruption.
•Assess critically Contractor's Submission of Delay Analysis and Disruption Claims and preparing rebuttal letters.
•Preparation of Detailed Delay Analysis Reports with detailed narratives substantiated by supporting documentation
•Prepare robust rebuttals of Contractor's Claims using recognized Delay Analysis Methodology
•Analyze Scope Changes and their impact on the Program of Works
•Gathering evidence for claims analysis, submittals and rebuttals
•Used Time Impact Analysis, Impacted as Planned and Collapsed as Built But for Analysis techniques for delay analysis
•Processing of Time Extension cases using Time impact analysis. Provided exposure to planning engineers of the various delay analysis methods, the assumptions behind each, advantages and disadvantages of each, and the suitability of each method for a given circumstance.
•Used Time Impact Analysis, Impacted as Planned and Collapsed as Built But for Analysis techniques for delay analysis
•Monitoring and evaluating the contractor’s monthly progress updates.
•Reviewing and evaluating contractor look-ahead schedule, previous month’s progress, and mitigation measures.
•Ensuring the accuracy of the updated schedule by extensive internal and external verifications, carrying out periodic site visits to confirm the actual progress and sequence of work progress.
•Serving as key team member for Stakeholder Management in coordination with other line departments like WAPDA (Electric lines), WASA (Water Supply & Sewerage), PTCL (Optic Fiber cable and Overhead telephone lines), and SUIGAS for early relocation of utilities.
•Identify and pitch suitable infrastructure projects which can be undertaken under Public-Private Partnership (PPP) BOT regime to both local and foreign investors.
•Perform all due diligence like feasibility study. Estimation of FIRR and financial & risk modelling.
•Undertake activities to foster linkages between local and foreign investors
•Processing the contractor’s claims, EOT, and variation orders for approval by the Project Director.
•Serving as key team member in reviews of the design reports and drawings prepared by the design consultants.
•Serving as point of contact coordinating with other line departments (WAPDA, WASA, PTCL, SUIGAS) and Land Revenue department for relocation of utilities and land acquisition.
•Monitoring the design, relocation of utilities and land acquisition schedules.
•Preparing an in-house master schedule of main construction activities used to advise the client on optimum duration of the project and project financial allocation based on S-curve and key machinery requirement.
•Approving the contractor’s baseline schedule.
•Evaluating and approving the contractor’s monthly updated schedule and assessing the contractor’s mitigation program.
•Attending monthly progress/schedule meetings with the contractor and key stakeholders regarding previous month progress, look-ahead schedules, and contractor’s mitigation measures.
•Preparing management briefs, monthly status, progress, trend, variance, and forecasting reports.
•Conducting SPI evaluation and evaluation of contractor mitigation measures to recover SPI variances.
•Formulating the project risk management plan.
•Ensured, with the help of monitoring consultant that the work was performed as per the detailed design,
•Directs the work of the planning engineer and ensure that the work program is in order and reflects the project conditions.
•Ensuring, with the help of a monitoring consultant, that the work was performed as per the detailed design, technical specifications, and construction schedule.
•Supervising the construction and the quality assurance, and approving the contractor’s Interim Payment Certificates (IPCs)
•Evaluating extension of time and cost claims, and managing and preparing all contractual correspondences.
•Monitoring, with the help of Senior Planning Engineer, the contractor’s program of works, monthly schedule updates, and evaluating the mitigation program.
•Coordinating with other agencies the acquisition of right of way (ROW) and relocation/removal of utilities lying within the ROW.
•Evaluation of contractor’s mitigation program to recover SPI variances.
•Supervising the work of Planning Engineer in conducting Time Impact Analysis for processing of EOT and cost claims of contractors.
•Preparing management briefs, monthly status, progress, trend, variance, and forecasting reports.
•Due Diligence in maintenance of project schedule. Ensuring that all changes, variation orders, impact / delay events have been incorporated in the updated schedule.
•Recommending revised project allocations to the top management based on updated S-curve.
•Coordinating with line departments to avoid schedule conflicts with relocation of utilities activities and contractor’s construction activities. Ensured strict compliance with current health and safety requirements.
•Ensuring that testing/sampling of materials is carried out as required by specifications.
•Keeping a full and accurate daily site diary, recording any changes, variations, and delay events.
•Processing the contractor’s claims and extension of time requests, for final approval by Project Manager.
•Verifying the contractor’s progress, and reporting any potential delay events.
•Assisting the Planning Engineer in the assessment of the mitigation measures proposed by the contractor.
•Monitoring the four weekly programs, marking up progress for review at the weekly site review meeting.
•Preparing the written risk assessments and method statements for the control of the works.
•Verifying the contractor’s monthly payments requests.
•Ensuring that the work completed on site by the contractor is in full compliance with current health and safety regulations.
•Ensured with the help of monitoring consultants M/S NESPAK (National Engineering Services Pakistan (PVT) LTD), that the work was performed as per the detailed design, technical specifications, and construction schedule.
•Ensure that the drawings and specification documents contain sufficient, accurate information for construction of the works. Formally request any missing information in sufficient time to allow the programme to proceed without delay. Ensure that works are accurately and clearly set out before work is programmed to commence.
•Supervising the construction and quality assurance.
•Keeping a full and accurate daily site diary, recording any changes/variations, subcontractor attendance, and records of work-related discussions with client, designer, and project team.
•Verifying the contractor progress schedule and reporting any delay events.
•Reporting on the contractor’s progress, and verifying payment requests.
•Skillfully achieved all the major milestones of the project by using Earned Value Management System.
•Progress reporting and verification of contractor bills.
•Designed and supervised the traffic diversion plan for high volume of traffic plying on the existing carriageway
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