Submitting more applications increases your chances of landing a job.

Here’s how busy the average job seeker was last month:

Opportunities viewed

Applications submitted

Keep exploring and applying to maximize your chances!

Looking for employers with a proven track record of hiring women?

Click here to explore opportunities now!
We Value Your Feedback

You are invited to participate in a survey designed to help researchers understand how best to match workers to the types of jobs they are searching for

Would You Be Likely to Participate?

If selected, we will contact you via email with further instructions and details about your participation.

You will receive a $7 payout for answering the survey.


User unblocked successfully
vinaya muthyala, Project Controls Specialist / Planning Engineer

vinaya muthyala

Project Controls Specialist / Planning Engineer·Fluor

Kuwait

Master's degree, Project Management

Work experience

Total years of experience: 23 years, 7 months

Project Controls Specialist / Planning Engineer

July 2011 - Present

Fluor

Al Ahmadi, Kuwait

July 2011 - Present

Developed Level 1, 2, 3, Project Schedules for multi-billion dollar Oil & gas, utilities and cross country Pipeline Projects, for EPC / PMC, utilizing project management software Primavera P6, P3, & MS Project.

Generated level 4 schedules, with WBS structures, Project codes, Activity Codes, Calendars and Cost Codes.

Project scope, cost estimates, establish control baseline schedules, technical parameters, man, machines & materials resources to accomplish project within agreed cost/ timelines.

Analyze the baseline CPM Schedule / Prepare various Comparison, Forecast schedules, Milestone schedules and Analysis, reports for management. Update the Management & Project team on the Critical path activities, float analysis, variance analysis.

Coordinated to produce Engineering, Procurement deliverables as per ROS dates through construction driven execution strategy to meet project milestones, employing JIT.

Prepared progress assessment program and Earned value reporting procedures and templates.

Facilitated Contractors / Subcontractors to develop project suitable programs on the basis of Contract documents.

Contribute to project progress meetings, coordination meetings, reports, analysis of all components of Schedule highlighting critical activities to management.

Conduct project interface meetings in order to control & facilitate tie-ins.

Liaise / follow up with Engineering for Documents, Drawings delivery, Procurement for ROS dates, with various stages of progress and Construction schedule utilizing a Construction driven methodology and update the team with requirements to meet execution plan.

Act as a key player in authenticating and approving progress measurement methodology with percentage weightage of activities besides delivering earned value reports and reporting the same to the management

Review Verify and challenge EPC Contractors proposals on Scope Changes and Schedule impacts and contribute in Change Control Process right from Raising V.O’s to issuing Adjustment orders, EOT claims.

Conduct project risk analysis using Pet-master employing Monte Carlo simulation by organizing team workshops and prepare mitigation strategies and follow-up.

Prepared and conducted various Planning / coordination meeting for daily, weekly, 3 Week Look-Ahead, Monthly 90 day Look-ahead, Tie-in interface and Analyze and prepare Status Reports and Forecasts preparation, by work package, subsystem / system according to the requirement of the management.

Conducted workshop with the discipline leads for schedule optimization & periodic reviews and monitor the enactment of schedule optimization and commend integration of techniques into Project Execution Plans.

Contributed in groundwork of CAPEX budget, periodic progress assessments and calculations (physical and financial), Invoice verification, and any other tasks as and when required by management as well as formulate various analysis based on the trends and forecasting.

Prepared presentations for stage gate closing process, for various phases of the project.

Participated in preparation, monitor and reporting of KPI’s & SMAIP, Balance Score Cards as per management requirement.

Participated in bid evaluation to analyze the bidder’s schedules and provided recommendations to optimize the program.

Participated in system walk downs at the Turnover stage of the Project to assist Construction / Area Manager closely coordinate closing of snag list by burn-down charts and preparation of status and forecast reports and assist the T/O coordinator.

Partake in Safety walks and various safety procedures of the company like SVV & SOC on a timely basis and suggest for improvements to the management.

Projects:
New GC for SEK.;
KOC Feed Pipelines for New Refinery Project (NRP);
ISS Project, - Providing Integrated Security systems for all the KOC

Company industry:
Oil & Gas
Job role:
Oil and Gas

Planning & Coordination Engineer

June 2010 - June 2011

Sepam Specialist (Alghanim International)

Al Jahra, Kuwait

June 2010 - June 2011

Established a logical Critical path to reduce impacts on cost and time, in line with the base line schedule by interacting with various disciplines internally to relate the interface construction activities.

Coordinated with other departments, contractors, vendors for launching methods for execution of engineering packages, follow up contractor sourcing material, approval of documents etc.

Maintained strong relationships with contractors, vendors in order to expedite, material and resources delivery in-line with planned schedules in order to meet execution plan and predicted interface clashes

Adroitly managed the schedules considering constructability of the work fronts and prepare, Material, Equipment, manpower projections and weekly/monthly progress reporting.

Involved in formulating progress measurement methodology with percentage weightage of activities as well as delivered earned value reports, quantity wise curves and overall progress “S” curve
Key Projects.


Project: CCGT Sabiya Power Project, Kuwait; (Scope: Construction of 2000 MW single shaft gas fired combined cycle Power Plant consisting of 6 Gas turbines & 3 Steam turbines.)

Company industry:
Electric Power Production & Transmission
Job role:
Construction and Building

Engineer

April 2009 - May 2010

KBR Inc. (Sepam Specialists)

Jubail, Saudi Arabia

April 2009 - May 2010

Managed the entire gamut of activities pertaining to the Overall EPC Baseline schedule in Primavera (P6)

Involved in the groundwork of building schedule, manpower projections and weekly/monthly progress reporting

Acted as a key player in formulating system wise Recovery schedules look ahead schedules and quantity & manpower loading curves for progress monitoring

Generated various critical network paths, progress measurement methodology with percentage weightage of activities besides investigating the critical areas of concern

Interacted with Turn-over coordinator on formulating System Turn-over packages of each contract as well as prepared schedules for vendor representative’s requirements at site.

Played a significant role in organizing earned value reports, progress curves besides directing with Procurement department for the Materials/ Equipment within predetermined scope

Reviewed progress of the contractors with the base plan as well as joined and attended Monthly, weekly meeting with the contractors besides organizing various analysis based on the trends and forecasting and handled other various reports as and when required by management and client

Project: (Saudi Kayan)
EPC works for Ethylene Cracker unit at Olefins Project of Saudi Kayan Petrochemical Complex, Aljubail, - Saudi; Scope: Saudi Kayan Olefins Project Jubail -KSA. The Ethylene Cracker unit is a Mega Project, budgeted for about 2 B USD, 32 M Man-hours, with 9 Pyrolysis Furnaces with a production capacity of 1.35 million M.t./year of ethylene and 700, 000 M.t. / year of propylene.

Company industry:
Oil & Gas
Job role:
Engineering

Planning Engineer

September 2007 - March 2010

Fluor (Sepam Specialists)

Al Ahmadi, Kuwait

September 2007 - March 2010

Projects: Sea Water Cooling Tower at Equate Olefins-II Project - Kuwait.

Company industry:
Oil & Gas
Job role:
Oil and Gas

Assistant Planning Engineer

December 2002 - September 2007

Placebo Engineering

Hyderabad, India

December 2002 - September 2007

Project Cross country Pipeline works for Multi product transmission for Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited - India

Company industry:
Oil & Gas
Job role:
Oil and Gas

Education

Alagappa university

May 2011

May 2011

Master's degree, Project Management

India

Skills

Project Controls
Expert
Project Controls
Expert
AS SET
Expert
AS SET
Expert
BUDGETING
Expert
BUDGETING
Expert
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
Expert
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
Expert
FORECASTING
Expert
FORECASTING
Expert
MEETING FACILITATION
Expert
MEETING FACILITATION
Expert
MICROSOFT WORKS
Expert
MICROSOFT WORKS
Expert
OIL PAINTING
Expert
OIL PAINTING
Expert
PROCUREMENT
Expert
PROCUREMENT
Expert
PROGRESS
Expert
PROGRESS
Expert
TENDER
Expert
TENDER
Expert
Project Controls
Expert
Project Controls
Expert

Languages

English

Expert

Hindi

Expert

Telugu

Expert

Arabic

Beginner

Training and Certifications

Certifications
Advance Diploma in Fire & Safety Engineering