Yousef Al-Zuhair, Business Development Manager

Yousef Al-Zuhair

Business Development Manager

MARAFIQ

Location
Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
Education
Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering
Experience
17 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 6 Months

Business Development Manager at MARAFIQ
  • Saudi Arabia - Jubail
  • My current job since November 2011

Fully in charge of business development across company locations within Saudi Arabia.

Lead Engineer at MARAFIQ
  • Saudi Arabia - Jubail
  • May 2011 to October 2011

Lead Engineer at Projects Engineering Department. Directly manage development of projects in water and waste water utility projects. Including: wastewater re-use & seawater RO plant.

Project Engineer (Mechanical) at MARAFIQ
  • Saudi Arabia - Jubail
  • January 2010 to April 2011

Lead Project Engineer in major seawater expansion project. Work includes expansion of major civil infrastructure, pumps stations, Chlorination plant, Electrical systems and Installation of large scale seawater cooling tower.
Was also lead engineer in negotiation and business development for asset reacquisition of large gas network.

Off-taker Liaison at MARAFIQ
  • Saudi Arabia - Jubail
  • January 2009 to January 2010

Coordination between off-takers and project company. Dealing with the national power grid provider and water providers (SEC and SWCC). Involved in the IWPP construction and commissioning supervision.

Senior Business Analyst at MARAFIQ
  • Saudi Arabia - Jubail
  • January 2007 to January 2008

Development of IWPP in Jubail and Yanbu

Trainee engineer at Corus
  • United Kingdom
  • June 2005 to September 2005

Summer internship in the cold mill of a steel production plant. Was incharge of the design, manufacture and installation of a support component to assest with maintenace.

Trainee Engineer at Corus
  • United Kingdom
  • June 2004 to September 2004

Summer internship in the technology center of a steel production plant. Roles involved the investigation of a failure on a component used in the blast furnace.

Trainee Engineer at Corus
  • United Kingdom
  • June 2003 to September 2003

Summer internship in the casting section of a steel production plant. Roles involved identifying the needs for the development of a new casting roll tracking system and investigating the current system.

Education

Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering
  • at Swansea University
  • July 2006

First Class M.Eng with honours in Mechanical Engineering. AWARDS: - IMechE Fredric Barnes Waldron’s Best Student Award 2006. - IMechE The Institution’s Project Prize Award 2005. - IMechE Proctor and Gamble’s Award 2004. - IMechE Fredrick Bacon’s Award 2004. SCHOLARSHIP: - 3 year university sponsorship from the steelmaker Corus. MY DISSERTATIONS: - Industrial Project to investigate the expansion of the cooling towers at the GE Gas Power Plant in Port Talbot UK - Development of Pressure Vessel Design Software using Visual Basic. - Research Dissertation on the “Future of In-Space Propulsion”.

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Project Engineering
Business Development
IT and Microsoft Office
2D&3D CAD (AutoCAD / SolidWorks / Inventor)
Web design (HTML/CSS)
Visual Basic
Matlab Sotfwere
Engineering Optimization (Altair HyperStudy)
Macromedia Flash & Fireworks
JavaScript
Adobe Photoshop
Hydraulic Model (HEC-RAS & ISIS)

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)
  • Associate
  • September 2002
Institute of Physics
  • Associate Member
  • August 2006
Project Management Institute (PMI)
  • Member
  • February 2011