Posted Sat, 2017-10-28 19:07 by Thuraiya Al Wahaibi
START Date:
November, 2016
Graduate Engineer at OPWP. I entered Graduate Developement Programme(GDP) since Nov 2016 which is designed to build the knowledge of the graduates and make them familiar with the work invironment and the whole Power and Water sector in Oman. after 8 month of rotation in the different deperatements in the company I was assigned to be part of the Project Developement deparetment (PD).
Graduate Engineer in the Spot Market Department at OPWP. Currently I am assisting in establishing the Spot Market in Oman under which generators can submit bids on a daily basis for their electricity generation.
Getting involved in many different projects, helped me to improve my designing skills in order to achieve the best result, minimising total cost and provide the maximum safety requirement.
Through my start in OPWP was given a rotation training through all the department including two months of plants visit. This rotation gave me a good understanding of the utility sector in total (power and water), enhanced my technical information regarding power and water generation in details, forecasting and planning for the next upcoming years, contract management of the existing plant and invoicing, supervision the progress of the new upcoming plants and finally developing the required capacity to meet the peak demand.
Project Engineer at the Oman Power and Water Procurement Company.
My duties at the Project Implementation Department are to monitor the execusion phase Sohar III Independent Power Project and Sohar IV Independent Water Project. To ensure that these two projects are being constructed as per the requirements of their contracts and to ensure safe and reliable operation of the plant during and after the commissioning period.