abid hassan

Post Qualification Work Experience - 25 Years

Maintenance Planning & Scheduling Engineer, in Total Tractable Emirates O&M Company (TTE O&M) at 1500 MW Taweelah Combined Cycle Thermal Power & Desalination Plant, UAE

(Year 2011 to date)

Implementing & Managing MAXIMO Asset Management System for Maintenance Management 

• Use of  MAXIMO applications such as Condition Monitoring to record and analyze equipment vibration readings, oil analysis, thermography etc. for Predictive Maintenance.
• Using applications like Preventive Maintenance, Routes, Job Plans,  Work Order Tracking, Resources, Inventory, Purchasing etc. for MAXIMO based maintenance management. 
• Establish Computer based Root Cause Failure Analysis on all equipment failures. Inputting failure codes for equipment types in MAXIMO.   
• Coordinating with each maintenance sections for preparing Planned Work Orders in MAXIMO for Work Scope, Manpower, Material, Tools, Services, Safety and Hazards. 
• Preparing optimum Weekly Schedule of Work Orders. 
• Preparing detailed reports of cost related to maintenance work using MAXIMO. Issuing periodic reports related to maintenance activities such as work backlog, manpower work load, work schedule compliance, Preventive Maintenance compliance, maintenance re-work etc. 
• Material Management. Coordinating to establishing optimum inventory levels of spares and consumables for stores and setting minimum /maximum /reorder levels in MAXIMO.    
• Collecting all technical specifications of plant equipment and preparing for uploading in the Computerized Asset Management System.

Managing Plant Turnarounds

Developing & updating Outage Schedules in MS Project and Primavera.

• Pre shutdown Planning. Coordinating with various departments to formulate planned outage Project Schedule including material procurement schedules.
• Establishing Work Breakdown Structure, detailed job tasks,    durations and major milestones.  
• Recording and inputting detailed resource requirements for manpower, material, tools and external services.
• Developing Project Schedule in Primavera / MS Project and Identifying Critical Path.  
• Recording Field Observations.  Monitoring and reporting work progress and updating the outage schedule. 

Budget Follow Up & Cost Control

• Responsible for activities related to monitoring, reporting and controlling the item wise yearly budget of Maintenance department (budgeted versus actual) This includes monthly budget re-forecasting for maintenance related expenses to be incurred till the end of the year. 

Planning & Scheduling Engineer, inSaudi Electricity Company (SEC) at 5600 MW Thermal Power Plant at Shoaiba near Jeddah. The Plant is the biggest of its kind in the Middle East Region. (Year 2000 to 2011)

Establishing Preventive / Predictive Maintenance Programs:

• Implementing equipment Preventive/ Predictive Maintenance Programs and  Root Cause Failure Analysis. 
• Selecting and tracking essential Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Maintenance & identifying areas for performance improvements
• Implementing in MAXIMO a computerized purchasing, parts management system.

Planning & Scheduling Plant Shutdowns in Primavera/ MS Project :

• Preparing Outage Schedules in P3, P6 & MS Project.
• Making field visits. Supporting site activities for planning &  scheduling.
• Preparing progress reports such as Schedule Variance, Cost Variance, S-Curves, Earned Value Analysis etc. 
• Monitoring of Plant construction activities at site. Updating construction schedule in Primavera.
• Identifying project critical/ sub-critical activities & the impact on  duration. 

Planning Engineer/ Electrical Engineer,in Water & Power Development Authority (WAPDA) at Guddu Thermal Power Plant, Pakistan.

(Year 1990 to 2000)

• Planning & Scheduling of plant turnaround activities. Developing Time Schedule short term/ long range forecasting schedules in  Primavera/ MS Project.
• Monitoring plant construction progress & updating construction Schedule in Primavera. 
• Using Computerized  Maintenance Management System for work orders , inventory control and purchase management.
• Cost analysis of  plant maintenance activities. 

Scheduling Engineer,  in National Engineering Services (NESPAK), for Bin Qasim Power Plant Project. Pakistan

(Year 1988 to 1990)

• Preparing Master Project Schedule Using Critical Path Method (CPM) in Computer after Receiving Individual Work Schedules From Various Contractors. 
• Measuring Actual Site Work Progress and Identifying Work Slippage.

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Computer Skills:

• Primavera   (P6)
• MS Project
• Asset Management System such as MAXIMO, AVANTIS, APi Pro.
• MS Office including Word, Excel, Access, Power Point etc.

Major Achievements:

• Computerization of Existing Plant Assets Data :

Successfully managed (for several plants) the gathering and converting  into Computerized form,  the plant assets data such as equipment technical specs, condition monitoring activities and their acceptable limits, cost, warranty data, preventive maintenance activities and frequencies, the linked spare parts and their minimum/  maximum / reorder stock levels.   

• Manpower Cost Saving in Plant Outages:

Reduced the manpower cost for several projects and plant turnarounds by developing schedules with optimum utilization of manpower in Primavera and MS Project. 

• Maintenance Management:

Using Computerized Asset Management System such as MAXIMO, successfully implemented programs related to equipment Root Cause Failure Analysis in combination with equipment Condition Monitoring application.