I have experience in Project Controls (Scheduling, Costing & Management) in a multi-facet environment in the construction industry including Power Plant Construction, Power Rehabilitation, Refinery, Tanks, Heavy Civil Works, Runways, Aprons, Hangers, Commercial Buildings, Passenger Terminals, and Military Projects.
I worked in South Korea, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Afghanistan in a mutli-cultural environment working closely with the Project Director, Project Managers, Site Managers and sub-contractors providing weekly & monthly schedule updates, reports, progress measurement, cost monitoring & reporting.
Employment:
Senior Project Controls Engineer– 25 Jun 2011 → Present – JACOBS – S.Korea / Saudi Arabia
I am currently working for JACOBS and our scope is working with the client on PMC role for Marafiq Yanbu 2 Power & Water Plant Project. Project is including four packages which are Power & Water, Marine Facilities, Fuel Facilities and Sea Water Cooling Network with a total value of 2.1 Billion USD. The project consist of 3 Units with total electricity production capacity of 690 MW, 2 MED Units with 60,000 m3/day desalinated water capacity, multiple Fuel and Water Storage Tanks, Pipeline and Marine Facilities for delivering sea water to power island.
I have mobilized in Seoul / South Korea for one year, during the Engineering & Procurement phases of the project. I have worked closely with contractors for developing Level 3 and Level 4 Schedules, advising contractors for setting the progress and payment measurement systems, setting daily / weekly / monthly reporting templates.
I have mobilized to site (Yanbu / Saudi Arabia) in June 2012, working closely with contractors at Construction phase, following up the Level 4 schedule updates, attending to meetings with contractors like daily construction and weekly schedule review, engineering, procurement, weekly & monthly progress review meetings. Addition to these meetings, I am attending to meetings with stakeholders like ARAMCO for a good follow up of the project and schedule affects.
We are having weekly and monthly meetings with client. We are preparing weekly and monthly reports, presentations and keeping them updated about the status of the overall project and detailed analysis of work packages, presenting them issues, critical paths, activities, schedule affects and delays, pointing out the problems for all team members to make them aware of schedule impact to prevent / maintain contractual dates.
Planning & Cost Control Chief- 05 Aug 2009 → 06 Jun 2011 – YUKSEL - Afghanistan
I worked for the EPC Contractor and was responsible for all Schedule and Cost requirements required by CH2M HILL for seven individual projects combined under One Task Order at a contract value of $120M; Parallel Taxiway (1892 LM), Strategic Ramp (71,000M2), Refueler Ramp (47,000M2), Helicopter Apron (100,000M2), Helicopter Hanger (4,200M2), C-130 Hanger (5,600M2), and Cargo Handling Area (85,000M2).
In addition, YUKSEL had separate contracts with the United State Corp of Engineers and NAMSA and I was also responsible for all YUKSEL projects in Afghanistan. Some of those projects as follow;
Ø NAMSA - Pre-Engineered Buildings Project - Bagram, Afg
Ø KBR - DFAC Building Project – Kabul. Afg
Ø Turkish Army - 104 Room Dormitory Building Project - Kabul, Afg
Ø USAir Force - Passenger & Cargo Terminals Project - Bagram, Afg
Ø USArmy - Main Drainage Lines Infrastructure Project - Bagram, Afg
Ø US Air Force – Hangers and Runways Project – Mazar-e Sharif, Afg
My functions were to manage the schedule, cost & change management and my duties consist of developing WBS, baseline schedule, performance measurement, cash flow curves, manpower curves, progress curves, and provide weekly schedule reports and monthly schedule & cost reports to the team.
I held weekly meeting with the project manager and discipline leads, discussed progress update, slippages, critical path & recovery plan and ensure that the team had sufficient information to maintain project schedule and cost.
I prepared the monthly report for the Prime Contractor and provided updated cash flow curves, updated progress curves to include early and late curves, variance report, critical path and then provided schedule & cost analysis as required.
Addition to these, I have participated in a project of company’s ERP system (ORACLE) integration with Primavera project planning software. As a part of this task, I was lead for pilot application project of integrating ERP and site progresses and improving “Project Management Module” of ORACLE (ERP) system.
Planning & Cost Engineer– 01 Aug 2008 to 01 July 2009 - AKŞAN Consulting - UAE
I was based in the UAE in the field office on 10 steel structural buildings from pre-mobilization to commissioning on all buildings to provide detail project control’s requirement to the project manager and disciplines.
I developed the Work Breakdown Structure and used Primavera daily to built the Master Baseline Schedule for all disciplines. The over schedule consist of 2500+ activities for each project. I worked with each discipline to build the logic for engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and turnover.
Each structure consist of major civil works to include underground utilities, site drainage, catch basin, retention ponds, parking lots, striping, and curbs. The electrical room consist of MCC panels, switchgears, circuit breakers, cable trays, fire alarm panels, and communication systems. The main building included bays, several offices, workshops, mechanical systems (fire water, potable water, sprinklers), electrical systems and communication systems.
On a weekly basis, I updated the project schedule, reviewed subcontractor’s schedules, held schedule meetings, reported progress performance, provided updates on delivery milestones, discussed two week look-ahead and addressed critical issues with the project team in order to maintain projection completion. I prepared the weekly/monthly schedule and cost reports; consisting of scheduling analysis/reports, manpower projection, CPM schedule, SPI index, milestone schedules, early and late curves (per discipline), earn value analysis, CPI index, cost tracking reports, and quantity measurement reporting (by discipline).
Planning Engineer– 01 Mar 2007 to 01 July 2008 – TEKFEN - Saudi Arabia
I worked for TEKFEN Construction Co., Inc. as Planning & Progress Engineer for Saudi Aramco Khurais Water Injection Facilities & Utilities Project. It was one of the biggest petroleum production plant which has daily 1.2 Million Barrels per day capacity of oil. The desalinized water from Jubail is pumped to Khurais and by the injection of sea-water under the ground, oil is replacing with it and can be reached without any pump. After dehydration, the oil is sent to petroleum plants all over the country which was total almost 17 Billion Dollar project with plants in Jubail, Khurais and pipelines all over the country.
As the Mechanical Subcontractor of Italian ENI Group, we have erected all equipment like Gas Turbines, Coolers, Heaters, Desalinization Tanks, Dehydration Tanks etc, plus pipe racks and all piping from 2 inch up to 68 inches, for ENI Group’s scope of work.
I was the point of contact for the Contractor Projects Control Team. I developed the baseline schedule and on a weekly and monthly basis, I updated the project schedule. I prepared Contractor’s requested weekly and monthly reports which were including the updated progress item by item, manpower and equipment status, 2 weeks look-ahead forecasting, Saudization reports, updated work schedule, delay analysis and analysis of precautions needed to be taken.
I held weekly meeting with management team, discussed on the progress, critical path, slippages and the precautions to be held. Also the actual cost status and projection of cost with this performance was another part of the meetings.
I prepared Tekfen internal monthly progress and cost reports which were for HQ office in Istanbul, including all progress, manpower, equipment and financial data for company chairmen’s weekly meeting.
Planning Engineer– 10 Jan 2006 to 01 Mar 2007 – TEKFEN - Azerbaijan
I was the Planning Engineer in Baku Azerbaijan Sangachal Petroleum Terminal Project for Tekfen
Sangachal Petroleum Terminal is the process plant of Azerbaijan oil and it is the Baku point of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Petroleum Pipeline. The Azerbaijan oils from Caspian Sea is transferred into this plant and after the process, the product is sent to Ceyhan/Turkey which is the transportation point from Mediterranean Sea to all over the world. Tekfen was the contractor of the owners which were British Petroleum, Shell and Socar (The Oil Company of Azerbaijan Government)
My duties were supervising subcontractors system of company and preparing reports on progress tracking, schedule, cost for every sub-contractor and reported to the project control team. I also prepared the monthly report to upper management and reported to our HQ office.
I was a member of project management team during the assignment in Baku and attended to weekly meetings which were for progress tracking, discuss on schedule update and delay analysis, slippage and needed precautions, contract issues, claims, manpower and equipment status and delivery to teams, 2 weeks look-ahead schedule and preparation for weekly meeting with owners.