Planning Engineer, Redco International Qatar, 132/33/22/11kV Substations, Schools , Buildings, Shopping Mall

Muhammad Shoaib Abbasi

Doha, Qatar

Cell:  +974-66435886

E-mail:  msa_kash@hotmail.com [1]

CAREER PROFILE:

More than (6)-Years hands on experience in the field of Project Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Cost Control.

• Highly qualified and professional team leader for Planning, monitoring and cost control activities.
• Competitive Expertise in using Primavera P6 & Primavera Contract Manager 12.1.
• Registered PMI member and always follow Project management institute Practices and procedures.
• Ability to work under stress and meet the deadlines.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Senior Planning & Control Engineer (Oct, 2011 – till date)

Redco International, Doha, Qatar.

Redco is one of the largest Constructioncontractor in Qatar Where I am involved in initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and closing of the TurnkeyConstruction projects including Substations, Govt. School, Villas & High rise building. www.redcointl.com [2]

Projects:

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Preparation of Preliminary Time Schedules for the projects under Tendering using Primavera P-6.0 after thorough Study of Project scope and Technical Specification received from clients.
• Determining Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) from level 1 to 4 and Major Phases of the project. Identifying activities to be performed under the WBS as per scope and technical specification.
• Ensuring proper relationships and adequate logics between the activities and assignments of activity codes.
• Allocation of all resources to the activities using Construction Cost Index and Taking into account the Organization culture.
• Expense loading in all activities as per Budget and Schedule-C as agreed with the Client and assign cost accounts.
• Preparation of complete budget of the project and preparation of complete budget projections during the project.
• After final Review of project Determining Critical path and Finalizing Master Schedule and Baseline for proper updating of the project during project life cycle.
• Provision of One Month look-ahead schedule to Project Manager for execution and follow-up of activities as per SOW.
• Review and analysis and preparation of status reports of project schedules updated by site planning engineers.
• Preparation of Bi-Monthly progress reports including Synopsis on critical issues in the particular areas, highlighting the bottlenecks.
• Preparation of Cash flows and forecast of manpower requirements and budget at completion (BAC) and provide the Budget projections to higher management and concerned departments with the help of S- Curves and Bell Diagrams.
• Preparation Monthly progressive invoices for the complete activities as per the payment procedure of different clients.
• Preparation of Power point presentations for weekly higher management meetings showing complete picture of the project progress highlighting critical issues, major problems, key achievements by showing Fish Bone Diagrams and other necessary flow charts.
• Monitoring and controlling the project by holding regular meetings with Project Manager for proper execution of planned activities and proper utilization of manpower.
• Preparation of Recovery Schedules and plans to recover delays and prepare delay analysis and lessons Learned during the process.
• Coordination with Engineering, Procurement department and Vender to make sure deliverables match site required date.
• Helping the top management in many of the contractual issues.

PLANNING & CONTROL ENGINEER (JUN, 2009 – SEP, 2011)

Algihaz Energy, Construction & Trade.co. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.                               

Working as Senior Planning Engineer in Al Gihaz Trading and Contracting Company, Riyadh Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Handling the Planning and Controlling activities of 30 medium size EPC projects of Power Sector worth total value of Approx. USD 746 Million  (SAR-2.8 Billion) and leading the team of 8 site planning engineers.

http://www.algihaz.com [3]

PROJECTS:

• SEC.Co: Shoran S/S  110/13kV, Madina, KSA                                    
• SEC.Co: Tabouk-5 132kV Substation, Tabouk, KSA
• SEC.Co: Jizan Industrial Substation and OHTL, Jizan, KSA                             
• SEC.Co: Biljurashi Outdoor S/s 132/13kV, Biljurashi, KSA    
• SWCC  : Six-Substation(132kV/33kV/13kV) (Shuqiq to Ahba), KSA   
• KKUC   :KKUC 132kV/33kV/33kVOutdoor Substation, Abha, KSA                           

PLANNING ENGINEER (DEC, 2006 – MAY, 2009)

Afroze Group of Industries (Pvt.) Limited. Karachi, PAKISTAN                

Where I have been involved in initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and closing of the construction

and erection ( Civil, Mechanical & Utilities) Projects and maintenance of the all processing plant an utility

System.

PROJECT:

• Erection, testing and commissioning  Washing machine Red-Flag China
• Installation of spare pump to thermal heat exchanger
• Modification of existing water feeding system to the plant
• Rearranging& Replacing all the pneumatic system for all plant
• Involve in weekly, monthly and annual maintenance plans and execution for all plant and equipment ( Processing plants, ROs, Boiler, thermal boiler, Air compressor and related system)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP:

• Member of Pakistan Engineering Council
• Member of Saudi Engineering Council

EDUCATION:

B.Ein Industrial Engineering & Management (Jan 2003, Dec 2006)

Mehran University of Engineering & Technology (MUET), Pakistan.

SOFTWARE:

• Primavera P6 Project Management (P6, P6.V-7) with Web application
• Primavera Contract Manager
• MS Project
• MS Office 2003, 2007, 2010
• AutoCAD 2000, 2007, 2011

LANGUAGES:

• English, Urdu, Arabic

PERSONAL INFORMATION:

REFERENCES:

• Upon request