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Contracts Engineer \ Claim Specialist \ Scheduler, Yuksel Construction / Yüksel İnşaat A.Ş., Highway

START Date: 
October, 2010

 

Construction of 52 km, 2x2 Highway and Construction of Three HEPP Projects

Yüksel Construction Co.Inc., Arbil, Iraq, and Kahramanmaraş, Turkey - http://www.yuksel.net/

Contracts Engineer / Claims Analyst

Contract Price: $230.000.000 (highway), 250.000.000 (for all three HEPPs)

HEPP Projects are funded by International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Employer/Engineer is EnerjiSA (owned by Sabancı, biggest industry and finance company in Turkey and Verbund, leading electricity company in Austria)

In the highway project, Saudi Arabia based Al-Muhandis is the Consultant.

*      to secure and follow contractual documents

*      to follow and manage the contract signed by Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq

*      to prepare letters that are to be sent to all parties of the contract as well as the government

*      to attend meetings with parties when the contractual issues are to be discussed

*      to prepare, follow and manage contracts of sub-contractors

*      to collect information about works and to warn managers of possible consequences of company’s actions on time

*      to prepare particulars for extension of time and accounts for additional payments

*      to give notices of claims to the Engineer and to prepare claim files by identifying and substantiating the events

*      to strictly adhere to time limit of clauses of contracts leading to variations, claims and arbitration

*      to follow all steps of the contracts, to be open and to seek for all the information that may be necessary in possible future claims

*      to follow construction programme and to assist, advise and warn planning engineer whenever necessary

*      to improve the works by making researches about them and applying the results thereof

*      to use, follow, improve contracts and claim management group’s know-how files which ease tracking of correspondences

*      to inform and advise the Project Manager and Contracts / Claim Group Manager about contractual issues on time

*      to report directly to the Project Manager and the Contracts / Claim Group Manager

*      to follow companies’ three HEPP projects in Turkey and to advise respective contracts engineer whenever necessary

*      to submit company president and vice presidents a file of history of the project which clearly shows the achievements and failures of the company on contractual issues on yearly basis

In addition to the above, applicant has also following responsibilities since August 2011 during the Construction of 52 km, 2x2 Highway in Iraq as a Scheduler apart from his other duties:

*      to visit active construction project and investigate work progress, and to confirm progress is consistent with the project schedule

*      to revise the construction programme whenever necessary