Sime Darby
Position Title : Senior Project Engineer
Department  : Energy and Utilities
Specialization : Power system and Project Management
Industry  : Automation and Power
Duration : May 2012 - 2012

Work Description:

1. Construct detailed work plans from approved and prioritized list of project and maintenance work orders that includes the necessary steps to perform the job, identify the material delivery and labour hours to complete each task.

2. Reports on status and financial matters by developing and updating project reports detailing status, cost, and schedule, assisting project managers by providing up to date project cost and forecast information, and assisting departmental staff with reports and information as necessary

3. Analyze gaps between the planned and actual progress and highlight the areas of concern to management on which required action of the associate task member.

4. Monitor project risks and scope creep to identify potential problems and proactively identifying solutions to address them in advance.

5. Contribute to the development of contract documents. Ensure that all contract key dates and milestones align with the overall integrated plan. Evaluate bid schedules and review contractor plans to support contract award recommendations.

6. Own the overall schedule monthly progress update, forecast, critical path and trend analyses. Develop status reporting framework and implement throughout the planning hierarchy. Provide regular and comprehensive schedule status reports to Project Management.

7. Develop and implement the change management process for projects. Provide guidance on trend analysis and the assessment of change impacts on cost.

8. Handle dispute resolution and claims planning matters on multiple projects, including construction scheduling, delay and disruption analysis.

9. Ensure that the project planning parameters are accurately and constantly measured and inputted into the planning system, resulting in more realistic planning and provides realistic assumptions for projects.

ABB
Position Title : Senior Project Engineer
Department  : Power, Discrete Automation and Motion
Specialization : Power system, Power Electronics, Drive and Motors
Industry  : Automation and Power
Duration : July 2011 – May 2012

Work Description:

1. Report directly to Project Manager on overall planning, project scheduling, monitoring progress of work to ensure timely completion without any cost and time overrun.

2. Become part of training and development team to train departmental staff and to deliver Project Management and Microsoft Project training align with PMBOK by creating learning strategies and lesson plans.

3. Assesses and identifies individual or group training needs, and administers plans, procedures and programs to meet training needs.

4. Detailed review of customer specifications such as PTS (Petronas Technical Spec, SHELL Design and Engineering Practise, comparing to ABB’s products and providing list of technical deviations of ABB’s product to the specifications.

5. In charge of the implementation of the Planning Monitoring Tools such as to prepare specific detailed schedules, to implement the Progress Monitoring System, forecast possible deviations, propose corrective actions as much as necessary to meet the reference.

6. Performs routine administration duties and paperwork in a timely and accurate manner with particular attention to deadlines for proposal development, meeting presentations and reports.

7. Liaise with ABB's units overseas to ensure uniform product structures and extract data for tender preparation.

8. Responsible for planning and scheduling activities for one or several projects or proposals.

9. Works proactively to set customer expectation to assure a smooth project including acceptance of project deliveries and timely payment even under challenging circumstances.

10. Communicate and make sure the information flow of design requirement, risk declaration and mitigation clearly with customer and vendor to achieve the project execution.

11. Review of supplier and sub supplier documentation such as related quality plans and test plan.

12. Coordination of procurement quality with suppliers, including bidder evaluation, input to contract and purchase order, bid evaluation and pre-award assessment.

13. Attend appropriate design reviews, factory acceptance tests, site acceptance test and other testing and acceptance activities as required.

14. Responsible for Risk Management Plan with details identification and quantification of risk, managing risks, contingency plans implementation and reserves allocation.

Infineon Technologies Infineon Technologies (Formerly known as Siemens Components)
Position Title : Senior Project Engineer
Department  : Facility Management
Specialization : Manufacturing/Production Operations
Industry  : Semiconductor/Wafer Fabrication
Duration : Jun 2006 - July 2011

Achievement

1. Took the initiative to incorporate lean methodology into project management which lead to  10% project delivery cycle time when Lean approach does not considered needed.

2. Successfully identified and managed risk issues that threatened completion of projects by taking initiative to implement project Risk Management Plan and included as SOP (Standard Operating Procedure).

3. Lead Purchasing team in technical negotiation and meet consistently the target min 10% cost reduction for each tender exercise.

4. Deployed Project Management tools and framework to service providers according to PMI recommendation that lead to standardized project management delivery. 

5. Initiated Google famous 20% programme within department through the Infineon High Performance workshop.

6. Initiated the De Bono 6 hats thinking method replacing the traditional way of handling meeting with service provider and end-user resulted in better alternatives generation and ideas.

7. Trained departmental staff and service provider on lateral thinking resulted in a culture of weekly alternatives and idea generation workshop for continuous improvement programme.

Work Description:

8. Report directly to Project Manager on overall planning, project scheduling, monitoring progress of work to ensure timely completion without any cost and time overrun.

9. Responsible to train departmental staff and service provider on Project Management Professional approach to deliver project according to PMI recommendation.

10. Develop master schedule and work with contract department determining events for claim issues, consideration of contractors delay recovery proposals, EOT claim justification and delay analysis.

11. Maintain a “live” schedule and resource plan with reasonable degree of activity logic linking such that critical path is clearly identifiable and easily presented to stakeholder.

12. Executed and maintained project management processes and disciplines in the areas of project schedule and quality management, communications management, human resource management, cost management, procurement management, risk management and change management.

13. Reviews and comments upon engineering project work scope prepared by outside consultants for conformance to internal specifications; prepares a variety of technical reports and analyses for presentation to management.

14. Report schedule adherence, progress, and input to weekly and monthly reporting as part of Commercial Awareness requirements

15. Responsible in designing and the execution for UPS installation, power quality equipment on site such as power dip compensator, STS, TVSS and ATS.

16. Design experience for overall piping, HVAC, clean room design HVAC, refrigeration, fire protection, process and waste water systems for designated building and project.

17. Design experience gained on numerous electrical installations like electrical busbar, MCCB's, ELCB's, Distribution board for clean room machines installation.

18. Manage equipment hook-up engineering function by providing quality, reliable and cost effective facilities support in the areas of utilities capacity planning and specification, equipment hook-up, space management and final certification of hook-up utilities and work.

19. Communicate and make sure the information flow of design requirement, risk declaration and mitigation clearly with customer and vendor to achieve the project execution.

20. Prepare tenders with technical scrutiny of proposals and coordinated with procurement department to finalize the packages for the contract works. 

Cubic Electronic Sdn Bhd
Position Title : Product Quality Engineer
Department        : Quality Engineering
Specialization : Quality Control/Assurance
Industry  : Manufacturing / Production
Duration : Jun 2005 – Jun 2006

Achievement

1. Successfully formed the SGA (Small Group Activity) team to utilise 7 QC tool in the line and contribute for yield improvement.

2. Establish the FMEA and control plan for MP3 production line which resulted in securing customer’s confidence towards line quality control.

3. Initiated Lean practice and resulted in quick quality related data retrieval and technical drawing filing.

4. Created value stream mapping across the production process which eliminated the waste and improve the cycle time.

Work Description:

1. Responsible for all quality related matters directly or indirectly related to the assigned product family. Drive implementation for all defined quality indicators to meet the defined requirements of the customer.

2. Required to make decision concerning product quality, improvement activity in relation to customer feedback and continuous improvement activity.

3. Review and evaluate quality specifications, defect catalogue and inspection procedures. Document procedures and work instructions to ensure maximum coverage for product quality.

4. Responsible of product and process change control, coordinate with other section for the evaluation of ECO (engineering change order) and EM (engineering memo).

5. Responsible of the implementation of Lean audit to eliminate the 7 waste and conduct training for Manufacturing Quality on the basic Lean Thinking.

6. Take lead of FMEA Committee of Practice to ensure the implementation of FMEA as well as the control plan which integrate with poka yoke and SPC.

7. Responsible to introduce 8D problem solving system embedded with QC tools. Drive for 8D closure and monitor the effectiveness.

8. Take lead of value stream mapping across the production line to identify and reduce waste.

9. Facilitator of Small Group Activity (SGA) to solve major quality issues with developing the operator.

10. To interfaces with customers and resolve quality issues on a timely and professional manner, provides them with good analysis, causes, corrective and preventive actions.

11. Monitor product process yield and work with manufacturing staff to improve overall yield.

12. Coordinate with customer on new model development for both quality and reliability aspects.