Nitin Naik

Professional Experience

Al Habtoor Leighton Group UAE

August 2008 – Current

Senior Planning Manager

March 2011 – Current

Pre contracts & Tender Planning

Key Project: Airport Midfield Terminal Tender Bid, 3-4 Billion USD, Multinational JV Partnership

• Worked in team of 5 planners, liaising with with all members of the team along with the wider

Technical and Commercial Teams

• Maintained several variations of a complex 10,000+ activity schedule, including Critical Path Analysis, Labour Forecasting, Narratives and Sequencing and Zoning layouts.
• Collation of all the information for a high class technical submission which included various compliant and alternative options.

Senior Planning Manager

March 2009 – March 2011

Project: Zayed University, $820M USDClient: MUBADALA

• Manage project planning function; measure and analyze program performance, and deviation, reporting to Project Manager
• Developed design planning & program function campus wide, in line with construction schedule
• Develop & Manage Construction program for Male Campus comprising of 8 buildings with facilities, classrooms, residences, and a sports hall
• Develop & Manage completion plan for 17 buildings for 2600 rooms across male & female campus including handover to client
• Manage Planning software (Primavera 6.2) server environment for 11 planners and manage & advise 5 junior planners within site team.
• Worked on Zayed University project which recorded 20 million LTI Free Man-hours

Divisional Planning Department

• Management of diverse planning assignments with Divisional Office (Inclusive of Tender planning/Inputs of planning systems & procedures)
• Research & establish method for earned value analysis using Primavera software.

Divisional Safety Department

• Worked with Divisional Safety Team to implement positive key performance indicators using site safety meter across both divisions of UAE (Abu Dhabi & Dubai).
• Manage positive Key Performance Indicators (KPI) monitoring & reporting using Site Safety Meter (SSM) tool.

Achievements –

Successful implementation of design planning & monitoring function

Successful monitoring of Male Campus Planning & implement Completion Planning for the campus

$ Impact –Approx. 400 Million portfolio

Senior Planning Manager

August 2008 – March 09

Project: Tameer Towers, Shams Abu Dhabi $1.8 Billion USD 

• Lead team of planners (3) for detail programming and planning of a prestigious residential and commercial development in Shams Abu Dhabi, Reem Island
• Develop program monitoring and reporting structure for the overall project
• Develop & manage various project delivery options during value engineering phase of the project.
• Manage P6.1 client server environment for project team
• Develop resource management strategy during value engineering phase of the project.
• Develops detailed project plans, work plans, schedules, project estimates, conversion schedules, resource plans and status reports
• Participate in the meetings with Clients and internal meetings whenever required