Assessment of subcontractor application for payment each period to align with the Crossrail accountancy dates for approval of the senior QS.
Production of 3 monthly forecast incorporating subcontract, labour, plant and materials, to be reported into project controls. Assist project controls with presentation of forecast to Crossrail programme engineer and to re-base line the section programme.
Collation of all labour and materials on site for reconciliation and costing as part of the monthly forecasts for the Preliminaries section.
This project ran straight on from the previous Farringdon Scheme moving from Laing O'Rourke to Bam Nutall for project continuity.
My role was as a Senior Planner reporting to a Lead Planner. I was responsible for the Planning, Timing & Sequencing of the construction of the new Eastern Ticket Hall (ETH). This was a heavy Civils project and included the following:
On my current project i carry out the following duties: • Prepare the Programme for Acceptance, working closely with site and Client teams to develop content and logic • Compile detailed reports for commercial forecasting and delay assessments, demonstrating entitlement to additional time as an integral part of the Compensation Event Quotation system • Communicate the PFA to operational team members and the Client using Primavera P6 and Time-Location software • Manage integration of short-term operational programmes with the contract programme and conducting briefings and tutorials on conte
I started my career as a highway design engineer, and then became a Resident Engineer on projects in England, Kenya, Kuwait and Honkong.
I qualified as a MICE in 1977 I think, which allowed me to work abroad; but in about 2005 gave up my membership as I could not see any career benefits for a senior planning engineer; which is one reason why I am interested in this Guild.
When I returned from Hongkong in January 1989, my aim was to change my career path; being frustrated as an RE in knowing better ways to do things on site, but having to watch others make mistakes.
After working for consultant civil engineering companies for eighteen years as a civil design and / or resident engineer, both in England and abroad (Kenya, Kuwait, and Hong Kong), I decided on his return to England in early 1989 on a change of direction in his engineering career.
I became Chief Engineer for Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd on a large management contract in central London, where over 100 contractors were employed to build a complex office block on anti-vibration bearings over the South end of Victoria Station.