MS Project

Planning Manager

Planning Engineer and Cost Control / Project Control

Preparing schedules for tender and construction phases, progress updates, weekly plans, constraints forecast, daily production/planning meetings using KPIs, daily/weekly and monthly reports, Critical Path Analysis.

Earned Value Management and Cost control. Cost Reports, Earned Value Analysis and cost forecast.

• Conceptualized and launched processes and set of tools for capturing project metrics and funneling that information to easy-to understand reports. Enabled executive management to keep a pulse on project health, revenue expectations, and strategic analysis of projects.
• Managed project of a fully in house developed PMIS (Project Management Information System) built on a .Net + SQL platform in integration with MS Project 2003, Excel and VBA macros.

Date From Oct 2013-June 2017 / Employer- INECO - Jeddah

: Program Planning Manager

Project: Haramain High Speed Railway Project Phase -2 Jeddah

Client: SRO.

Responsibilities:

Date From June 2017 to present / Employer- Al Salomi Company  

: Project Controls Manager

Project: Infrastructure Project

Client: Royal Commission - Jubail

Responsibilities:

Senior MEP Planner for Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games

Energy & Engineering Planner responsible for the M&E planning and coordination across 20 Major and 10 secondary venues for the commonwealth games held in Glasgow 2014

Creation, maintenance and updating of project programmes at both tender and construction stage for multiple area - onshore wind, hydro electric, Gas, Nuclear, Pharmaceutical. Mostly using MS Project under FIDIC, SPR Bespoke and NEC3 contract forms. Creation, development and maintenance of a bespoke cabling database used across multiple jobs.

Full lifecycle project planning for a variety of projects. Mainly in the renewables sector within the UK and Ireland - windfarms (onshore and offshore) and hydro pumped storage. Some thermal (gas) and telecoms projects also. Mostly using P6 but also MS Project depending on the job requirements. Creation of programmes from scratch following company standards and coding, management reporting and providing support to PM and commercial function on EOT's etc through NEC3.

• Cost Estimating, Contracts budget preparation, Master Schedule Preparation and Resource Planning.

• Developing Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) for projects.

• Undertake material take off from Engineering drawings and BOQ.

• Formulate final quote using StruMIS software and provide clients with competitive bid, tender schedule, manning and associated costing structure.

• Set up and monitor budgets associated with estimates submitted across all functions of the company.

• Prepare Master Project Schedules for fabrication and site construction works.

• Monitor and keep track of progress.

• Change Management / Manage all contract variations.