planning

• volunteer member of a local conservation team. Installing and maintaining the Rights-of-Way across Calderdale. Enlightening the well-established team with alternative methods of construction that were easier, quicker and safer than those used previously. 

• Consistent progression of experience from student engineer to senior project engineer, across various operational departments, including design, within Balfour Beatty Power Networks Ltd.
• Personally progressed the development, costing and trial of an innovative concept in the strengthening of tubular legged towers in partnership with a blue-chip client.
• Instigated and created the Department’s overall planning programme.
• Created generic, and specific work procedures and risk assessments. Produced the original RF (Radio Frequency) Policy for BBPNL.

Responsibilities:

·         Report to Construction Manager.

·         Assist to establish an enterprise overall management system and set the required system modifications in the company system in order to integrate the planning section activities with the company departments.

Project Director

Tanween

March 2010– Present (2 years 1 month)Qatar

Facilitated the development of and maintained the construction schedule for a $50M minor league baseball stadium. Developed the baseline construction schedule using planning information provided by the Owner, Designer and Contractor.

Director of Technical Services

Since graduating David has led various business functions with the pre-construction phase, including planning & production control.

Construction Planning Engineer for various office buildings and a nuclear power plant.

My professional formative years were established in Quantity Surveying culminating in operational roles of Project, Contracts and Operations Manager with Kier and Bluestone.  

• Preparing a project work breakdown structure and plan in accordance with the requirements of the Guide to Railway Investment Projects (GRIP)
• Managing and monitoring progress to the plan and make changes as required. Develop recovery programme and contingency plans in order to meet changed objectives.
• Report actual performance and variance against plan and forecast outcomes.

Senior Planning Manager responsible for planning and Planners on live civil engineering and rail contracts throughout the country.