Over 14 years of rich, qualitative and in depth experience in Construction Planning & Management, Site Construction, Resource Planning, Contracts Management, etc. Currently working with Techno Engineering & Associates Middle East WLL, Muscat, Oman as Senior Planning Engineer. Applying project management knowledge, technical and interpersonal skills and project management tools and techniques to meet the requirements of large to medium projects. Demonstrated excellence in successful planning and monitoring of various projects. Adept in creating execution plans for the entire project cycle involving engineering, procurement and construction. Proficiency in usage of Primavera 3.1 and Primavera 6.8 tools. Expert in Forensic Delay Claims using Retrospective Windows Analysis and other methods. Effective strong leadership qualities, analytical and communication skills. Brief details of projects executed are:
Dualization of Bidbid Sur Road Project, Package 1a – a USD 400 million, road project stretching 40 kilometres through some challenging mountainous terrain. Scope consists of 6 lane highway with five interchanges and nine major cross-drainage structures, including six high bridges.
Royal Oman Police Border Post Complex at Rub al Khali, Oman – USD 68 Million Greenfield development of a police station and border post complex spread over an area of 800,000 sq.metres comprising of multiple buildings like offices, accommodations, utilities etc. with associated infrastructure works, including 8 kms of road.
A’ Seeb Waste Water Project Contract 3 – A Design and Build project comprising of Vacuum Sewerage Network for the Seeb Coastal Area, Oman including 11 VacuumStations and over 550 kms of pipe network with associated infrastructure works amounting to around USD 225 Million.
Qurayat Water Supply Scheme – Water supply network and Pumping Stations with associated infrastructure works for the entire Qurayat town and nearby three villages in Oman, amounting to around USD 50 Million.
New Palace Staff Clinic– An USD 18 Million Clinic for the staff of Royal Court Affairs, The Palace, Sultanate of Oman.
Tilal Complex(Muscat Grand Mall)– Mixed use commercial & residential development comprising of a Shopping Mall, Offices, Serviced Apartments, Residential Apartments, recreational facilities, worth USD 110 Million in Muscat, developed by Al Madina Real Estate.
Essar Oil Refinery Project- 10.5 mmtpa Oil Refineryincluding Captive Power Plant and Product Jetty worth USD 2.25 Billion at Jamnagar, India.
National Highways Development Programme- Golden Quadrilateral - Widening of Durgapur Expressway (NH 2) in West Bengal, India worth USD 10.5 Million. Project involved construction of 7 Flyovers, 10 Minor bridges, and 94 culverts.
National Highways Development Programme – Port connectivity - Widening and 4 Laning of NH 8A in Gujarat, India worth USD 16.9 Million.
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Core Competencies
Project Planning & Management
◦ Evaluating project turnover, profitability and cost/ benefit analysis at project decision points.
◦ Project Budget & Business Plan preparation and cost analysis.
◦ Developing project productivity norms and productivity measurement benchmarks.
◦ Project scheduling including material, manpower and equipment allocation and levelling.
◦ Planning of manpower, materials and equipment for adequate mobilization of projects.
◦ Implementing standard project management procedures, by application and maintenance of standard processes, templatesand guidelines.
◦ Contributing to the development of a project management and knowledge management system and process to make project information and learning available to all staff.
◦ Providing coaching to construction managers/planners in functional groups regarding Planning systems and functions prevalent in the company.
◦ Conducting project learning reviews and identifying and sharing best practice across the organization. Seek and apply best practice from other organizations.
◦ Developing project proposals, including pricing and schedules for large, complex projects.
◦ Overseeing programme development by other project planners.
◦ Leading and facilitating regular cross-functional project team meetings.
Site & Construction Management/Resource Planning
◦ Estimating crew compositions and production parameters for timely delivery.
◦ Supervising all construction activities including providing technical inputs for methodologies of construction & coordination with Site Management.
◦ Preparing & reviewing Method Statements, Quality Control Plans, documents etc.
◦ Regular following up with the contractors, consultants and suppliers regarding any clarification required for the execution of work, procurement of material in time.
Contract Administration & Management
◦ Co-ordinating with consultants, contractors, designers, suppliers for timely deliverance of respective scope.
◦ Interpreting contractual obligations and rights and evaluating Technical/ Financial problems for Management reporting.
◦ Conducting Pre-qualification evaluation and Tender Technical analysis.
◦ Assisting Project Manager / Contracts Manager in contractual correspondences.
◦ Preparing Delay Analysis and Extension of Time Claims as a Contractor.
◦ Preparing Variation Claims as a Contractor.
◦ Preparing Report for Client in response to Contractor’s EoT Claim Analysis.
Team Management
◦ Managing taskforces entailing orientation, career development, appraisal & grievance
handling.
◦ Planning deployment of manpower as per skills and requirements.
◦ Leading, developing, managing and monitoring the performance of multi-skilled work force.
◦ Selection and Recruitment of specialised skilled manpower as per project requirement.
◦ Planning, estimating staffing requirement and preparing mobilisation, demobilisation of work
force as per project requirement.
Employment Profile
Techno Engineering & Associates Middle East WLL, Muscat, Oman as Senior Planning Engineer August 2013 till date
◦ Project: Dualisation of Bidbid Sur Road – Package 1a
◦ In house consultant for planning, scheduling, progress monitoring and Extension of Time Claims processing services for the contractor Astaldi – Ozkar JV.
◦ Responsible for preparing and maintaining the current revised project programme of works and keeping the contractor’s management abreast with alerts and highlights of delays and concerns.
◦ Preparing what-if proposals and presentations for the consultant to accelerate and recover delays.
◦ Preparing Acceleration proposals with work programme and detailed report along with summarized presentation.
◦ Preparing Fragnets and chronology for risk events identified for delay claims with delay impacts.
◦ Assisting the contracts management team with as-built data for preparing the delay claims.
◦ Preparing regular progress reports and update reports on behalf of the contractor for the engineer.
◦ Conducting weekly progress review meetings with the contractor’s team.
Other Projects: Lusail Multipurpose Hall, Lusail City, Qatar. Planning and Delay claim services for the electro-mechanical subcontractor ETA Group.
Galfar Engineering & Contracting SAOG, Muscat, Oman as Senior Planning Engineer
Dec ‘10 to June 2013
◦ Project: A’ Seeb Waste Water Project - Contract 3 for Haya Water,Sultanate of Oman (Dec 2010 till Jun 2013).
◦ Leading the project planning department of Galfar Special Projects Unit 2.
◦ Responsible for estimation, mobilisation, allocation and management of key project resources like manpower and equipment.
◦ Prepared the revised Project Business Plan and Cost to Completion for the extended duration and revised scope of project.
◦ Assisted the Contracts team in analysing delay impacts and drafting the Time Extension claim.
◦ Prepared a detailed impacted programme and a revised completion schedule for the completion of the project.
◦ Re-evaluated the project’s productivity norms and completion manhours and created a new progress monitoring system.
◦ Prepared and responsible for monitoring Construction Completion Schedule for Phased handover of Areas including Partial Commissioning.
◦ Prepared construction Programmes for the eleven Vacuum Station Buildings including electro-mechanical and instrumentation work.
◦ Responsible for reviewing regular Weekly reports for Construction completion status and Vacuum Stations.
◦ Analysing and preparing monthly Financial and Commodity based Performance Reports.
◦ Preparing monthly Progress reports including resource utilisation and Earned Value Analysis.
◦ Preparing Technical documents including construction programme and resource requirement for new Tender submissions by the company.
◦ Project: Border Post Complex at Rub al Khali for Royal Oman Police (Jan 2012 to June 2012).
◦ Preparation of Business Plan and Project Budget.
◦ Cost analysis for all BoQ Items and evaluation of Preliminaries cost.
◦ Preparation of detailed integrated Project Baseline Programme.
Target LLC, Muscat, Oman as Senior Planning Engineer
Feb ‘10 to Nov ‘10
◦ Key projects handled: Construction of New Palace Staff Clinic in Bausher for Royal Court Affairs, Sultanate of Oman, Construction of Sewerage Network System for Wadi Bani Khalid Wilayat and Qurayat Water Supply Scheme.
◦ Prepared and successfully negotiated Extension of Time claim with cost compensation for various projects like Sewerage Network System for Wadi Bani Khalid, amounting to around USD 850,000 and Qurayat Water Supply Scheme amounting to USD 860,000.
◦ Prepared and negotiated Variation Claims for USD 50 million, Qurayat Water Supply Scheme amounting to around USD 700,000.
◦ Responsible for preparation of Tender Construction Schedules, Method Statements, Execution Plans and Resource Requirements for Technical Bids.
◦ Analysed actual unit costs and productivity norms for major activities towards establishing company standards.
◦ Analysed and projected company level resource requirement and allocation.
◦ Responsible for preparation of regular progress reports for client and top management.
◦ Revised and integrated nominated subcontractor schedules for MEP works to the master construction programme for Palace Clinic project.
PROJACS International, Muscat, Oman as Planning Engineer
Dec ‘07 to Jan ‘10
◦ Key projects handled: Construction of Tilal Complex – a mixed use commercial & residential development worth USD 110 Million comprising of a Shopping Mall (Muscat Grand Mall), Offices, Serviced Apartments, Residential Apartments, recreational facilities, etc. in Muscat, Oman.
◦ Client's representative for project management and controls function.
◦ Responsible for formulating and approving the contractor's master schedule and integrating schedules of various subcontractor packages into the master schedule.
◦ Established contractor's target productivity norms and major deliverable milestones.
◦ Established progress monitoring and reporting system & templates for the contractor.
◦ Reviewed contractor's weekly & monthly progress and capturing variations from the baseline.
◦ Monitored contractor's resource utilisation and productivity.
◦ Responsible for preparation of Monthly Progress Report for client.
◦ Responsible for preparing the Project Management Plan.
◦ Prepared Tender Analysis reports for nominated subcontract packages.
◦ Handled Time extension requests and delay claims by contractor.
◦ Responsible for Preparing Master Schedules and Project Management Plans for other newly awarded projects like Redevelopment of Intercontinental Hotel in Muscat and Hotel Holiday Inn in Seeb, Muscat.
◦ Conducted Pre-qualification procedures for Design Consultants and Contractors for various
new projects like Ahli Bank Head Quarters.
Galfar Engineering & Contracting SAOG, Muscat, Oman as Sr. Engineer (Strategic Planning) Mar ‘06 to Dec ‘07
◦ Spearheaded operations entailing resource planning, coordination & productivity monitoring.
◦ Analysed company level plant and equipment requirement and procurement plan.
◦ Responsible for analyzing company’s current workload and turnover position and forecasting 5
years’ turnover and growth potential.
◦ Responsible for reviewing and monitoring of Schedules and progress for major projects.
◦ Key projects handled: Central Prison for Royal Oman Police – Integrated Prison complex with associated Infrastructure including a dedicated Sewage Treatment Plant and electronic security systems worth USD 140 Million;
◦ Imparted technical support to the in-house IT cell for the development, testing and implementation of various customized project management software for the company.
◦ Reviewed Project Budgets and financial performance through Earned Value Analysis.
◦ Involved in the developing and implementation of resource planning and deployment system for managing manpower and equipment throughout the company.
Essar Constructions Ltd., Mumbai, India as Deputy Manager (Planning)
May ‘04 to Mar ‘06
◦ Key projects handled: Construction of 10.5 mmtpa Oil Refinery including Captive Power Plant and Product Jetty worth USD 2.25 Billion- Essar Oil Refinery Project at Jamnagar, India.
◦ Coordinated with Project Management Consultants: ABB Lummus Crest, Mauritius / Semb Corp- Simon Carves, Singapore – Part of the Project Monitoring and Controls department.
◦ Supervised the progress of various units viz., Plant Buildings, Firewater facilities, Cooling water facilities and General Electrical and Instrumentation works.
◦ Developed level 3 schedules & co-ordinated engineering, procurement and construction functions and level-4 1 month look-ahead schedules for monitoring actual execution.
◦ Handled weekly updates of schedules on the basis of earned weighted manhours.
◦ Generated Critical Activities, S-curve and ensured Availability of Front analysis reports.
◦ Highlighted Progress milestones, required-on-site dates, areas of concern and manpower productivity, etc.
Simplex Infrastructure Limited, Kolkata, India as Assistant Manager (Technical)
Nov ‘02 to Apr ‘04
◦ Key projects handled: NHAI project under National Highways Development Programme – Golden Quadrilateral - Widening of Durgapur Expressway (NH 2) from Dankuni to Palsit in West Bengal, India worth USD 10.5 Million. Project involved construction of 7 Flyovers, 10 Minor bridges, and 94 culverts.
◦ Managed the preparation of Budget, Cash Flow and Client Billing.
◦ Steered the revision of Budget and Schedule to turn the project into a profitable venture.
◦ Prepared Time and Cost escalation and Extra Work claims to the client.
P. B. A. Infrastructure Limited, Mumbai, India as Site Engineer
Oct ‘00 to Nov ‘02
◦ Key projects handled: NHAI project under National Highways Development Programme – Port Connectivity - Widening and 4 Laning of NH 8A from Bhachau to Padana, in Gujarat, India worth USD 16.9 Million.
◦ Hands-on experience in preparation and laying of various flexible pavement layers including Bituminous Concrete, Dense Bituminous Macadam, Wet Mix Macadam, Granular Sub Base, Sub-Grades and Earthwork using Electronic Sensor Paver and Motor Grader.
Responsible for Billing and Quantity Surveying.
Scholastics
P.G.Diploma in Advanced. Construction Mgmt. National Institute of Construction Management and Research, (NICMAR), Pune, India, 2001.
Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) Tripura Engineering College, (National Institute of Technology), Agartala, India, 1999.