SK Engineering, Construction & Sayed Hamid Behbehani and Sons Company

Senior Planning Engineer (Kuwait Feb 2006 – Oct 2008).

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Planning and scheduling
• Master Construction Schedule (Executive management summary level).
• Define the Project Scopes
  • Establish the work, resource and organization breakdown structures (WBS, RBS, and OBS).
• Establish timeline, logical relationship and sequences of deliverables.
  • Determine the budget of each component activity, work package and group of tasks.
  • Provide project execution approaches/methodologies (Quantity analysis and Constructability analysis).
• Identify the project milestones and key events.
  • Provide detailed project baseline schedule, cash flow, S-curve, resource histograms, basic of schedule is documented.
• Provide materials, drawings, subcontractors and suppliers control plans
• Establish measuring and evaluation processes for schedule.
   

• Schedule Management and Control  
  

• Implement schedule management and control procedures.
• Maintaining the schedule during the project execution phases by:
• Tracking progress by updating the project schedule on regular
  basis to assess actual performance against the plan.
• Assess impact on the critical path and near-critical activities and
  report critical work activities to project management.
• Monitor schedule deviations and variances and assist in
  developing alternative methods for corrective actions.
• Perform value analysis upon recommended alternatives to determine
  cost/benefits tradeoff, and request recommendations to project management.
• Revise the schedule as directed by the project management and ensure that the schedule changes are communicated to all project team members.
  • Schedule coordination and communication by:
• Present and answer questions on project plans and schedule at project meetings.
• Perform analysis to evaluate alternative plans, work-around courses of action, otherwise, amend, plan, schedule.  
• Work in concept with the project cost engineers, quantity surveyors, estimators, and materials control personnel, to ensure cost and schedule integration.

• Schedule change management by:
   
• Revise the approved baseline schedule only when a change order indicates a change in scope or duration.
• Keep time-phased copies of the schedule of the work as historical records as the project progress.
• Provide schedule-related recommendations to the project management team on strategies to recover from the project delays.
  • Schedule reports and deliverables by :
• Perform schedule analysis and provide periodic (daily, weekly, fortnightly, monthly, Quarterly, semi-annual, annual) current/ahead status reports of schedule content to the project management team.
• Issue status updates and approved revisions of the schedule that reflect work progress and time elapsed.

• Project and schedule closeout by:

• Upon completion of the project, verify that the as-built schedule reflects accurate completion dates for each schedule activity.

1.Lexus showrooms and facilities.

• Owner:El Sayer Group (Local Authorized Agency in Kuwait for Toyota and Lexus Cars)
• Total Budget:8,624,319.650KD  (31,430,000 $)
• Project Duration: 2 years (24 months, 730 days).

2.Intercontinental Hotel.

• Owner:Central International for Hotels Company(CIHC).
• Total Budget:33,200,000 KD (120,000,000 $).
• Project Duration: 4 years (48 months, 1460 days).

3.Facility Upgrade and Relocation of Under Ground Process Piping for Gathering Centers (GCs) 1,2,9,10,11,16,17,19,20,22 & BS 170(Group B) - (KOC Contract No. 26422).

• Owner:Kuwait Oil Company (K.O.C).
• Total Budget:357,091,140.000 K.D (1.3 Billion $).
• Project Duration: 5 years (60 months, 1825 days).

4.Aerated Concrete Production Plant in Shouaba.

• Owner:Union Construction Material Manufacturing Company
• Total Budget:5,580,000 KD (20,000,000 $).
• Project Duration: 1.5 years (18 months, 730 days).

5.Al Khalid Residential Tower.

• Owner:Al-Khalid Real Estate Company.
• Total Budget:7,550,268.500 KD ( 27,516,000 $)
• Project Duration: 2 years (24 months, 730 days).

6.Northern Sabriya Substation.

• Owner:Kuwait Oil Company (K.O.C).
• Total Budget:2,900,000 KD (10,000,000 $).
• Project Duration: 1.5 years (18 months, 480 days).

7.GC-24 Project -Building of new gathering center GC-24 at sabriya fields north Kuwait.

• Owner: Kuwait Oil Company (K.O.C).
• Total Budget:185,000,000 K.D (673 Million $).
• Project Duration: 2.5 years (30 months, 900 days).

Al Daleel General Trading & Contracting Company

Project Engineer and Project Planner (Kuwait Jan 2005- Feb 2006).

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Acting as the main technical adviser on a construction site for subcontractors, crafts people and operatives.
• Setting out, leveling and surveying the site.
• Checking plans, drawings and quantities for accuracy of calculations.
• Ensuring all materials used and work performed are as per specifications.
• Overseeing the selection and requisition of materials and plant.
• Managing, monitoring and interpreting the contract design documents supplied by the client/architect.
• Liaising with any consultants, sub-contractors, supervisors, planners, quantity surveyors and the general workforce involved in the project.
• Day-to-day management of the site, including supervising and monitoring the site labor force and the work of any subcontractors.
• Planning the work and efficiently organizing the plant and site facilities in order to meet agreed deadlines.
• Overseeing quality control, health and safety matters on site.
• Preparing reports as required on daily, weekly, fortnightly, monthly basis.
• Resolving any unexpected technical difficulties, and other problems that may arise.
• Technical Evaluations & Reviewing for Projects Performance.

National Bank of Kuwait (NBK-Rawda Branch and Salmiyah Branch).

• Owner:National Bank of Kuwait (NBK)
• Total Budget:575,145 K.D (2,103,498 $).
• Project Duration: 7.5 months, 225 days).

RK International Company

Planning Engineer (Kuwait March 2003 - Dec 2004).

1.Super Market and Offices Co-operative Society of Police.

• Owner:Ministry of Interior Police Society of Consumerism
• Total Budget:1,970,000 K.D (7,201,000 $).
• Project Duration: 20 months (600 days).

2.Qadssia Swimming Pool Complex.

• Owner:  Kuwait Public Authority for Youth and Sport. 
• Total Budget:2,936,000 K.D (10,777,000 $)
• Project Duration: 22 months (670 days).

Al-Ghanim International Company

Site Engineer (Kuwait Jul 2001 - Dec 2002).

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Following up and coordinating with other related Bid packs for the civil works & Construction progress in accordance with; Contract documents and Specifications, Centralized system of planning, organizing, controlling, Safety precautions and Quality assurance and control systems.
• Acting as the main technical adviser on a construction site for subcontractors, crafts people and operatives.
• Setting out, leveling and surveying the site.
• Checking plans, drawings and quantities for accuracy of calculations.
• Ensuring all materials used and work performed are as per specifications.
• Overseeing the selection and requisition of materials and plant.
• Managing, monitoring and interpreting the contract design documents supplied by the client/architect.
• Liaising with any consultants, sub-contractors, supervisors, planners, quantity surveyors and the general workforce involved in the project.
• Day-to-day management of the site, including supervising and monitoring the site labor force and the work of any subcontractors.
• Planning the work and efficiently organizing the plant and site facilities in order to meet agreed deadlines.
• Overseeing quality control, health and safety matters on site.
• Preparing reports as required on daily, weekly, fortnightly, monthly basis.
• Resolving any unexpected technical difficulties, and other problems that may arise.

Kuwait Oil Sector Complex Bid Packs 3, 7 and 8.

• Owner:Kuwait Petroleum Company Corporation, Corporate Projects Department.
• Total Budget:60,500,000 K.D (220,440,825 $).
• Project Duration: 36 months (1095 days).

AL Qahtany Company

Site Engineer (Kuwait Sep 2000 - June 2001).

Construction, Building and Maintain of 307 Welfare Public Houses at Al Addan area, with its main infrastructures and services.

•  Owner:  Public Authority for Housing care. 
• Total Budget:13,000,000 K.D (43,000,000 $)
• Project Duration: 22 months (670 days).

Computer Skills:

• Excel
• Word
• PowerPoint
• Microsoft Project 2010
• AutoCAD 2008
• Primavera V.2, 3, 3.1
• Claim digger V.3.3
• Primavera V.6e, V6.7
• Contract Manager V.12
• 3D Landscape
• Scala info channel Designer.
• Operating Systems: Windows7, vista, XP.

Spoken Language:

• Arabic
• English

Professional Training Courses:

• Project Management for Engineering and construction.
• SMC-Strategic Management in construction.
• PMP-Project Management Professional. 
• PSP-Project Scheduling Professional.
• Safety HSE.
• Quality Assurance Quality Control.
• Technical Report Writing and Evaluations.

 Professional affiliations and memberships:
 

• Egyptian Engineering Syndicate, EES
• Kuwait Society of Engineers, KSE
• Project Management Institute, PMI
• Construction Management Association of America, CMAA
• Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering, AACE International
• Society devoted to the Advancement of the Value Engineering, SAVE International
• American Society of Civil Engineers, ASCE
• Construction Financial Management Association, CFMA
• International Association of Project  & Program Management , IAPPM.

Education:

• Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Bachelor of Engineering, Construction Engineering, 2000.