Planning Manager / Project Control manager

EllisDon – Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

From Sep 2021 to Now

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• Assist in the implementation of the “Project Execution Plan’

• Assist in the preparation and management of overview and strategic programmes, including design, procurement, and construction schedules together with supporting information required schedules.

• Coordinate and manage the preparation and development of target construction and procurement schedules together with associated information required schedules.

• Establish and agree on project reporting procedures, prepare, and present monthly project progress

• Review the schedules and related documents from the contractor including monthly reports and analyze the content to ensure compliance with project objectives.

• Review schedule trends to identify problem areas and recommend corrective action to management. Monitor actual progress against planned progress.

• Monitor engineering design progress, material and equipment procurement and construction and commissioning status.

• Prepare progress monitoring tools for the management and monitoring of the above-mentioned schedules. Monitor progress both on and off site. Identify deviations (progress trends) in both construction and procurement progress and suggest courses of corrective action.

• Working closely with the project director and Project Team to ensure that the ‘contract programme’ is feasible, complies with the Project Master Plan and contractual documents.

• Interface daily with the main contractor sub-contractors and internal management.

• Review schedules for slippage of key dates. Prepare/review delay analysis reports.

• Assist in the defense / approval of any claim for time extension or major change to the schedule

• Ensuring that each Scheduling Engineer runs his or her section to the highest professional standards, that all information is current, and that every member of the team is receiving the information he or she needs to fulfil their responsibilities.

• Participate with the project management team, and Project Director, to achieve project deliverables.

• Prepare / update project control plans such as Risk, Cost, Quality, Stakeholders, and Issue Log.

• Using power-bi and Microsoft tools to develop and present the weekly and monthly reports.

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Planning Manager

AECOM – NEOM, Saudi Arabia

From March 2021 to Sep 2021

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• Supporting the Project Control Manager in the implementation and maintenance of project controls processes for scheduling, including the production of monthly reports, through the provision of intelligent information and analysis.

• Collaborating with other disciplines of project controls, as well as other project support functions, to help deliver project goals in keeping with the client's principles of trust, transparency, and teamwork.

• Maintaining an awareness of schedule interfaces with other programmes and their potential impact.

• Planning and managing the development, change and improvement of the client and providing planning guidance to the project and programme team.

• Identifying, and providing solutions to time-related issues and keeping quality checks on the scheduling data.

• Assisting in the trend and change process, including analysis of schedule impact, generating performance indicators, and providing feedback on areas of risk and opportunities.

• Providing fully resource programmes, produce resource histograms, resource level programmes, understand and communicate the effect on programme schedules to the project team.

• Incorporating appropriate financial data in the programme to produce a project cost/time distribution profile and communicate the results to the project team.

• Displaying and evaluating the project critical path and advise the project team of the results and any appropriate corrective action.

• Producing and maintaining project baselines and execute the change control process as appropriate.

• Producing project reports or data directly from the planning software.

• Understanding and reporting on a project using earned value analysis techniques and interpret/communicate the results and any corrective action to the project team.

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Senior Planner

EGIS – Khobar, Saudi Arabia

From March 2013 to March 2021

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• Developing and maintaining the master programme incorporating multiple projects from procurement to delivery.

• Updating progress to establish as-built record

• Ensuring that the programme content is functionally compliant with the planning procedures and guidance

• Identifying major quantities and factors affecting the programme including anticipated outputs rates and resourcing

• Producing and documenting the planning deliverables including programmes, planning philosophy, presentations, and reports

• Producing the tender programmes and supporting information in accordance with the tender requirements

• Developing overall programmes, issuing to all parties for review and implementing recommendations, innovation, and best practice as applicable

• Maintaining effective communication to ensure all information is available for successful project completion; liaising with other managers to ensure efficient financial control

• Validate and track the project cash-flow against the contract condition.

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Planning Engineer

EHAF Consulting Engineer – Cairo, Egypt

From February 2010 to March 2013

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• Implementing the Project Planning and Controlling strategies.

• Create the project WBS, Activity Coding and Hierarchy.

• Prepare and present the Project’s Master plans and periodical reports.

• Upload the schedules with cost and resources and develop the projects cash-flow & Resources histograms.

• Setup the reporting procedures and templates.

• Define and evaluate the project’s progress measurement and metrics.

• Work with other management divisions to develop a timeline to achieve the project’s milestones

• Review and validate contractors and subcontractors’ schedules and incorporate their schedule with the programme master schedule.

 

Scheduler

Arab Contractors Company – Cairo, Egypt

From July 2006 to February 2010

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• Prepare project master schedule.

• Prepare project detailed schedule.

• Updating schedule in a timely manner and issue copies to concerned parties.

• Prepare the weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly reports.

• Implementing recovery and revised plans and report on schedules changes.

• Conduct site visit, attend progress meetings and present project weekly dashboards.

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