Abdul Aziz Kandhir

Project: Security Forces Medical Center Project (SFMCP), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Client: Ministry of Interior (MOI)

Responsibilities:

• Ensured the contractor executed works according to contract terms and approved drawings.
• Reviewed and implemented execution plans, policies, and procedures for compliance.
• Verified alignment of execution with design drawings, international codes, ITP, and MS.
• Notified the safety engineer regarding health issues to improve workplace safety.
• Reviewed vendor submittals and method statements as directed by the site manager.
• Monitored the contractor's schedule, recommending adjustments for timely project completion.
• Coordinated daily document updates with the Document Controller department for accuracy.
• Facilitated connection of services with MEP and ICT teams to ensure integration.
• Supervise and oversee day-to-day site operations, ensuring work is carried out in accordance with project specifications, drawings, and schedules.
• Coordinate with project managers, consultants, subcontractors, and suppliers to ensure effective execution of works.
• Ensure adherence to health, safety, and environmental (HSE) standards and company policies on-site.
• Conduct regular site inspections to monitor progress and quality of workmanship.
• Resolve any unexpected technical difficulties and other problems that may arise during construction.
• Maintain site records, including work progress, materials used, and equipment deployment.
• Assist in preparing daily, weekly, and monthly progress reports.
• Review and interpret engineering designs, drawings, and specifications.
• Ensure efficient use of materials, labor, and equipment to achieve project targets.
• Attend site meetings and participate in discussions related to planning and progress.
• Approve the contractors’ and subcontractors’ Quality Management Plan (QMP) in line with the Project Quality Plan.
• Review and approve the pre-qualification document for all parties involved in the execution of works, including 3rd parties, laboratories, and subcontractor audits.
• Conduct factory and outlet visits for evaluation of realistic performance in terms of quality assurance.
• Assist the QA/QC Manager and share in quality meetings, recording minutes of meeting (MOM). Prepare communication drafts for disposal to the contractor/client.
• Schedule and conduct the quality audit plan for the project, including internal, contractor, and subcontractor audits.
• Ensure the contractor has sufficient QC personnel on-site to complete the task. Review contractor QC manpower throughout the project.

Project: Batinah Expressway Package 3, Sultanate of Oman.

Client: Ministry of Transportation and Communications.

Responsibilities:

• Approve the contractor’s/subcontractors' Quality Management Plan (QMP).
• Review and approve pre-qualification documents for all parties involved in the execution of works, including third parties, laboratories, and subcontractors.
• Examine the daily reports from the inspector.
• Prepare the engineer’s daily diary.
• Provide general oversight of the inspector’s daily activities, including.
• work assignments and site performance, and guidance on the supervision of the contractor’s operations.
• Conduct continuous field inspections of the work in progress and consult with both the engineers and the contractor’s supervisory staff.
• Prepare written and oral reports to the site manager on contractual and procedural methods.
• Review the contractor’s joint measurement and testing requests and subsequent completed records.
• Review and approve the contractor’s shop drawings as delegated by the resident engineer.
• Monitor the performance of the survey party.
• Review and approve the contractor's proposed materials and methods as delegated by the resident engineer.
• Prepare meeting minutes as delegated by the resident engineer.
• Coordinate with the contractor’s supervisory personnel regarding schedule, sequence, and method of work.
• Monitor conformance with the contractor’s schedule.
• Conduct continuous field inspections of the work in progress and consult with both the engineers and the contractor’s supervisory staff.
• Prepare written and oral reports to the resident engineer on contractual and procedural methods.
• Review as-built drawings in coordination with inspectors and surveyors.

Project: Improvement of Roads, Interchanges, Sidewalks, Squares & Stormwater Drainage Project.

Client: Municipality of Riyadh, Department of Study & Design of Roads & Stormwater Division, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure materials, equipment, and storage are as per the manufacturer’s recommendation, or rejected/disputed items are guaranteed.
• Protect client property and assets, and ensure warranties are intact as per the contract.
• Schedule and conduct specialized third-party tests and provide reports for any disputes or major issues.
• Implement forms, processes, and procedures for all activities. Ensure appropriate forms and processes are used on-site with valid remarks or comments.
• Ensure that site construction procedures are followed and that records are maintained.
• Review engineering design, construction drawings, bills of quantities, unit cost analysis, and preparation of documents for construction and field data processing using different software.
• Monitor projects and prepare daily, weekly, and monthly progress and financial reports, as well as progress and financial demonstrations.
• Perform all types of tests on steel, soil, concrete, asphalt, aggregate, and steel as per ASTM, AASHTO, and MRDTM.
• Closely monitor the site activities to ensure the quality of work follows contract requirements and good construction practices.
• Provide technical advice to contractors, subcontractors, and junior staff about lab and field-testing procedures.
• Supervise concrete mix designs as per ACI and asphalt mix designs as per the Marshall method.
• Supervise the crushing plant and its production.

Project: Improvement of Roads, Interchanges, Sidewalks, Squares, and Storm Water Drainage Project.

Client: Municipality of Riyadh, Department of Study and Design of Roads and Storm Water Division, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Responsibilities:

• The project included the construction of roadway signage, pavement marking, street lighting, landscaping, irrigation ducts, storm drainage division, main channel culvert, and/or protection of services such as Saudi Electric, STC, Mobily, Zain, and sewerage systems.
• Supervise the inspection on-site to assure compliance with ITPs, method statements, and procedures.
• Review statements, documents, and specific quality assurance plans.
• Implement forms, processes, and procedures for all activities. Ensure appropriate forms and processes are used on-site with valid remarks or comments.
• Conduct quality meetings and audits on contractors’ submittals.
• Conduct quality tests as per project specifications and scope of work.
• Conduct surveillance site visits, raising necessary NCRs and corrective action requests, and follow up for effective and timely closure.
• Ensure all documents are controlled, stamped, and recorded in software (PCM), and track/follow up on delayed actions. Remove personal/uncontrolled documents from the project. Modify forms, checklists, etc., as required.
• Participate in final testing and commissioning, documentation of OEM, warranties, guarantees, and handing over either partial or complete scope of work.
• Conduct periodic site walks and prepare internal reports for rectifications that need immediate action.
• Issue the contractor all necessary copies of the engineering drawings and technical specifications, and prepare variation orders.
• Ensure that all materials used comply with the approved materials and approval requests.
• Perform all types of tests on soil, concrete, asphalt, aggregate, and steel as per ASTM, AASHTO, and MRDTM.
• Supervise concrete mix designs as per ACI and asphalt mix designs as per the Marshall method.
• Supervise the crushing plant and its production.
• Investigate and locate borrow areas and quarries for earthwork.
• Prepare weekly and monthly progress reports.
• Deal with clients and contractors, and maintain office and laboratory records.
• Conduct subsurface soil sampling and geotechnical testing.
• Perform confirmatory boring at bridge and building piling sites.

Project: 2nd project: Dualization of Muwassim-Al Tuwal Road and Access and Secondary Roads in the Jazan area.

1st project: Dualization of Jeddah-Jazan Road Project from Ad-Darb to Jazan Section 6, 7 & 17.

Client: MOT—Ministry of Transportation, Saudi Arabia

Responsibilities:

• Achieved successful completion of 2 projects consisting of construction and supervision of roads, bridges & culverts, and associated works as part of the project.
• Inspecting the construction work at the site, keeping in view the safety and quality of the project with an excellent architectural finish.
• Keeping the RE informed of any non-conformances of the work, e.g., due to execution errors and/or design errors.
• Maintain close liaison with the client throughout the provision of the services.
• Designing, reviewing, approving, and processing all technical submittals.
• Supervising the work of all activities and operations.
• Assisting with the final inspection of the work.
• ·Implementing the project specifications & the latest construction drawings.
• Checking of shop drawings for bridges, culverts, plans & profiles.
• Monitoring the construction for compliance with the design.
• Attending meetings with M.O.T. (client) regarding progress work, site obstructions, and progress of removing obstructions/utilities from the construction site area.
• Coordinating with the material engineer regarding the manufacturer's certificates from the cement factory and steel factory and for sampling and testing of these materials.

Project: 2nd project: Construction and execution of an external development road from the Super Highway to Federal College of Arts & Design at Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan.

Project: 1st project: Improving and upgrading Rashid Minhas Road from Shahra-e-Faisal to Drive-in Cinema and improving the signalization of the water pump roundabout in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

Client: Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro City District Government, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

Responsibilities:

• Looking after the construction and execution of roads and structures (bridges, culverts, and guardrails).
• Pile load testing, coordinating with…
• The material engineer for the approval of the concrete mix design and quality control of the project for laboratory testing as well as field testing.
• The utility engineer will remove utilities from the site area and prepare traffic diversion/detour plans for the work area.
• The subcontractor is fixing procedures, quality of formwork, and submitting the same to the consultant for approval.
• Various subcontractors working on different items and locations of the project.
• Quantity surveyors, consultants, and the client for the preparation of various orders regarding quantities (underrun/overrun) due to design changes at the site or otherwise.
• H.O. and subcontractors regarding cash flow matters to the progress and coordination between site staff and company H.O.
• Submitting to the consultants the construction sequence, plan method statements, and program of the works.
• Measuring procured materials and executing quantities.

Project: Construction, executing of the Asian Development Bank Rural Access Roads Project, Phase 1, Mangochar to Zard Road, Baluchistan, Pakistan.

Client: Government of Pakistan, Communication and Works Department, Baluchistan, Pakistan.Roads, Bridges & Interchanges Project.

Responsibilities:

• Looking after all activities related to road construction.
• Construction of road portions/approaches, including earthwork preparation of subgrade and laying of subbase and base.
• Routine inspection of the contractor's road and structure works.
• ·Witness the testing of materials and workmanship.
• Witness the contractor's demonstration of equipment, testing, and commissioning.
• Monitoring and checking of site measurements carried out by the contractor.
• Checking drawings as prepared by the contractor.

Project: Construction, Execution & Development of City Roads in University Area, Hyderabad, Pakistan.

Client: Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan. Roads, Bridges & Interchanges Project

Responsibilities:

• Looking after the construction and execution of rural roads and bridges.
• Preparing a bar bending schedule for the foundation and bore logs based on the visual classification of strata encountered.
• Managing the construction of road portions/approaches, including earthwork preparation of subgrade, laying of the subbase, and asphalt.
• Overseeing the routine inspection of the contractor's structural works.
• Monitoring and checking the site measurements carried out by the contractor.
• Witnessing the testing of materials and workmanship.
• Witnessing the contractor's demonstration of equipment, testing, and commissioning.
• Checking the drawings as prepared by the contractors.