Abdul Noman Malik

Responsibilities

• Oversees the set up and lead smooth running of all required project controls systems, tools and interfaces to allow successful management of project cost, schedule and risk reporting.
• Managing, leading, and providing administrative and technical direction to staff of project controls professionals, interfacing with management, engineering, construction, contracts, and procurement, and driving innovative solutions to cost engineering and planning/scheduling problems with the intent to help execute the project efficiently and effectively.
• Negotiate terms, conditions, and scope of contracts with clients, contractors, and subcontractors.
• Administer contracts, ensuring all parties fulfill their obligations and responsibilities.
• Manage contract variations, claims, and dispute resolutions in collaboration with the team.
• Supervise the performance of the contract and work towards compliance with the terms and conditions mentioned in it.
• Studying the Project Main Contract and Scope of work, engaging project stakeholders to develop fully resource loaded Project Master Critical Path Method (CPM) schedule qualifying DCMA and client schedule quality checks and gain its approval from client.
• Ensuring effective maintenance of detailed Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) L-3 schedule using Critical path method (CPM).
• Publish the summarized internal Weekly and Monthly Progress Reports for Operation Department which includes in-depth analysis about project delays, total float consumption, owner-ship of consumed total float, forecasted performance with recommended productivities and efficiency.
• Monitor project schedule and cost performance using EVM tools i.e., SV, CV, CPI, SPI, TCPI & TSPI. Prepare schedule and budget forecasts.
• Ensure the maintenance of both time and cost trend statistics.
• Ensure that the detailed cash In-flow projections are done accurately and on a timely basis for Senior Management.
• Establish the project invoicing system as per client procedure and supervise its implementation.
• Ensure that a “gap analysis” of risks is done for major procurement and subcontract items.
• Ensure that back-to-back guarantees and warranties are obtained from vendors and subcontractors and a log of the same is being kept.
• Review Risk and Opportunity register on an ongoing basis to ensure they are adequately addressed in the project forecasts. Mitigate risks by closely monitoring probabilities of occurrence & impacts of threats and analogously, exploited the opportunities.
• Co-ordination of final job statistics and analyze the effectiveness of practices and procedures for possible improvement on future projects.

Achievements

• Apart from numerous achievements in my current job role, which includes includes introduction and implementation of robust procedures and tools & techniques for projects monitoring & controls, one of the main achievement which i gained was successful in-house working, defending and winning the claim for Prolongation cost of SAR 10,400,000 associated with EOT in a project where i was representing main contractor and the client/owner was Saudi Aramco. The project title was: ASL Tank B Replacement at PS-3.

Responsibilities

• Provide Project Planning / Scheduling support services for the Projects.
• Review the Project Plan & Schedule provided by contractors and monitor the Project Performance. Analyze and propose improvements to contractor schedules, including use of critical path analysis and resource loading.
• Check and verify the contractor monthly invoices.
• Review EOT (extension of time) claim submitted by contractors.
• To ensure that changes are introduced in the project through change control process defined in contract.
• To make sure the contractor has required resources available as per available work front.
• To make sure the RFIs are raised by contractor immediately after deliveries of equipment. Also to ensure the RFIs are attended by SEC Consultants within proper time frame.
• Update overall progress, preparing detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports for SEC Senior and Top Management.
• Generate schedule summaries and deliver weekly presentation to the SEC Higher Management for all projects of Extra High Voltage Department.

Responsibilities

• Provide Project Planning / Scheduling support services for the Projects.
• Establish and maintain Project control plans and schedules, including Project Contract Plan, Gant Charts and progress S-Curves. Monitor, control and report progress against the Project control schedules.
• Review and scrutinize contractors' planning procedures.
• Update overall progress, preparing daily, weekly and monthly reports for top management.
• Prepare look ahead schedules, analyzing the delays & suggesting corrective actions to higher management.
• Supervise the civil works, piping & storage tanks fabrication, installation of steel structure and plant machinery. Ensure quality of workmanship & maintain good quality of work at site.
• Prepares all calculations of the Bill of Quantities (B.O.Q), cost of Accessories and other necessary items included in RFQ (request for quotation) for all Electrical, Mechanical & Plumbing Works.
• Inspects construction site to monitor progress and ensure conformance to engineering plans, specifications, and construction and safety standards. Resolves design or construction problems and meets with contractors and the public.
• Coordinate with different external parties that are involved in project like Environmental Consultant, insurance company, foreign local representative who is also the authorized equipment inspection team on our behalf.
• Responsible for maintaining coding system/code register for company fixed assets.
• To review contractor monthly progress report, verify it against actual progress.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with client, preparing L2 schedule using Primavera Project Management-P6.7 at tender stage.
• Develop a comprehensive and detailed resource loaded L-3 EPC schedule qualifying quality checks, after detailed negotiations & discussions with finalized suppliers, vendors & our design consultant. Have this schedule approved from client.
• Measure project performance (time,scope,cost) using appropriate tools and techniques, to analyze the successful completion of project.
• Attend weekly meetings with SEC/Consultant, site engineer. Explain the project performance, elaborate the reasons contributing to negative variances and explain the strategy/corrective actions for recovering them while not compromising the interim milestone dates.
• Ensure that there is no communication/co-ordination gap between all stake holders.
• Publish daily, weekly,monthly reports & look ahead schedules for all respective key stake holders using the robust tools and techniques.
• Support Planning Manager in working for variation orders and EOT claim.
• Make the detailed “Project Budget” for each assigned project & review the same on monthly basis to ensure that threshold limits have not crossed.
• Make cost break down structure from the awarded contractual lump sump prices and securing its approval from client.
• Generate invoices for all assigned projects.
• Support procurement department in creating the procurement documents like RFQ, RFP and IFB.
• Creation of Lesson Learnt register and archiving/indexing the project data at project closure.

Responsibilities

• Preparing RFP for EPC contractors for execution of project on turnkey bases; analyze the proposals, and assisting the top management in detailed financial / commercial / technical negotiations with shortlisted contractors.
• Preparing RFP for different contractors for operation & maintenance of power plant, analyze the proposals, hold detailed financial / commercial / technical discussions & finalize the agreement with one who qualified selection criteria defined in procurement document.
• Correspondence with power purchaser (Water & Power Development Authority) for technical issues related to power purchase agreement and Implementation Agreement.
• Making proposed cash flows (cost) for contractors, manufacturers and vendors.

• Lead & manage the construction of 2 No. gas fired power houses constituting 2 x 3.0 MW Jenbacher (JGS 620 GS) engines & waste heat recovery boiler of capacity 3.8 TPH @ 10 bars at each production plant.
• Monitored installation of materials and equipment for compliance with drawings and specifications.
• Determined and scheduled priorities as required to progress engineering work.
• Reviewed pipeline contractor proposals to determine favorable partnerships for on-time and under-budget project completion.
• Recommended improvements for design, construction means and materials based on field or changing conditions.
• Evaluated change order requests in response to out-of-scope work activities.
• Completed construction tasks while providing safe working conditions, staying on budget and meeting project deadlines.
• Identified technical risks within managed projects.
• Prepare daily, weekly and monthly progress reports for Group Manager.

Responsibilities

• Worked as Trainee Engineer in Maintenance and Operation department of 131.44 MW Power Plant having 8 x Wartsila 18V46 DG Sets (15.68 MW each), Waste Heat Recovery Boiler and Peter Brotherhood Steam Turbine (8 MW).

Achievement

• Restarting of Power Plant after the blackout due to major Break down in 500 KV transmission line in year 2006.
• Restarting of Engine (Unit # 1) in record timing after the major Turbocharger accident completely destroying the casing and Rotor.
• I Also experienced the independent supervision of operation shift in peak load season. Under my supervision, no forced/partial forced outage occurred.