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Saad Al Hajri

PMP - AssocRICS - Cost & Commercial Professional
Riyadh

Summary

Professional with background in costing and commercial management in construction industry. Recognized for attention to details, analytical skills, and the ability to contribute effectively to team efforts. Committed to maintaining the highest levels of industry standards and consistently achieving objectives. Holds the globally recognized Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, demonstrating a strong commitment to professional growth and continuous learning

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
5
5
Certifications

Work History

Assistant Manager - Commercial

DGCL
8 2024 - Current
  • Developing databases and dashboards for certain parts of the development such as carparks.
  • Provide benchmarks presentations
  • Cost stage gate reviews
  • Support developing Design metrics review templates.
  • Review market insights and report on deviations.
  • Attend all meeting related to benchmarking
  • provide adhoc commercial tasks.

Assistant Manager - Cost

Red Sea Global
11.2022 - 07.2024
  • Validating Variation orders requested by commercial team
  • Review infrastructure and vertical buildings cost plans and provide remarks where consultants need to provide more maturity.
  • Review design and cost reports and analyze potential scope caps
  • Develop risk registers and cost impact analysis over cost reports
  • Provide Associate Director with needed cost analysis reports of cost plans.
  • Participate in cost meeting with consultants.
  • Oversee and interrogate cost plans prepared by external consultants.
  • Assist in building cost database.
  • Develop and maintain benchmarks for future use
  • Review and analys cost plans as per the standards of (NRM, CESMM4).
  • Prepare Cost Plans and takeoffs using CostX. in variety of design stages CD-SD - DD

Cost Control Specialist

ROSHN REAL ESTATE
01.2021 - 11.2022
  • Established cost and rates databases for cost department.
  • Prepare order of cost estimate /ROM estimate for potential projects during their briefing stage
  • Forecast costs/ Quantities of different materials needed for overall mandate of Roshn real estate.
  • Benchmark assets against other projects.
  • Contact vendors and negotiate payments / issues and build relationships
  • Cost analysis of different project models to assist management decisions on budgets, including: process of cleaning, normalizing, scaling data
  • Review and interrogate tender returns, including side by side commercial evaluations and preparation of tender queries.
  • Review and interrogate cost plans, BOQs and pre-tender estimates prepared by external parties.
  • Review of design stages cost plans submissions for concept, Schematic, detailed design, PTE, provide consultants with needed maturity of cost plan and monitor budget and prelims.
  • Develop and maintain benchmarks for future use
  • Provide cost control tender queries for post tender

Quantity Surveyor

DAR ALRIYADH - KAFD Project
01.2020 - 12.2020
  • Review and validating contractors IPC ( Interim Payment Certificate) and updating IPC tracker
  • Monitor contractor cost, via submitted IPC's and monitor retention amount.
  • Review drawings against actual work performed on site
  • Take measurement on site for work completed
  • Perform site inspection with A. Resident Engineer for technical reviews.
  • Preparing detailed material takeoff and pricing for design change orders based on client inputs
  • Assist Sr. QS developing cost estimates for architectural material
  • prepare material estimates as required by QS chief.

Quantity Surveyor

FAEC ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS
03.2019 - 01.2020
  • Interpret civil: Roads, Drainage piping system, Storm water, irrigation systems
  • Structural: Retaining walls, footings, SMU walls
  • And Architectural drawings and coordinate with design team for clashes
  • Prepare, monitor engineering material take-off (MTO) & (BOQ) using auto-cad for 30%, 90%, 100%, IFB and IFC project development stages
  • Reviewing drawings against Material Takeoff and providing internal comments to design team for any discrepancy
  • Review and prepare responses to Clients comments for all submittals stage
  • Reviews and prepare responses for Technical Queries (TQ) and design change notice (DCN) during in coordination with design and construction team.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Construction Management

California State University
California
01.2013 - 2018.05

Skills

CostX

AutoCAD

Excel data Analysis and Visualization

Develop dashboards

Pre- contract cost management

Accomplishments

ROSHN Real Estate

Giga project under PIF to build over 400k units. Assist establishing the cost departments Rate database - cost database. Developing and maintaining benchmarks for future use. Issue cost analysis for procurement department provide insight on potential savings to be negotiated


KAFD, King Abdullah Financial District

Consisting of 59 towers in an area of 1.6million square meters. It will provide more than 3 million square meters of space for various uses, 62,000 parking spaces and accommodation for 12,000 residents. Executing our work on area 1 within KAFD working on final stage of a 34- floor mixed use building to provide a facade work, interior finishes and repairs.


Royal Commission Jubail (RCJ) - Infrastructure project

Royal Commission Jubail (RCJ) - Infrastructure project Providing quality check interpreting any discrepancy in details of drawing sectional views. Road project includes 2 main highways TS6, TS7 including drawing, checking and producing Material Take-off of road, road median, median strip, curb stones, and separation of road layers based on sectional views. Landscaping project for highways which to be separated into multiple packages. Mutrafia seawall development project for the area around the bay which consist of development of a seawall sidewalks with shading areas, and 3 separated parks


Certification

AssocRICS

Timeline

AssocRICS

08-2023

Assistant Manager - Cost

Red Sea Global
11.2022 - 07.2024

Cost Control Specialist

ROSHN REAL ESTATE
01.2021 - 11.2022

Quantity Surveyor

DAR ALRIYADH - KAFD Project
01.2020 - 12.2020

Quantity Surveyor

FAEC ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS
03.2019 - 01.2020

Bachelor of Science - Construction Management

California State University
01.2013 - 2018.05

Assistant Manager - Commercial

DGCL
8 2024 - Current
Saad Al HajriPMP - AssocRICS - Cost & Commercial Professional