Industrial Engineer - Planning and System Analysis

 

Amir has over 15 years of experience in project management, project planning, controls and process improvement on large scale complex EPC projects. He has supported a variety of projects including petrochemical, power plants, manufacturing, construction, telecommunications, IT and commissioning within the oil and gas industry, and infrastructure including pipe lines, electricity and rail. He believes solid planning and team work are vital to the success of any building project. He is a certified Project Management Professional, as well as a certified Professional Engineer by Engineers Australia.

·         Resource Planning	·         Master Planning
·         Project Management – PMBOK	·         Advanced Primavera & MS Project
·         Earned Value Management	·         Weekly/Monthly Reporting
·         Key Performance Indicators	·         Process Improvement
·         Change Management	·         Work Breakdown Structure
·         Critical Path Management	·         Team Lead/Managing  Schedulers

Deloitte (www.Deloitte.com.au)

Master Planner, Enterprise Asset Management Program (EAM) June 2015 – August 2015

Client: Sydney Train

 

The EAM Solution is delivering an integrated system supporting enterprise asset management in Sydney Trains, and Leverage new Group ERP (SAP) technology that is being deployed as part of Corporate and Shared Services (CSS).

 

·   Developing, managing and maintaining detailed project schedule in P6  for each streams (Data Management) and maintaining master schedule in Primavera Client / web based P6 (8.3)

·   Developing resource plan for each streams “Data details plan” via resource/role allocation and analyzing allocated resources to find over allocations (OA)

 

Origin Energy (www.originenergy.com.au)

Master Planner/Scheduler, Gas Fields IT Infrastructure (GFITI) June 2014 – April 2015 $100 million AUD

Project name: APLNG Upstream Project Phase1 $24.7 billion AUD

The GFITI (Gas Field IT Infrastructure) Program delivers Origin Corporate Network connectivity and supporting infrastructure (desktops, printers, wireless services, LAN infrastructure, WAN infrastructure, satellite services, micro-wave towers, fibre delivery...etc.) to the APLNG Project for both temporary construction and permanent assets.

Key Responsibility

·   Developing and maintaining detailed master schedule in P6 and used MS project through migration process from P6 to MS project.

·   Preparing inputs into the fortnightly and monthly periodical reporting such as GFITI subprojects status, Risk and Issue reports, Resource histograms and forecast works for advising program manager for decision making

·   Providing program/project  management support to the program director, PMs and Cost Controller

·   Assigning all required resources from resource pool to each project, analyzing allocated resources to find over allocations hours and update the resource profile by working with PMs within schedule

·   Set-up fortnightly progress on project master schedule using PMs updated data includes HP and Telstra contractors for Develop, Execute, Operate and End Estate phases.

Commissioning Planner - Commissioning Facilities West

·   Liaise with the Project Controller and maintain current, and correctly coded, scheduling data with reference to the scope of work and WBS;

·   Review the time/schedule portions of commissioning variation and prepare details and analysis for resolution and/or inclusion in any response;

·   Maintaining Earned Value Management (EVM) system and improving project schedule performance and support to commissioning manager to manage scope of work

·   Developing shutdown commissioning schedule and running the progress update (CCMS)

Key Achievements

o Developing resource planning including resource usage profile for each individual resource and analysing resource assignment at program level to identify over allocations hours and using resource levelling techniques.

o Mentoring PMs in creation of MS Project projects plans suitable for consolidation into Program level views

o Integrating all HP and Telstra data, deliverables and key milestones in master schedule and providing subcontractor support and training (on-site when needed). Managing subcontractor’s schedulers by monitoring their schedule which was created on MS project. Applying health check for each schedule and advising to the relevant PM for any corrective/preventive actions.

Kordia Solution Australia (www.kordia.com.au) November 2013- May 2014

Project Planner/Controller

Project name: APLNG Upstream Project Phase1 - Telecommunications Works$85 million AUD

Kordia Solutions has been engaged by APLNG to conduct all 'Telecommunication' works, including the design, engineering, manufacturing, procurement, supply and delivery to the Delivery Point of the works and for the telecommunications systems. (Including microwave systems, fibre optic equipment and dedicated radio telemetry)

Provision of mobile phone services (2 way radio, cell/mobile phone and data coverage)

Key Accountabilities

·   Working closely with PMs and client to develop and update project baseline

·   Reviewing Basis Of the Schedule (Process & Templates), Project Control Plan and Capturing EV methodology in PMS Document for APLNG submit 

·   Providing input to the monthly report (Variation report)

·   Liaising with Financial team to gather Actual cost and sell price (Bid) and break it down to the WBS level. Creating CBS and providing Earned Value Cost and EV Labour unit. (Working with SAP and Nukleus. Data base) and support to Project Director /Cost Account Managers to manage their scope of work

·   Establishing key performance indicators to benchmark individual discipline wise and collective project performance by EV technique (CPI,SPI,…).

·   Managing CR & CVOR(Contract Variation Order Request) in the program

·   Supervising and coordinating all scheduling activities to ensure all CRs/Work Packages are completed within budget and schedule

Key Achievements

o Calculating CPI and SPI and Preparing Earned Value report for each Engineering, procurement and construction phases.

o Implementing project control plan and Capturing EV methodology in project control Dept

o Defining the work flow guideline for scheduling and project controls between all parties

UGL (Ugllimited.com.au)

UGL, a leading provider of design, construction and maintenance services to the resources, power, water, transport systems, rail systems, communications and defence sectors in Australia, New Zealand and SE Asia.

 

Senior Project Planner (Brisbane Office- Synergy) November 2011- Sep 2013

 

Main Projects –GAP50 upgrade to RCS and Hay Point (Rail - Signalling Projects) $100 million AUD

Synergy is Alliance between UGL, Ansaldo and QR national to carry out signaling works to increase capacity on coal routes serving port-loading terminals.

Summary of the RCS project:

 

The GAP50 project involved the construction of the 69 km Northern Missing Link and substation upgrades to the Newlands system. With the Newlands system now joined to the Goonyella system, it has become part of the world’s largest coal system, increasing export coal capacity to 50Mt through the Abbot Point Coal Terminal (APCT)

Responsibility

·   Establishing and maintaining systems and processes for control and forecasting of the project scheduling and costing and assist team members to use and comply with the systems.

·   Working with project team member (Project Engineer, Engineering Manager, Construction crew and PMs) to develop WBS by indentifying and analysing the deliverables and related works package

·   Gathering and analyzing the schedule information (Actual direct/Indirect hours and activity status) by Activity Resource Assignment system (used for engineering team) and SAP.

·   Assigning all required resources from resource pool to each project, analyzing allocated resources to find over allocations (OA) and removing OA by different ways such as resource levelling and adding resources.

·   Identifying critical path schedule and cost risks, baselines, S-curve, Gantt charts, monitoring milestones, trace logic key performance metrics based on EV such as CPI&SPI

·   Providing early notification to the project management team of adverse cost and time impacts and trends in comparison to agreed budget

·   Providing input to the Weekly Report (Variance report) and associated ancillary reports.

·    Creating dependencies contractor output to synergy 

·    Developing 4 weeks look ahead schedule, forecast remaining works, cash flow and resource histogram/profile scenario by P6

·   Identifying schedule and cost risks, and the critical and near critical paths and preparing contingency management plans to maintain the project on time

·   Developing and maintaining valid and accurate bid and project schedules in Primavera (P6).

Key Achievements

o     Reducing the delays via weekly progress report and hints to project management team during project meeting

o     Preparing WBS and creating more than 2000 activity based on each substation.

o     Calculating budgeted hours based on WBS and BOQ and preparing monthly cost based cash flow and EV report

Jemena (Jemena.com.au)

Jemena is a leading Australian infrastructure company that builds, owns and maintains a combination of major electricity, gas, pipeline and water assets

Project Planner (Melbourne Office) March 2010- November 2011

 

Main Projects

 

UED (United Energy Distribution) - Electricity distribution network servicing the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula              $120 million AUD

JEN (Jemena Electricity Networks)- Distributes electricity to over 319,000 customer sites via approximately 11,000km of distribution system and over 950 square kilometres of north-west Melbourne        $80million AUD

 

Main Responsibilities

·   Developing resource plan and time line based on Man-hours

·   Maintaining the existing projects’ master schedule, Project status reporting, steering committee facilitation

·   Developing resource allocation to each of simple project and providing inputs to analyse resource planning for Contract Manager Delivery by Primavera (P6)

·   Providing Gantt charts, resource histogram, and creating baseline to represent a time deviation works program

·   Establishing Capacity profile for each support team by Clarity and performing resource levelling to identify project execution strategies to reduce execution costs

·   Developing resource histogram and variation report based on actual reports through SAP to represent to the Works Program meeting.

·   Preparing baseline schedules and basis documents for approval by project teams.

·   Monitoring schedule deviations and variances and assisting in the developing alternate methods for corrective action

Key Achievements

o Migration of JEN and UED projects from Primavera P6 to Clarity (PM application)

o          Setting regular meetings to facilitate planning and project control issues of a complex program

Pars Tableau Company (Under license of ALSTOM T&D)

Engineering and construction of low and medium voltage substation, control and protection panels of high voltage substation in Oil, Gas, Petrochemical and Power Plant projects, Tehran, Iran       $250+ million USD 

 

Planning and Project Controls Lead 2002 – Aug 2009

Major Projects

·   South Pars Gas Field Development Phases 9 &10- Asalouyeh, (Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Department)

·   Mobin Petrochemical (Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Dep.)

·   Masjed Soleiman Product and Desalting (Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Department)

·   Khoozestan 132/33 k.v DCS substation (Utility Department)

·   Fulmen Substations (Utility Department)

·   Rahkar Sanaye Novin (Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Department)

·   Lavan Refinery (Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Department)

·   Shiraz Metro Train (Industry Department)

Main Responsibilities

·   Developing WBS, metrics and templates for overall project management consistency and standardization

·   Creating and developing time-schedules, baseline, cash flow, and cost performance reports using Earned Value techniques by means of Primavera (P3, P5, and P6/7) software

·   Preparing and providing input into the weekly and monthly periodical reporting such as Gantt charts, S-curves, Resource histograms, CPMs, Variance reports used for advising project management team for decision making

·   Participating in developing change management systems by recording data related to the changes

·   Liaising with technical team (EPC Dep) for input into the schedule and resourcing updates using CTR System

·   Liaising with stakeholders to track and progress schedule activities, ensure the schedule is updated, monitored and suitably informs management decision making.

·   Establishing key performance indicators to benchmark individual discipline wise and collective project performance by EV technique.

·   Assisting the project manager with the estimation of labour resources, materials and equipment

·   Managing the project control team on technical matter and their behaviour ( direct reports 5 people)

·   Providing analysis of time-schedules, critical path(s) and work flow(s) to logically link and recommended a re-baseline based on schedule progress where necessary

·   Ensuring the progress and cost report process, corrective actions, PMIS and procedures met specific project requirements

Key Achievements

·   Assisting the project manager and achieving goals of delivering initiatives both on-time and under budget

·   Monitoring processes using estimate “to” and “at” complete index for delivering project on time and under budget

·   Working closely with contractors and managing PRG (Project Review Group) meetings to ensure their schedule was sufficient for project managers and preparing executive-level reports.

·   Communicating with main stakeholders from Finance, Sales Engineer, Manufacturing, Program Management and Procurement pertinent to requirements and impacts. Managing and reporting Key deliverables and key milestones in accordance with standard and processes;

·   Achieving savings of 10% of project budget by improving purchase planning and inventory management

 

Senior Process Improvement Engineer 2002 –Aug 2004

 

Main Responsibilities

·   Developing, documenting and implementing a QMS Management strategy and system in line with the overall business requirements and ISO 9001 standard

·   Promoting and supporting the Quality Management System, using ARIS processes to ensure its principles and documentation is kept fully operational

·   Gathering data from all disciplines, analysing data and preparing management reports

·   Coordinating internal and external audits

·   Developing, implementing and managing procedures and performance measures using MIS tools

·   Working knowledge of electronic process flow charting software

·   Presenting introductions to the requirements of QMS, PMBOK, and data mining for all disciplines

·   Proposing improvement objectives (customer satisfaction, internal efficiency) or raised alert and proposing preventive and corrective actions when programme-related objectives were at risk

·   Ensuring ISO process change requests are completed and ISO forms created and updated as requested

·   Coordinating with QMS Improvement committee and preparing meetings records

Key Achievements

·   Monitoring and improving production productivity via designed productivity system

·   Re-designed processes via developing and improving at least 40 procedures and work instructions

·   Delivering and promoting a culture of quality and continuous improvement in a safe working environment

 

Tehran Power Engineering Co. (Mahniroo)

Engineering Services in Power Plant, Oil, Gas and Petrochemical plants

 

Project Scheduler 2000 – 2002

 

Major Projects

·   Rajaie (Steam, Gas and Combine Cycle),Qom (Combined cycle) and Damavand (Gas) Power plants Esfahan’s Mobarakeh Steel Company Enterprise Portal-Conveyor System - Isfahan-Iran

 Main Responsibilities

·   Developing time-schedules, resources, work breakdown structure and evaluation of time-schedule variance using MS-Project and P3

·   Monitoring and controlling projects from start to finish based on project baseline

Primavera P6 R8.2, P5 and P3	Clarity
Pertmaster	MSP
SAP	ARIS
Visio	MS Office (Advanced MS PP, Excel and Word)

Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering (Planning and Systems Analyses)

1996 – 2000

Azad University (South Tehran campus / Iran)

·   HSE Leadership2014

·   Workplace Health and Safety Construction Induction 2014

·   Project Management Professional (PMP) Credential- PMI2013

·   Primavera P6 EPPM Web (8.2) – Oracle University Training 2013

·   Primavera( P6) course 106- IMI2008

·   Primavera Project Management (P5) Software2007

·   Auditor of HSE Management System 2007

·   CRM   (Customer of Relationship Management)2005

·   6δ 2004

·   EFQM Model of Excellence 2003

·   ICT (Technology & Strategic Studies Institute )2003

·   Project Management with Primavera/P3 Software (Isiran Institute)2002

·   Auditor and Lead Auditor of  Quality Management System 2002

·   Family activities, skiing, learning new languages

·   Eye for detail and resilient