Gajaba Panditha Email & Phone Number

Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia

I am a Chartered Professional Engineer of Engineers Australia and a Registered Professional Engineer Queensland (RPEQ), working for the Fraser Coast Regional Council. My duties comprise selection of consultants for designs and asset condition inspections and preventative maintenance, review asset condition assessment reports, identify and recommend.

Cairns, Queensland

Project managed and successfully completed Poruma Island Seawall achieving quality outcomes in agreed times and defined budget. Coordinated with design consultants, island communities and other stakeholders for identification of project scope with allocated budget for projects. E.g., Poruma Seawall project, Hammond Island water reticulation project.

Cairns, Queensland, Australia

As the Project Manager I lead the my construction team for successful completion of 1.85 km long seawall consist of armour rock revetment, reinforced concrete wave return wall and 1.9 km bund wall in Saibai Island and construction team Boigu Island seawall and bund wall upgrades to Projects in cost effective manner. My skills in construction scheduling and.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

As the Chief Engineer CHEC Port City Colombo Pty Ltd. I Coordinated with contractors and consultants and take appropriate actions to ensure completion of construction work as per the specifications/ standards and employer’s requirements. I also liaised with Government organizations to obtain approvals for the project. As a part of my duties, I held.

Colombo Sri Lanka

As the Deputy Chief Engineer I was involved with successful completion of seaport at Hambantota where project consists of bulk earth work, land development, rock blasting, revetment construction, construction of port terminals, road network inside the port premises and construction of fourteen storied head office building.As the Deputy Project Director.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

• Work consists of reclamation of 270 ha of the sea for formation of the Port City where dredging approx. 60 million cubic metres of sand dredging, construction of multiple breakwaters with total length 3.5km.
• As the Project Manager of the Port City project, I liaised with marine engineering experts to formulate Employer’s requirements and coordinated with project developers to ensure stakeholders expectations.
• I coordinated meetings with project developers and infrastructure service providers (e.g., Colombo Municipal Council, Water Board, Ceylon Electricity Board etc.) to plan infrastructure requirements for the Port City. I.

• Deputy Chief Engineer, Southern Port Development Division, Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA), Colombo, Sri LankaDeputy Chief Engineer, Hambantota Port Project - Phase 1 (approx. AUD 500 million)Work involved were.
• Mentored Project Engineers for inspection of construction work and to maintain Inspection Test Plans in compliance with Quality Management Plan.
• Negotiated with internal and external stakeholders and government authorities to solve issues pertaining to land acquisition and environment.
• I also worked as a member of the project committee for preparation of Request for Proposal (RFP) to call proposals from international investors and industrialists. RFP documents were prepared in compliance with.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

• Worked as the Senior Project Engineer, Oluvil Port Project (approx. AUD 50 million)Oluvil Port Development project consists of construction of breakwaters, revetments, jetties and ancillary buildings. This project was.
• Worked for the project committee involved in tender process for formulation of Tender documents, evaluation of the contract and formulation of TEC reports.
• Reviewed construction drawings and method statements of the project and held discussions with the contractor to ensure quality, environment and safety pertaining to implementation of work.
• Chaired weekly progress meetings to discuss issues pertaining to work and solved problems at the site, which helped to minimise delays and achieve project milestones.
• Mentored Project Engineers for quality management of construction work as per the specifications and quality management plan.2008 – 2010 Team Leader for Colombo Port Integrated Land Development Project – CPILDP.
• Gave the leadership for team of twenty (20) staff members with different skills e.g., AutoCAD draftspersons, investigation officers, data collection officers, GIS officers for collection of data, reproducing drawings.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

• 2004 to 2006 – Senior Project Engineer, Passenger Jetty Deepening Project at Port of Colombo Work consists of deepening of Passenger Terminal of the port of Colombo to facilitate larger vessels. Involvement of.
• Reviewed designs (in compliance with British Standards), prepared layout plans, scope of works, schedule of quantities, project cost estimates, construction programs, specification and Tender documents for Capital and.
• Liaised with hydrographic survey team and diving team to ensure dredging up to specified depths and stability of structures.
• Chaired meetings with contractors, harbour master and other stakeholders to ensure safety and minimal disturbance to port operations.
• Inspection of blasting schedules, method statements and closely worked with monitoring of noise and vibration during blasting and interfere with blasting parameters where necessary.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

• Project Engineer, Piled Pier Project, Port of GalleI worked as the Project Engineer for the AUD 7 million worth Piled Pier Project at Port of Galle in 2001. Project consist of construction of driving of marine piles.
• Construction supervision of precast pile driving, construction of revetments, concreting of maritime structures for pier construction.
• Chaired progress review meetings with contractors and solved construction issues.
• Instructed technical staff to maintain quality undertake construction supervision of the project.

Bsc (Eng.) In Civil Engineering., Civil Engineering

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Construction Management