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Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates

- Lead the execution of projects from inception to completion, ensuring adherence to contractual obligations, optimizing profit margins, and exceeding stakeholder expectations.- Effectively manage project resources, encompassing staffing, equipment, and financial assets, to achieve cost-efficiency, maximize value, and deliver projects within budget and timeframe.- Lead and coordinate project teams, fostering a collaborative and productive environment, providing clear direction, assigning tasks, and overseeing the performance of team members.- Formulate and implement comprehensive project plans, meticulously monitoring progress, identifying and addressing potential risks, initiating corrective actions when necessary, and ensuring alignment with project goals and objectives.- Maintain unwavering compliance with all applicable standards, policies, and procedures, including safety, quality assurance, and environmental regulations.- Oversee project finances, including budget development, forecasting, expense tracking, invoicing, and payment processing, ensuring financial integrity and adherence to contractual terms.- Serve as the company's authorized representative in negotiations with clients, suppliers, and contractors, advocating for the company's interests, resolving disputes, and securing favorable terms and conditions.- Cultivate and maintain positive relationships with clients, partners, and local authorities, fostering goodwill, promoting the company's brand, and securing future business opportunities.- Provide expert technical and commercial input for contract estimation purposes, ensuring that adequate provision is made for all proposed activities, minimizing financial risks, and maximizing profitability.- Stay abreast of industry advancements, emerging technologies, and best practices, identifying opportunities to implement innovations that enhance the company's capabilities, improve project outcomes, and gain a competitive edge.

United Arab Emirates

• Prepare project proposal for management’s approval, including; conceptual design, cost estimates, feasibility, contracting strategy and baseline project schedule. Develop project execution plans, consisting of project scope, timeline, cost estimates and budgeting details, in-house required resources, vendors and contracting work details, risk analysis, etc. and revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements of the project.• Develop project specifications, technical scope of work, preliminary plot plan, piping plan and other general arrangement drawings, material take off and BOQs.• Prepare Work Packages for vendors and contractors for supply and services, and relevant commercial terms to be included in the Invitation to Bid (ITB) document. Evaluate bids technically and commercially and select contractor.• Review and comment project deliverables (Project Specifications, Plot Plans, Piping Plans, Material and Equipment Specifications, Testing & commissioning procedures, etc.) prepared by vendors or contractors and ensuring its compliance with applicable codes and standards, best recommended industry engineering practices and applicable governing laws.• Ensure HSE and QA/ QC requirements are fulfilled at all stages of the project• Project monitoring, controlling and reporting (Scope, budget and time schedule) and interfacing with ADOC’s Site Construction Team, Contractors/Vendors and all other project stake holders to achieve the project objectives. Identifying and removing bottlenecks proactively.• Initiate and control proper documentation of project proceedings ( MoMs, Presentations, Correspondences, drawings, specifications, Change Orders, etc.) and ensure that project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately• Prepare project closeouts, budget and material reconciliations, as-built documentation and lesson learnt.

• Lead a team of Piping Designers and junior Piping engineers, Coordinate staff training and development, and assist in the hiring of technical personnel.• Oversee and participate in the development of detailed statement of requirement (SOR) and strategy for implementation of various project phases such as FEED, detailed Engineering, Construction and Commissioning.• Develop and approve the detailed engineering of awarded projects including PFDs, P&IDs, Piping layouts, General arrangement drawings for skid mounted packages, Material selection, Piping isometrics, Stress analysis for piping system, all the related fabrication drawings and bill of quantities.• Assist in the optimal mechanical design of pressure vessels, heat exchangers, tanks and related fabrication drawings.• Design and select the rotary equipments like Pumps, Compressors, etc• Participation in HAZOP and HAZID study of awarded Oil & Gas EPCC projects.• Assign mechanical engineers, designers and drafters to projects according to the task needs and the available skills• Interface with other departments to improve their processes to stream line work flow and maintain quality• Ensure that all the strategies, plans, specifications and procedures of engineering and constructions are in accordance with the scope of work, specification etc• Responsible for Project Engineering function to provide coordination between design, procurement, and/or construction for integration of technical content and schedule activities. • Monitoring of progress, preparation of procedures, documentation of communications and meetings, and identification/evaluation of project issues and problems from conceptual stage up to close out.• Audit piping installation during construction, witnesses testing, pre-commissioning, commissioning and ensure that the installation and equipment are in accordance with specifications/standards and provide practical solution for problems arising during construction.

United Arab Emirates

Layout design of process equipment and associated infrastructure.Develop proposal stage and construction plot plan for EPC projects and enquiries.Develop piping layouts & their 3D models for skid mounted equipment and for field piping/interconnecting in accordance with the relevant codes and standards.Create General Arrangement and Isometric Drawings & to perform skid calculations for lifting and mounting of piping systems.Determine allowable loads on the equipment nozzles, to check piping flexibility & adjusting support of piping components.Perform stress analysis of piping systems by modelling them on CAESAR II.Check detailed fabrication drawings prepared by drafting team according to the design calculations and 3D models.Prepare Material Requisitions and to check material test reports in accordance with applicable codes.Supervise and monitor fabrication/erection & to coordinate with the fabrication teams of Huston (USA), Sharjah (UAE) and Lahore (Pakistan) workshops.

Msc, Mechanical Design

M.Sc. Thesis Title, " Mechanical Design and Analysis of Vapor Recovery System"

Bsc, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Member of ASME and SAE Pakistan Chapter