Qualifications
Thornleigh Salesian College (Grammar) Bolton, Lancashire, UK (1962 -1968)
The Army School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Hampshire UK ( 1969 – 1973)
The Open University (1980 – 1982)
Manpower Services Commission, Manchester (1984 – 1985).
University of Bolton, Bolton, Lancashire, UK. (1985 – 1987).
Qualifications:
GCE ‘ O ‘ Level Art , English Language, English Literature.
City & Guilds Part 2 Mechanical Engineering and Maintenance.
Part 2 Maintenance Craft Studies – Measurement and Control.
Manpower Services Part 1 & 2 Technician Certificate – Industrial Process Instrumentation
BTEC HNC/HND Electrical & Electronic Engineering. (Control Engineering).
NEBOSH National Examination Board for Occupational Safety & Health Certificate.
IRCA ISO 9001:2000 Lead Auditor/ Lead Assessor Certificate.
Profile
I have over 25 years experience in QA/QC/HSE fields across a wide range of industrial manufacturing/construction fields, working with multi-cultural workforces at all levels and I hold the IRCA ISO 9001 Lead Auditor/ Lead Assessor Certificate and NEBOSH General Certificate.
Hamed Bin Khalifa Contracting Co. WLL (HBK)
(Saudi Binladin, PORR, HBK Joint Venture)
Experience Summary
January 2015 – November 2015
QA/QC Manager
Worked for the Saudi Binladin, PORR, HBK Joint Venture on the Doha Metro Rail, Green Line Elevated & AT Grade Project.
▪ My responsibilities covered all the attributes required of a QA/QC Manager as a member of the core management team on a major Government infrastructure project, developing and managing the full QMS/IMS function for the joint venture. Authoring the development and implementation of Project Quality Plans, Procedures, Method Statements, Inspection and Test Plans etc. Conducting Internal and External Audits across all disciplines including Construction, Site Civils Materials Test Laboratory, Third Party Test Laboratories, Document Control, Procurement, Project Controls, Interface /Integration Management Process, Risk Management Process, System Assurance etc.
▪ Development and implementation of the Project Quality Certification Plan and Quality Verification File Management System Procedure, to satisfy the project verification/validation requirements of the Client. Organizing the preparation, checking, reviewing, certification and archiving of all the necessary record files.
Preparation of all the necessary QA documentation/records for build handover pre-commissioning / commissioning and final handover to the Client.
I also organised and provided in house training for all the JV Internal Departments and Sub-contractors with regard to Construction Project QMS/IMS Awareness and Project QA/QC Inspection Activities at Site. Creation of in-house training powerpoints for Project Induction, QC Inspection, Handling Non-Conformances and the lessons learned program.
Performed other supportive duties to the project as a whole, as and when required.
United Construction Establishment / (Samsung C&T)
September 2014 – January 2015
QA/QC Manager (Fixed Contract)
Worked on the Lusail City Development seconded to and representing Samsung C & T on all aspects of the Quality function for the project which was:
The Design and Build & Handover, (Precommissioning/Commissioning ) of CP07 Hub Office for Lusail Real Estate Development Company,and is to host 1,360 staff and it comprises of the following buildings, facilities and infrastructure components:
• Furnished LREDC and LREDC Representative Offices
• Site Offices for Construction packages CP07A-1A, CP07A-1B, CP07B, CP07C- 1A and CP07C-1B
• Mosque, Canteen, Laboratories
• Site Clearance, Earthworks, Access Roads and Junctions, Covered Parking, Street/Parking Lighting
• Utility Compound and Infrastructure (PW, FF, FW, SW, IRR, Electricity, Telecom and IT, LS)
Veteran General Contracting
March 2014 – September 2014
QHSE Manager (Fixed Contract)
▪ Wide Ranging Facilities Management Services Provision.
▪ Worked as the QHSE Manager
▪ Created the complete Corporate Administration and QA/QC/HSE Management Systems documentation for the business.
▪ Including but not limited to QHSE Manuals, Policy, Procedures, Work Instruction, Risk
▪ Assessments, Method Statements, Formats, Inspection & Test Plans, Audit Schedules
▪ Also created all the relevant documentation requirements for Managing Building Facilities
▪ Maintenance Programs for High Rise Commercial and Residential Buildings.
▪ (Building Commissioning Programs).
▪ The Scope of Facilities Management Services includes but was not limited to:-
▪ The provision of Facilities Management Services, Janitorial and Cleaning Services, Building Operation and Maintenance Services and the supply of Specialized Cleaning Equipment/Machinery and Cleaning Chemicals for:-
▪ Buildings, Infrastructures, Landscaping, Utilities- Airports, Clubs and Clubhouses, commercial offices, cultural and entertainment, education, health and welfare, hotels, industrial interiors, laboratories, mixed usage developments, recreation complexes, religious buildings, residential developments, restaurants and catering facilities, retail and shopping malls, specialist buildings- sports stadiums and complexes , banks, warehousing etc.
Alghanim International, Power Division, Kuwait
January 2013 – Feb 2014
Senior Quality Manager/QA/QC Manager – Fixed Contract
▪ Worked as Senior Quality Manager on the Supply, Construction and Commissioning with O & M Services of the AZ Zour, South Desalination Plant with Carbonated Water System and Supply, Erection , Commissioning for conversion 2ND Stage AZ Zour South Gas Turbine Power Station.
▪ This project was a Joint Venture/Consortium of OTV(Consultant Engineer and Al Ghanim International – Power Division ( Main Contractor) for the Desalination Project and Al Ghanim/Alsthom for the Power Station.
▪ My duties covered the full QMS Management Implementation and Improvement for the Desalination Project QA/QC team for all disciplines on the project, Civil, MEP, E&I.etc
▪ I had two QA/QC Managers reporting to myself and approx twenty QC Engineers and QC Inspectors and additionally oversaw the Site Civils Materials Testing Laboratory.
▪ Additionally I provided any QA/QC training required on the project at all levels.
▪ The project was at the Build Completion Handover and Pre-Commissioning Phase.
▪ I was additionally responsible for organising the Al Ghanim/OTV Pre-Commissioning/ Commissioning Worklot Packages and Work Packs Documentation, preparation, control and submission for approval by the Consultant & Client (Ministry of Electricity and Water
Cowi- Larsen Joint Venture Oman
June 2011 – January 2013
QA/QC Manager – Fixed Contract
New Salalah Airport Project, Oman (Design & Build Contract)
▪ I was employed on the New Muscat International and Salalah Airports Projects working for the Client Engineer which was COWI-Larsen Joint Venture.
▪ My duties covered every aspect of the QA/QC function of a Quality Manager in a major
▪ Government infrastructure project, conducting and managing the full QMS/IMS function for the Client Engineer, additionally providing key contributions to the project’s requirements management function ,including but not limited to ensuring that the drawings and documents are verified and meet the needs and expectations of the client and internal or external stakeholders, also ensuring that communication between the project team members and stakeholders is effective, and that adjustments to requirements changes throughout the course of the project are fully traceable. Development of the Design Review Document Control Processes and Conducting Internal and External Audits across all disciplines including Site Civils Materials Test Laboratory, Interface /Integration Management Processes, Risk Management Processes etc.
▪ I also provided in house training for all Internal Staff and Sub-contractors with regard to Construction Project QMS/IMS Awareness and Project QA/QC Inspection Activities/Site Supervision and also organised and participated in Project Risk Review Meetings and also provided a supporting role as Deputy HSE Manager during periods of leave or other absence for the Senior HSE Manager.
▪ A brief scope of work for the MC-5 Salalah Project was as follows:-
The project comprised development and completion of the design, procurement, Manufacture, inspection, supervision, delivery to site, construction, upgrading and extension of existing facilities, new airside and landside facilities, infrastructure and Utilities, new Passenger Terminal Building and all ancillary buildings ( Power Transmission, Air Traffic Control Tower, Air Traffic Management , Chiller Plant Building, Crash Fire Rescue, etc), erection, Testing, commissioning.
Johnson Controls Inc Doha, Qatar
November 2010 – March 2011
QA/QC Manager Operations – Fixed Contract
▪ My position was as QA/QC Manager Operations for the Installation of Specialist Refrigeration Equipment for the Inflight Catering Facility being constructed at the New Doha International Airport.
▪ My duties covered the full scope of a QA/QC Managers duties for a main sub-contractor on a large project, providing major equipment for a facility and conducting the full installation , build handover, pre-commissioning and commissioning to the client.
▪ I was required to provide all the necessary Quality Documentation such as Project Quality Assurance Plan, Method Statements, Inspection & Test Plans, Requests for Equipment and Delivery and Installation Inspections and all other associated Project Documentation and maintain the records.
▪ Conduct Internal Audits and Sub-Contractors and Suppliers Audits and provide project QA/QC training internal for Management, Engineers and Supervisors as and when required, also for a sub-contractor staff. when needed.
Gulf Engineering & Industrial Consultancy, Doha, Qatar
November 2007 – November 2010
Senior Manager QA/QC/HSE Management Systems – Fixed Contract
▪ Fully created and implemented ISO 9001 : 2008 Accreditation Program, having personally created and completed the QMS documentation system of Quality Manual, Policy, Procedures, Method Statements, Work Instructions and Formats/Records, Project Quality Plans and conducting the implementation and auditing at the main offices and at all construction supervision site projects.
▪ Gained the ISO 9001: 2008 Registered Accreditation Certificate for Provision for Engineering Services Including Design & Development, Consultancy, Quantity Survey, Site Supervision, & Project Management .
▪ Improved the QMS to satisfy the additional requirements of the International Oil and Gas Industry via ISO TS 29001 : 2007/API SPEC Q1 Standards.
▪ Experience across a wide range of Construction QA/QC, including advising on master planning of new projects and the project’s QHSE requirements for High Rise Buildings, Metro Rail and Highways Infrastructures, Landscaping, Utilities- Airports, Clubs and Clubhouses, commercial offices, cultural and entertainment, education, health and welfare, hotels, industrial interiors, laboratories, mixed usage developments, recreation complexes, religious buildings, residential developments, restaurants and catering facilities, retail and shopping malls, specialist buildings- sports stadiums and complexes , banks, warehousing etc.ment needs and reviewing ProjectTender Documentation prior to submission to clients.
▪ Creating Project Quality Plans, Powerpoint Presentations to Client, raising Inspection and Test Plans, Method Statements and all associated documentation such as Inspection Request for Installation, Materials Receiving, Sample Submission, etc for Client & Engineers such as Overseas Bechtel Inc, Qatar Petroleum, Qatargas, Kahraama, Rasgas, Ashgal, Qatar Foundation etc.
▪ Additionally provided all the necessary in house training for staff for the projects.
▪ Also implemented wide ranging improvements to Company’s Project Management Systems in the main office and on construction sites as a part of the Overall QM/IMS Program.
▪ I additionally advised the company on all HSE matters and started the process of creating an integrated QHSE Management System for the business.
October 2002 – June 2007
QA/QC/HSE Management Consultant
▪ During this period of time I was self- employed as a freelance consultant for Quality Systems Management, Health and Safety and Enviromental Management, to small to medium size businesses throughout the UK manufacturing, construction and service industry sectors.
▪ This involved providing an advisory service to assist them to achieve compliance and accreditation to the BSI ISO 9001: 2000, QS9000 , ISO /TS 16949 approvals bodies and achieving the Management of Health, Safety and Enviromental accreditation requirements of ISO 14001/ ISO 18001.
▪ Typically this would involve initial audit and assessment/gap analysis of the current QHSE Management System within a business, and review with Senior Management.
▪ Then planning and organising an agreed program with management for the creation or re-drafting of QHSE Policies, documentation and and procedures, to meet the individual business requirements.
▪ Conducting Internal audits, pre-certification assessment audits, process audits, supplier audit in preparation for the accreditation by an officially recognised accreditation body.
▪ Additionally advising the businesses on the provision of training programs for all employees
Earlier Experience
October 2001 – October 2002;
Harwin Components Plc, Fitzherbert Road, England
Senior Quality Engineer/Deputy Quality Manager/HSE Advisor
▪ Design and Manufacture of Connectors, Components and Robotic Machinery.
▪ Employed as a senior member of the Quality Team, providing a full quality support function to all office and manufacturing departments within the business.
▪ I worked across a wide range of manufacturing operations in a Quality and Health and Safety/Enviromental controls role, these operations included IC socket manufacture, reel to reel barrel plating of components, injection moulding of parts, highly detailed press tooling manufacture, press tool stamping of reeled pins and connector components, and the design and manufacture of robotic component insertion machinery.
▪ Industries Service Include:- Aerospace , Automotive, Defence, Domestic Appliances, Rail,
▪ Act as the HSE Advisor to the company and conduct HSE Committee Meetings regularly.
▪ The management of all Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Instrument calibration and repair within the business. Also full document control of activities during the manufacture and final release to customers of robotic component insertion machinery and associated machine tooling and components.
June 1989 – October 2001;
ITW Switches ,ITW Switchpanels, ITW Chronomatic, UK
Respectively Senior QA/QC Test Engineer/Health and Safety Advisor, QA/QC Manager & Test Engineering Manager / HSEAdvisor.
Design and Manufacture of Switch Components and Assemblies, Membrane Switchpanels and Automotive PTC Heaters for all applications, Domestic Appliances, Defence Equipment, Automotive, Aerospace, Railways etc.
▪ My duties covered all aspects of the QA/QC ,Test Engineering, Health and Safety and Enviromental Management function for ITW Portsmouth. Maintaining the existing approvals accreditation and managing the program to achieve BS ISO 9001 : 2000 and QS 9000 /ISO TS 16949 quality systems accreditations and compliance.
▪ I also managed the product test and development function for the business and was
▪ responsible for developing all types of product requirements for projects and providing technical advice to Design Engineering personnel and marketing in developing new prototype product performance specifications.
▪ This involved drafting technical approval applications to various international approvals bodies such as BSI, BEAB, CECC, ULA, VDE, CAA, FAA and following up with the representatives of these bodies in order to maintain technical approvals of products.
▪ During the time at ITW I was involved with all aspects of QHSE and Test Engineering functions working with Clients from every sphere of industry including Railways, Aerospace, Automotive, Defence, Domestic Appliances and many other industrial and manufacturing organisations worldwide.
▪ Clients included all the major automotive/rail industry players (GM, Ford, Volkswagen, Jaguar, Rolls Royce, Smiths Industries-Rail Signalling, Westinghouse, etc), plus major defence industry players( Marconi, Lockheed Martin, BAE etc).
▪ Additionally I organised and managed the carrying out of Electrical, Mechanical and Enviromental testing in-house and negotiated with various outside test houses and approval bodies to conduct specialised testing of materials, components and products when necessary.
▪ I also continually developed the manufacturing processes to be improve production methods and output and designed and built in house production test equipment electrical, electronic , mechanical , pneumatic and maintained all specialist equipment such as combined refrigeration and thermal shock and enviromental test chambers in the test laboratory.
▪ My other main duty in addition to the above involved being the HSE Advisor for all three manufacturing businesses on the Portsmouth site.
May 1988 – May 1989;
Marconi Defence Systems, The Airport, UK
QA/QC Electronic Equipment Diagnostic & Enviromental Test Engineer
▪ Employed within a Radio Frequency Communications Test Facility, my duties involved QA/QC testing the various electronic modules that make up Radio Systems. Conducting diagnostic fault finding of digital and analogue electronic circuits to component level, utilising manual and automatic electronic test equipment
▪ This work also required the setting up of a wide range of electrical/electronic and environmental test equipment to validate component and equipment performance to the requirements of UK Defence Standards and US Military Specifications etc.
▪ Also the submission of written defect reports and recommendation of remedial action required to repair equipment, to the production repair/rework departments, together with day to day liaison with design/development engineers on various product design and development problems and investigations
Aug 1987 – May 1988
IBM UK Ltd, Havant, Hampshire
Production QA/QC Inspection and Test Engineer.
Sept 1985 – Aug 1987
Bolton Institute of Higher Education, England
Full time student – HND Electrical & Electronic Engineering Course (Specialising in Control Engineering).
Sept 1984 – Sept 1985
Manpower Services Commission, England.
Full time Trainee ( 52 Weeks) – Industrial Process Instrumentation Technician Course.
June 1982 – July 1984
William Townson Ltd, Bolton, Lancashire, England.
Maintenance Fitter
May 1978 – June 1982
British Rail Engineering Ltd
Railway Engine Maintenance & Repair Inspector
April 1974 – April 1978
William Wadsworth Lifts
Lift Installation Fitter.
Sept 1969 – Mar 1974
British Army Service – The Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
Heavy Weapons Maintenance Fitter.
