Abrar Hamad Al Mahdali

• Providing expert advice on cost management and commercial strategies.
• Managing, leading, mentoring and developing team members.
• Overseeing cost estimation, cost planning, and cost control processes.
• Monitoring project expenditures and identifying potential cost overruns.
• Managing contract administration, including preparing and reviewing contract documents.
• Negotiate contracts with contractors and subcontractors.
• Handling contract disputes and claims.
• Identifying and assessing commercial risks.
• Developing and implementing risk mitigation strategies.
• Staying up-to-date with industry trends, regulations, and best practices.
• Maintaining a strong understanding of construction methods and materials.

Company Overview:

• Overseeing building permit processes: Manage the entire workflow for building permits, including application review, inspections, approvals, and issuance.
• Ensure compliance with local building codes, regulations, and standards.
• Conduct building inspections such as, pre-construction, ongoing construction, and final inspections.
• Managing building control staff: lead, train, and mentor a team of building inspectors and technical staff.
• Collaborating with other departments within the municipality, such as planning, engineering, and environmental affairs, to ensure coordinated development and compliance.

• Managing the department & the technical staff of maintenance;
• Coordinates schedule and event operation for the purpose of ensuring required facilities preparation;
• Develops long and short range maintenance programs.
• Inspects new construction, repair work, projects, equipment, work orders, daily maintenance and supplies for the purpose of ensuring that jobs are completed efficiently;
• Approving inspection reports and payment requests;
• Participates in meetings, workshops and seminars for the purpose of conveying and/or gathering information required to perform functions;
• Performs other related duties, as assigned, for the purpose of ensuring the efficient and effective functioning of the work unit;
• Preparation of specification & bill of quantities (BOQ) for Maintenance;
• Technical Evaluation for buildings & site locations;
• Frequent site visit for construction and maintenance site locations;
• Participation in Tenders analysis, reviewing tender quotations & writing tender reports.

• Managing the Engineering technical team of social housing projects;
• Working on improving the technical and administrative procedures & techniques of supervision related to social houses projects;
• Modeling different types of forms, such as Inspection Request Form, MAS, Inspection Checklist,....etc.;
• Participation in Tenders analysis, reviewing tender quotations & writing tender reports;
• Supervise Engineers to ensure that consultants & contractors achieve the project requirements;
• Conduct periodic meeting with consultants & contractors regarding progress of projects & discussing the technical problems or obstacles, if any;
• Conduct presentation sessions for Contractors about improving quality, achieving project aims, health, safety & environment (HSE),.....etc.;
• Check & Review of projects' documentation such as bill of quantities (BOQ), drawings for construction of social houses;
• Preparation of specification & bill of quantities (BOQ) for Maintenance of social houses;
• Technical Evaluation for buildings & site locations;
• Frequent site visit for construction and maintenance site locations;
• Review and approve contractors' project invoices;
• Ensure the projects are developing as per the project plan.

• Check & Review of projects' documentation such as bill of quantities (BOQ), drawings for construction of social houses;
• Preparation of Maintenance specification & sketches for Social Houses & Municipality Buildings;
• Supervise Consultants & Contractors to ensure that project requirements are achieved;
• Regular site inspections and supervisions on implementations of social houses' construction and maintenance;
• Review and approve materials to meet the project specifications;
• Review and approve contractors' project invoices;
• Being a member of Construction & Supervision Projects Teams, such as: Parks, Suqs, Bus stations,....etc.;
• Writing technical reports.

• Project & Maintenance Department:
• Preparation & checking of projects' documentation such as operations and maintenance manuals & bill of quantities (BOQ) for construction, maintenance and rehabilitation of schools;
• Reviewing & approving project drawings;
• Regular site inspections and supervisions on implementations of schools' construction and schools' maintenance;
• Review and approve materials to meet the project specifications;
• Supervise contractors and ensure that workmanship standards are achieved;
• Writing technical reports;
• Ensure the projects are developing as per the project plan;
• Participation in contractors meetings and resolving engineering and management project issues;
• Review and approve contractors' project invoices;
• Resolve and come out with recommendations on construction's technical problems & development problems;
• Comply with the Health, Safety & Environment (HSE).

• Company Overview: Sohar Aluminium Smelter Project in the Sultanate of Oman
• My role was as a Civil, Structural and Architecture field engineer conducting site inspections, Quality control, Quality auditing to ensure Bechtel quality assurance (QA) system are met, provide technical solution, attending pre-start safety meetings and in house safety presentation to CSA engineers, working with DCC group to ensure all required retention documents are filed in accordance to Bechtel system. Also, preparation of presentations and writing technical reports as required by CSA engineering group.

• Survey field training in the mountains near Old Al-Khoudh village during January 2007.