Manager Project

Leila BELKACEM SADOUN

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Ms. Leila Belkacem Sadoun is a Project Coordination Manager/ Acting Project Manager / Proposal Team Manager with over 21 years of solid background in petrochemical, industrial, mining and metallurgical process plants including aluminium smelters, steel making, nickel, copper and gold mining and process plants, Oil and Gas, Nuclear.

Ms. Belkacem Sadoun’s expertise includes Coordination between the Project Team and the Clients. Her career progressed from Administration/HR Manager at SNC-Lavalin to Project Coordination Manager/ Acting Project Manager at Candu Energy Inc, project management.

During her career, Leila has worked on several Projects and is well versed in understanding the scope of work supporting development of project policies, Projects Delivery, business development. Leila’s exceptional leadership abilities have ensured her abilities to support the Project Team to meet and often exceeded the client’s objectives. She has considerable hands-on experience in project management and strategic planning ensuring that potential issues are identified and resolved immediately and her motivation skills and team building allow her to inspire the team and implement the client’s vision. She has the ability to work independently or within a team. Leila has excellent time management skills. She speaks and writes perfectly in English, French and Arabic and has good understanding and some speaking ability in Spanish

EDUCATION

2001 Bachelor Science Degree, MBA Studies, Houston, Texas, USA

1999/2000 On Campus Study - Continuing Education Courses, Human Resources Management, American University of Cairo, Egypt

1991 Bachelor Art Degree, Translation (English, Spanish, French, and Arabic), University of Oran Es-Senia, Algeria / Degree evaluated and accepted in the US.

1985 Bac General Certificate of Education, High School of Oran – Ibn Badis, Algeria

EXPERIENCE

SNC Lavalin Nuclear

November 2014 to Present Coordination Manager

Responsible for overseeing and coordinating Expressions of Interest “Bid No Bid”

Established proposal process for public and private sector client, work closely with the business development as well as the Senior Management in determining the best of opportunities and making a decision to Bid No Bid.

Review RFP/PQ/EOI invitations and meet the team and support in decision-making

Lead the Proposal from the start to finish

Organize the Team that will be working on the Proposal. Plan and execute proposal development assignments for the proposal team including writers and the publication staff

Schedule kick-off meeting with Proposal Team to initiate the submission preparation process

Liaise and coordinate with graphics team to create graphic design and layout for proposals, pre-qualifications and presentations, as needed.

Coordinating translation projects, including gathering translation requirements

planning translation projects, assigning work to translators and reviewers, monitoring project progress

Work closely with the team to ensure of the quality of the work, and guaranteeing timely delivery of translation to the client

Creating, maintaining, and developing client/ Data Base with each client specific term bases, glossaries

Ensure that all proposals meet the Client’s expectation and are delivered on time and within the schedule.

Maintain and the Business Development folder including all the Data such as lessons learned, key personnel resumes, fact sheets for any future opportunities

Gather information on past project experience and develops key personnel resumes (CV Pool)

Update the Client appraisal spread sheet

Coordinate proposal calendar to meet all deadlines outlined in the RFP.

Meet with the Risk and Contract Manager along with the legal team to identify the risk on the Proposal and how to mitigate it.

Provide input and expertise in support of the Execution Phase Planning Team in the preparation, review, and optimization of Execution Estimate, Execution Schedule, and Execution Risk Management for the RFR project.

Work in a cross functional team environment, and in the course of their work, to both provide input to and also evaluate input from the various stakeholders within the project team, OPG, industry, and other sources as may be required.

Act in a support role to Project Management for establishing baselines, to ensure that the Class 2 Estimate report will be delivered on time and within the schedule

Coordinate with the Chapter’s Owner with respect to their inputs, write up

Review and edit each chapter and meet with the owner to review the write up and make sure that we are in compliance with our scope of work.

Assist in the development and presentation of deliverables to clients.

Review and evaluate the 33 Chapters and update the Senior Management on the evaluation of each Chapter

Prepare a weekly meeting internal for the team and external for OPG

Assist the Joint Venture management in preparation and presentation of Execution Phase strategy

Candu Energy Inc (Subsidiary of SNC Lavalin Nuclear)

2012 to November 2015 Coordination Manager/ Acting Project Manager

Assist the Project Directors with respect to overall management activities, Deliverables and obligations as they relate to the Project Implementation Plan, procedures, budgets, schedules, safety, quality, risk management, environment. To represent the Project Manager functions when called upon.

Ensure that all project management activities are delivered on time and within the schedule and quality to the clients.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

Oversee and stand in for the Project Managers during their absence. Co-ordinate the management and execution activities for the whole of engineering, procurement, construction and assistance to ensure that the objectives and scope of his area are met.

Manage the execution of small- to medium-sized projects

Assess all the Projects status, and make sure to inform and escalate the project issues to Business Line management and other project stakeholders.

Lead tasks from start to finish, following through to ensure successful completion to the area; monitor effectiveness of risk mitigation throughout execution of the project.

Ensure that the Risk Register is well maintained and updated, held a weekly meeting with

regards to the Risk Register .

Report to the Project Director on the problem situations and propose solutions.

Supervise and to manage the progress of work of the Project compared to target with respect to

Engineering, Procurement, in collaboration with and through the Technical Team.

Participate in the implementation of any corrective measures required.

Participate and ensure that the quality audit program is implemented for the Project.

Participate maintain the required communications and relations with the

Projects counterpart, in an objective manner, to ensure mutual satisfaction during the execution of the project.

Coordinate with the functional Manager to ensure that the personnel are assigned to the Project

to meet schedule requirements as per the staffing plan and have the necessary qualifications and

competence to perform the work satisfactorily.

Candu Energy Inc (Subsidiary of SNC Lavalin Nuclear)

2012 to April 2014 Coordination Manager

Seconded to Candu Energy Inc, as a Project Coordination Manager Reporting to the Director Project Delivery,

Assigned to Candu Services responsible for:

-Coordination of all Project Services

-Ensuring Compliance with Clients expectations with respect to Quality, Schedule and Cost

-Acting as a Project Manager on certain Candu Services Projects.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

In charge of the Supervise and lead the Deliverables Weekly Project Meetings and assure that the work is done with quality and deliver to the client on time

Undertake special assignments, when needed, to resolve issues with the Projects;

Monitoring and expediting actions arising from Progress Review Meetings, Engineering Management Team meetings and Project Management Team meetings;

Developing and implementing methods for monitoring, reporting actual Man-hours spent versus Man-hours claimed on Oracle timesheets regular basis

Preparation and arranging presentations; provide regular updates, both verbal and written, of Project job status and progress.

Interfacing with all levels of project management within the company,

Lead project review meetings.

Reviewing and editing monthly reports for presentation to Candu Inc. executives and customer feedback.

Other duties as required

Liaise with internal and external clients

2009-2012 SNC Lavalin M&M Division

Proposal Team Manager M&M Division

Assigned to the BD Department reporting to the Senior Vice President. Manager of all competitive proposals, responsible for coordinating the planning, development and production of winning proposals from start to finish, including everything from win themes; reviewing/interpreting RFP requirements; participating in ‘Strategic Visioning’ and proposal planning; managing and coordinating the execution of the Proposal Plan; coordinating and developing timely and correct input from proposal stakeholders; and overseeing / coordinating production and submission of high quality proposals.

Responsibilities

Managing the proposal process from the beginning Bid no Bid to project completion (proposal delivery, follow-up, and reporting)

Delivering reports on completed, on-going, and pending RFP projects

Liaise with BD Manager and the relevant proposal team members and comply with the established proposal protocols and processes

Review, revise and edit the proposal from English to French and or from French to English.

Work closely with the Translation team from any external contractor and review the translation in order to make sure that it is within the client requirement.

Select relevant information to include in proposals, pre-qualifications, presentations and proposal clarifications.

Conduct research, establish resource files and update proposal templates on the BD folder

Coordinate proposal calendar to meet all deadlines outlined in the RFP.

Coordination of all Mining Business Unit Proposals.

Preparation of Proposals

Lead the development and production of proposals and pre-qualification in concert with the business development team to produce client-focused documents and presentations that meet RFP requirements.

Coordinating Participating in the review of Proposals to Clients

Work closely with functional departments including Human Resources in order to obtain talent, strategic resources and information necessary to develop and finalize proposals.

Coordinate multi-disciplinary teams to identify and gather relevant information

2008-2009 SNC LAVALIN INTERNATIONAL INC., Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Project Coordination Manager – M & M Division

Reko Diq Project. Balochistan Province, Pakistan:

Reko Diq Project – Development of Copper / Gold Production facility in Province of Balochistan, Pakistan for Tethyan Copper Company Pty Limited (TCC), a 50/50 – Joint Ownership between Barrick Gold Corporation of Toronto Canada and Antofagasta Minerals (PLC) of Chilie: A US $ 3.28 Billion for Initial Mine Development (IMD) for 110 ktpd, and US $ 2.8 Billion for the Subsequent Single Expansion (EXP) to 220 ktpd throughput.

Relocated to the Toronto Office as a Coordination Manager of Gold and Mining Project responsible for:

Coordinating all inputs required for the F.S Report (Feasibility Study Report)

Coordinating and participating in the review of the F.S report

Coordinate closely with the Client to implement the Security Procedure to Travel to Pakistan

Coordinate with the Project Planer for required manpower

2007-2008 SNC-LAVALIN INC., Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Project Administration Manager/ Coordination Manager – Aluminum Division

Qatalum Smelter Project – Service Areas and Potroom Building (SAPB) for Qatalum, a 50/50-Joint Ownership – Qatar Petroleum (QP) and Hydro Aluminium AG, Messaieed Industrial City, Qatar: US$1.3 billion project comprising the service area and potroom building for a nominal 585,000 t/y primary aluminum smelter.

Assigned to Qatalum Project as a Coordination/ Administration Manager reporting to Project Director Responsible for:

Coordination of Disciplines Technical/Commercial Deliverables.

Assisting Project Director in registration of SNC Offices in Qatar.

Assisting in hiring International/LocalProject Personnel.

Preparing and Implementing Project Personnel Assignment Conditions in Qatar including Traveling, Accomodation and Transportation.

Participitate in the preparation of the Project Procedures

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Memoire: Translation from English into Arabic – A book titled Women and Performance “THE HUNT” written by Susan Slymovics

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

2013 PME Training

1997 Time Management Course, London, England. UK

1987 Courses on Basic, Windows, Word Perfect for Windows, Excel, Lotus Notes 1, 2, 3, Microsoft Word, ENSI (Ecole Nationale du Système Informatique)

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS

MS Word, Excel and Outlook

LANGUAGES

Arabic, English, French, Spanish

WORK EXPERIENCE (COUNTRY)

Algeria, Canada, UK, USA

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