Project Controls, cost control, estimating, progressing, Trends

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Pankaj Taunk, P.E., CCE

Project Controls / Cost Engineer

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EDUCATION

B.Tech. Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Diploma in Business Management, Bombay University

Certificate course, Construction Costing, University of Alberta, Canada

Certificate course, Contracts Law, University of Calgary, Canada

PROFESSIONAL LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS

Professional Engineer, APEGGA (The Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta

Certified Cost Engineer, AACE International (The Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering)

Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

Experienced in all phases of project cost engineering and project controls of Oil & Gas, Mining & Minerals and Specialty Chemical projects at multiple locations. This experience is supported by more than 22 years of evaluating capital costs for fabrication, mechanical, civil construction and subcontract work with involvement from pre-project planning through to commissioning, providing functional and administrative management of cost & project controls functions, including setting up baseline/ control budgets, cost forecasts, WBS / code of accounts, commitment tracking, expenditures, cash flow forecasts, analysis, and estimating, benchmarking & change control management.

Additional experience includes supporting sub-contracting and project support functions with hands-on experience with software packages such as MileMarker, FDCost in field, FETS, Epc Works, CONVERO and CCMS.

SPECIFIC PROJECT EXPERIENCE

GEMINI CORPORATION CANADA, (2013 to DATE)

LEAD PROJECT CONTROLS

Responsible all aspects of project controls and reporting functions, including project change management, cost control, progress measurement using earned value systems, schedule development and schedule control. Executing proper controls to proactively support, monitor, and communicate budget, actual status, and forecast costs, labor hours and quantities with project managers to satisfy client project control requirements.

Supporting the Program managers, Project managers and Cost Stewards with ongoing project cost, schedule and risk analysis, reporting, forecasting, and budgeting and change management.

Monitoring, appraising the project performance, KPI’s, in the areas of cost, progress and schedule control.

Identifying, analyzing, project control risks and recommending mitigation strategy and contingency plans. Supervising project cost control activities. Leading project control teams, mentoring, guiding project controls staff and project managers in project controls fundamentals, procedures and guidelines.

BANTREL CANADA (2012 to 2013)

LEAD COST ENGINEER

Suncor Voyageur Project (Utilities & OSBL), Calgary, Alberta

Lead Cost Engineer, responsible for maintaining cost budgets and cost forecasts utilizing a change management system and monitoring project status. Performing cost data and cash flow analysis, maintaining and coordinating the cost change management system (trending), Performance monitoring and cost control functions for specific applications per Suncor / Bantrel procedures, coordinating with Procurement: PO Log, Expediter Report, and RFI, Commitments reports, Supervising and mentoring Project Controls personnel, checking estimates, Providing documents / reports to Project Manager, Project Controls Manager, Project Accountants, procurement & contracts team as per their requirements / requests

BECHTEL CORPORATION (M&M), (2012 to 2012)

FIELD COST ENGINEER

BHP Billiton & Mitsubishi -Coal Mine Project, Queensland, Australia

The Daunia Coal Mine project is a 50-50 joint venture between BHP Billiton & Mitsubishi Development Pty Ltd, managed by BMA. The project is for the development of a Greenfield coal mine, which will produce approx. 4 million tonnes per annum of coking coal. The project components include: a coal handling and preparation plant (CHPP), a product conveyor, Overhead 66 kv transmission line, heavy vehicle workshop, wash-down facilities, fueling facilities, environmental dam, haul road, power and water reticulation & support facilities, mining equipment, etc.

As field cost engineer, responsible for the management of the trend program. Monitoring the project budget, scope and project development, flagging all deviations from budget. Preparing and evaluating trends. Communicating the requirements of the trend program to the project team, holding periodic trend meetings, and supporting the evaluation and review of trends, development of mitigation plans and the monitoring of trend resolution status through the trend register, monthly progress and QURR reports, employing the ePCWorks as the primary cost control tool.

JACOBS CANADA, (2011 to 2012)

PROJECT CONTROLS LEAD

Statoil Corner Project - FEL2 Phase Calgary, Canada

My responsibilities, as a Lead Project Controls Engineer, include coordinating and supporting Project Management in the provision of a comprehensive integrated Cost Control, Planning, Monitoring and Reporting function for the project. Responsibility includes setting performance measurement Baseline, developing man-hour budgets and forecasts, planned and actual costs and variances through the FEL2 phase of the project. Coordinating & reviewing cost savings (value plus engineering) & Cost to complete forecasts.

Preparing as necessary reports and graphical presentations of the summary costs and forecasts for appropriate input to the Project monthly reports, coordinating with discipline leads, monitoring weekly schedule status reviews & providing project updates, analyzing cost/schedule variances, critical path analysis, report on deviations, & recommending corrective actions to the Project management team.

Project was successfully completed with time and budget.

VISTA PROJECTS LIMITED, (2009 to 2011)

LEAD PROJECT CONTROLS

Cenovus Christina Lake CL1C & CL1E Projects Calgary, Canada

A Joint Venture of Vista Projects Limited and IMV Projects. Cenovus expanded its Christina Lake Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage facilities, constituting multiple expansions with Phases C, D & E, approx $800 Million each, for an expected design capacity of 98,800 bpcd.

Lead Project Controls role on the Cenovus Christina Lake Phases 1C & IE projects. Responsibilities included setting the baseline and control budgets, WBS and project code of accounts, commitment tracking, expenditures, cash flow forecasts, analysis, and change control and management.

Assisting and supporting Project Managers in project and management reporting. setting performance measurement Baseline, Preparing man-hour forecasts and earned value reporting and performance measurements. Coordinating, reviewing Change Orders, Cost to complete forecasts, benchmarking, ensuring that the process of risk and opportunity analysis (risk register) is in place. Mentoring and training the project controls staff

FLUOR ENTERPRISES, INC. (2007 to 2009)

FIELD PROJECT CONTROLS

Toledo, Ohio Sunoco Toledo Refinery Expansion

(2007-Present) Toledo, Ohio

The Toledo Refinery expanded its existing facilities by installing a new Wet Gas Scrubber (WGS), Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR), a new redundant Sulphur Recovery Unit (SRU), and upgrades to their FCC and CO Boiler to meet the US EPA requirements

As field cost engineer, responsible for setting up budgets for Fluor Self Perform and Subcontracts; developing trends, extracting Labor reports from FETS and Timberline; input project cost data to weekly & monthly reports; providing update and progress reports from MileMarker; direct and indirect field cost monitoring and forecasting, subcontract estimates and tracking; and providing interface to FDCost in-field.

COLT ENGINEERING (2006 to 2007)

LEAD COST ENGINEER

Suncor Firebag Pipeline & Suncor Oil Sands Facility Project

(2006 - 2007) Calgary, Canada

Responsible for providing functional and administrative management of all cost & project control activities on the project, including baseline and control budgets, project code of accounts, commitment tracking, expenditures, cash flow forecasts, analysis, and change control management.

Preparing manpower forecasts, earned value measurements, schedule and cost variances and performance updates. Implementing project CPM schedules (Level 4). Carrying out progress, schedule and critical path analysis as well as issuing monthly project status reports.

SNC LAVALIN INC., (2001 to 2006)

COST ENGINEER (Modules & off-site Fabrication-Edmonton)

CNRL Horizon Oil Sands Project (SUG)

(2005 - 2006) Edmonton, Canada

A Joint Venture of SNC Laval in / Snamprogetti, Italy- a 600 million dollars Upgrader EPC Contract for construction in Ft-Mc Murray, Alberta

Supervising cost and project controls activities to monitor cost & schedule (Level4) for the module assembly contracts consisting of 142 modules, establishing WBS, setting up progress monitoring system & procedures, budgets and change management system, issuing weekly module progress reports, supervising and mentoring the project controls staff.

COST CONTROLLER (Saudi Aramco Khurais Program, Calgary)

Southern Area Seawater Capacity Expansion Project. (Saudi Aramco Project)

(2004 - 2005) Calgary, Canada

Responsible for setting up and maintaining cost control system and documentation for the project, preparing WER budgets & forecasts, Initiating and supervising cost trending system to ensure that a total project cost forecast is continuously updated and compared to budget, monitoring & tracking engineering work hours, reporting on deviations, issuing weekly progress graphs & cost reports, coordinating with project estimators, engineering leads, project planner and schedulers and compiling monthly progress reports.

COST SPECIALIST (Construction Management, Fort McMurray)

Syncrude Canada Ltd., Upgrader Expansion (UE-1) Project.

(2003 - 2004) Fort McMurray, Canada

Responsible for Managing budgets & forecasts for construction support contracts; analyzing issues that affect cost forecast and advising management of the magnitude and suggested action to be taken; monitoring scope & non-scope changes, evaluating project trends and cost forecast, issuing monthly incurred cost flows; assisting in preparing monthly cost reports and maintaining project cost system (Convero).

COST SPECIALIST (Modules and Off-Site Fabrication, Edmonton)

Syncrude Canada Ltd., Upgrader Expansion (UE-1) Project.

(2002 - 2003) Edmonton, Canada

Responsible for managing budget for the Module Assembly contracts, consisting of 330 modules (Piperack & Equipment modules). Scope of work involved validating contractor estimates, reviewing progress and forecasting, raising trends, working out commercial and schedule impact of changes and preparation of documentation with justification of changes for client, approving payment certificates, recording, monitoring and reporting costs.

COST SPECIALIST (U&O)

Syncrude Canada Ltd., Upgrader Expansion (UE-1) Project.

(2001 - 2002) Calgary, Canada

Management of change control process (Trends) for utilities and offsite area of UE-1 (a budget of $790 million). This involved analysis of proposed changes in specifications, scope and engineering deliverables, calculation of commercial and schedule impact of changes and preparation of documentation and justification of changes for client and senior management approval. The responsibility included: Administering the change management process; assisting project team members to identify potential changes, providing MTOs, estimating and forecasting on identified changes; communicating the approved changes to the project team.

PROJECT SPECIALIST ( MODULARIZATION)

Syncrude Canada Ltd., Upgrader Expansion (UE-1) Project.

(2001 - 2002) Calgary, Canada

Responsibility included Identification, troubleshooting and co-ordination of technical, constructability and work sequencing challenges; schedule analysis to validate duration’s and sequencing of activities to ensure material and contractor availability to maintain progress; liaison among engineering, fabrication, contracting and construction teams for resolution of scope and schedule issues.

TRAINING

Certificate course, Contracts Law, University of Calgary, Canada, 2006

Certificate course, Construction Costing, University of Alberta, Canada, 2004

Convero, In-house training, SNC-Lavalin Inc., Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2004

Certificate-Computerized Project Management – National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Bombay, India, 1998

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Member, Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta, (APEGGA) 2003 – Present, Registration No. M76730

Member, Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering, Certified Cost Engineer

Member, Project Management Institute, Certified PMP

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