ANUJ SURANA

Experienced leader with a strong background in guiding teams, managing complex projects, and achieving strategic objectives. Excels in developing efficient processes, ensuring high standards, and aligning efforts with organizational goals. Versatile skills in project management, problem-solving, and collaboration bring a fresh perspective and a strong commitment to quality and success. Recognized for adaptability and proactive approach in delivering effective solutions, as well as collaborative approach and commitment to excellence.

• Involved in setting up project control and planning policies and procedures for Abu Dhabi branch office in line with business goals and client requirements. Lead the team planning engineers together working on simultaneous projects ranging from Concept Study to Detail Engineering
• Actively working with top management to align project executions with business goals based on accurate project cost, schedule, and performance feedback.
• Lead strategic initiatives to solve complex business challenges with multiple levels in the organization.
• Preparing MIS reports for presentation to senior management.
• Support the Project/ Proposal Manager in ensuring the required level of Project Management principals and control is integrated into the Project/ Proposal to which I was assigned, in alignment with company best practice framework.
• Use analytical skills to develop quantitative and qualitative insights to formulate robust, actionable recommendations for senior leadership.
• Produce weekly status reports for management meetings and MIS reporting packs for higher management to facilitate fact-based decision making, at right time. Development of documents and artifacts that communicate and translate strategy and vision to compelling strategic initiatives and goals.
• Proactively embed best practice SOP’s, development of system, processes, tools, and templates.
• Being Principal Engineer, responsible to deliver high level of customer services to the clients and internal departments by providing support, challenge, and skills development.
• Mentor and provide guidance to the Project Control & Planning and Document Controllers for efficient project management.
• Manage annual strategic/business planning, headcount planning and resource allocation processes in coordination with Business Development department, Project Management department, Engineering department and Finance and functional teams across the organization.
• Responsible to and promotion of company values and ensuring the realization of company and project health, safety, environmental, quality and ethics, systems, policies, and procedures.
• Handled projects as deputy project manager in presence of project manager for day-to-day tasks and in absence of project manager for overseeing complete project with all stake holders of the project.

• Review and understand all relevant project documentation including scope of services, project execution plan, proposal/project schedule (including workforce projection plan), WBS, conditions of contract.
• Work within the standard planning/scheduling procedures. Ensure that these procedures fulfil client requirements and develop additional project specific procedures where necessary.
• Prepare activity plans to accomplish all work required by the procedures and to ensure that sufficient planning resources we provided.
• Direct and control the work of all Planning Engineers assigned to the project.
• Liaise with Client Project Control personnel as necessary.
• Ensured the timely preparation and issue of a full suite of baseline planning and reporting controls.
• Analyze schedule trends and produce regular forecasts of schedule performance and issues for project review.
• Preparation of Execution Plan, Formats & other relevant documents as required for project execution and work process improvement throughout structure.
• Developing and updating level 2-4 schedule of the project and identifying the critical path and activities.
• Calculating Cost Performance based on earned value analysis.
• Preparation, Monitoring and Controlling of DCI/MCI/ EDDR for progress measurement and delay analysis for corrective action.
• Review, Comment and approve sub-contractors project program and ensure that same is inline with the overall project program.
• Preparation of project monthly and weekly progress report along with area of attention/concern to client.
• Experience in handling the commercial aspects of the projects including internal project invoicing and receivables and managing sub-contractor work confirmation, invoicing, and tracking payments (Including monitoring of reimbursable contracts)

• Multi-discipline coordination for timely release of project deliverables.
• Maintaining and monitoring staffing scenario for optimal resource loaded projects and organizational efficiency.
• Controlling and recording the distribution of information to and from the company, between the company and the client and ensuring proper document control through Document Controller.
• Coordination with Sub-contractors and within Company for timely completion of delegated jobs.
• Leading monthly project review meetings (PRM’s) and internal short term work plan (STWP) meetings.
• Tracking resource utilization vs. allocation and derive staffing requirement based on schedule demand.
• Involved in the IPR (Independent Project Review) workshop at Concept and FEED stage for evaluation of the project documentation, plan, schedule, and scope for the next stage of the project.
• Involved in CESAR workshop.

• Developing, Monitoring and Controlling Budget Sheet for the project, reflecting current and forecast gross margin.
• Preparation, Issuance and tracking of client and vendor Invoice and preparing and maintaining internal cash flows.
• Management of the departmental budget overall, in close collaboration with the Directors.
• Ongoing tracking and reporting across all teams and budget-consuming initiatives to have a single view of the project budget, including Actuals, Commitments and Forecast, reporting against the latest approved baseline budget.
• Identify deviation and trends, advise on risks and resolution of issues.

• Ongoing management and monitoring of Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies (RAID) and lessons learned logs for the allocated project via regular engagement through risk workshop and risk register.
• Lead regular schedule review meetings with the project team including schedule development and schedule risk workshops as required.
• Management and reporting across the risk plan, ensuring a single view of all project risks, as well as the associated plans with owners and actions. Use the customer / employers risk management definition, processes, and tools.

• Identifying internal schedule and cost trends and raising the change notice to client.
• Process project finances at project and Work/Change Order Level, analyze variances against forecast v/s actuals and ensure financial cashflow is maintained.
• Manage Work/Change Order processes, including ensuring accurate estimates of the required costs, timescales, deliverables, and assumptions are produced.
• Well conversant with the principals of change management. Instrumental in high success rate based on continuous persuasion, having right information in presentable and clear manner to convey the change methodology and reasoning for effective realization of the approval from client.

• Involved in development of in-house attendance monitoring, data archiving and project performance monitoring tool “Gold Mine”. The program facilitated the transmission of project information to clients in orderly manner. Also, auto generation of document records, incoming and outgoing statistics, and workload calculation.
• Involved in customization of Budget and Cost Module in Wrench Platform to suit internal requirements. The Module also included functionalities such as project performance management, gross margin calculator, project, and organizational dashboard.
• Involved in development of ATI widget with in-house product team for easy access of information of employees at single click.

• Conversant with software development lifecycle.
• Conversant with the principals of data science and product management for AI in Energy sector for IR4.0
• Part of the sales, partnership, and product management committee to review new projects which can add value to value chain of the customer, including its commercial estimation and execution timeline.

• 2011, Exemplary Performance Award, Punj Lloyd Engineering
• 2012, Primavera P6, CAD Zone
• 2019, Excellent Employee Performance Award, China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering Corporation - Abu Dhabi
• 2020, Primavera Risk Analysis, Udemy (Online)
• 2020, Excellent Employee Award, China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering Corporation - Abu Dhabi
• 2023, Jira and Confluence, Udemy (Online)