Jigar Bhavsar
Cambridge,Canada
Summary
Professional with deep experience in project controls, skilled in cost management, risk assessment, and scheduling. Strong focus on team development, collaboration and achieving results, adaptable to changing project needs. Known for reliability and strategic thinking, equipped with analytical skills and leadership qualities essential for driving project success.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Supervisor – Project Controls | Project Controls Engineer
Ontario Power Generation (OPG)
01.2022 - Current
- Leading Project Controls team for Renewable Generation Projects (Projects ranging from 60 million CAD to 520 million CAD)
- Training project team for project controls skills related to planning, cost control, risk and invoicing
- Interviewing new hires and assessing performance of project controls team for further development
- Developing baseline and maintaining updated and accurate schedule using Primavera P6
- Coordinating with construction contractors, owner's engineer and project team members to perform monthly schedule updates
- Analyzing critical and near critical paths to focus on priority activities
- Integrating vendor schedules to overall project schedule to determine project critical paths
- Conducting internal audit for ongoing projects and providing support for addressing external auditor’s queries
- Developing Project Management Plan highlighting contracting strategy, engineering, schedule, cost, risk, quality, stakeholder, communication and document management process for the project
- Performing cost management using ECOSYS by uploading budgets, forecasting ETC (expected to complete) cost and arriving at EAC (expected at complete)
- Conducting risk review workshops and performing risk management process for projects
- Reviewing contractor invoices and following up for timely payment of recovery invoices
- Evaluating monthly project performance using Earned Value Method (EVM)
- Ensuring adherence to OPG processes, including approved change control process, and gate progression
- Deciding on gate strategy and seeking funding release through timely approval of Business Case Summary
Senior Project Planner/Scheduler
BWXT Canada Limited
01.2019 - 12.2021
- Prepared and managed integrated (Engineering, Procurement and Manufacturing) level-4 schedule using Primavera P6 (Total Project Value of approximately 650 million CAD)
- Developed and maintained planning, scheduling, progress, and performance measurement requirements as per contract
- Analyzed critical path with internal and external stakeholders
- Prepared and issued daily, weekly and monthly progress and performance reports, 4 weeks look ahead schedule, milestone and critical path schedule reports
- Conducted meetings with client and internal project teams on Project progress and open issues
- Determined delay recovery measures, and re-baselined schedule to incorporate scope changes and trends into project baseline
- Developed mitigation plan for delay and acceleration plan by fast tracking/crashing
- Proactively alerted project team and senior management for any delay and risk impacting the cost and schedule
- Monitored and controlled project progress using earned value methodology
Production Planner
Peerless Clothing
08.2018 - 12.2018
Manager – Project Controls | Assistant Manager | Project Management/Controls Engineer
L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering, L&T India
07.2009 - 07.2018
- Lead project controls team for planning/scheduling, cost control, risk, change management and invoicing functions for large EPC Oil & Gas Projects with cumulative project value of 800 million USD
- Prepared and managed integrated (Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning) level-1 to level-4 schedules using Primavera P6
- Applied resource loading for establishing optimal crew/staffing plans
- Prepared project Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and interfaced with the internal controls systems for progress / forecast updates and analysis
- Analyzed and provided recommendation to supplier, consultant and contractor schedules
- Reviewed engineering and construction contractors’ procedures, progress and invoices
- Reviewed forecast of equipment, labour hours (discipline wise) and direct/indirect costs
- Reviewed in detail the weekly data on Cost, Schedule, Trends and Project Progress like bar charts, time schedule deviation reports, s-curves, variance reports, critical path reports, and resource histogram
- Developed and reviewed project cost reports, and highlighted variances and trends, to control the project cost at completion using SAP
- Negotiated for suitable payment terms with vendor and customers, in order to manage positive cash flows throughout the project life cycle
- Developed and maintained KPI (Key performance indicator) reports for project construction and commissioning progress
- Tracked contract changes and prepared CORs (Change Order Requests)
- Reviewed coordinated data presentation for dashboards to higher management
- Coordinated and prepared mitigation plans for delay to the critical path activities of the schedule
- Reviewed P&IDs, coordinated for construction and commissioning activities, and liquidated punch list items for timely substantial completion of project
- Prepared and reviewed change orders/ claims
- Initiated digitalization drive in the organization to develop dashboards and management information systems
Education
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
MSU
Post Graduate Diploma - Business Management
MSU
Post Graduate Diploma - Financial Management
MSU
Level-1 Advance Certificate - Project Management
L&T Institute of Project Management
Primavera P6 Certification -
Oracle University
Project Management Professional (PMP) -
Project Management Institute
Skills
- Leadership and Management
- Stellar Communicator and Negotiator
- Analytical Problem Solver
- Adaptability and Flexibility
- Strong Networking Skills
- IT Skills
Websites
Personal Information
Nationality: Canadian
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Hindi
Native or Bilingual
Gujarati
Native or Bilingual
Certification
Professional Engineering (P.Eng.) from Professional Engineers Ontario
Timeline
Supervisor – Project Controls | Project Controls Engineer
Ontario Power Generation (OPG)
01.2022 - Current
Senior Project Planner/Scheduler
BWXT Canada Limited
01.2019 - 12.2021
Production Planner
Peerless Clothing
08.2018 - 12.2018
Manager – Project Controls | Assistant Manager | Project Management/Controls Engineer
L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering, L&T India
07.2009 - 07.2018
Post Graduate Diploma - Business Management
MSU
Post Graduate Diploma - Financial Management
MSU
Level-1 Advance Certificate - Project Management
L&T Institute of Project Management
Primavera P6 Certification -
Oracle University
Project Management Professional (PMP) -
Project Management Institute
Professional Engineering (P.Eng.) from Professional Engineers Ontario
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
MSU
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