
Pola Youssef Mekhail
Team leader technical office engineer.
Helmeyat Alzaytoun, Cairo, EgyptWork Experience
Technical office team leaderFull Time
Jun 2024 - Present -1 yr
- Job Details:Technical Support and Compliance: Provide technical guidance to project teams, ensuring adherence to specifications, quality standards, and project requirements. • Project Planning and Scheduling: Collaborate with project managers to develop project plans, timelines, and resource allocation, and oversee schedules for technical tasks. • Progress Monitoring and Issue Resolution: Track project progress, addressing any technical issues to maintain project timelines and keep work on track. • Stakeholder Communication: Act as the main liaison between technical teams, subcontractors, and clients to ensure clear, effective communication. • Design and Engineering Coordination: Coordinate with design and engineering teams to resolve technical issues, manage changes, and ensure shop drawings meet specifications. • Client and Documentation Management: Clarify technical specifications with clients, prepare, review, and manage all technical documentation, including specifications and manuals. • Team Leadership and Development: Lead and mentor electrical engineers and draftsmen, assigning tasks and providing training to improve skills and team performance. • On-Site Support and Drawing Finalization: Support construction teams with technical queries, oversee final drawing approvals, and ensure outdated drawings are removed as necessary.
senior technical office engineerFull Time
- Job Details:• Supervise and monitor the progress of electrical works, ensuring strict adherence to project specifications, installation methods, and designated timelines and budgets. • Review, refine, and authorize electrical designs and shop drawings to guarantee accuracy and alignment with project requirements. • Assist in budget preparation and tendering procedures, including bid analysis and contracting activities. • Collaborate with architectural consultants to create, review, and synchronize Building Information Modeling (BIM) models. • Coordinate electrical drawings with architectural, structural, and mechanical designs to ensure seamless integration. • Evaluate contractors' proposals, selecting the most appropriate offer based on both technical and financial considerations. • Conduct regular site visits to oversee work progress, address issues, and ensure compliance with quality and code standards. • Monitor project timelines, budgets, and contractual obligations to ensure timely completion and client satisfaction. • Review and authorize payment documents in accordance with contractual terms and conditions. • Assess contractors' performance against established benchmarks, project requirements and contractual obligations. • Validate and approve As-built drawings reflecting the final, constructed conditions. • Prepare comprehensive reports documenting preliminary handover procedures and associated documentation. • Provide ongoing support to operators during the warranty period, facilitating a smooth transition to final project handover.
senior technical office engineerFull Time
Mar 2018 - Aug 2023 -5 yrs, 5 months
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details:- Study the project contract documents, time schedule, project design drawings, BOQ. - Study and prepare requests for information (RFI) for all missing, unclear, conflicting, or other technical matters that may arise during construction. - Produce electrical design drawings and / or shop drawings for projects to create the electrical infrastructure of projects as needed. - Review and approve all the electrical drawings of projects to solve any drawing technical issues. - Meet and coordinate with consultants, contractors, and other stakeholders to have all electrical amendments or changes communicated and approved. - Support site engineers on electrical technical issues in order to ensure solving problems effectively and maintain project progress. - Coordinate with Surveying Engineer to provide him with all the information about land coordinates and any site measurement required. - Prepare as - built drawings at the end of the project and hand them over to the project consultant. - Preparation of shop drawings for all electrical works & its approvals. - Selection of cable size with corresponding cable tray size. - Calculation of Voltage drop & panel schedules. - Checking and Revision of Material Submittals. - Coordinate electrical drawings with architectural, structural and mechanical design drawings
Solar Energy EngineerFull Time
Jan 2016 - Mar 2018 -2 yrs, 2 months
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details: Oversee all installations and operations done by Solera. Plan and prepare the operations schedule and organize upcoming Solar Systems installations. Purchasing needed materials and tools for each installation. Prepare Engineering drawings Shop drawing, SLD, As-built drawing for all solar system installations. providing technical advice and solving problems on site Liaise with the client and consultants resolving all on-site and contractual problems. 3D Shading analysis using PVSYST Performing voltage-drop calculations, short-circuit calculations and cable studies Supervises electrical supervisors and foremen's Making sure that every electrical device or circuit installed meets the National Electric Code. Perform material take-offs and prepares BOQ. Estimated full EPC cost via detailed cost-excel file and local procurement department Getting approvals of solar PV system proposals, plans and drawings to clients and contractors. Preparing the submittals of electrical materials and reporting to the QC Analyze operating solar plant data to identify any underperformance issues for solar PV plant owners. Manage inventory, distribution of goods and projects layouts. Coordinate work schedule with the client and our installation team. Maintain control and maximum quality measures of all outputs.
Solar Energy EngineerFull Time
EGE (3-Brothers)
Feb 2013 - Jan 2016 -2 yrs, 11 months
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details:• Working as technical engineer at solar energy department, responsible for design tasks, installations, maintenance, survey and tests for PV systems. • Ability to prepare full technical offer for tenders up to 500kw. • Prepare BOM for project. • Designing PV systems by PVSYST (solar designing program). • Making accurate shadow analysis. • Professional using AutoCAD to design (electrical, structural, site plan drawings and related documents) and Single Line Diagram (SLD) for electrical connections of the projects. • Using RELUX to design lighting plan to reach the most suitable solution for the customers. • Identify installation locations with proper orientation, area, solar access, or structural integrity for photovoltaic PV arrays. • Collect and analyze data through field surveys and meetings to identify the requirement according to customer requirements. • Prepare specifications of power cables required for the project. • Prepare technical drawings, specifications of electrical systems to ensure that installation and operations conform to standards and customer requirements. • submit plans and drawings to building departments • Making feasibility studies for the project and develop preliminary designs to support sales staff and project bids. • Preliminary equipment selection for solar system application such as AC switching cabinet, DC distribution board, solar combiner box and station controller. • Prepare work plan and site report before and after conducting maintenance and commissioning. • Perform data analysis and evaluate system performance. • Some installed projects: 1) Totally 85 Kw ON Grid system 2) 12 unit Stand Alone: 5.5 kW off grid (Porto Sokhna) 3) 2000 solar LED Lighting poles (red sea governorate) 4) Residential project: 10 kW OFF Grid Sys.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Power and Machines Department
Tanta UniversityJan 2007 - Jan 2012 - 5 yr
Achievements
Mini Grid project with USAID in Liberia Solar Home System project with UNDP in Sudan
Skills
- Electrical Engineering
- Shop Drawings
- Microsoft Office
- English
- Installation
- Technical Office
- PVSYST Software
- Design PV Sys
- RFI
- AutoCAD
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Languages
Arabic
FluentEnglish
Advanced
Training & Certifications
PMP preparation course
ATTIC Business Solutions·2022MS Excel 2016 Advanced
Alpha for training & consulting·2022Revit MEP
CAD Masters Training & Solutions·2021Basic of Electrical Systems Design & Implementation Diploma
expert·2015Basic of Electrical Systems Design & Implementation Diploma
Expert Center·2015Grid-Tied photovoltaic system Design
IAREEE Academy·2015Grid-Tied photovoltaic system Design
IAREEE Academy·2015Photovoltaic off-grid Systems Course
SEDA Association·2014Basic and Advanced Robotics
Don Bosco·2011PLCs7-200
Don Bosco·2011