Ray Durrell

Background

About Ray Durrell

A highly skilled senior project engineer with particular expertise in contracts management, cost and schedule control, vendor management, coordination of design teams and strong reporting and communications skills. Well organised, accurate and results focussed with strong commercial awareness, a collaborative approach, excellent vendor management skills and an inclusive coaching leadership style. KEY SKILLS Project Management • Consistently meets deadlines and goals by prioritising activities even when under pressure • Understands key project management regimes including cost and schedule control, risk management, scope control and quality assurance / control Stakeholder Management • Works in a collaborative approach to ensure that there are strong working relationships between client, internal and third parties to ensure optimised project outcomes • Provides accurate data including current and imminent issues in meetings and reports to stakeholders Contract and Procurement Management • Extensive experience in the development of accurate work scopes for subcontracts along with expertise in the subsequent tendering, evaluation, award and implementation of subcontracts including site administration and timely site query management • Extensive experience in working with procurement personnel to get purchase orders placed and subsequent expediting of vendor data and resolution of issues during the purchasing life cycle • Experienced in dealing with consultants and the close out of design issues Communications • Excellent verbal communication, documentation and report writing skills Technology • Very proficient in the Microsoft Office suite of programs (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Project), good working knowledge of Adobe Professional, Adobe Dreamweaver, Access, Autocad and Navisworks viewer. • Readily able to adapt to new commercial or custom software platforms (eg document control, cost management, etc)