Firas MONTHER

Senior projectMANAGER – LANDSCAPING

Dubai –UAE Mob: 050 - 6831155 mail:

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Objective:Highly qualified person with an internal motivation seeking a challenging and professional rewarding managing position in landscape field to contribute towards enhancement of the firm.

Career Achievements

Major and prestigious projects:

  • Landscape development of Air Traffic Control Complex, Abu Dhabi international airport.
  • Landscape works for First Avenue Mall, Dubai.
  • Landscape operation & maintenance of Green Community DIP. Dubai.
  • Landscape works for AMMROC – Al Ain.
  • Landscape construction -operation & maintenance works of VIP route along YAS Island, Abu Dhabi.
  • Landscape development of E/19 Park, Crown Prince Court.Abu Dhabi.
  • Landscaping development works for H.H Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed palace, AlAin.
  • Landscape operation & maintenance projects of Abu Dhabi municipality, PRFD: 406,208.
  • Landscape operation & maintenance works at AL MAQAM palace.AlAin.
  • Landscapeworks at Emirates Hills, springs, and meadows, Dubai.

Professional Experience

Emirates Landscape LLC. Dubai

Nov, 2015 - Present
Senior Project Manager

  • Planning, organizing, controlling and directing of the management activities, for the best landscape developments.
  • Developing strategies and polices to achieve company goals and targets.
  • Build an environment in which employees willingly produce maximum work.
  • Develop annual operating budgets for all the landscape projects.
  • Provide technical support for landscape prospects, designs, proposals, permits, as well as support for all projects phases.
  • Achieves operational objectives by contributing information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; determining system improvements; implementing change.
  • Scheduled and delivered multi-million dirham’s projects within challenging timeframe.
  • Adopting and applying appropriate technical andqualitystrategies and standards.
  • Meets financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
  • Insure smooth flow of operations through review, redesign, and develop of all procedures for the best engineering practice.
  • Set the highest possible standards of leadership in promotion of HS&E procedures and best practice, ensuring compliance with Company procedures and legal obligations, along with the best standards of quality control.
  • Managing operations, planning, organizing, developing, and deliver results and targets.

Al RYUM CONTRACTING & GEN.TRANS. COMPANY. Abu Dhabi

Feb, 2007 – Oct, 2015
Project Manager

  • Planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals within time, budget and contract specification.
  • Fully responsible of initiating, planning, execution of operation & maintenance projects, monitoring, controlling and completion of the project.
  • Implemented innovative cost reduction measures to ensure work execution within budget constraints.
  • Estimate materials, supplies, manpower, subcontractors and total costs for projects; prepare all project requirements for all improvements.
  • Prepare a work schedule and manpower assignments; for all projects categories as civil works, irrigation, electromechanical, and landscaping .assign the work to the various grounds crews according to work program. Inspect work frequently for materials, progress, safety, quality of workmanship, and conformance to plans, specifications, clarify interpretation with relation to plans and specifications. Provide a full report of work activities to the Director.
  • Prepare, review, monitor, and manage the project’s cost.
  • Monitor the work of site-based grounds personnel to ensure consistency in training, methods, and results.
  • Interview, hire, train, and supervise assigned personnel, conduct annual performance appraisals and make recommendations for appropriate employment action.
  • Manage all operation & maintenance projects to the highest standards, and supervise relative administrative aspects.
  • Highly confident in challenging situations and conflicts with professional attitude by insuring business confidentiality.
  • Full supervision of reporting system as daily, weekly, monthly and annually.
  • Implementation of all contracted landscape projects, providing coordination, supervision, and planning, quality control of al O&M projects including implementation ofSLA,KPI.
  • Planned, directed, documented, and controlled correct disease and pest control applications as required; supervised and documented activities as required; determined lawn mowing priorities and schedules, and determined irrigation needs for lawns and new plantings.
  • Reviewed work methods, chemical usage, equipment, and procedures to assure that health and safety standards were in compliance with local requirements.
  • Assisted Lead the team with planning daily work assignments; oversaw performance of job assignments to ensure that they were being carried out properly.

GHANTOOT LANDSCAPING - DUBAI
Feb, 2005 –Jan, 2007
Project Manager

  • Supervise all full-time fieldworker staff, for operation & maintenance works, of both hard and soft landscape along with irrigation systems and associated electro mechanical works, including all lawns, walkways, lighting system, irrigation system, landscape components, hedges, trees, palm trees and associated green spaces, pest control, water features.
  • Prepared requisitions, ordered materials, tools and equipment, prepared annual equipment and vehicle fleet acquisition recommendations, developed project estimates.
  • Performed all duties in a safe and professional manner and in accordance with established Standards and departmental policies and procedures.
  • Scheduled staff and approved time off, processed time cards, monitored work performance, completed staff performance reviews and resolved employee issues.
  • Established and implemented tool and equipment preventative and routine maintenance programs.
  • Developed landscape designs, prepared recommendations, installed plantings in areas of new construction and renovated existing plantings as required.

ALRAMZYAH AGRICULTURE COMPANY ALAIN
Apr, 2000 –Jan, 2005
project engineer

  • Fully responsible of work execution at site
  • Make decision of assignments, establish targets & work plan for the team.
  • Follow up all activities day to day for all landscape activities in both construction and operation & maintenance projects
  • Study the drawing, specification, andprepare schedule within time frame and specification.
  • Fully responsible of inspection requests for all activities, discuss with consultant and notify them by the work progress at sit.

Education
Bachelor's Degree in Agriculture Engineering
University of Damascus (1997)

PMP, project management professional

Cambridge institute - Abu Dhabi (2009)

Primavera, MS project .project planning
Society of engineers --Dubai (2006)

Personal data

Date of Birth:1972

Nationality: Syrian

Marital status: Married

Visa status : Employment visa

Possess U.A.E driving licence.

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