The events that occurred within your career, how you dealt with this event and what the outcome was.
The business I am currently working on is engineering & construction. My company, Amec Foster Wheeler, British multinational consultancy, focuses on providing engineering and project management service to customers. Having been working for over 5 years continuously including one year within power plant industry as electrical maintenance engineer. All the events that occurred within my careers have given me valuable experiences and new challenges in my life. Most of Consultant Company in oil and gas, they require at least 5 years work experiences. Fortunately, I had a great opportunities from my first manager who interviewed me to work with
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Nevertheless, it finally proved me that nothing is impossible if I tried my best efforts with my inspiration to believe in myself. Every obstacles ahead could get through it. Please allow me to demonstrate my memorable events in each roles as below.
In role of Estimating Engineer,
To undertake the electrical estimating works, be responsible for gathering all information required from engineering disciplines to produce accurate cost, prepare the cost estimate methodology, coordination of the estimate production, participating in the estimate reviews and also presentation of the cost estimate in the format required to Clients and our manager. The challenges of my role are to work under pressure to meet deadlines with many urgent projects at the same time and cooperate with
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Co-ordinate and monitor the actions of the subcontractor alike to ensure they meet their respective contractual obligations and ensure that effective controls are in place. It was my initial role in the company and it sounded definitely difficult to me at all. My role was mostly about dealing with electrical and instrument subcontractors in construction site projects those who were awarded to our Engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) projects. As I was a fresh graduate engineer, lacked of experiences at the moment, my manager had kindly trained me in head office for over 6 months before I had been assigned to site construction. Nonetheless, most subcontractors would not rely on me even I held the position to monitor and control their work performance and payment progress. On the other hand, it was a great stage to prove myself and my ability to be able to handle it. As you may know, the nature work of construction site, there were several complex problems to find efficient solutions in each days and I needed to give my best effort to confront the problems. I had to fine tune the work scope and progress payment to be compliance with contracts to subcontractors. It was necessary to discuss, evaluate and summarize the works with construction site manager and client by weekly meeting. During the discussion, I generally explained where we were in