FRANCIS OWUSU
COLCHESTER,GB
Summary
Construction professional with valuable experience of large corporate construction sites, as well as residential projects
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Resident Site Engineer
D A CANT
Frinton-on-Sea, Essex
09.2022 - Current
- Coordinate contractors, subcontractors and labourers to deliver on projects.
- Monitor and maintained health and safety standards for site compliance.
- Prevent project delays through carefully considered risk and feasibility assessments.
- General site setting out of roads profile, drainages, plot footings / foundations, kerbs.
- establishing control datum's and giving levels to all subcontractors.
- Checking and monitoring of all works on site.
- QA checks
- Doing take of, of materials needed on site
- Booking in for CBRs and NUCLEAUR DENSITY TEST on pipe lines and road formations
- Sending off granular samples for testing
- As-built surveys
- setting out of road and yard gullies
- Setting out 278 works
Senior Site Engineer
MDS CIVIL ENGINEERING
ESSEX, Essex
02.2022 - 06.2022
- Achieved high levels of client satisfaction by leading and proactively contributing to project progress meetings.
- Ensured quality construction by completing quality documentation and managing as-built record information.
- Maintained site efficiencies by administering equipment servicing, promptly reporting malfunctions.
- Motivated teams to deadline through regular site visits and inspections, problem-solving accordingly and eliminating bottlenecks.
- Establishing datums and controls across site
- Giving line and levels to subcontractors
- Setting out footings of buildings
- General setting out on site.
Site Civil Engineer
HENNIGAN BUILDING /CIVIL ENGINEERING LTD
Felixstowe, Suffolk
10.2020 - 01.2022
- Ensured construction detail documentation conformed to quality assurance and best practice standards.
- Advised managerial staff about design, construction and project modifications.
- Resolved level problems by collecting data, establishing facts and drawing accurate conclusions.
- Calculated volume take-off and cost estimates for landscape.
- Identified and resolved potential structural issues.
- Setting out of pond to hold water over 100 years in case of flood.
- Setting out of deep drainage
- Setting out of holding down bolts
- Interpretation of architectural drawings to ground workers
- Setting out of services
- Giving accurate levels on site
- Establishing control stations around site
- Setting out of sprinkler base tanks, substations, bicycle shelter
- Setting out of gatehouse and position for barrier gate and sliding gate
- Setting out roads and car park
- Setting out trief kerbs, HB2 kerbs, CS2 kerbs, BN2 kerbs
- Setting out high compressive cellular attenuation tank
- Setting out hydro brake manhole
- Setting out gatic/linear drainage around dock levels
- Setting out foul and storm drainage
- Setting out pup ups
- Setting out footings for steel erections and retaining wall
- Line and levelling steel
- Filling of QA sheet
- Doing as built of works done
- Raising RFI
- Setting out of wind wall base
- Setting out per the drawings provided
Site Engineer
MARBANK CONSTRUCTION
RAINHAM ,EAST LONDON, ESSEX
04.2019 - 09.2020
- Setting out linear drainage, patrol interceptors, attenuation tank, hydrobrakes and downstream defender
- Setting out of storm and foul drainages with accurate invert levels
- Giving the cut and fill levels
- Responded to technical concerns quickly and effectively devised solutions.
- Surveyed, graded and levelled construction sites.
- Monitored team of personnel during construction activities for compliance with health and safety requirements.
- Oversaw quality control and health and safety matters for construction teams.
- Surveyed site, marked locations and oversaw construction of roads and other infrastructure components.
- Reviewed engineering specifications, scopes of work to suit on site construction
- Setting out of roads, kerbs and edging
- QA checks
- Line and levelling of steel
- Setting out templet for steel bases
- Setting out of weigh bridges
- Interpreting of engineering and architectural drawings
- Providing of weekly as built in PDF and AUTOCAD
SITE ENGINEER
DARBY GROUNDWORKS
HORN CHURCH, ESSEX
01.2019 - 04.2019
- Briefing the working party and managing on site activities
- Ensuring works are being carried out in a safe manner
- Surveying of line levels on foundations and excavation
- Conduction of take offs
- Completing quality control documents of works
- Raising RFI
- Producing final as built of works
- Setting out of civil engineering scope of works such as earthworks,drainage,structures etc
- Operate and promote high standard of health and safety and environmental compliance
- General setting out such as ,ECO TANK,BUILDING FOOTINGS,STORM DRAINS,MANHOLES,KERBS,GULLIES,SERVICES,ROADS ETC
- Consistently assumed additional responsibilities and worked extended hours to meet project deadlines.
SITE ENGINEER
OSBONE CONSTRUCTION
LITTLE BENTLY, ESSEX
02.2018 - 11.2018
- Acted as a technical adviser for subcontractors,craftsmen and operatives
- Checked plans, drawings and quantities for accuracy of calculations
- Ensured that all materials used and work performed were in accordance with the work specifications
- Checking base stations and site control prior to commencement of works and at regular intervals
- Request appropriate information from client representatives via RFI
- Communicate setting out control to site operatives clearly
- Record dimensions of hard breakout,soft spot,calculate volumes etc as directed by the QS
- Supersede drawings as new ones are being issued
- Setting out road channels with profile boards and traveller
- Setting out of batter rails
- Setting out radius kerbs
- Setting out of services and drainage
- Taking of as built
SITE ENGINEER
NRI
LETCHWORTH, WEST MIDLANDS
01.2017 - 01.2018
- Established an effective system to record works completed and updating the project quality plan accordingly by filing out a QA sheet.
- Regularly checking the setting out points and benchmarks and checking that all setting out instruments and measuring equipment are delivered to site with a calibration certificate and recorded accordingly
- Providing and maintaining setting out and dimensional control, to ensure accurate construction of the work
- Ensuring high personal safety and environmental standards are upheld
- Communicate with personnel to ensure full understanding of information provided
- Ensure that the drawings and specification documents contain sufficient, accurate information
- General setting out including footing and pad foundation,radius kerbs,drainage,services
- Marking out bolt for steel frames
- Road setting out with profile boards and traveller
- Setting out of retaining walls
- Producing as built
SITE ENGINEER
MACDERMOTTS GROUND WORKS
BIGGLESWADE, MIDLANDS
12.2015 - 11.2016
- Ensured that the drawings and specification documents contain sufficient, accurate information.
- Communicated with personnel to ensure full understanding of information provided per setting out provided
- Ensured high personal safety and environmental standards are upheld
- General setting out such as bollards position,kerbs,land scarping by DTM,utilities,drainage,manholes etc
- Working to tight tolerances
- Produce of as built
SITE ENGINEER
GALDRIS GROUND WORKS
SHOEBURYNESS
08.2015 - 12.2015
- Setting out and monitoring of works on site
- Ensure quality control requirements are met and recorded in accordance with specification
- Operate and promote a high standard of health and safety and environment compliance
- Raising of technical queries
- Measuring & 'Taking-Off’ quantities from drawings
- Road setting out
- Setting out of steel on foundation footings
- Setting out of levels on laser
- Setting out of deep drainage, services and utilities
- Setting out of kerbs
SITE ENGINEER
J REDDINGTON LTD
WHITE GARDENS, LONDON
03.2014 - 08.2015
- Setting out of columns,drainage pipes,hilti colours,slab edge,alfins,RC frame erections
- establishing of datum on each level as the building rise
- As built survey
- Signing off QA sheet
- Plumbing of shatters for pre pours and in situ columns
- Ensuring health and safety is been adhered to accordingly
- Slip form
SITE ENGINER
MAL LTD
LONDON, LONDON
02.2014 - 03.2014
- Establishing of height datum from existing external benchmark onto the working site with tight tolerance
- Monitoring and checking of all existing control stations
- setting out cladding and curtain walling,steel work,form-work and dry-walling
- As built survey of constructed structures
- Liaising with subcontractors
- ensuring good health and safety practice on site
- 3d scanning
ASSISTANT SITE ENGINEER
LAGAN CONSTRUCTION
LONDON, CITY AIRPORT
01.2013 - 01.2014
- Stacking out of existing electrical pits
- Laising with subcontractors
- ensuring that health and safety sustainability policies are being adhered to
- Giving levels for excavation
- general setting out of services,drainage,electrical pits
- producing of as built
Education
HIGHER NATIONAL DIPLOMA - CIVIL ENGINEERING
TAKORADI POLYTECHNIC
GHANA2003
Skills
- Commercial structures
- Works well independently
- Valid UK driving licence
- Proficient in AutoCAD
- Dependable and reliable
- Self-motivated
- Effective at multi-tasking
- Commercial construction
- Knowledge of safety procedures
- Groundwork
- CSCS certified
- Cat and Genny trained(in house trained)
- Leica EDM operation
- Microsoft office
- Excellent math skills
Timeline
Resident Site Engineer
D A CANT
09.2022 - Current
Senior Site Engineer
MDS CIVIL ENGINEERING
02.2022 - 06.2022
Site Civil Engineer
HENNIGAN BUILDING /CIVIL ENGINEERING LTD
10.2020 - 01.2022
Site Engineer
MARBANK CONSTRUCTION
04.2019 - 09.2020
SITE ENGINEER
DARBY GROUNDWORKS
01.2019 - 04.2019
SITE ENGINEER
OSBONE CONSTRUCTION
02.2018 - 11.2018
SITE ENGINEER
NRI
01.2017 - 01.2018
SITE ENGINEER
MACDERMOTTS GROUND WORKS
12.2015 - 11.2016
SITE ENGINEER
GALDRIS GROUND WORKS
08.2015 - 12.2015
SITE ENGINEER
J REDDINGTON LTD
03.2014 - 08.2015
SITE ENGINER
MAL LTD
02.2014 - 03.2014
ASSISTANT SITE ENGINEER
LAGAN CONSTRUCTION
01.2013 - 01.2014
HIGHER NATIONAL DIPLOMA - CIVIL ENGINEERING
TAKORADI POLYTECHNIC
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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