Hemz Morjaria

Projects: Takapuna Grammar School ($6M), Rutherford College Weathertightness Remediation, Oratia School (1.5 Million)

• Successfully managing Ministry of Education capital works projects through design, procurement, contract administration, construction, and close-out stages.
• Leading the Takapuna Grammar School $6M weathertightness remediation project, ensuring effective stakeholder engagement, decanting strategies, and risk mitigation.
• Acting as Engineers Representative for Rutherford College and Oratia School, applying knowledge of NZS3910/NZ3916 conditions of contract.
• Managing day-to-day project activities, including chairing meetings, minuting actions, and providing clear communication to all stakeholders.
• Driving project delivery to meet client expectations while ensuring compliance with internal processes and governance.
• Proactively identifying and addressing risks and issues to minimise project impact and keep delivery on track.
• Planning and implementing project strategies to achieve successful outcomes.
• Building and maintaining strong client relationships through professional, proactive engagement.
• Providing technical leadership and problem-solving throughout project life cycles.
• Demonstrating clear, professional communication and reporting to various audiences, including senior leadership.

• As a Delivery Manager at the Ministry of Education, I cultivate strong relationships with schools and stakeholders. I oversee capital works projects ranging from $5K to $3M, ensuring they meet objectives on time and within budget. My focus is on effective consultant management to deliver infrastructure projects aligned with Ministry policies and guidelines.
• Started in the Ministry as project coordinator and then got promoted to a delivery manager carrying out various tasks and duties related to the projects and managing the relationship with the schools
• Successfully manage a portfolio of projects related to asset management within the education sector, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and objectives. Implemented several strategies to fix the gaps in the processes, resulting in quantifiable achievement or outcome.
• Lead a multidisciplinary team to deliver projects on time, within budget, and to the satisfaction of stakeholders.
• Collaborate with the asset management team to develop and implement strategic plans for the effective utilization and maintenance of educational assets. Oversee the life-cycle of assets, including acquisition, maintenance, and disposal, to optimize resource allocation and minimize operational costs.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including government agencies, educational institutions, and contractors.
• Implement best practices in project management, risk management, and quality assurance to drive continuous improvement and enhance project outcomes.
• Monitoring progress, identifying emerging issues, risks and problem solving ensuring all approval processes and any other programme agreed processes and procedures are being followed.
• Define project objectives and scope for excavation, digger operations, drainage systems, and earthworks.
• Conduct site surveys and assessments to determine ground conditions and excavation requirements.

Key Projects:

Project One: Mountain View School Access Upgrade

• Scope: Enhanced accessibility at Mountain View School, including creating access ways for disabled students, installing ramps, upgrading drainage, and excavating for a new playground.
• Budget: $300,000
• Involvement: Managed project planning, coordination with stakeholders, and oversight of construction activities. Ensured compliance with accessibility standards and safety regulations.

• Project Two: May Road School New Admin Block and Teach Space Delivery
• Scope: Oversaw construction of new administration block and teaching space. Managed earthworks, installation of services, drainage, pavements, roading, and car parks.
• Budget: $2,000,000
• Involvement: Led procurement, contractor coordination, and quality control. Successfully navigated project challenges, including tight schedule and budget constraints.

• Project Three: Mangere East School Boiler Room Upgrade and Facility Improvements
• Scope: Managed boiler room upgrade, new drainage and electrical systems, roof repairs, and installation of handrails and ramps throughout Mangere East School. Additionally, led USB Bathroom delivery involving building consent.
• Budget: $1,200,000
• Involvement: Spearheaded project planning, procurement, and contractor coordination. Ensured compliance with building regulations and quality standards. Develop detailed cost estimates for excavation equipment, materials, and labour. Successfully delivered project within budget and obtained necessary building consent for USB Bathroom delivery.

• My role involves maintaining, controlling, and filing project documentation and ensuring alignment with capital Works standard process.
• Build effective relationships to progress project delivery and build the Ministry’s reputation including relationships with school principals, boards of trustees, contractors, technical advisers, community groups and all other key stakeholders and where necessary ensure any conflict between parties is resolved, with a strong focus on contractual responsibilities and formal accountability and governance relationships.
• Approval process assistance, coordination, tracking and management.
• Using tools & data management, recording of school visit data in Helios/K2 system. Use of the Issues Workflow Manager to manage escalated issues.
• Assist Delivery Team to ensure project documentation is up to date (e.g. project plans, contracts, Funding documents, procurement plans, stakeholder management and communication plans).
• Support of Delivery Team regarding systems and processes.
• Assistance with monthly reporting.
• Managing the CW mailbox.
• In a culture of collaboration and shared problem solving, working with your Delivery Team to assess and address any issues that arise, and co-ordinate and manage these appropriately in line with Policy.
• Utilizing relationships as the foremost tool to achieve the best outcomes for all with all levels and categories of stakeholders and customers.
• Promote the Ministry’s infrastructure and school’s capital works program where appropriate internally and externally to the Ministry.

• - Lead the implementation of a multi-million dollar Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) project in collaboration with Visionstream and Downer, the largest in the country, after Chorus secured a government subsidy of $929 million.
• - Manage project planning, coordination, and execution, ensuring compliance with contractual agreements and government regulations.
• - Oversee asset management, quality assurance, and earthworks/roading projects integral to the broadband infrastructure deployment.
• - Facilitate communication and coordination with stakeholders, including Auckland Transport, council for consents, and land access permits, to ensure smooth project progress.
• - Monitor project budget, expenses, and resource allocation to maintain cost-effectiveness and financial compliance.
• - Proactively identify and mitigate project risks and issues to minimise disruptions and delays.
• - Provide regular progress updates and reports to stakeholders, including Chorus management and government authorities.
• - Uphold safety standards and foster a culture of professionalism and accountability among project team members.
• - Evaluate project performance and identify opportunities for improvement and innovation to enhance project outcomes and efficiency.

• Started as a part time CSR carrying Incoming calls across Australia regarding BB, Fixed Line, Mobile, Dial up, then moved up to a delivery specialist role.
• Working for Service delivery team means dealing with customer where case management is required for majority of calls or nature of their query.
• Responsible for all customer communication updates in relation to the implementation and managing delivery of the customers services via PMO methodologies.
• Ensure regular structured and tracked engagement with customer, outlining the progress of orders and delivery activity.
• Develop and maintain customer facing tracking schedules for customer orders under your delivery portfolio, specifically around delivery milestones and solution deployment requirements.
• Monitor, register and coordinate all procurement activity associated with the delivery of all Customer services onto the Telstra network.
• Work with Telstra internal teams such as Network Operations Centers (NOCs), telehouses, cable stations and engineering departments to deliver and test service components related to customer projects.
• Work with external vendors/technicians or via phone/email to ensure timely and accurate delivery of local loop and off-net services.
• Lease with technical teams and ensure customer engagement with fault finding in conjunction with relevant internal and external teams during circuit activation if required.
• Update internal systems and groups to reflect latest implementation information(service delivery dates, revenue booking dates, overview of project delivery status)

• Manage IT project timelines and deliverables in collaboration with Datacom NZ and university stakeholders.
• Facilitate communication and coordination between Datacom NZ and university teams to ensure project alignment.
• Assist in budget tracking and resource allocation for the IT project.
• Support documentation and reporting requirements for project progress and milestones.
• Coordinate testing, implementation, and deployment phases of the IT project to ensure successful delivery.