KANAV SAJJANHAR

The $5.5 billion project is ambitious. It’s the largest transport infrastructure project that New Zealand has ever built. The twin 3.45-kilometre-long tunnels, built up to 42 metres below the Auckland city centre, will connect downtown at Waitematā Station (Britomart) with a redeveloped Maungawhau on the Western Line. Two new underground stations will open up central city access: Karanga-a-Hape, with entrances at Mercury Lane and Beresford Square, and Te Waihorotiu, at Victoria and Wellesley Streets, Midtown. Delivered by Link Alliance (Vinci Construction Grands Projects SAS, Downer, Soletanche Bachy, WSP, AECOM, Tonkin + Taylor, and CRL Ltd).

• Maintain key relationships with alliances and subcontractors within multiple disciplines to achieve project outcomes responsibly.
• Strong commitment toward health and safety.
• Strong communication skills between stakeholders, team members, and upper management.
• Having strong commercial acumen.
• Leading the COVID-19 commercial claim with Alliance, E3 Advisory, and White Associates as a project manager ($1 billion commercial settlement).
• Build constructive and effective relationships using tact and diplomacy with stakeholders.
• Can effectively maneuver through complex political situations.
• Effective at diffusing high-tension situations comfortably.
• Remain calm under pressure, and resilient in the face of unexpected setbacks.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across functional boundaries to achieve project objectives.
• Having a strong understanding of contract mechanisms.
• Understanding construction contracts according to NZ law legislation.
• Manage the commercial activities assigned to them in the Commercial Pipeline.
• Proactively manage contract changes to monitor project performance.
• Manage expectations with key stakeholders, both internally and externally.
• Ensuring that the Extension of Time and Variation claims are prepared and submitted according to our contract agreements.
• Assist project teams in resolving contractual issues and escalating complex and high-value items.
• Currently managing and leading the Owner Verifier Design Team for the Link Alliance Programme.
• Currently working closely with the handover completion team to transfer assets and hand them over to the stakeholders.

• Leading project risk management on a $5.5 billion funding envelope.
• Project delivery focuses on the (C1, C2, C3, C5, and C7 Link Alliance, C5, C6, C8, and C9 Britomart & Newmarket) contracts by taking ownership of qualitative and quantitative risk analysis of cost and time overruns on the project.
• Implementing an effective risk management system, including ARM, Safran Risk, and a P6 database, ensures consistency with international best practices and ISO 31000 and serves as an integral and sound basis for cooperative governance, planning, and decision-making to achieve the project objective.
• Ensure strong management and reporting of enterprise-level risks, facilitate oversight of strategic action alongside the CFO, and assure the SLT and Board that enterprise risk is being effectively managed.
• Assisting in reporting risk to the Senior Leadership Team, Sponsors, and the CRLL Board.

Project Overview:

The four-lane Waikato Expressway Hamilton section reduces travel time between Tirau and Auckland by 35 minutes, improving safety. The 21.8 km expressway project involved four million cubic meters of earthworks, 17 bridges, five major intersections, and extensive local road crossings.

• Maintain an organisation-wide, integrated risk management framework and approach that incorporates accountability and fosters continuous improvement.
• Train and support all Alliance staff to effectively identify, analyse, and assess risks and opportunities and implement appropriate risk treatment strategies for design, construction, commercial, operational, and maintenance activities.
• Proper communication with the team members about the client's feedback is essential to ensure the successful delivery of the project.
• Working closely with the Sub-Alliance Earthworks Team.
• Having a good understanding of subsoil drainage networks.
• Having a strong knowledge of the cut/fill model and opportunities that might benefit the project commercially.
• Developing a master program, a project risk-adjusted program, with my team to gain confidence in our target completion date.
• Monitors approve the baseline by using Schedule Variance (SV), Cost Variance (CV), Schedule Performance Index (SPI), and Cost Performance Index (CPI). They compare Earned Value, Planned Value, and Actual Cost by making an S-curve to provide Earned Value data that is performing over budget and behind schedule.
• Collect and analyse risk management data, and provide regular reports to the Alliance Manager Team and Project Alliance Board.

The Meerut to Haridwar National Highway 58 (NH-58) section. The Delhi-to-Meerut section is already a 4-lane, 52 km km highway. The Meerut to Muzaffarnagar section is also four-laned and developed on a Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) basis.

Monitoring and controlling the execution team.

• Assist in developing construction schedules and budgets.
• Experience in box culverts, vehicle underpasses, pedestrian underpasses, and minor and major bridges.
• Expert in making plans for various civil works.
• Helped select and purchase materials and equipment.
• Maintain records, including progress reports, RFIs, submittals, and change orders.
• Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly reports on work progress (key performance indicators) and evaluation per the planned schedules.
• Supervise the working labour to ensure strict conformance to methods, quality, and safety.
• Ensure that all health and safety policies are implemented during execution.

Administration of the Toll Plaza Building works.

• Supervise construction activities and ensure compliance with design and safety standards.
• Interpret and implement technical drawings and specifications on-site.
• Conduct inspections and ensure adherence to codes and regulations.
• Enforce health and safety regulations.
• Conduct site safety briefings and inspections.
• Collaborate with project managers, subcontractors, and clients.
• Resolve technical issues that arise during construction.
• Ensure the timely delivery of materials and tools.