Roneel Ritesh Kumar
Orewa,Auckland
Summary
Project management specialist with experience leading projects from planning through completion. Coordinate cross-functional teams, streamline workflows, and implement solutions to address complex challenges. Deliver projects on time and within budget while maintaining quality standards.
Overview
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1
Certification
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Project Manager
Waste Management
Auckland
01.2022 - Current
- Led cross-functional projects across waste collection, recycling, and landfill operations.
- Managed schedules, risks, and deliverables for Waste Management service initiatives.
- Managed project scope, timeline and budget in alignment with company objectives.
- Coordinated project plans with operations, engineering, and environmental compliance teams.
- Reviewed project scopes, budgets, and resource needs with senior leaders.
- Standardized project tracking, reporting, and communication across multiple workstreams.
- Monitored progress of projects against established timelines and budgets.
- Facilitated stakeholder meetings with field teams, contractors, and business partners.
- Enhanced development and drove continuous improvement of project delivery process by providing strong program leadership.
- Monitored design processes from conceptual phase through construction.
Senior Project Engineer
Waste Management NZ
01.2020 - 01.2022
- Management of consultants/ contractors to perform end-to-end project management lifecycle of construction projects from initial concept design to completion.
- Led engineering projects for Waste Management NZ landfill and transfer station upgrades.
- Managed project scopes, budgets, and schedules across Waste Management NZ operations.
- Coordinated contractors, consultants, and site teams for Waste Management NZ projects.
- Prepared technical reports, drawings, and consent documents for Waste Management NZ works.
- Reviewed and provided feedback on designs for waste facilities, drainage systems, and civil infrastructure to ensure compliance with project requirements.
- Monitored health, safety, and environmental controls on Waste Management NZ project sites.
- Liaised with councils, suppliers, and internal stakeholders on Waste Management NZ delivery.
- Supported asset improvements and maintenance planning across Waste Management NZ facilities.
- Led projects by communicating with team leaders and observing work in person.
- Maintained accurate records detailing all aspects of assigned projects.
- Created project plans, monitored progress and managed resources accordingly.
- Planned, designed and managed various kinds of engineering projects.
- Coordinated with multiple departments to ensure project timelines were met.
- Provided technical guidance and project management to junior engineers.
- Managed stakeholder communication, ensuring timely access to critical project information.
- Providing technical reviews to consultant designs and project management plans.
- Provide technical and operational direction to overall site development, management, capital projects and solid waste sites within NZ including day-to-day operations of Atiamuri landfill Rotorua (closed now), Silverstream Landfill
- Proactively lead teams of Project Engineers in projects involving civil construction for bulk earthworks, layer works, roading, drainage, utilities installation, reinforced concrete structures and complex landfill liner systems.
- Delivered operational management assistance to multiple WMNZ locations.
- Lead teams in terms of H&S and enforce HSE policies/ procedures on various WMNZ sites/ projects.
- Prepare required HSE documentation/ permits as required for specific projects/ tasks.
- Setup teams and manage works including landfill final engineered cap construction for closure works, manage construction audits, preparation of air quality reporting and key infrastructure development modeling.
- Undertake specialist WMNZ contract works and clean up contaminated sites under specific consents from time to time.
- Undertake forward planning for Waste Management Landfills, and other infrastructure developments as required including preparation of whole of life programmes and capex budgets.
- Enhanced project management fundamentals, focusing on programming, costings, and design to support successful project delivery.
- Assist with consenting of new sites, proactively lead the consultants' design team, arrange for required geotechnical investigations and liaise with local councils as required.
- Mentoring Junior staff members and assisting them with the day-to-day tasks/different projects
- Operated from Auckland while traveling across New Zealand for project coordination.
Project Engineer
Waste Management NZ
01.2015 - 01.2020
- Ensure yearly Capex budgets are prepared within the required timeframe with consultation with other affected parties (Operations)
- Coordinate Capital Expenditure Applications and monitor expenditure against budget.
- Plan, programme and prepare pre-construction estimates, price, and prepare fully costed schedules of quantities.
- Prepare all Project HSE documentation (Risk Assessments, Works Instructions) and implement it with contractors on site.
- Finalized Project QA documentation, with liner reports, construction timelines, and drawings.
- Prepare invitations to tender, call for quotes and evaluate responses.
- Collation and submission of required tender documents.
- Responsible for contract management in line with WMNZ contractual obligations.
- Program the works and manage / control the contracted works to a safe, within specification, on time, and on budget completion.
- Report at regular intervals on planned versus actual progress cost e.g., Capex tracking.
- Manage the associated regulatory liaison with Auckland Council.
- Provide comprehensive as-built records, operating manuals on completion of infrastructure and civil projects.
- Commission, close of works and hand over to Operations at the completion of projects.
- Assist with the development of site rehabilitation plans, ensuring compliance with relevant Authorities.
- Ensuring that the site and services plans in AutoCAD, 12d are updated after completion of the project and coordinate site survey works.
- Project modelling and analysis of existing and new landfill and facilities.
- Project management of civil works and landfill rehabilitation works, landfill cell and final cap design & construction.
- Mentoring Junior staff members and assisting them with the day-to-day tasks/different projects
- Coordinate with consultant's design briefs, design drawings, reports, costs to ensure design timeframes are met for each project.
- Prepare landfill waste filling Airspace drawings and compute volumes as required.
- Based in Auckland but travelled nationwide.
Engineering Surveyor
Waste Management NZ
Auckland
01.2007 - 01.2015
- Construction set out.
- Survey control and supervision of construction activities to demonstrate compliance with specifications within applicable tolerances.
- Undertake landfill settlement monitoring.
- Volumetric measurement and calculation of quantities.
- Exercise proper care and maintenance of survey equipment, ensuring service and calibrations of all survey equipment are done as per their schedule in the equipment register with ensuring minimal disruptions to ongoing projects and operations.
- Maintaining the equipment register ready for audits.
- Liaising with Construction and Operational Managers to ensure there is adequate survey coverage in all the company projects across all sites.
- Liaising with Consulting Designers and Engineers to ensure adequacy of survey information, survey and model data as and when required.
- Ensure timely construction of capital works and projects in accordance with approved designs.
- Ensure compliance with project specifications, building consents and construction compliance conditions, and that appropriate standards of workmanship are achieved.
- Compile the necessary records and obtain Code Compliance Certificates and/ or Certificates of Completion from regulatory authorities and designers.
- Provide comprehensive as-built records on project completion.
- Provide inputs to construction programmes and cost estimates for ongoing and future projects.
- Provide inputs to Management Plans and Annual Budgets.
- Prepare Drawings and quantities using 12D & AutoCAD software.
- Instrument use to elaborate data using Trimble GPS, Dumpy, Laser Levels and elaborating engineering plans and contract documentation.
- Designing future excavations and waste fill models of landfills.
- Doing site surveys, downloading, and processing data for various projects including monthly volume calculations and construction designs.
- Do project designs including digital terrain models (DTM), upload designs into GPS, do site set outs, supervise the project while being done and survey final as built to compile as built drawings and ensuring all designs have been adhered to.
Senior Engineering Surveyor
Vuksich & Borich Fiji
Momi Bay, Nadi
01.2004 - 01.2007
- Complete survey support from setting out, survey supervision during construction, complete as-builts & QA for:
- Land Reclamation
- Sub-Divisions
- Roading Works
- Rock Revetment
- Services Installation
- Water Reticulation
- Stormwater and Wastewater Reticulation
Education
Diploma - Civil Engineering
Fiji Institute of Technology
Fiji Islands01-2002
Skills
- Microsoft software proficiency, 12d design, AutoCAD, leadership, effective communication, time management, cost control, active listener, prioritisation, and problem solver
- Positive attitude, communication, teamwork, self-management, willingness to learn, thinking skills, resilience, people's person and sense of humour
- Project scheduling
- Budget control
- Risk management
- HSE compliance
- Stakeholder management
- Contract administration
- Capital planning
- Civil delivery
- Regulatory liaison
- Strategic leadership
- Problem solving
- Team leadership
- Attention to detail
- Training and mentoring
- Project goals and milestones
- Multi-project management
- Client relationship management
- Quality control
- Financial administration
- KPI tracking
- Teamwork
- Professionalism
- Effective communication
- Microsoft Project
- Reliability
Certification
- Successful Project Management
- Understanding NZS 3910 – Conditions of Contract
- Understanding the Construction Contracts Act 2002
- Environmental Management
- Delegation Skills
- Workplace First Aid
- Site Warden Training
- Height Safety
INTERESTS
Sports, mountain biking and work/ life balance
Timeline
Senior Project Manager
Waste Management
01.2022 - Current
Senior Project Engineer
Waste Management NZ
01.2020 - 01.2022
Project Engineer
Waste Management NZ
01.2015 - 01.2020
Engineering Surveyor
Waste Management NZ
01.2007 - 01.2015
Senior Engineering Surveyor
Vuksich & Borich Fiji
01.2004 - 01.2007
Diploma - Civil Engineering
Fiji Institute of Technology