EPC heavy-haul rail infrastructure

Simandou / Simfer Rail Spur Line Project

Location: Guinea, West Africa
Role: Lead Project Planner
Organisation: China Railway Construction Co., Ltd. — Simfer project coordination

Representative image of a heavy-haul railway spur under construction through West African terrain

Project overview

A multidisciplinary EPC rail spur programme in Guinea, delivered under an international contracting environment with concurrent civil, track and systems workfronts.

Environment

Remote West African execution environment with multidisciplinary interfaces across civil works, trackwork and systems, and reporting obligations to both contractor management and the Simfer project organisation.

Planning approach

EPC master schedule development and maintenance in Primavera P6
Work breakdown structure aligned to discipline and workfront
Project baseline establishment and change control
Resource-loaded schedules across civil, track and systems packages
Commissioning and certifier-witness schedule integration

Project controls

Progress measurement and S-Curve reporting
Critical path management and float monitoring
Recovery and catch-up schedule development
HSE, quality and procurement tracking against the schedule
EVM tracking and performance dashboards

Key responsibilities

Planning, scheduling and project controls for the rail spur scope
Performance monitoring and management reporting
War-room sessions with execution teams
Stakeholder coordination across contractor, client and project teams
Baseline schedule approval and milestone governance

Infrastructure scope

Earthworks: 18.52M cum
Culverts: 133 nos
Utilities and drains
Tunnel: 926 m
Bridges: 5 nos
Trackwork: 145.58 km
Signaling and telecom
Power and sidings: 5 nos
Testing & commissioning

Tools used

Primavera P6
Microsoft Excel
MS Office
Power BI
SAP ERP

Professional contribution

Provided the planning discipline and progress visibility that allowed management to see schedule risk early and act on it through structured recovery planning.

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