Syed Hyder

Meticulous Senior Project Manager with 22+ years of dedicated leadership experience in delivering cross-functional technology and business transformation projects in mid-to-large enterprises. Proven history of managing and leading cross-functional teams of 30-35, coordinating with teams and clients, and delivering projects under strict deadlines. Experienced in leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams, managing engineering operations from concept through fabrication and erection, and ensuring compliance with AISC, MBMA, ASCE, AISI, and AWS.

Expert in optimizing multi-million-dollar budgets deployment, optimization, expert in navigating diverse pre-engineered metal buildings. Proven history of scaling operations, reducing cross-functional bottlenecks, and managing complex relations and changing orders to protect margin. Strong stakeholder engagement, risk mitigation, and economic management skills — consistently deliver projects on time, within budget, and with measurable business impact.

Senior Project Manager at Cadeploy Engineering Pvt Ltd (2018-12 – Present)

Working as a Senior Project Manager for Client: MBCI- CORNERSTONE BUILDING BRAND (NCI BUILDING SYSTEMS Houston, USA)

• Develop, implement, and maintain project planning & scheduling strategy, plans and procedures in line with project proposal requirements.
• Direct end-to-end operational workflow for mega-scale industrial and commercial projects, managing budgets around $5M and overseeing annual project portfolios.
• Streamlined the workflows across multiple locations, successfully reducing project lead times by 20% and improved on-time delivery rate from 80% to 95% by standardizing delivery cadence and implementing cross-team tracking.
• Carry out schedule of each project and provide support in progress against invoices, variations and change orders.
• Overall monitoring and management of projects across segment and region by timely execution to ensure all the work is in progress as per agreed schedule & Monitoring Manpower costs effectively.
• Processing a QA/QC initiative that increased product compliance and accuracy to 99.2%, drastically reducing on-site conflicts.
• Cross check the project documents sent from the sales office with the Work Order Form and any discrepancies make sure all the departments like Design, Drafting, Production, Site etc. are all aware of supplying each project.
• Facilitated communication between engineering consultants, clients, fabricators, erectors and safety officers to resolve RFIs swiftly and maintain strict compliance with AISC and OSHA standards.
• Maintained working relationship with the subcontractors, professionals, representatives, and suppliers/Vendors.

Detailing Manager at PEBS Pennar Engineered Buildings System PVT. Ltd. (2013-09 – 2017-08)

Worked as a Detailing Manager for Client: MBCI- CORNERSTONE BUILDING BRAND (NCI BUILDING SYSTEMS Houston, USA)

• Overall Technical responsibility for interpreting, organizing, executing, and coordinating Customer Service Assignments.
• Review structural analysis, engineering calculations, connection designs, and fabrication drawings.
• Coordinate with clients, consultants, architects, project management, production, procurement, and construction departments.
• Managed engineering team and developed baseline schedules using Primavera P6 / MS Project to seamlessly synchronize production lines with on-site erection phases.
• Successfully delivered 1000+ PEB and structural steel projects throughout the USA.
• Reduced engineering lead time by 20% through workflow optimization.
• Achieved 10–15% structural steel optimization via value engineering.

Senior Detailing Engineer at Zamil Steel Pre-Engineered Buildings CO. LTD (2005-11 – 2010-07)

• Generated and checked detailed fabrication drawings, Bill of Materials, and Anchor Bolt plans for various international standard codes, coordinate with design engineers to resolve detailing issues.
• Consult with the production, QA/QC, and site teams to address fabrication and erection queries.
• Managed self-check processes guided by organizational mandates, mentoring 10+ junior structural draughtsman on drawing precision and AISC standards.
• Review and check detailing work completed by junior detailers.
• Ensure and adhere to documented standards, policies, procedures, guidelines, and work instructions.

Detailing Engineer at Zamil Steel India Private Limited (2002-07 – 2005-11)

• Prepared Erection drawings, Shop details, and Bill of Material (BOM) for buildings according to Design calculations and Detailing manual.
• Co-ordinate with design engineers and group head on any questions or difficulties encountered during the work, and submits Erection Drawings, Shop Details and BOM to the group head after making these ready for checking.
• Prepare engineering release transmittal for erection drawings, shop details and BOM to release the project from engineering dept.

MBA in Project Management – SIKKIM MANIPAL UNIVERSITY

B.E. in Mechanical Engineer – VISVESVARAYA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

Diploma in Mechanical Engineer – Govt. Polytechnic