Senior Planning Engineer

Woking, Surrey
Leap29

Role: Senior Planning Engineer

Location: Woking

Type: Permanent

Senior Planning Engineer

Qualifications: minimum Degree level qualification

Experience: Minimum 10 years’ recent FEED, EPC / EPCm experience in the oil & gas sector in a similar role. Must have recent experience of leading planning delivery on brownfield projects.

Job description:

• Reports to the Project Controls Manager.
• Manages and leads all activities related to project planning and accountable for managing the overall Master Control Schedule, collation and reporting of progress against this Control Schedule.
• Setup and manage the project Master Control Schedule and facilitate the operation of the project planning and progress measurement systems.
• Ensures planning and progress measurement procedures for contractors and vendors conform to Project requirements and are effectively applied.
• Ensures that the detailed planning of the various phases of the work is in accordance with the project strategy and milestones to achieve the overall project plan.
• Calculate and report project schedule performance metrics and generate S-Curves and other tables and charts as required.
• Responsibilities typically include:
  • Project controls: reporting, forecasting and cost control.
  • Look ahead reports of tasks to be performed in the 3 – 6 weeks
  • Identification of Risks in schedules and mitigation actions
  • Identification of Opportunities in the schedule.
• Responsible for timely issue of project control deliverables and progress reports.
• Provide relevant reports to project management to ensure the Project Manager has all the tools required to make the right decisions driving on time and on budget project execution.
• Interact with the customer to provide update on schedule as well as explain the current situation / challenges / opportunities.
• Implementation of the integrated project planning initiative: the planner will adhere to the approved processes and proactively drive implementation of new initiatives leading to fully integrated planning.
• Provide leadership to planning engineers, schedulers and cost engineers to plan, monitor, and control the execution of the project within the time and budget parameters, optimising resource utilisation.
• Capable of performing duties with no direct supervision and within agreed schedules and budgets.
• Support the Project Controls Manager and Project Management Team in planning and identifying issues that could limit progress or impact project budgets.
• Corporate reporting line is to the Project Controls and Business Director.
• Understands the project deliverables, milestones and required tasks and targets through the project progress measurement system.
• Support project management team in initiating and preparing time and cost related variations and claims.
• Monitor progress against schedules and expedite updating data required from the discipline groups.
• Prepare and maintain client and management progress curves and look ahead reports for the project in line with the required reporting levels and requirements of the contract.
• Evaluate discipline change notices, determine schedule impact of all affected areas.
• Support the materials control group in developing and maintaining a requisition tracking system.
• Ensure timely project reporting to an appropriate level of detail which gives early warning of adverse performance trends.
• Capable of using initiative, knowledge and experience to recognise, highlight and address opportunities and threats as and when they emerge.
• Perform related duties as and when instructed by direct supervisor.

THIS ROLE IS OPEN TO UK BASED CANDIDATES WITH FULL WORK RIGHTS

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