Wood is currently recruiting for a Lead Plannng Engineer with extensive experience in the oil and gas petrochemical industry.
The Lead Planner is responsible for ensuring the provision of a high standard of schedule development and management for entire project lifecycle, including building schedules, monitoring progress, producing reports and guiding scopes towards the optimum completion date.
- Understand the corporate and contract specific planning procedures and carry out all work in accordance with these.
- Study and understand all relevant project documents pertaining to the preparation of plans and schedules.
- Work with all relevant project and discipline personnel to ensure that planning control procedures are in place.
- Assist in establishing project control schedules based on the client approved program schedule.
- Assist project management in the expedition of schedules and change request approvals.
- Prepare activities for entire project lifecycle, including engineering and construction.
- Reviewing schedule and progress information (for all WBS elements), for input to Primavera and Mpower on a weekly basis ensuring that all information received is accurate and correctly input.
- Ensure WBS is the same as the structure in Mpower.
- Producing regular schedule reports and advising Project Engineers of any forecast schedule overruns as soon as possible to allow corrective actions to be taken in a timely manner. Highlighting areas of concern and suggesting areas of improvement.
- Ensure ‘S’ curves for planning is in aligned to cost ‘S’ curve.
- Maintaining comprehensive accessible registers of schedule approvals, variations and change orders.
- Review project man-hours and the allocation of man-hours in conjunction with cost control on a weekly basis.
- Liaising with the Construction & Engineering departments with regards to establishing monthly evaluation of work done, goods received and services rendered for schedule preparation and verification.
- Ensure that all scheduled work is in compliance with the contract project execution plan.
- Maintain a good working knowledge with Mpower and Primavera.
- Ensure that adequate control of plans & schedules is in place.
- Support lead project controls personnel as appropriate.
- Liaise with other disciplines in the control and forecasting of budgets and ensuring that all scopes including change requests are included.
- Participate in schedule risk analysis as required.
- Ensure that corporate and project specific change control procedures are being adhered to.
- Perform all other job-related functions as required