Planning Lead
Qatar, Doha
Fulltime: 60 hrs a week
Experience: > 10 Years
Conventional Energy
Introduction
- The Planning Lead purpose and responsibility is to provide schedule development, maintenance, monitor and control of confidential and sensitive schedule and cost related data, schedule and planning evaluation / examination, schedule and cost developmental consolidation, cost reporting and analyzing, monitoring and formulating cost improvement recommendations.
- Understanding of the key project drivers to ensure delivery of the project within the agreed timeframe.
- Short deadlines and high pressure to deliver completed staff work.
- Ensures highest level of Project Management Team satisfaction by providing, within corporate standards, quality services and amenities.
- Major challenges are time management to carry out various activities and/or assessments related to schedule, progress measurement and change management.
About this role
- Develops and maintains project schedules ensuring they reflect the approved project design / execution scope.
- Reviews Contractor project control procedures to ensure requirements are met.
- Reviews and checks Contractor progress reports for accuracy of progress measurement.
- Reviews and monitors the Contractor’s schedules for logic, detail, and interfaces.
- Ensures subcontractor schedules are integrated into overall schedules.
- Ensures vendor and supplier schedules for critical equipment and bulks are integrated into overall schedules.
- Monitors and appraises Contractor performance against control plans for progress and schedule control.
- Evaluates project changes for schedule impact and incorporates approved changes into the overall schedule.
- Advises on potential schedule issues, provides corrective actions, and verifies their implementation.
- Conducts periodic meetings with the Contractor to review progress and reports project status to management.
Is this you?
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Accounting, Business Management / administration or Commercial disciplines.
- Minimum of 8 years’ experience in project scheduling and controls for EPC oil and gas facilities capital projects / operating companies
- Thorough and extensive knowledge of project controls principles, theories, and concepts.
- At least five (7) years site/field scheduling experience.
- Experience developing work methods in accordance with established Company policies, directives from Management, schedules and professional engineering standards.
- Good troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to adapt to tight deadlines, heavy workloads, and frequent changes in priorities.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to read, write, and speak fluent English.
- Able to work within a defined role with limited supervision.
- Excellent written and verbal English skills.
- Strong planning, organizational and prioritizing skills.
- Strong negotiating and influencing skills.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Advanced computer literacy skills (Primavera P6, Word, Excel and PowerPoint).
- Hands on working experience in Primavera P6 Version 18 and above.
- Advanced knowledge of using Primavera Schedule Risk Analysis or similar software for conducting Schedule Risk Analysis.
What we offer
- Salary:
- Day Rate in USD Plus Allowance
- Work Schedule:
- 6 Days / Week
- 26 Days / Month
- Duration:
- 36 Months, with possible extension
- Location:
- Qatar