Planner/Scheduler
Qatar
Experience: Not applicable
Conventional Energy
Introduction
- The Planner/Scheduler is responsible for developing and maintaining the project schedule, ensuring all work activities are properly sequenced and aligned to the project's critical path.
- The schedule serves as the primary tool for project execution, monitoring progress, and measuring performance.
What are you going to do
- Conducts or participates in all interactive planning sessions as required to create contractor's schedule deliverables
- Performs what-if analysis, workaround identification, float analysis, critical path identification, and recommends any corrective actions needed to mitigate unfavorable deviations of the schedule
- Reviews the Contractor's baseline schedule and Earned Value Management System (EVMS) considered as the project baseline or benchmark
- Performs analysis and offers corrective actions as it relates to meeting planned progress per discipline
- Validates claimed progress by analyzing Contractor's deliverables and construction activities
- Identifies interface points between the Contractors' schedules to ensure coordination and optimization of the Project plan
- Validates progress and payment milestones claimed in Contractor's monthly invoices
- Monitors Contractor's compliance with best practices of project planning and scheduling and contractual requirements for schedule development and updates: phased, proper sequencing, logic, and relational-based activities
- Estimates schedule impact of various changes and variance
- Supports Project Management Team with preparing weekly and monthly status reports and Project dashboards
- Review Contractor's weekly and monthly reports for accuracy
- Prepares charts, tables, and 3-week lookahead schedules to assist Project Management Team in managing the overall project and ensures the schedule is a tool that is logical, usable, and understandable by the Project team
- Assists in development of schedule identification, storage, retrieval, and report format standardization
- Identifies and assesses period changes in schedule through use of special scheduling software
- Participates in Project risk management workshops, implements mitigation actions, and quantifies schedule contingency
- Develops, maintains, reviews, and updates integrated project schedules using Primavera P6, including detailed Level 3/Level 4 schedules as required
- Performs schedule health checks, critical-path and near-critical-path analysis, identifying emerging risks and potential delays
- Develops and reviews short- and medium-term look-ahead schedules and identifies constraints that may affect planned activities
- Performs schedule variance and trend analysis against the approved baseline and recommends appropriate mitigation and recovery actions
- Supports forecasting of key project milestones, including construction completion, mechanical completion, pre-commissioning, commissioning, and start-up
- Supports time-impact analysis and assessment of contractor schedule claims, as required
- Reviews Contractors' progress measurement methodology, productivity, and earned value performance
- Supports preparation of weekly/monthly management dashboards, S-curves, schedule KPIs, and progress reports
- Coordinates schedule interfaces across Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Pre-Commissioning, Commissioning, and Start-up activities
- Ensures schedule information is aligned, where applicable, with project cost, risk, change management, and progress-control processes
Essential skills and knowledgeÂ
- Bachelor's degree or above in engineering or related field
- 10+ years of relevant experience
- SME of Primavera P6, schedule risk analysis and Acumen Fuse
- Solid understanding of Microsoft Office products including Excel and PowerPoint
- Previous Operator capital project experience and/or working with an contractor
- Experience in Petrochemical Unit design, engineering, construction, and commissioning and start-up
- Strong knowledge of Critical Path Method, Earned Value Management, progress measurement, schedule forecasting, and schedule variance analysis
- Demonstrated experience in reviewing, analyzing, and challenging contractor baseline and updated schedules
- Experience in schedule recovery planning, mitigation strategies, and time-impact analysis
- Ability to analyze schedule trends, identify potential delays and constraints, and provide recommendations to Project Management
- Strong team-building skills and ability to work with peers, company employees, and contractors
- Excellent planning and organizational skills and trouble-shooting abilities
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Self-starter with desire to lead and take responsibility
- Strong commitment to safety
- Knowledge of industry standards and company standards
What we offer
- Salary:
- Day Rate in USD Plus Allowance
- Work Schedule:
- 9 Hours / 6 Days
- Duration:
- 12 Months with possible extension
- Location:
- Qatar
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