Senior Planning Engineer at Amaiden Energy Nigeria

PURPOSE & ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Provide planning expertise in order to deliver the full benefits of managing the schedule for a successful delivery of the project as per the Final Investment Decision (FID) promise.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• To contribute to the delivery and maintenance of standard, consistent, and realistic project plans reflecting the assessed risk parameters for the project.
• Deliver and maintain consistent and realistic plans and control structures for the project. Understand the list of plans required to execute the assigned project sub-elements and their interface to other sub-elements. Develop the activities, logic, resources, and progress for the assigned project sub-elements, leading to the creation of the baseline schedule and its subsequent maintenance utilizing the EPC contractor’s schedule.
• Develop, implement, and comply with the planning and progress monitoring procedures.
• Conduct the scheduled monthly progress update, forecast, critical path, and trend analyses for assigned elements, including any impact from interface areas. Implement and maintain the status reports. Provide regular and comprehensive schedule status reports as part of Project Services (PS) reporting.
• Assess and incorporate the impact of approved changes and any deviations from the key project targets and milestones, including productivity monitoring and the identification of alternate approaches to optimize the plan(s).
• Liaise with and challenge the project team & contractor’s personnel to ensure proper understanding of the key schedule sensitivities and drivers.
• Develop contract key dates, milestones, and plan dates that align with the overall project schedule. Participate in evaluating contract schedules and reviewing contractor plans to support contract baseline development. Develop contract sections for planning and progress reporting. Review and verify contractors' reported progress and ensure that this is reflected in the project schedule.
• Contribute to the translation of the project’s risk profile into the probabilistic risk model and understand the output, including the key risk drivers for the possible range of scheduled completion dates. Track the criticality of the main paths to completion and float consumption.
• Implement and utilize the client’s standard tools and processes.
• Support the set-up and implementation of robust AWP processes that are in place and monitored effectively.
• Provide input data for and participate in benchmarking activities.
• Contribute to close-out data to enable knowledge retention (lessons learned, project data compilation) at the completion of work.

 DIMENSION

• This is a mega-project.
• Multiple stakeholders, including the client’s JV partners, EPC consortiums, project teams, and government agencies.
• Direct Report: The job requires a heavy interface with contractor’s planners and team members.
• Responsibility for support of development and monitoring of the project schedule, mainly for an EPC Lump Sum contract at various locations

SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum B.S Degree in Engineering, preferred Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, or Chemical Engineering
• 10+ years of relevant project services experience as a Planning or Project Services Leading role.
• 5 + years of experience in project services, planning of mega-project in Execute phase.
• Experience in Oil & Gas projects with demonstrable understanding of the design-fabrication-construction interfaces.
• Worked on at least a mega project for at least 2(two) years.
• Proven communication skills.
• Skilled Primavera user.