Planning Engineer at WTS Energy

Job Description

• WTS Energy is seeking to hire Lead Planning Engineer for one of its client who is an international Oil & Gas operating company.
• The responsibilities of Lead Planning Engineer will include but are not limited to the following, Deliver and maintain consistent and realistic plans and control structures for Mega Oil & Gas projects.
• Develop the list of plans required to execute the project and their hierarchy relationship.
• Drive, manage and ensure completeness of the development of the activities, logic, resources and progress for the integrated project schedule, leading to the creation of the baseline and its subsequent maintenance.
• Instigate, develop and police the planning and progress monitoring procedures to ensure that each element of the project performs the processes timely and consistently.
• Own the overall schedule monthly progress update, forecast, critical path and trend analyses.
• Develop status reporting framework and implement throughout the planning hierarchy.
• Provide regular and comprehensive schedule status reports to Project Management.
• Review scope change requests for the impact on schedules and the critical path of the project.
• Prepare reconciliation between earlier schedules and the current schedule.
• Consolidate the impact of approved changes and any deviations from the key project targets and milestones, including productivity monitoring and “What if scenarios” to aid project management decision-making.
• Liaise with and challenge Contractor’s schedules to ensure proper understanding of the key schedule sensitivities and drivers.
• Contribute to the development of contract strategies documents.
• Ensure that all contract key dates and milestones align with the overall integrated plan.
• Evaluate bid schedules and review contractor plans to support contract award recommendations.
• Contribute to the development of the project’s risk profiles and translate these into the plans using deterministic and probabilistic analysis methods, as appropriate.
• Regularly track the schedule risk mitigation efforts, the criticality of the main paths to completion, float consumption and schedule contingency.
• Implement, ensure compliance and utilize the Company standard tools and processes.
• Provide input data for and conduct benchmarking activities.
• Deliver close-out data to enable knowledge retention (lessons learned, project data compilation) at completion of work