Lead Planning Engineer at Saipem Contracting

Mission

• Establish and manage effectively a planning and progress control system in order to support the Project Manager decisionmaking process and allow him to complete the project according to the internal baselines and in compliance with the contractual dates and requirements
• Ensure any deviation from plan is promptly spotted and analysed, final time impact is estimated and the effect of corrective actions taken is monitored
• Create a schedule awareness atmosphere among all project participants

Tasks
During the commercial phase:

• Ensure the development of the project schedule according to the commercial needs. Verify feasibility and criticality
• Participate to the c ommercial risk management activities

At project start up:

• Ensure the implementation of the Planning and Progress Control System required by the contract complexity, riskyness and duration, in compliance with the Project Breakdown Structure, Company Standards and Contract specifications
• Interface and coordinate with other Company Functions or Discipline Leaders/Supervisors and Managers to build up activities, assign milestones and constraints by issuing the logic network
• Prepare all the reference baseline documents, and ensure that the project s planning and scheduling requirements are properly and clearly communicated to those functionally responsible for executing the work
• Issue all the relevant reporting
• Issue the Planning & Scheduling Procedure, Progress Measurement Procedure and Risk Management Plan for the Project 

Control Manager verification:

• Coordinate the risk managment activities startup organizing the first brainstorming and the qualitative / quantitative assessment of the identified risks & opportunities
• Perform the schedule risk analysis for highly critical projects

During the project execution phase: 

• Ensure the effectiveness of the Planning and Progress Control System, monitoring the progress measurement system and ensuring the proper information flow, progress status and completion forecast are assessed and reported for Engineering, 
• Procurement, Fabrication, Construction and Commissioning phases
• Update all Project Schedules, collecting actual data, evaluating forecast dates and monitoring any progress and productivity deviation compared with the baseline schedule, including the corrective actions taken by the PM.