Planning Manager at Nestoil Plc

About the Role

• We are seeking an experienced Planning Manager to oversee integrated operational and project planning, ensuring alignment between production, maintenance, wells and development activities, as well as approved budgets and delivery commitments.
• The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and maintaining integrated project schedules, monitoring progress, managing schedule and cost performance, and providing management with timely reports to support effective decision-making and project delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain integrated project schedules, covering milestones, dependencies, resource requirements and critical-path activities across workstreams.
• Align near-term execution plans with the asset development plan, coordinating look-ahead schedules with Operations, Engineering, Maintenance and Supply Chain.
• Establish progress measurement and reporting standards, validate updates with workstream leads and escalate significant delays with proposed recovering options.
• Work with Finance and the Joint Project Management Team to reconcile commitments, actual expenditure and forecasts against approved budgets.
• Assess the schedule and cost implications of scope changes, maintain project baselines and document agreed changes, decisions and actions.
• Coordinate inputs from cost-reporting and planning support teams.
• Prepare and issue consolidated schedule, cost and risk reports to management.

Qualifications and Experience

• Degree in Engineering, Project Management, Quantity Surveying, Finance or a related discipline.
• Relevant upstream oil and gas experience in integrated planning and project controls.
• Demonstrated experience in schedule baselining, progress measurement and cost forecasting.
• Proficiency in Primavera P6, Microsoft Project or equivalent project scheduling software.
• Strong analytical, organisational and stakeholder management skills