Project Planner / Scheduler at Myrtle Management Consultants

Company Description

Our client is an indigenous and foremost provider of Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Installation (EPCI) services in West Africa with over 17 years of experience. They are an ISO 9001 Certified indigenous limited liability Company.

Their core mission is to help their clients achieve the highest level of safety, quality, and value-added results at optimal cost in the execution of projects. This mission is guided by their relentless focus on deploying the most updated technologies and best-fit personnel in the execution of our projects.

They urgently require an addition to their team an experienced Ex-pat or Indigenous Project Planner / Scheduler.

Job Description

• 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.
• Develop, implement and comply with the planning and progress monitoring procedures.
• Weekly and monthly schedule progress update, forecast, critical path and trend analyses, including any impact from interface areas.
• Implement and maintain the status reports. Provide regular and comprehensive schedule status reports.
• Assess and incorporate the impact of approved changes and any deviations from the key project targets and milestones, including productivity monitoring and identification of alternate approaches to optimize the plan(s).
• Liaise with and challenge Project engineering personnel to ensure proper understanding of the key schedule sensitivities and drivers.
• 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 schedule completion dates.
• Track the criticality of the main paths to completion and float consumption.
• Implement and utilize the standard tools and processes.
• Provide input data for and participate in benchmarking activities. Contribute to close-out data to enable knowledge retention (lessons learned, project data compilation) at completion of work.
• Prepare Schedules, Histograms and S-Curves

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Science.
• 10 years or more of experience in the Oil and Gas industry in a project environment.
• Leadership experience.
• Good knowledge of Primavera P6.
• Professional membership