Project Planner at Wendernek Consulting Limited

Job Description

• Our client is looking to hire an effective Project Planner to drive the highest level of safety, quality, and value-added results at optimal cost in the execution of company projects.

Responsibilities

• Understand the list of plans required to execute the assigned project and their interface to other sub-elements.
• Responsible for outlining the scope of projects, including determining the start and delivery dates.
• Deliver and maintain consistent and realistic plans and control structures for the project.
• Recommend and implement modifications to improve effectiveness and accomplish project milestones.
• Plan, coordinate and monitor activities of assigned projects to develop and implement procedures, processes and systems.
• Educate personnel in methods to ensure project continuity and completeness.
• Develop detailed task lists and work effort assessment.
• Prepare short and long-term resource allocation plans based on input from all key players and team members.
• Prepare and present regular internal and external project reports for management.
• Evaluate and analyze with team risks and issues compromising project results and develop plans to mitigate them.
• Lead development of baseline schedule and support Project Manager (PM) in Integrated Baseline Review (IBR).
• Gather data, update project schedule and develop reliable schedule forecast with support from project team.
• 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.
• 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.

Qualifications / Competencies

• A minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering.
• At least 5 years or more of experience in the Oil and Gas industry in a project environment.
• Certified PMP, PMI-SP, CAPM will be an advantage.
• Proficiency in MS Project, Outlook Shared Point, and excellent Excel skills
• Project Management, Coordination, Planning and Scheduling
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Exceptional Time Management skills
• Detail Oriented, Ability to pay keen attention to details.
• Absolute Team player
• Ability to demonstrate Leadership qualities at all times
• Good knowledge of Primavera P6.