Projects - Execution Planning Advisor III at ABNL Limited

Description

• The Maintenance Planning Advisor shall provide expert guidance and strategic direction to elevate maintenance planning across our oil and gas operations.
• The role is expected to shape a proactive planning framework that aligns with business objectives, driving reliability, minimizing downtime, and ensuring compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy and Vision: Advise on the development and maintenance of the organization's maintenance planning vision, strategies, principles, and techniques, integrating reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA), and predictive analytics tailored to oil and gas assets.
• Performance Monitoring & Advice: Advise on planning performance through KPIs (e.g., schedule compliance, backlog levels, MTBF/MTTR), identifying trends and recommending data-driven improvements to boost operational efficiency.
• Training and Coaching: Train, coach, and mentor maintenance planners, field supervisors, and technicians.

Main Functions

• Leads development of execution planning effort including coordination of Front End Execution Planning activities by:
• Ensure audits of Contractors, Suppliers and Project Team (PT) are scheduled and conducted; lead PT audits and participate in Contractor audits as appropriate
• Leveraging cross-functional input via Front End Execution Planning (FEEP) workshops to identify execution issues at key Select and Define Stage milestones
• Defining and implementing specific work programs focused on developing mitigation plans and delineating execution basic elements to confirm feasibility
• Monitors project status/issues and supports project team as required during Execute Stage
• Considered as execution and execution planning Subject Matter Expert.

Tasks and Responsibilties
Coordinate development of execution planning deliverables including:

• Defining and developing key execution planning deliverables and timing that support the relevant business case during Planning for Development leading to Gate 1
• Concept Select/Gate 2
• Checkpoint 1 and Gate 3 in accordance with agreed milestones
• When assigned the FEEP Coordinator role, design and lead FEEP Phase 1 (pre-Concept Selection Approval) and Phase 2 (post Concept Selection through Checkpoint I) work effort including:
• Set up and facilitate FEEP workshops, including attendance of appropriate personnel
• Coordinate development of, and stewards, work programs in FEEP Charters and integration of execution bases to support Concept Selection, Gate, and Checkpoint deliverables
• Works with functions to identify and resolve issues
• Responsible for quality of work products produced as part of the FEEP process
• Responsible for monitoring and reporting status and progress of the FEEP work effort to stakeholders
• Responsible for obtaining functional and project management agreement on specified project deliverables
• Monitors project status/issues during the Execute stage and supports the project team with execution related activities as required (schedule recovery planning, incentive plans, Cold Eye Reviews, etc.)
• As Subject Matter Expert (SME), advises others in execution and execution planning of projects at various Gate stages including:
• Participation in project reviews and assessments (e.g. PEBRAs (Project Economic and Risk Assessment), IPRs, Concept Selection)
• Overall responsibilities on key work processes (e.g. CCAP (Company Capital Project Management) work process as assigned)
• Mentors new engineers (e.g. transferees, new hires, etc.) assigned to Execution Planning and other experienced hires assigned projects they lead
• Participates in development of work tasks and assignments required for campus hires to meet ECM's.

Skills and Qualifications

• MS in Engineering preferred
• Experience in oil and gas industry
• Experience in a variety of project management and execution positions
• Prior experience includes leadership roles in managing capital projects, experience in all phases of project execution, and international assignments.
• Flexibility for international business travel as required.