Project Planner

General Description:
Reporting to Engineering Manager with the major responsibilities as followings:

• Accountable to the Engineering Manager on matters concerning planning, scheduling risk analysis, trending, reporting.
• Defines scheduling internal and external interfaces with PMT and other external parties.
• Proactively develops relationships, identifies opportunities to add value, and engage team members as needed with PMT, NIPI’s staff and Contractor’s personnel.
• Provides resource planning and project schedules to project cost controllers.
• Coordinates schedules from Construction Team and ensures updated information and progress are incorporated into the Project’s Master Integrated Schedule.
• Monitors and forecasts progress of engineering activities. Highlight problem areas and recommend remedial actions. Informs PMT of schedule risk items / potential delays.
• Evaluates critical paths in the project schedules and evaluate alternative schedule options to identify optimum project strategies or resolve problems before and during execution.
• Develops and implements plan versus actual progress curves. Reports and analyses weekly deviations from plan. Evaluates allocation of resources and provide recommendations to maintain required progress.
• Liaises with PMT leaders to communicate required completion dates and interfaces between responsible parties.
• Prepares and issues updated project schedules and Milestone summaries for regular reporting cycles.
• Ensure that all planning and scheduling processes, methods and systems are functioning in accordance with the requirements and expectations defined by internal procedures.
• Participate in and be the mentor for R&EI-VSP on-job training program.
• Perform other tasks as required by the Project Manager/ Engineering manager.

Qualifications and Work Experience required:
Qualification

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Business Administration.

Experience & Requirements

• A minimum of 7 years of experience in oil and gas including upstream project design and technical support. At least 3 years of relevant experience (project Engineer or higher) in undertaking offshore oil & gas projects.
• Well-developed skills in analysis, planning, communication, organization and interpersonal relationships, reporting and supervising.
• Good understanding of engineering, procurement, construction and installation sequence of offshore oil & gas projects.
• Good understanding of written and spoken English.
• Good skill in Microsoft Office, planning software

Challenges (If any):

• Multi-functional, and able to cope with diverse job demands.
• Coordinating work in multiple locations with different organization and multiple interfaces.
• Under pressure and workload.

Assignment Duration: