Planning Engineer

Responsibilities:
 

• Integrates engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning schedules into the overall project schedule and manages the schedule interface with internal partners
• Reviews tender documents including detailed review of the Instructions to tenders, scope of work, key contract dates, project milestones
• Establishes the bid schedule and communicates with various department for e.g., Engineering, Procurement & Other department to get proposal inputs
• Generates schedule on project management software Primavera (P3.1, P6.2) & Microsoft project for different kind of Projects for bid proposal up to Level-5 e.g., Onshore & Cross-Country pipeline, offshore platform, refinery expansion, material handling, power plant and tankage
• Understands the project execution philosophy and the work break down structure, along with the detailed functional schedule (Engineering Procurement, Construction & Commissioning)
• Identifies & explores objective of the Projects & submits all planning/project control related technical document required in the Project
• Prepares technical/commercial qualifications
• Resources planning & its maximum utilization, adheres project monitoring-reviewing, utilizes to the best capacity of available manpower, machinery, materials within the project
• Prepares & tracks the project master schedule and summary level curves and manpower histogram
• Identifies, monitors & streamlines the critical paths running through the project master schedule and individual contracts
• Submits weekly/monthly reports generation including ‘S’-curves for client & Management review
• Prepares, reviews & publishes MIS & monthly/weekly/daily reports on operational activities
• Monitors the use of ‘Progress Monitoring Tools’ such as ‘S – Curve’
• Identifies the changing priorities as per the project requirements and updates the same in schedules
• Identifies the critical areas like procurement status, delivery dates, shop drawings approval, and material approvals & informs the management to eliminate the delays in the project
• Generates the micro-schedules for the site execution team from the main/target programs and prepares the recovery schedules to catch-up the lags in the project
• Tracks and reports schedule performance with an integrated view of hours

Qualifications:
 

• 10 years’ experience in GCC with a similar position in Oil and Gas projects
• Excellent knowledge in specialized planning & scheduling software utilization (Primavera and/or MS Project)
• Good knowledge of engineering/design scope, job working instruction / procedures, good project control practices in planning and scheduling and overall awareness of projects
• Ability to work in a highly competitive market with extremely challenging targets and timelines