Strategic Planner Expert

3 days ago

Doha, Baladīyat ad Dawḩah, Qatar lxbfYeaa Full time

The Planning and Control Specialist for the Business Support Team is responsible for integrating onshore project schedules and ensuring the accurate measurement, monitoring, verification, reporting, and analysis of project progress.

This involves day-to-day activities for developing, maintaining, controlling, and integrating overall project schedules, including implementing a robust progress measurement system, monitoring, verification, reporting, and analysis.

The specialist must understand key project drivers, define roles and responsibilities, develop communication protocols, identify, develop, and implement project procedures for planning and scheduling.

They will coordinate and facilitate all planning sessions and development of plans for project teams.

The primary objective of planning is to enhance project performance by anticipating issues, avoiding negative situations, and reducing the frequency of poor outcomes.

Embedded robust planning management practices have been shown to contribute to consistent delivery of successful projects.

The Planning and Control Specialist conducts periodic assessments to ensure adherence to procedures and methods by business teams across various packages.

Your Key Responsibilities
  1. Provide expert guidance on project schedules, progress measurement, and change management to the Onshore Project team.
  2. Review contractor project control procedures (home office and field control procedures) to ensure company requirements are met.
  3. Evaluate the impact of project changes on the overall schedule, quantifying and incorporating the effect and impact of approved changes for stewardship purposes.
  4. Advise the Project Controls Head and Project Leadership Team of potential schedule issues and provide guidance on corrective action and measures to mitigate adverse trends.
  5. Verify the accuracy of contractor progress reports, endorsing claimed progress reported by the contractor.
  6. Review and endorse schedule and progress baselines, recovery plans, and forecasts prepared by the contractor.
  7. Analyze schedule and progress trends reported by the contractor.
  8. Support the PMT with ongoing project schedule and progress analysis, reporting, and forecasting activities.
  9. Periodically update the onshore schedule to incorporate schedule updates from various packages.
  10. Maintain overall project schedules, ensuring they reflect the approved project design/execution scope.
  11. Monitor interfaces common to multiple packages, liaising with project teams to mitigate adverse trends.
  12. Respond to ad-hoc requests from the PMT related to Scheduling and Reporting, including developing progress metrics and key performance indicators.
  13. Ensure the PMT and contractors work towards correct priorities, with clear critical path and sub-critical paths to enable timely start-up of facilities as defined in the Management Control Schedule.
  14. Frequently review productivity to ensure the contractor can achieve the plan, advising when slippages are seen in Productivity Factor (PF) or Schedule Performance Index (SPI).
  15. Perform analysis on project data, including schedule analysis, productivity analysis, variance analysis on progress, manpower, and commodities, analyze site work front requirement for engineering deliverables, required-on-site, and need dates for procured materials.
  16. Develop various dashboards and analysis for onshore management and shareholders, including multi-dimensional analysis on project quantities, progress, man-hours, productivity that supports key decision-making for onshore management.
  17. Prepare what-if scenarios, analyze progress trends across all onshore projects, and evaluate the impact to project completion.
Your Profile
  1. Bachelor's degree in engineering or a business-related subject, or equivalent experience.
  2. A minimum of 10 years' experience in a major project environment within the oil and gas industry, with exposure in planning, cost, and risk management, including project controls, cost, and schedule development.
  3. Experience working with National Oil Companies or International Oil Companies is an advantage.
  4. Excellent written and verbal English skills.
  5. Strong planning, organizational, and prioritizing skills.
  6. Strong negotiating and influencing skills.
  7. Good communication skills.
  8. Good computer literacy skills, including Primavera P6 (Cloud version 18+), Word, Excel, Access, PowerBI, and PowerPoint.
  9. Hands-on working experience in Primavera P6 Cloud Version 18 and above.
  10. Good knowledge of using Primavera Schedule Risk Analysis software for conducting Schedule Risk Analysis.
  11. Great interpersonal skills.
Our Offer
  1. Salary:
    • Day Rate in USD Plus Allowance
  2. Work Schedule:
    • 10 Hours / 6 Days
  3. Duration:
    • Renewable until Dec 2027
  4. Location:
    • Qatar

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