Senior Planner

Category: Oil and Gas
Industry: Oil & Gas
City/Country: Doha, Qatar
Location: Doha

We are looking for a **Senior Planner - Operations** with the following details:
**Location : Doha, Qatar**

**Duration : 12 Months**

**Work Status : Resident, Single**

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
- Education: Bachelor of Science in any Engineering field or equivalent
- Industry Experience: Min 10 years' experience in a production operations environment (ideally exposure to offshore environment) Min 7 years planning experience.

Competencies and Behaviors
- Demonstrable proficiency with integrated planning environments and processes
- Initiative to seek out required information and communicate issues proactively
- Ability to relate to and deal with a wide range of nationalities and personalities
- Ability to work across departments across multiple disciplines
- Good communication skills both in written and verbal
- User level in planning packages including MS Project and Primavera P6
- Proactive approach and problem-solving ability

ACTIVITIES

IOP Process management - 3Y/4M plan
- Overall responsible for developing, reviewing and issuing complete validated 4M/3Y IOP.
- Facilitate discussions among departments using raw data to initiate de-conflicting process.
- Collect Level 3 activities from department planners and consolidate into draft 4M/3Y IOP.
- Ensure gate criteria for activities included in the plan are met; reject activities which do not meet gate criteria and revert back to department planners on rejected activities.
- Ensure attributes for all activities included in the plan are provided and accurate; revert back to department planners for any inconsistency.
- Identify conflicts and opportunities for optimization on Safety, production, cost and resources. Leverage department focal points forecast team and HSE department for support in providing accurate POB, HSE and Production/Injection forecast information.
- Share list of conflicts to be discussed during de-conflicting meeting with department planners.
- Send draft of 4M/3Y IOP to Forecast team 2 days prior to the de-confliction meeting to allow for scenario building.
- Share 4M IOP draft with Export team to validate changes with respect to lifting schedule
- Facilitate de-conflicting and optimization of planned activities by liaising with department planners and leading the 4M/3Y de-conflicting meeting. IOP Process improvement
- Trigger pre-arbitration meetings with departments as required.
- Prepare scenarios for arbitration and share with Management prior to validation meeting.
- Facilitate the 4M/3Y validation meeting
- Publish rolling 4M/3Y IOP plan on frequency agreed with Management
- Provide feedback to the department planners on the validated 4M/3Y IOP plans, to keep the IOP plan and departmental plans aligned and up to date.

IOP Process management - 5W plan
- Overall responsible for developing, reviewing and issuing validated 5W IOP
- Collect Level 3 activities from department planners and consolidate into draft 5W IOP
- Ensure gate criteria for activities included in the plan are met; reject activities which do not meet gate criteria and revert to department planners on rejected activities
- Ensure attributes for all activities included in the plan are provided and accurate; revert back to department planners for any inconsistency.
- Review submitted break-ins and check for clashes (POB/SIMOPS/etc.); discuss with OIMs to confirm readiness and feasibility; consolidate break-ins and share with OCM for approval
- Identify conflicts and opportunities for optimization on Safety, production, cost and resources, as a result of approved break-ins. Leverage department focal points, forecast team and HSE department for support in providing accurate POB, HSE and Production/Injection forecast information.
- Prepare dossier with conflicts resulting from break-ins and Share with OCM ahead of 5W validation meeting.
- Provide adequate support as required to OCM on activities arbitration.
- Facilitate the 5W validation meeting chaired by the OCM, with all relevant departments and parties.
- Publish rolling 5W IOP plan on a weekly basis.
- Provide feedback to the department planners on the validated 5W IOP plans, to keep the IOP plan and departmental plans aligned and up to date.
- Coordinate with OC Scheduler to extract IOP activities from 5W IOP into 2W-Look-ahead offshore schedule.

IOP Process Continuous Improvement
- Support Head of IOP in development, implementation and revision of the IOP procedure
- Contribute to efforts in revising IOP procedure
- Support implementation of procedure changes to the ongoing process

Reporting
- Develop, implement and maintain progress tracking and performance reporting tools related to the 5W,4M and 3Y plan e.g. KPI Dashboards, Daily Report Templates;
- Prepare 5W, 4M and 3Y IOP KPI reports and share with Head of IOP