Job Description

, India

Job Family Group: Projects

Worker Type: Regular

Posting Start Date:

Business unit: Projects and Technology

Experience Level: Early Careers

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Job Purpose

The Project Planning Engineer scope involves supporting the delivery and maintenance of standard, consistent and realistic project plans reflecting the assessed risk parameters for the Portfolio of projects under the program throughout all the phases. The Project Planning Engineer shall work closely with project teams, Engineering Partner and Vendors/Contractors to deliver the following:

Accountabilities

• Translation of a Project\xe2\x80\x99s Technical Scope, Execution Strategy and Risk Profile into the component activities, interrelationships and sequencing required for its delivery.
• Support delivery and maintenance of consistent and realistic plans and control structures for the project.
• Understand and monitor the interfaces between assigned project sub-elements and other sub-elements. Develop activities, logic, resources and progress for the assigned project sub-elements.
• Support Lead Planner in establishing and maintaining the project baseline schedule.
• Assist in development of contract key dates, milestones and plan dates and align with the overall project schedule.
• Maintain awareness of critical and sub-critical paths and track float consumption.
• Participate in evaluating contractor schedules and reviewing contractor plans to support contract award recommendations.
• Understand the requirements of the contract sections for planning and progress reporting. Review and verify contractors reported progress and incorporate into schedule progress updates.
• Conduct the schedule monthly progress update, forecast, critical path and trend analyses for assigned elements, including any impact from interface areas.
• Provide input to the status reports/Project Dashboards.
• Assist project teams in proper understanding of the key schedule sensitivities and drivers. Propose alternate approaches to optimise the plan(s).
• Support the monthly LE and Quarterly LE process.
• Produce Schedule packages for review and approval at different Decision Gates.
• Contribute to the change management process, analyze trends and highlight potential impacts of changes on schedule and key milestones.
• Support modeling of deterministic schedule model and probabilistic schedule analysis.
• Contribute to close-out data to enable knowledge retention

Skills & Requirements

• Engineering Degree and/or Certification as a Project Planner or equivalent experience
• 2 \xe2\x80\x93 8 years of refinery or petrochemical industry experience in planning preferably on capital projects
• Practical understanding of all phases of the project delivery process.
• Working knowledge of a broad range of Project Controls systems, tools, and practices specifically in Oil & Gas industry.
• Team player with good interpersonal skills and proven track record of being self-motivated.
• Able to work across multiple projects largely unsupervised and deliver results within challenging deadlines and under pressure.
• Experience in working in multi-discipline and multi-national teams, with well proven interpersonal & communication skills.
• Strong leadership, communication, report-writing, and presentation skills.
• Excellent analytical, oral and written communication skills
• Customer focus and ability to work in a virtual environment/remote support to customers
• Skill in P6, Acumen Fuse and other industry Planning tools
• Preferred experience in following tools: Power Bi, Primavera Risk Analysis

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