Senior Planning Engineer

Job Description

Overall responsibilities:

This role will be working closely with Planning & Control Manager and Project Managers and take responsibility for:

1. Resource planning, leveling, and progress monitoring for projects.
2. Assist and take major responsibilities on proposals planning during the tendering stage.
3. Functionally reporting to the General Manager and on budget required for a team, budget at completion, calculating and estimating cash flow and cost/budget variance analysis.
4. Manage project work approvals in terms of accurate cost code allocation and initial execution budget set-up and approvals.
5. Monitor and control costs and develop invoicing procedures to customers/clients.

Day-to-day responsibilities:

1. Prepare the Master and Construction schedule.
2. Generate Monthly (MPR), Weekly (WPR), and Daily (DPR) reports on operational activities.
3. Develop an internal schedule to identify & track the major milestones to achieve the project completion date.
4. Generate analysis reports, S-curve, narrative reports for client & management review.
5. Monitor and update project schedule on a weekly and monthly basis.
6. Establish Progress Measurement System (PMS) & prepare Deliverable Status Registers.
7. Coordinate work between disciplines and subcontractors.
8. Identify risks & plan risk responses.
9. Manage material & resource/manpower planning and coordination.
10. Conduct critical path analysis.
11. Prepare Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
12. Develop and update resource histogram weekly or monthly as required.
13. Prepare project cash flow & actual comparison.
14. Prepare look-ahead schedule.
15. Study and analyze planned progress vs actual progress.
16. Prepare recovery schedule to catch up the completion date.
17. Prepare Progress Payment Certificate (PPC) and Request for Invoice (RFI).
18. Analyze actual costs vs control budget during all phases of the project and maintain budget at completion forecasts.
19. Work closely with Head of Projects, Project Managers, and Sr. Project Engineers and manage the project work approval process.
20. Determine the forecast final costs based on available information and produce updates on project cost forecasts for reporting.
21. Produce Project Planning closeout report and productivity calculation.
22. Prepare project claims and extension of time (EOT).

Qualifications:

Minimum Bachelor Degree in Engineering (Electrical, Instrumentation or Mechanical) with 7 years minimum in the Oil & Gas industry. Affinity and familiarity with Engineering, Procurement and Contracting aspects in the business, both onshore and offshore.

Experience Requirements:

1. Experience level: 7 years minimum.
2. 3-4 years or more experience in UAE or Middle East EPC Projects.
3. Minimum 3 years as Planning Engineer on medium to large scale projects in a similar business or industry.
4. Experience with cost estimating software and tools.
5. Excellent knowledge of Primavera.

Skills & Professional Requirements:

1. Experience of developing project planning packages.
2. Advanced knowledge and expertise in Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Applications.
3. Advanced knowledge and understanding of WBS, CBS structure and project reporting capabilities.
4. Strong understanding of Project Planning, Scheduling, Cost Management, Change Control, & Risk Analysis & Management.
5. Excellent understanding of earned value application, cost and schedule variance analyses/trending, and what-if scenarios.
6. PMP – Project Management Professional is preferred.

Attributes & Behaviours:

1. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
2. Excellent communication and presentation skills.
3. Ability to work collaboratively with project managers, stakeholders, and other team members.
4. Coaches, mentors, and empowers others to make decisions within established parameters.
5. Champion and role model for ethical behaviour and compliance with applicable laws and policies.
6. Excellent personality with strong communication, interpersonal and organizational skills.
7. Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.