Senior Planning/ Project Control Engineer

About the job Senior Planning/ Project Control Engineer

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Builds project baselines and gains approval of client and internal stakeholders
• Maintains project schedule and resource forecasts throughout the project lifecycle
• Analyses schedule and trends and communicate forecasted schedule risk to project team, drives risk mitigation proposals
• Checks and controls schedule movements, compares with current scope and progress as well as with previous forecast.
• Also compares with productivity factors and validates accuracy of future task durations
• Ensures that forecast task durations and logic are understood and committed by the task owners
• Produces and communicates internal and external project reporting of project status
• Collaborates with 3rd parties on project schedule interfaces including maintenance of an interface register
• Presents all time schedule data in a transparent way, attends project and management reviews to present schedule status
• Interface with the project management team and all key stakeholders.
• Manage the weekly and monthly progress report protocols / templates for progress reporting and monitoring progress against it.
• Manage the preparation of weekly and monthly progress reports/presentations for the client.
• Assisting in establishing / delivering formal reporting arrangements on project progress for the client and project.
• Prepare project advice for any site progress / planning concern that may impact site progress.
• Prepare and manage the daily escalation report for project managers.
• Overseeing the preparation of risk assessments and mitigation plans.

Educational Requirements:

• Degree qualified either in engineering or project management discipline