Planning Engineer Vacancy in an international EPC company based in Port Harcourt


Air Energi Group - Our client, an international EPC company, is seeking candidates to join their team in Port Harcourt (Nigeria):


Job Title: Planning Engineer (experience with large EPC project)

Location:
Port Harcourt
Job Reference: 3901_1433173050
Job Type: This is a contract of 12 months renewable and the rotation will be 75*21.

Job Description
As a Planning engineer, you will have to:

  • Establish and manage effectively a planning and progress control system in order to support the Project Manager decisionmaking process and allow him to complete the project according to the internal baselines and in compliance with the contractual dates and requirements
  • Ensure any deviation from plan is promptly spotted and analysed, final time impact is estimated and the effect of corrective actions taken is monitored
  • Create a schedule awareness atmosphere among all project participants
During the commercial phase:
  • Ensure the development of the project schedule according to the commercial needs.
  • Verify feasibility and criticality
  • Issue all the relevant reporting
  • Issue the Planning & Scheduling Procedure, Progress Measurement Procedure and Risk Management Plan for the Project Control Manager verification
  • Coordinate the risk managment activities startup organizing the first brainstorming and the qualitative / quantitative assessment of the identified risks & opportunities
  • Perform the schedule risk analysis for highly critical projects During the project execution phase: Ensure the effectiveness of the Planning and Progress Control System, monitoring the progress measurement system and ensuring the proper information flow, progress status and completion forecast are assessed and reported for Engineering,
  • Participate to the commercial risk management activities At project start up
  • Ensure the implementation of the Planning and Progress Control System required by the contract complexity, riskyness and duration, in compliance with the Project Breakdown Structure, Company Standards and Contract specifications
  • Interface and coordinate with other Company Functions or Discipline Leaders/Supervisors and Managers to build up activities, assign milestones and constraints by issuing the logic network
  • Prepare all the reference baseline documents, and ensure that the project s planning and scheduling requirements are properly and clearly communicated to those functionally responsible for executing the work
Procurement, Fabrication, Construction and Commissioning phases:
  • Update all Project Schedules, collecting actual data, evaluating forecast dates and monitoring any progress and productivity deviationcompared with the baseline schedule, including the corrective actions taken by the PM
  • Assist the Project Control Manager in the Project Status Report preparation
  • Participate in the coordination meetings (internal or with the Client whenever opportune) Support the Project during the contract changes/claims process providing the time impact analysis At project closure:
  • Support the Project Control Manager in the preparation of the Project close-out Report and the schedule and productivity feed-back data to Project Control and Commercial Department
  • Maintain the risk management process organizing periodic meetings and verifying the risk owners feedbacks
  • Maintain records for all significant events, like contractual claims/obligations, productivity, deliverables, materials status, with estensive use of Company/Partner/Client IT systems and reports
  • Create and maintain the 90 days look-ahead schedule, weekly, monthly. Isolate any adverse trend and warn the PM on time to take corrective actions, issue weekly and monthly project reports (internal and for the Client)
Qualifications
The ideal candidate will have:
  • Minimum 4 years of experience on a similar position.
  • Experience with large project / over 1 billion
  • Engineer education
  • Primavera P6 + Pert Master or Acumen software
  • Experience with EPC project
Job Skills:
  • Planning engineer, primavera P6, onshore, offshore, pert master, acumen software, EPC project, fabrication yards.
Salary
Negotiable

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should:
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