The Role:
The role is for a Senior Planning Engineer to support the Project Services Lead and Project Management Team to develop and control the execution plans for the Decommissioning Team.
The role requires close working with the project team, discipline engineers and counterparts in the Contractors organisations to develop and control project execution plans. He/she will be responsible for scenario planning and provide Project Management reports and updates to the Project team and Project Services Manager.
The role also requires a confident communicator, both internally and externally.
Responsibilities
HSE
* Lead by example in all matters related to HSE.
* Support Goal Zero through visible compliance with the Life Saving Rules.
* Work within, and help advance, company Health and Safety, Environmental and Quality policy.
* Achieve safety standards as defined in personal performance contract.
PLANNING
* Instigate, develop and police the planning and progress monitoring procedures to ensure that each element of the project performs the processes in a timely and consistent manner.
* Own the overall schedule monthly progress update, forecast, critical path and trend analyses.
* Develop status reporting framework and implement throughout the planning hierarchy.
* Provide regular and comprehensive schedule status reports to Project Management.
* Review scope change requests for the impact on schedules and the critical path of the project. Prepare reconciliation between earlier schedules and the current schedule.
* Consolidate the impact of approved changes and any deviations from the key project targets and milestones, including productivity monitoring and "What if scenarios" to aid project management decision-making.
* Liaise with and challenge Senior Project Engineering personnel to ensure proper understanding of the key schedule sensitivities and drivers.
* Contribute to the development of contract strategies documents. Ensure that all contract key dates and milestones align with the overall integrated plan. Evaluate bid schedules and review contractor plans to support contract award recommendations.
* Contribute to the development of the project's risk profiles and translate these into the plans using deterministic and probabilistic analysis methods, as appropriate. Regularly track the schedule risk mitigation efforts, the criticality of the main paths to completion, float consumption and the release of the 50/50 schedule contingency.
* Implement, ensure compliance and utilise the Company standard tools and processes.
* Provide input data for and conduct benchmarking activities.
* Deliver close-out data to enable knowledge retention (lessons learned, project data compilation) at completion of work
GENERAL
* Provide input as appropriate to stage gate and corporate governance and assurance activity
* Attend reviews and other meetings as required.
* Adhere to the requirements of Project Guides, and all related planning procedures.
* Where required, complete relevant information for corporate reporting tool.
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