Planning Specialist

Key responsibilities

Maintain effective communication with project teams and departments to resolve issues, demonstrating initiative, flexibility, and the ability to influence in order to effectively plan and execute project activities.

Ensure faultless schedule planning and delivery using multi-range schedule and planning software suites; collect schedule and cost data from projects within the major projects portfolio, develop, maintain, and monitor delivery of integrated schedules and planning tools.

Conduct schedule risk analysis in Primavera and integrate multiple EPC project level 4 and 3 schedules, producing management level 1 and 0 schedules in Primavera P6 with a focus on accuracy, efficiency, and speed.

Deliver clear presentations articulating schedule and cost delivery, forecasts, progress, deficits, and proposed mitigations; develop timely and concise reporting on governance activities and compliance to ensure effective management and timely escalation of concerns.

Quantify effects and impacts associated with business changes in the overall schedule for stewardship purposes.

Inform the integration project management team of any potential schedule issues and impacts; provide guidance, corrective action, and measures to mitigate adverse trends.

Review and check EPC contractor's progress reports for measurement accuracy; review and endorse schedule and progress baseline and forecast proposed by projects; analyze schedule and progress trends reported by projects.

Support the integration project management team with project schedule and cost progress analysis, reporting, and forecasting activities; periodically update schedules to incorporate changes.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in business or engineering.

Minimum 8 years of project execution-related experience, with at least 6 years in a major projects environment within the oil and gas industry or similar industry experience in a business support/reporting capacity with significant knowledge of large projects.

Proven ability to proactively resolve issues by developing effective solutions independently.

Experience working with national oil companies or international oil companies is an advantage.

Good knowledge and hands-on experience conducting schedule risk analysis in Primavera and integrating multiple EPC project schedules.

Excellent communication and people skills.

Exceptional computer literacy skills, including Primavera P6 (version 22 and above), Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Power BI (desirable).