At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead project planning and scheduling for innovative oil and gas projects.
- Company: Join McDermott, a leader in the energy sector with a collaborative culture.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, career growth, and opportunities to mentor others.
- Other info: Dynamic work environment with opportunities for professional development.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on large-scale projects while developing your skills.
- Qualifications: 7-10 years of experience in project management and strong software skills required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
The Senior Planner uses McDermott's Planning/Scheduling discipline practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the Planning/Scheduling discipline within McDermott. They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the Planning/Scheduling discipline. They solve complex problems and use their discipline-specific knowledge to improve their products or services. The Senior Planner impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the Planning/Scheduling team and other related teams and ensures that they are working within the appropriate guidelines and policies.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
- Perform schedule analysis using Project Management software including Primavera P6, Deltek Fuse & Risk, and Microsoft Project.
- Support project baseline creation during the project initiation and setup phase.
- Facilitate detailed multi-discipline scope reviews.
- Provide project schedule support and mentor junior planners as required.
- Develop and maintain logically linked level 3 and level 4 activity schedules, for marine scope installation projects in the Oil and Gas Industry (pipelines, subsea, platforms, HDD), according to precedence flow planning, using best practices.
- Produce workforce histograms and progress and quantity curves in connection with the schedules.
- Maintain and review the sequence of Engineering, Procurement, Fabrication, Construction, Hook-Up, and Commissioning, and other operations for control of critical path and overall project durations.
- Elevate and expedite operations that are delaying the schedule and analyze changes to the schedule to meet unforeseen conditions.
- Create and Monitor schedule compliance, key performance factors, and provide analysis of variations to baseline data.
- Identify factors, both current and potential, that may delay the schedule. Assess actions for recovery and improvement and analyze changes to the schedule to meet unforeseen conditions.
- Lead and deliver initiatives.
Essential Qualifications and Education
- Bachelor's degree in Project Management/Engineering/Construction/Business Management or equivalent combinations of technical training or experience required.
- 7-10 years of EPCIC experience with Onshore or Offshore Oil and Gas or Power Generation related projects.
- Planning/Scheduling experience for Large LNG or Topside Fabrication projects preferred.
- Have solid commands of Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Office software.
- Must be able to use advanced features in Excel (curves, histograms, dynamic tables, formulas, etc.).
- Able to produce and maintain logically linked activity schedules, according to precedence flow in EPCIC planning, using best practices.
- Able to produce and assess progress curves, histograms, variance reports, and critical paths.
- Able to analyze project status and performance, deviations, performance factors, forecasts, and workarounds.
- Must be able to produce multidisciplinary logically linked activity schedules, according to precedence flow in planning, using best industry practices.
- Ability to effectively communicate with team members and management.
