Open since Apr 2022
Project Planning Engineer
AI Summary
Prepares project schedules, planning packages, and progress reports for oil and gas petrochemical projects; analyzes risks and supports change management and cost estimation.
About this role
Overview / Responsibilities
Wood is currently recruiting for a Project Planning Engineer with extensive experience in the oil and gas petrochemical industry.
- Prepare Planning Package – Baseline Project Schedule, Engineering Documents Deliverables Register (EDDR), Progress Measurement System, S-Curve, Manpower Histogram, Project Calendar
- Prepare Weekly Progress Report, Monthly Progress Reports, MIS reports
- Prepare Planning documents for Proposals – Bid Schedule, Manpower Deployment Plan, Manpower Histogram, S Curve
- Prepare Weekly Cost Reports based on Earned Value Management
- Prepare EPC Implementation Schedule with Standard Productivity norms and logics
- Prepare Organization Staffing Plans and Resource Planning
- Analyzes project risks and develop mitigation plans
- Update and Maintain accurate updated schedule, progress statistics, S curves and prepare forecasts of trends
- Act as a focal point for engineering discipline leads regarding scheduling and progress issues.
- Be particularly diligent in recognizing and reporting to Project Management potential problems in all phases of the project
- Contribute to the change management process, analyzing and reporting schedule impacts to the project
- Understand all relevant documentation pertaining to the project including scope of services, conditions of contract, project execution plan, etc
- Assist management in Decision Making and Perform any other support functions as directed by the Management
Qualifications
Skills / Qualifications
- Bachelor’s in Engineering
- Minimum 8 to 10 years industry experience.
- Minimum 5 years Engineering Planning experience (Feasibility / Concept, Pre FEED, FEED, Detail Engineering Projects)
- Competent / proficient user of Primavera, MS Excel, MS Power point, MS Access, and MS Word, and MS Project
- Advanced user of MS Excel, MS Access, Python
- Exposure in preparation and negotiation of extension of time claims
- Cost Estimation skills
- Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis Using Primavera Risk Analysis
- Construction / Fabrication Knowledge
- Capable of working independently and making decisions.
- Excellent organizational skills
- Excellent Negotiation skills
- Excellent communication skills.
- Work well within a multicultural team environment.
Company Overview
Wood is a global leader in engineering and consultancy across energy and the built environment, helping to unlock solutions to some of the world’s most critical challenges. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in more than 60 countries, employing around 40,000 people. www.woodplc.com
Diversity Statement
We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.
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