Senior Principal Planner

Job Overview:

The Senior Principal Planner is tasked with solving unique and complex problems that have a broad impact on the business. They must proactively identify and solve the most complex problems that impact the management and direction of the business. The Senior Principal Planner is considered a specialist in the field of Planning/Scheduling, and they offer a broad base of knowledge about the Project Controls function. They impact the direction and resource allocation of programs and projects in their discipline and work within general functional policies and industry guidelines. The Senior Principal Planner role requires conceptual and innovative thinking to develop creative solutions to Planning/Scheduling challenges.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

Perform schedule analysis using Project Management software's 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

Perform detailed schedule quality and integrity checks using Deltek Fuse

Update and validate physical progress reported from EVMS systems

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, Installation, 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 current and potential factors 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

Create and run a prepared or ad-hoc report

Evaluate the validity of the critical path based on prior experience

Resource load the schedule and match it to an earned value system

Suggest recovery plans or areas of potential improvement

Have a strong understanding of typical project logic and flow

Run Acumen Fuse to analyze schedule quality

Run schedule risk analysis and facilitate risk review meeting

Set up overall schedule parameters (WBS/OBS/Project/Global Codes /Calendar)

Essential Qualifications and Education:

Bachelor's degree in Project Management/Engineering/Construction/Business Management or equivalent combinations of technical training or experience required

15+ 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 command 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

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