Leads project planning and scheduling for large EPCIC marine, offshore, and oil and gas projects. Develops and maintains logically linked Level 3 and Level 4 schedules, establishes baselines, analyzes critical paths, monitors progress, produces curves and workforce histograms, and assesses schedule risks and deviations. Supports recovery planning, expedites delayed activities, facilitates multidisciplinary reviews, ensures schedule compliance, delivers improvement initiatives, and mentors junior planners.
Job Overview:
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.
ResponsibilitiesKey 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
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