Senior Planning Engineer

Stafford

10 months ago

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Rubicon Consulting is currently recruiting for a Senior Planning Engineer on a 11 month contract based in Stafford.

Role Summary

The candidate should be proficient in P6, with strong interpersonal skillset to interact across all the organisation function leaders and the regional leadership. He is comfortable in leading a medium size Project Controls team. He shall have an overarching view of the project controls impact in the execution of large projects and influence major decisions on those projects.
His technical background and HVDC experience support strategic orientations aiming at delivering such complex project on time and in budget, despite the various external factors and risks.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
• Leads the Project Controls team on large and complex HVDC projects, and ensures efficiency and effectiveness of that team.
• Builds the project baseline gaining approval of client and internal stakeholders.
• Maintains project schedule with periodic updates, including resource forecasts throughout the project lifecycles.
• Identifies activities prerequisites and help anticipate blockers with wider project team and third parties
• Drive and challenge progress, agree forecast and develop mitigations / catch up plans.
• Ensure schedule analysis through various means (schedule movements, S curve, commodity curve, OTD, Say/Do ratio, overplanning, resource loading, productivity…) to determine project schedule trends and related risks & opportunities then work with project team members to drive mitigation strategies. Provides comprehensive dashboard and evidence to PD for subsequent decision/escalation.
• Leads collaboration with functional task and resource owners to find strategies to optimize durations and manhours.
• Ensures that forecast task durations and logic are understood and committed by the task owners.
• Presents all time schedule data in a transparent way, attends project and management reviews to present schedule status, describe trends and forecasts/landing, make proposals and influence strategic decisions.
• Produces and communicates internal project reporting of project status.
• Produces contractually required customer reporting and is able to communicate directly with customers on scheduling matters.
• Leads collaboration with 3rd parties on project schedule interfaces including maintenance of an interface register.
• Maintains a register of potential schedule and cost risks in collaboration with the Risk Manager.
• Provides time related calculations to ensure change order schedule / cost estimates are accurate.
• Aligns with Cost Controller to ensure reconciliation between P6 schedule and approved cost phasing.
• Generates “what if” scenarios to optimize execution and works with project teams to evaluate feasibility.
• Support disputes and analysis of EOT claims, develop forensic analysis.
• Takes full responsibility for the Project Controls output for the assigned HVDC project in close coordination with his Project Director.

Requirements

• Degree qualified either in engineering or project management with 7 years minimum of experience in planning management, including 3 years in electrical substations.
• Robust experience in Primavera P6 user (Essential)
• Extensive experience in planning large turnkey projects, in international and multicultural environment
• Demonstrable experience in applying forensic analysis and leading EOT claims preparation on large and complex turnkey projects
• Experience managing small teams within a large project
• Experience of cost control function and interface with schedule
• Excellent interpersonal skills for cross functional and leadership interaction / good communicator / anticipation and problem-solving aptitude / team spirit / resilient
• Analytical / contributes to the decision making. Provides solutions and alternatives.
• Autonomous and reliable
• Customer focus
• Previous experience in building complex, integrated schedules for tenders and in HVDC technology is a plus
• Knowledge of risk management processes and tools, quantitative risk analysis is a plus

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