Senior Planner
Location: Boden, SwedenAssignment Type: Annually Renewable Contract
Work Schedule: 6/2 Rotation, 53 hours per week (Monday to Saturday, usually half day Saturday)
Package: Daily rate, accommodation, and rotational flights provided
Key Responsibilities
- Perform schedule analysis using project management software such as Primavera P6, Deltek Fuse & Risk, and Microsoft Project.
- Support project baseline creation during the 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) 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, 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.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Engineering, Construction, Business Management, or equivalent technical training or experience.
- 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.
- Strong command of Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Office software.
- Proficient in advanced Excel features (curves, histograms, dynamic tables, formulas, etc.).
- Ability to produce and maintain logically linked activity schedules according to precedence flow in EPCIC planning using best practices.
- Ability to produce and assess progress curves, histograms, variance reports, and critical paths.
- Ability to analyze project status and performance, deviations, performance factors, forecasts, and workarounds.
- Ability to produce multidisciplinary logically linked activity schedules using best industry practices.
- Strong communication skills with team members and management.