Planner/Scheduler, RLP Project
Location
Ras Laffan, Qatar
Contract Type
Contract
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct or participate in interactive planning sessions to create EPC contractor's schedule deliverables.
- Perform what-if analysis, workaround identification, float analysis, critical path identification, and recommend corrective actions to mitigate unfavorable schedule deviations.
- Review contractor's baseline schedule and Earned Value Management System (EVMS) as the project baseline or benchmark.
- Analyze and offer corrective actions to meet planned progress per discipline.
- Validate claimed progress by analyzing contractor's deliverables and construction activities.
- Identify interface points between contractors' schedules to ensure coordination and optimization of the project plan.
- Validate progress and payment milestones claimed in contractor's monthly invoices.
- Monitor contractor's compliance with best practices of project planning, scheduling, and contractual requirements for EPC schedule development and updates.
- Estimate schedule impact of changes and variances.
- Support the Project Management Team with preparing weekly and monthly status reports and project dashboards.
- Review contractor's weekly and monthly reports for accuracy.
- Prepare charts, tables, and 3-week lookahead schedules to assist the Project Management Team in managing the overall project.
- Assist in development of schedule identification, storage, retrieval, and report format standardization.
- Identify and assess period changes in schedule using scheduling software.
- Participate in project risk management workshops, implement mitigation actions, and quantify schedule contingency.
- Develop, maintain, review, and update integrated project schedules using Primavera P6, including detailed Level 3/Level 4 schedules as required.
- Perform schedule health checks, critical-path and near-critical-path analysis, identifying emerging risks and potential delays.
- Develop and review short- and medium-term look-ahead schedules and identify constraints that may affect planned activities.
- Perform schedule variance and trend analysis against the approved baseline and recommend appropriate mitigation and recovery actions.
- Support forecasting of key project milestones, including construction completion, mechanical completion, pre-commissioning, commissioning, and start-up.
- Support time-impact analysis and assessment of contractor schedule claims as required.
- Review contractors' progress measurement methodology, productivity, and earned value performance.
- Support preparation of weekly/monthly management dashboards, S-curves, schedule KPIs, and progress reports.
- Coordinate schedule interfaces across engineering, procurement, construction, pre-commissioning, commissioning, and start-up activities.
- Ensure schedule information is aligned, where applicable, with project cost, risk, change-management, and progress-control processes.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or above in engineering or related field.
- 10+ years of relevant experience.
- Expertise in Primavera P6, schedule risk analysis, and Acumen Fuse.
- Strong understanding of Microsoft Office products including Excel and PowerPoint.
- Previous capital project experience with an operator and/or EPC contractor.
- Experience in petrochemical unit design, engineering, construction, commissioning, and start-up.
- Strong knowledge of Critical Path Method (CPM), Earned Value Management (EVM), progress measurement, schedule forecasting, and schedule variance analysis.
- Demonstrated experience in reviewing, analyzing, and challenging EPC contractor baseline and updated schedules.
- Experience in schedule recovery planning, mitigation strategies, and time-impact analysis.
- Ability to analyze schedule trends, identify potential delays and constraints, and provide recommendations to project management.
- Strong team-building skills and ability to work with peers, company employees, and contractors.
- Excellent planning, organizational, and troubleshooting skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Self-starter with desire to lead and take responsibility.
- Strong commitment to safety.
- Knowledge of industry standards.
- Flexibility to work in both the project office in Doha and site office in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar.
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous experience on grass-roots mega capital petrochemical, LNG, or oil & gas projects.
- Experience supporting large-scale projects through construction, commissioning, and start-up phases.
- Experience working in the Middle East region.