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• Coordinate where required a fully integrated overall Planning and reporting function to provide support to the various Project groups (Engineering, procurement and contracts, construction, Commissioning and start-up to ensure that project management's requirements for timely and accurate reporting of project activities is achieved.
  
• Review all plans and schedules produced by the EPCM and other contractors and coordinate the review from other relevant project team members.
  
• Develop and maintain the Project, ‘Project Master Schedule'.
  
• Develop and prepare further detailed and integrated plans and procedures for Planning and reporting.
  
• Prepare project wide monthly/weekly schedule and progress reports and graphical presentations of the summary Plans and forecasts for appropriate input to the Project Monthly Reports, general Project ‘Visibility' and any ad hoc reports that may be called for from internal or external sources
  
• Support periodic, project wide, risk analysis and probability profiles, along with monthly, project wide, trend analysis.
  
• Conduct Periodic audits of Contractor and its subcontractor's/vendor's progress status and procedural compliance.
  
• Prepare and maintain detailed data bases and analyses of project resource utilization and ensure sufficient detail exists of such information in the event of contractor and sub-contractor claims for acceleration, productivity, delays, force majeure claims and the like.  
  
• Be prepared to defend any potential claims with facts, analysis, appropriate logic and reports.
  
• Complement the Project Management team by consistently focusing on established project goals, and maintaining the appropriate tools that keep the goals in focus to take into account all of the requirements of the Project groups, the EPC Contractor and sub contractors, the Program Group, outside organizations and ensure that as far as possible a measure of consistency is observed throughout each of the groups
  
• Coordinate and administer the overall Project Planning Trend and Revision System, and conduct the Trend and Forecast review meeting under the chairmanship of the Project Manager at least on a monthly basis, but more frequently as required·
• Keep Project Management fully informed on matters related to their area of responsibility so that decisions can be made based on the best available information.
  
• When required, supervise varying numbers of planning engineers at multiple site locations.
  
• To ensure: Work effectively with the Project Team, Engineers, Construction personnel, Commissioning personnel and Operations to establish and maintain required working interfaces with technical groups during Project execution
  
• Ensure that Planning activities comply with the Project requirements (procedures, Authority Limitations etc.) by systematic audits of plans, processes and documentation.
  
• Ensure that the EPCM Contractor's and sub-contractor's activities related to planning are adequately defined in procedures and properly documented to facilitate their activities
  
• Ensure that all reporting internally and externally is carried out timely in accordance with Project requirements.
  
• Identify and make recommendations as to areas for improvement in procedures to remove unnecessary bureaucracy yet maintain efficient, cost effective, Internal Controls.
  

• Expert with various proprietary project management and planning computing systems.
  

• At least 10 - 15 years oil industry cost function, including significant experience on large multi-national and multi-location projects.
  
• Significant experience in schedule analysis and procedures such as: Decision and Risk Analysis (D &RA); Experience and thorough knowledge of Work Breakdown Structures (WBS); Familiarity with performing critical path method (CPM) analysis, variance analyses, float analysis and schedule trending; Schedule development, management and change control, claim defense, engineering and construction methods, commissioning and start up planning, critical path and trending analysis and high profile presentations.
  
• This position requires excellent inter-personal and communications and writing skills, a thorough understanding of planning and scheduling in major projects, together with a good general knowledge of the full range of project activities in both Upstream and Offshore.
  

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