PLANNING ENGINEER

Education and work experience:

Higher education (University degree or higher) in the relevant speciality and not less than 2 years of work experience as Planning Engineer.

Main functions:

• Provide effective support to his/her Line Manager. Provide a planning function for work performed within PED for a particular project or projects;
• Responsible for coordination and submission of planning/progress data to support monthly progress reports and other statistical corporate data, ensuring it is accurate and reported in a timely fashion;
• Providing professional assistance and guidance to the project team in developing and implementing the project plan, monitoring project progress, and recording / reporting the impact of changes, statusing and forecasting an integrated project schedule (resources, cost and QTY loaded schedule), so that the schedule could executed in an efficient manner;
• Prepare and provide schedule progress reports, S-Curves, schedule analysis, and what if scenario. Must maintain records of scope changes and variances that potentially affect schedule performance. Must understand the Scope of the Work to be performed and also to be prepared, the planning data process input requires an understanding of the constrains and significant consideration specific to the end of project deliverables;
• Develop and analyze of the project schedules, to implement SRA software, time impact and delay analysis, and review of periodic schedule updates;
• Support the project team efforts toward the development of the project plan and understanding that project plan into the project schedule;
• Prepare overall plans for proposed work to be used as the basis of economic evaluation and Authorisation of Expenditure and cost estimation preparation;
• Monitor and update accurate schedule progress towards achieving the desired project completion date and information the project team of changes to the schedule outcome;
• Assure the credibility of the information contained in the schedule;
• Develop at the completion of the project the recording the project’s historical schedule information and lesson learned;
• Develop a master project schedule, identifying major milestones to achieve the project completion;
• Develop detailed schedules by WBS and assigned labour, nonlabour to each activity to determine progress requirements to meet the project completion date;
• Implement and control detailed progress measurement processes;
• Interface with Contractors as required to obtain planning and progress data;
• Coordinate preparation of weekly and monthly planning/progress data for input to reports for Project activities;
• Interface with Departments where relevant across KPO (e.g. PED, Operations Directorate Planning Department) in order to develop and maintain departmental project or business plans.

Necessary knowledge and skills:

• Intermediate (B1) English level is an advantage on this role; 
• Experience in EPC project management as a Planning Engineer or Scheduler. Background in managing schedules from Level 1 to Level 3. Familiarity with all planning activities, including progress tracking, forecasting, and reporting;
• Sound understanding of full cycle development planning from Define through to Handover to operations;
• Knowledge of regulating documents such as resolutions, instructions, orders and other guiding, methodical and also regulating documents on planning, and analysis of project execution activities;
• Organisation of Company planned performance;
• Procedure for development of overall Company long-term and annual plans for production-economical activities;
• Business plans development procedure;
• Planning – documentation;
• Methods and planning procedures of company;
• Economy, process engineering, organisation of labour and control;
• Fundamentals of production processes;
• Labour law; Safety and regulations.