Senior Principal Planner

McDermott•Houston, TX

19d

About The Position

The Senior Principal Planner solves unique and complex planning and scheduling problems with broad business impact. This specialist in Planning/Scheduling brings broad Project Controls knowledge, helps shape the direction and resource allocation of programs and projects, and works within general functional policies and industry guidelines. The role calls for conceptual and innovative thinking to develop creative solutions to planning and scheduling challenges. The position supports marine-scope installation projects in the Oil and Gas industry, including pipelines, subsea, platforms, and HDD. It develops, maintains, analyzes, and reports on project schedules, including their logic, quality, progress, resources, risks, and critical paths. The planner also supports project setup and baselining, facilitates scope and risk reviews, and provides guidance to junior planners as required.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Engineering, Construction, or Business Management, or an equivalent combination of technical training or experience.
15+ years of EPCIC experience with onshore or offshore Oil and Gas or Power Generation related projects.
Solid command of Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Office software.
Ability to use advanced Excel features, including curves, histograms, dynamic tables, and formulas.
Ability to produce and maintain logically linked activity schedules according to precedence flow in EPCIC planning and industry 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 according to precedence flow in planning and best industry practices.
Ability to communicate effectively with team members and management.

Nice To Haves

Planning/Scheduling experience for large LNG or topside fabrication projects.

Responsibilities

Perform schedule analysis using Primavera P6, Deltek Fuse and Risk, and Microsoft Project.
Support project baseline creation during project initiation and setup.
Facilitate detailed multidisciplinary scope reviews.
Perform detailed schedule quality and integrity checks using Deltek Fuse.
Update and validate physical progress reported from EVMS systems.
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, using precedence-flow planning and best practices.
Produce workforce histograms and progress and quantity curves in connection with schedules.
Maintain and review the sequence of Engineering, Procurement, Fabrication, Construction, Installation, Hook-Up, Commissioning, and other operations to control the critical path and overall project durations.
Elevate and expedite operations that are delaying the schedule and analyze schedule changes to address unforeseen conditions.
Create and monitor schedule compliance and key performance factors, and analyze variations from baseline data.
Identify current and potential factors that may delay the schedule.
Assess recovery and improvement actions and analyze schedule changes to address unforeseen conditions.
Lead and deliver initiatives.
Create and run prepared or ad-hoc reports.
Evaluate the validity of the critical path based on prior experience.
Resource-load the schedule and match it to an earned value system.
Suggest recovery plans or areas of potential improvement.
Run Acumen Fuse to analyze schedule quality.
Run schedule risk analysis and facilitate risk review meetings.
Set up overall schedule parameters, including WBS, OBS, project and global codes, and calendars.