Planning and Scheduling Engineer

Position Overview

The Planning and Scheduling Engineer (PE) is responsible for the Project Schedule and all aspects of the Progress Measurement System. This includes day-to-day activities for developing, maintaining, monitoring, controlling, and integrating the overall Project schedule. The role involves establishing a progress measurement system, performing verification and reporting, reviewing Contractor Schedules for usefulness, logic, level of detail, input sources, timing, communication lines, and ensuring consistency with the Current Control Estimate, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), and Project Plan. The PE also sets schedule requirements and frequencies for contractor schedule deliverables and strives for timely detection of deviations from the plan.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide overall project schedule, progress measurement, and change management expertise.
• Ensure that schedule control and progress procedures are developed and executed by the Contractor to monitor schedule control activities and progress reporting.
• Coordinate, monitor, and assess the Contractor's efforts in project planning, progress measurement, and control.
• Review project changes to evaluate schedule impact; quantify and incorporate the effect of approved changes into the overall schedule stewardship and reporting.
• Advise the Project Controls Lead and Project Team of potential schedule issues, providing guidance on corrective actions and measures to mitigate adverse trends.
• Assist in developing and reviewing schedule corrective actions and recovery plans, ensuring that needed actions are implemented.
• Monitor and appraise the Contractor's performance compared to agreed control plans regarding progress and schedule control.
• Review Contractor's project control procedures to ensure compliance with Company and Contract requirements.
• Check Contractor's progress reports for accuracy and endorse claimed progress when necessary.
• Review, monitor, and control the Contractor's schedules for all project activities for logic, detail, and interface consistency (e.g., Level 3, Level 4, short-term look-ahead schedules).
• Analyze schedule and progress trends reported by the Contractor.
• Analyze planned quantity metrics for all disciplines (e.g., Piping, Civil, Electrical) and monitor actual versus planned metrics.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, or Construction Management.
• Experience in project controls with a focus on planning and schedule control.
• Willingness to work overseas in a team environment.
• Willingness to relocate to the required project site.
• Strong influencing, consulting, mentoring, analytical, and computing skills.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to multitask and respond quickly to urgent analysis requests.
• Must meet all conditional job offer requirements, including background checks, drug tests, MVR, agility, and fit for duty.
• Understanding of environmental and safe work practices.