Project Controls Planner

Job Responsibilities:

• Perform Engineering and Procurement planning duties.
• Coordinate, collect, verify, and integrate work scope for all entities into the total project plan.
• Review project scope representation in schedules.
• Establish conceptual scope of schedule studies.
• Prepare and analyze comparisons of scope and quantities between projects.
• Perform productivity analysis of construction operations.
• Establish milestones for the total project or major portions.
• Review project work activities to ensure support of milestones.
• Coordinate timely acquisition of scope definition and related data.
• Support development and maintenance of Engineering Progress and Performance Reporting (EPPR), Procurement Valuation System (PVS), and Subcontract Valuation System (SCVS).
• Update and maintain engineering and procurement activities in the schedule.
• Recommend changes to durations and/or logic to maintain overall project duration.
• Review work logics and determine adequacy of schedules.
• Review completeness and reasonableness of quantities.
• Evaluate schedule durations for all disciplines relative to project milestones.
• Plan, organize, and supervise schedule resource loading and leveling.
• Coordinate development of bulk commodity release and installation curves.
• Identify schedule restraints and their effects on the total project schedule.
• Work with all departments to ensure understanding of total project schedule needs.
• Identify schedule considerations and problems from inter-discipline restraints.
• Issue reports required by Client management and project procedures.
• Monitor and report critical path and schedule performance.
• Perform project schedule analysis and studies of problem areas.
• Recommend alternatives for schedule improvement to the project team.

Skills:

• Experience in planning and scheduling functions on EPC projects.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Proficiency in PC operating systems and basic software applications.
• Proficiency in discipline-specific software applications (Primavera, Microsoft Office).
• Intermediate knowledge of engineering, procurement, contracts, construction, and startup work processes.

Education/Experience:

• Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 5-8 years of relevant experience or 9-12 years of relevant work experience.