Job Purpose
We are looking to hire
Senior Engineer, Planning,
This job role is to ensure The role holder is responsible to apply project control practices to plan, monitor, and control project engineering deliverables, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and strategic impact
Key Accountabilities & Working Relationships
Key Accountabilities:
The
Senior Engineer, Planning who will be responsible for but not limited to:
- Establishing a comprehensive timeline for engineering deliverables by scheduling each activity in reverse chronological order, ensuring alignment with the projected construction start dates across different blocks.
- Creating the project's engineering plan and ensuring clarity and consistency in the project's engineering planning, sequencing, and methodology.
- Collaborating with project engineering managers (PEM) and operations planning and control to communicate construction methods and potential impacts on project execution and duration.
- Creating and updating the engineering schedule, including progress tracking and analytical reporting.
- Illustrating project engineering schedule via a time-scaled bar chart, utilizing Primavera P6 or equivalent scheduling tools.
- Utilizing both qualitative and quantitative tools to monitor and control engineering project activities.
- Establishing critical project activities, setting baseline progress on an S-curve, and overseeing periodic reports.
- Generating the Engineering Manpower Histogram to manage project staffing effectively.
- Establishing the Project Engineering Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Develop and provide realistic conceptual schedules and resource plans for all projects.
- Perform risk management on all project plans/schedules.
- Project Monitoring and Reporting: Monitor day-to-day work progress for a project and provide accurate weekly and monthly reports by swiftly communicating potential progress delays or project slippages.
- Identify and manage deviations from conceptual project plans and performance requirements, take necessary action, and communicate to PEM.
- Evaluate project schedule progress and performance and identify developing problem areas.
- Ensure compliance with all applicable information security policies and procedures.
- Ensure quality and accuracy of the engineering deliverables for the discipline and compliance with Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE) responsibilities.
Working Relationships:
Internal Interactions:
- Internal Engineering Department, other business work-streams within the company, Division Heads, Engineering Manager, GM Engineering, VP Engineering.
External Interactions:
- Engineering Subcontractors, Consultants, Planning and Schedule related.
Who we are looking for
Education:
- Bachelors degree in engineering or Equivalent.
Experience:
- At least 9-15 years in a project planning role in the rig building/ship building industry or equivalent.
Professional Qualifications (Certifications & Accreditations):
- Preferred any additional certification courses in Project Management and Planning.
Competencies (Knowledge, Skills & Abilities):
- Working experience in engineering project control with background in planning (both schedule and cost).
- Exposure to planning software like PRIMAVERA / MS PROJECT.
- Expert knowledge in MS EXCEL.
- Good understanding of engineering processes and ERP system.
- Ability to understand & work through complex planning issues in support of ever evolving business needs.
- Excellent communication skills (oral & written) in the English language.
- Demonstrated high order interpersonal skills and the ability to operate within a multinational environment.
- Good presentation skill.
- Project management principles.
- Different project execution strategies.
- Estimation and cost control.
- Construction management principles.
- Understand the total value chain of the business on projects.
- Competent in problem solving, negotiation and facilitation in a project environment.
- Cost estimating analytical techniques.
Languages:
- English. (Mandatory)
- Arabic / Others (desirable)
About Application Process
If you meet the criteria and you are enthusiastic about the role, we would welcome your application. To complete the application you would need the following document(s):
