Senior Project Scheduler

Senior Project Scheduler

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma).
• 10 years’ experience in Project Control Planning & Scheduling function within an EPC environment, including execution of several projects with significant site exposure.
• Expertise in power plant principles and work processes of EPC environments and work processes of large EPC Projects.
• Expertise in Primavera P6 (with resources loaded schedules).

Responsibilities

• Lead and support continuous improvement of Equipment Planning processes and tools for the global team and developing/maintaining KPIs (on time delivery, key milestones, say/do ratio, physical progress, schedule quality, etc.) & critical path analysis for TK projects or complex EO & EEP projects.
• Attend ITO to OTR handover meetings to receive L1 bid schedule and contract details.
• Understand and confirm ITO assumptions & risk summary is clearly understood, provided during ITO/OTR handoff.
• Attend CKOM & follow-up on open action items from the CKOM related to schedule execution.
• Attend release meetings led by ITO to understand project scope, ITO assumptions, and contribute to Delivery Matrix development.
• Drive development of the Commitment Meeting file based on functional inputs, project requirements and contract requirements.
• Drive the Commitment Meeting with functional owners to resolve initial schedule disconnects and reach agreement on the project baseline.
• Use the available standard schedule template based on scope of project.
• Set up L3 baseline schedule by using process flow guidelines available for Equipment projects: GPSPE SCH 008 & TKSI/TKP projects: GPSPE SCH 008.
• Develop baseline progress ‘S’ curves based on allocated weightage.
• Participate in the Constructability review to make sure project schedule is aligned with baseline schedule.
• Update project master time schedule based on inputs provided by each owner of tasks per process document # GPSPE SCH004Rev: 1.0.
• Lead and drive the Partner and Site Scheduling team members (chairing meetings, driving actions, and holding accountability for actions).
• Update the internal and external progress reports curves, float reports and say/do ratio.
• Perform schedule analysis on monthly basis to identify the critical impacts and provide the mitigations suggestions.
• Organize monthly ‘schedule deep dives’ providing guidance & insights to project and senior management.
• Ensure project schedule updates and KPIs in Pulse page & WIPT.
• Perform the critical path analysis for deliverables and ensure no impact to contract dates.
• Perform delay analysis to support extension of time and cost claims.
• Revise and reissue the baseline schedule due to variation orders resulting in changes to the contract date and/or major scope. Progress will be tracked against revised baseline schedule.
• Update the cash collection milestone in P6 schedule.
• Perform Resources analysis based on planned vs. actuals, highlight, and communicate the risk to project director and team.
• Work with project team to identify mitigation strategies and ensure strategies are reflected in project schedule.
• Escalate critical project issues to the internal project manager and project team.
• Ensure reports for other functions and customers accurately reflect status of project equipment and provide to customer and business reporting.
• Communicate to functions impact of execution strategy changes and resulting changes to required dates.
• Act as a resource for project team members and support with data, analysis, and root causes of schedule variances.
• Prepare Project close-out report including lessons learned to be completed two weeks before departure from team, submit to Scheduling Pole Leader.
• Investigate schedule impact of proposed change order and support/develop claim documentation.
• Work with Contract team to update the Unifier on Schedule delays.

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Able to lead large complex project team reviews as well as to simplify complex messages.
• Resilient and ability to work under pressure.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.
• Experience of working with international teams and complex environment and open for travel.
• 5 years’ experience in Extension of time claims / forensic planning.