Role Profile : Owner’s Construction Planner

As the Owner’s Construction Planner , the selected candidate will be located at the project site and be accountable for construction contractor planning and scheduling from an Owner’s perspective.

Duties include, but are not limited to the following :

• As a seconded member into the Owner’s organization, integrate with the Owner’s team, performing this role on their behalf.
• Work directly with and support Owner’s construction manager and Owner’s Field Coordinators to ensure schedules are clearly understood and communicated.
• Main point of contact for contractor’s planning and scheduling personnel - Provide leadership and guidance and ensure everyone is working together to meet objectives.
• Ensure contractor schedules are defined to the correct level of detail and integrated properly with other schedules including engineering, procurement and schedules from other contractors.
• Review and endorse contractor schedules prior to baseline, ensuring correct WBS, logic, resources and coding.
• Review and endorse contractor coordination procedures from a planning and scheduling perspective.
• Enforce compliance with construction contractor planning and scheduling requirements.
• Ensure contractor schedule progress methods are well defined with clear rules of credit. Regularly audit contractor progressing to ensure compliance.
• Manage the weekly progress update cycle for all construction contractors and ensure they meet required timelines. Review and confirm progress and in period slippage (including critical / near critical path).
• Where required, coordinate with other project functions to ensure accurate planning and scheduling.
• Continuously monitor, forecast and communicate critical and near critical paths. Where needed, provide effective communications and trends with recommended mitigations.
• Proactively identify planning and scheduling issues and work with the Site PMO to resolve them.
• Run what-if scenarios in support of potential execution changes.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :

• 10 year’s experience planning and scheduling.
• A mixture of Owner’s Team and Contractor experience is preferred.
• Proven experience and ability to successfully deliver project planning and scheduling on major brownfield, heavy industrial projects.
• Engineering degree or technical diploma is preferred, but not essential.
• Fully capable of producing planning and scheduling deliverables with minimal input from others.
• Expert knowledge of Primavera planning software.
• Strong computer and data management skills.
• Good verbal and written communication. Role Profile : Owner’s Construction Planner

As the Owner’s Construction Planner , the selected candidate will be located at the project site and be accountable for construction contractor planning and scheduling from an Owner’s perspective.

Duties include, but are not limited to the following :

• As a seconded member into the Owner’s organization, integrate with the Owner’s team, performing this role on their behalf.
• Work directly with and support Owner’s construction manager and Owner’s Field Coordinators to ensure schedules are clearly understood and communicated.
• Main point of contact for contractor’s planning and scheduling personnel - Provide leadership and guidance and ensure everyone is working together to meet objectives.
• Ensure contractor schedules are defined to the correct level of detail and integrated properly with other schedules including engineering, procurement and schedules from other contractors.
• Review and endorse contractor schedules prior to baseline, ensuring correct WBS, logic, resources and coding.
• Review and endorse contractor coordination procedures from a planning and scheduling perspective.
• Enforce compliance with construction contractor planning and scheduling requirements.
• Ensure contractor schedule progress methods are well defined with clear rules of credit. Regularly audit contractor progressing to ensure compliance.
• Manage the weekly progress update cycle for all construction contractors and ensure they meet required timelines. Review and confirm progress and in period slippage (including critical / near critical path).
• Where required, coordinate with other project functions to ensure accurate planning and scheduling.
• Continuously monitor, forecast and communicate critical and near critical paths. Where needed, provide effective communications and trends with recommended mitigations.
• Proactively identify planning and scheduling issues and work with the Site PMO to resolve them.
• Run what-if scenarios in support of potential execution changes.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :

• 10 year’s experience planning and scheduling.
• A mixture of Owner’s Team and Contractor experience is preferred.
• Engineering degree or technical diploma is preferred, but not essential.
• Fully capable of producing planning and scheduling deliverables with minimal input from others.
• Expert knowledge of Primavera planning software.
• Strong computer and data management skills.
• Good verbal and written communication.

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Last updated : 2024-07-02