What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Planner position at McDermott?
Job Description
Job Overview :
The Principal Planner is responsible for interpreting internal or external business issues and recommending best practices. They will be tasked with solving complex planning / scheduling-related problems and will work independently with minimal guidance. The Principal Planner may be responsible for leading functional teams or projects and is regarded as a specialist in the field of planning / scheduling. As such, they must have in-depth expertise in planning / scheduling as well as broad knowledge of the planning / scheduling discipline within the Project Control function.
Responsibilities
Key Tasks and Responsibilities :
- Perform schedule analysis using Project Management software's including Primavera P6, Deltek Fuse & Risk, and Microsoft Project
- Support project baseline creation during the project initiation and setup phase
- Facilitate detailed multi-discipline scope reviews
- Perform detailed schedule quality and integrity checks
- Update and validate physical progress reported from EVMS systems
- Provide project schedule support and mentor junior planners as required
- Develop and maintain logically linked level 3 and level 4 activity schedules, for marine scope installation projects in the Oil and Gas Industry (pipelines, subsea, platforms, HDD), according to precedence flow planning, using best practices
- Produce workforce histograms and progress and quantity curves in connection with the schedules
- Maintain and review the sequence of Engineering, Procurement, Fabrication, Construction, Installation, Hook-Up, and Commissioning, and other operations for control of critical path and overall project durations
- Elevate and expedite operations that are delaying the schedule and analyze changes to the schedule to meet unforeseen conditions
- Create and Monitor schedule compliance, key performance, factors, and provide analysis of variations to baseline data
- Identify current and potential factors that may delay the schedule. Assess actions for recovery and improvement and analyze changes to the schedule to meet unforeseen conditions
- Lead and deliver initiatives
Qualifications
Essential Qualifications and Education :
LI-EB2
LI-DNI
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