Planning Manager

Job Description:

• Prepare and maintain planning procedures, ensuring control over department activities.
• Allocate tasks to planning engineers and monitor their progress to ensure timely completion.
• Advise and monitor schedule preparation for all projects, ensuring schedules are fully resourced, identify critical paths, and align with project objectives.
• Produce and monitor yard workload, capacity plans and space utilization on a weekly and monthly basis.
• Develop space planning strategies and overall yard slot planning for new projects, ensuring optimal use of available resources.
• Planning & monitoring the yard overall space planning for day-to-day operations.
• Manpower allocation to sub-contractors based on their workload and capacity.
• Prepare planning documents for tender packages, ensuring compliance with project. requirements, review and secure full agreement on project requirements with stakeholders.
• Review, monitor, and analyze project progress and key performance indicators (KPIs) on a weekly basis.
• Identify potential risks and uncertainties that may impact project timelines and deliverables, highlighting areas of concern for management attention.
• Develop contingency plans and work with the project team to mitigate risks.
• Mentor and develop planning personnel, enhancing their competencies, awareness, knowledge, and execution techniques.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
• 10 to 15 years of managerial experience in project planning, scheduling, and management within the Marine or Oil & Gas industry
• Strong project management skills with a proven ability to plan, execute, and monitor projects effectively.
• Proficiency in project management software, including Primavera P6.
• Demonstrated leadership abilities with experience in managing and leading a team.
• Strong analytical skills and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Job Type: Contract
Contract length: 24 months

Work Location: In person