BRUNEL ENERGY Current Employment Opportunity: Planning Engineer

Brunel Energy provides specialist personnel to the international oil & gas, petrochemical, power generation and construction industries. Our clients are predominantly major operating companies and international engineering or construction companies. Through a network of 35 offices in 5 continents (Europe, America, Asia, Africa and Australia) we currently second nearly 4,000 Technical Engineering Specialists to the largest multi-national Oil & Gas Companies and major EPC Contractors, through well established global supply agreements.

Organisation
Our client is the fifth largest publicly-traded integrated international oil and gas company and a world-class chemicals manufacturer. The group operates in more than 130 countries and has 96, 950 employees.

Job Description
Main Responsibilities:
Develop, evaluate and maintain the project plans and master schedules.
Monitoring and integrating schedules developed by all Project packages, Contractors and Main Equipment Suppliers
In charge of Scheduling, Reporting, Risk Management and planning control of the Project’s overall budget.
Co-ordinate Engineering Schedule and Procurement & Construction Schedule.
Be proactive in all matters relating to cost, planning and risk analysis.

Main Activities:
Develop Project scheduling, planning and progress measurement procedures. This includes the project reporting procedure.
Establish a Project work breakdown structure (WBS) for each sub-budget items in line with Project Progress and Cost control guidelines and Project execution.
Develop and maintain overall Baseline Project work plan and S-curves at adequate levels using sound techniques and proven tools. Integration of different Project segments from the given scope of work. to develop a logical comprehensive work plan
Evaluate, review and approve contractual submissions of Contractors’ procedures, schedules and S-curves as baseline planning documents. Identification of baseline critical paths
Continuous review of Contractors’ monthly progress schedules and reports to ascertain true progress and provide early-warning to Project Management of trends.
Anticipate any potential slippage and critical path deviations, propose and discuss mitigation and corrective actions with involved project parties highlighting critical programme areas and simulating strategies
Liaise with Cost Control Engineer to ensure consistency for installed quantities and spent engineering and construction man-hours figures
Work with limited supervision and with subordinates.
Prepare Project progress reports according to the project reporting procedure.
Direct contact with all entities in the project and acting as primary planning interface between Project team and Planning departments of JV partner, Project subcontracting teams, Contractors and Main Equipment Suppliers.
Prepare Level 0, 1, 2, 3 & L4 schedules
Prepare Detailed Engineering Completion programmes
Prepare Procurement and Construction programmes
Identify risks to procurement and construction programme that may be caused by delays in Detailed Engineering
Provide support to COMPANY Technical partners as and when required by COMPANY.

Job Requirements
Minimum of 6 years recent experience as Planning Engineer in a design & construction organisation, with prior a minimum of 10 years experience as a scheduler or planner with EPC contractors.
Proficient in the use of computerised planning tools, knowing the basics of the functionality of the program as well as advanced usage.
Proficient in the use of Primavera.
Excellent Communication (English language written and verbal) and interpersonal skills. Self confidence, patience under adversity, along with the ability to work to deadlines.
Minimum of 2 years (ideally) residence and working experience within an international environment and a multi-national, multi-cultural organisation
Fluent in English language
Work with limited supervision, leadership and autonomy is compulsory.

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