Project Planner

PROJECT PLANNER

Location:

Boden, SE

Contract duration:

initial 12 month contract - renewable

Start Date:

ASAP

Roster:

Rotation (6 weeks on, 2 weeks off - 53 hours per week), or Residential (M-F, 40 hours per week)

Project:

Boden - 6 billion EUR green steel project

Job Overview

The Project Planner uses our Planning/Scheduling discipline practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the Planning/Scheduling discipline. They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the Planning/Scheduling discipline. They solve complex problems and use their discipline-specific knowledge to improve their products or services. The Planner impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the Planning/Scheduling team and other related teams and ensures that they are working within the appropriate guidelines and policies.

Responsibilities

• Perform schedule analysis using Project Management software 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
• 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, 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 factors, both current and potential, 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

• Bachelor's degree in relevant subject or equivalent combinations of technical training or experience required
• 5-10 years of EPCm experience with Onshore Oil and Gas, Power Generation or Industrial related projects
• Planning/Scheduling experience for large, complex projects preferred
• Have solid commands of Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Office software
• Must be able to use advanced features in Excel (curves, histograms, dynamic tables, formulas, etc.)
• Able to produce and maintain logically linked activity schedules, according to precedence flow in EPCm planning, using best practices
• Able to produce and assess progress curves, histograms, variance reports, and critical paths
• Able to analyze project status and performance, deviations, performance factors, forecasts, and workarounds
• Must be able to produce multidisciplinary logically linked activity schedules, according to precedence flow in planning, using best industry practices
• Ability to effectively communicate with team members and management