Principal Project Planner

Job Description - Principal Project Planner (HOU03WH) :

51,000 people. 49 countries. Over 120 office locations.

We’re not just engineers. We’re a global team of data scientists, consultants, construction workers and innovators all working to create a better tomorrow.

Every day, we help customers in energy, chemicals and resources get one step closer to solving our planet’s toughest issues.

Climate change. The energy transition. Digital transformation. And how we can deliver a more sustainable world.?

Primary Responsibilities :

Using Primavera P6 software, perform the following :

• Create, update, and analyze project engineering, procurement, and construction schedules and schedule reports.
• Facilitates and guides Interactive Planning Sessions, where key project stakeholders plan and discuss the major project tasks, interaction with other tasks, and the duration and timing of such tasks utilizing NetPoint
• Review each schedule activity with project stakeholders to confirm logic and duration, including equipment fabrication and delivery.
• Resource load discreet schedule activities, based on estimated hours. Ensure overall discipline task durations are workable and achievable given resource constraints.
• Develop and maintain detailed procurement vendor logic schedules.
• Develop and maintain detailed construction execution schedules, Advance Work Packaging, turnover, commissioning and start-up activities.
• Incorporate customer activities, milestones, etc.
• Develop and issue the project baseline schedule, analysis, and basis.
• Interact with engineering, procurement, construction, customer, and project stakeholders, obtaining activity progress.
• Update the project schedule, usually weekly.
• Interconnect schedule activities with EcoSys and progress deliverables in EcoSys.
• Analyze schedule updates, review critical path, review schedule performance indicators, review schedule variances from last update and baseline.

Recommend corrective actions when necessary.

• Accountable for accurate and timely schedule reports, including variance analysis, critical path, summary, and detailed schedules.
• Actively participate in project review meetings, providing clear and accurate schedule assessment. Provide proactive advice to drive successful project completion.
• Incorporate approved project schedule changes into project schedules.
• Ability to work schedule and organize multiple projects within a portfolio or program.
• Create and maintain alternate schedule data or information reporting, using Power BI or other graphical reporting methods.
• Perform schedule what if scenarios and analysis.
• Evaluate schedule analytics using Acumen Fuse.
• Develop the basis and perform schedule risk analysis.
• Develop proposal schedules.
• Ability to be solely responsible for all planning and scheduling duties on a project or portfolio of projects
• Guide early career personnel with engineering and construction industrial schedule development, project dynamics, and company processes
• Mentor and advise department personnel with industrial project scheduling techniques, practices, and industry norms.
• Develop and educate company personnel on scheduling processes and standards.

Technical and Industry Experience :

• Minimum 18 years of experience in Engineering and Construction company Project Controls
• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Business, or related fields; or extensive Project Controls or industry experience
• Thorough knowledge of Primavera P6
• Working knowledge of NetPoint
• Knowledge of, and the interrelationship of, a thorough technical project scope definition, quality of the schedule and estimate, construction sequence and execution, procurement and contracting strategies, commissioning and start up
• Understanding of project control activities for oil and gas downstream, midstream, or upstream onshore or offshore, mining & metals, and related industries’ projects
• Proven team player with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams and to develop and maintain collaborative working relationships
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Innovative individual with a pro-active, analytical approach to problem identification and resolution
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite

Other Requirements :

Minimum 3 days per week in Worley’s Houston Rogerdale Office, or more at company’s or project’s discretion

What we offer you

Providing an agile culture and challenging work opportunities results in a positive work environment. Our people enjoy competitive compensation packages and a fun, personal, collaborative and safe working environment.

We value equal employment opportunity and are committed to promoting fairness, equality and diversity.

Our policy is to conduct background checks for all candidates who accept an offer of employment with us.

If you have the passion and talent to keep up, it's time to test the limits of what you can become. Find your future with Worley.