Saipem Contracting Nigerian Limited Recruits Planning Engineer (Oil & Gas)

Saipem Contracting Nigerian Limited (SCNL) is a subsidiary of SAIPEM Spa, a global leader in Engineering, Procurement, Installation and Construction. Due to the expansion of our operations in Nigeria, we are seeking for highly qualified professionals, pro-active, well organized and motivated persons to fill various positions.

Job Title: Planning Engineer

Ref Code: PLRENG
Location: Port Harcourt Base/Sites

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Establish and manage effectively planning and progress control system in order to support the Project Manager decision making process.
• Ensure any deviation from plan is promptly spotted and analyse, final time impact is estimated and the effect of corrective actions taken is monitored.
• Create a schedule awareness atmosphere among all project participants.
• Ensure the development of the project schedule according to the commercial needs.
• Verify feasibility and criticality as well participates in commercial risk management activities.
• Ensure the implementation of the Planning and Progress Control System required by the contract complexity, risks and duration, in compliance with the Project Breakdown Structure, Company Standards and Contract specifications.
• Interface and coordinate with other Company Functions or Discipline Leaders/Supervisors and Managers to build up activities, assign milestones and constraints by issuing the logic network.
• Prepare all the reference baseline documents, and ensure that the project s planning and scheduling requirements are properly and clearly communicated to those functionally responsible for executing the work.
• Issue the Planning & Scheduling Procedure, Progress Measurement Procedure and Risk Management Plan for the Project Control Manager verification.
• Coordinate the risk management activities startup organizing the first brainstorming and the qualitative I quantitative assessment of the identified risks & opportunities.
• Perform the schedule risk analysis for highly critical projects.
• Ensure the effectiveness of the Planning and Progress Control System, monitoring the progress measurement system and ensuring the proper information flow, progress status and completion forecast are assessed and reported for Engineering.
• Update all Project Schedules, collecting actual data, evaluating forecast dates and monitoring any progress and productivity deviation compared with the baseline schedule, including the corrective actions taken by the PM.
• Maintain the risk management process organizing periodic meetings and verifying the risk owners feedbacks.
• Maintain records for all significant events, like contractual claims/obligations, productivity, deliverables, materials status, with extensive use of Company/Partner/Client IT systems and reports.
• Create and maintain the 90 days look-ahead schedule, weekly, monthly.
• Issues weekly and monthly project reports (internal and for the Client)
• Assist the Project Control Manager in the Project Status Report preparation.
• Support the Project during the contract changes/claims process providing the time impact analysis.
• Support the Project Control Manager in the preparation of the Project close-out Report and the schedule and productivity.

Skills, Competence and Experience

• Knowledge and understanding of commercial contract in all its parts and to extrapolate all data necessary to understand the project.
• Ability to implement tools, procedures and/or techniques to deal with scope of work changes and to maximize business opportunities.
• Adequate knowledge of techniques for measuring performance, economic data, progress costs and risks. Capability to analyse and control activity/project revenues and costs and to monitor progress and value of work done.
• Ability to establish the requirements and coordinate the implementation of tools and applications necessary to support project control activities (e.g. hardware / software applications I communications I procedures! standards / reports).
• Ability to define and group the discrete work elements of a project in a way that helps in organizing and defining the total scope of work of the project itself.
• Ability to establish the overall project Breakdown Structure and relevant coding system to meet all control requirements (e.g. Work Breakdown Structure I Cost Breakdown Structure / Organization Breakdown Structure).

Qualification

• Minimum of 5 years in Project Planning & Control
• Bachelor Degree in Engineering or any Physical Science.
• Working knowledge of MS Office applications.
• Knowledge of Primavera is mandatory

Application Closing Date
6th March, 2013

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Applications using the reference code as the subject of the email to:
Prjmgt.recruitment@saipem.com