Senior Planning Engineer at Deep Blue Energy Services Limited (DBESL)

Deep Blue Energy Services Limited (DBESL), is a resource and solution management company that specializes in assisting international/Local companies in identifying Potential market opportunities, assisting with permits, sourcing highly skilled employees, bidding on and negotiating contracts and navigating the often complex political and policy environment of many sub Saharan African countries.

We are recruiting to fill the below position:

Job Title: Senior Planning Engineer

Location: Lagos Island, Lagos
Job Shift: Day
Job Type: Contract
Duration: Two weeks
Job Category: Oil & Gas
Career Level: Experienced (Non-Manager)

Description

• To evaluate and control Integrated Project plans and perform schedule development, maintenance and monitoring of the planning/scheduling activities.
• To contribute to delivery and maintenance of standard, consistent and realistic project plans reflecting the assessed risk parameters for the project/assets.
• To ensure competitive schedule deliveries via latest benchmarking internally within the Company and externally through IPA, Performance Forum, Woodmac and other benchmarking tools and forums.

Principal Accountabilities

• Deliver and maintain consistent and realistic plans and control structures for the project. Understand the list of plans required to execute the assigned project sub-elements and their interface to other sub-elements. Develop the activities, logic, resources and progress for the assigned project sub-elements, leading to the creation of the baseline schedule and its subsequent maintenance.
• Develop, implement and comply with the planning and progress monitoring procedures.
• Weekly and monthly schedule progress update, forecast, critical path and trend analyses, including any impact from interface areas.
• Implement and maintain the status reports. Provide regular and comprehensive schedule status reports.
• Assess and incorporate the impact of approved changes and any deviations from the key project targets and milestones, including productivity monitoring and identification of alternate approaches to optimize the plan(s).
• Liaise with and challenge Project Engineering personnel to ensure proper understanding of the key schedule sensitivities and drivers.
• Contribute to the translation of the project’s risk profile into the probabilistic risk model and understand the output, including the key risk drivers for the possible range of schedule completion dates.
• Track the criticality of the main paths to completion and float consumption.
• Implement and utilize the standard tools and processes.
• Provide input data for and participate in benchmarking activities. Contribute to close-out data to enable knowledge retention (lessons learned, project data compilation) at completion of work.

Main Challenges:

• Responsibility for the establishment, maintenance, and delivery of the planning activity for multiple projects.
• Developing credible and competitive project schedule to the required confidence levels.
• Maintain and promote realism in the planning deliverables in the face of commercial pressure and optimism from project team leaders.
• Developing credible schedules and plans integrating assessed issues and uncertainties that will facilitate quality decision making.
• Working in a multi-function and multi discipline team.
• Multiple remote site locations accessed by land, water and air.

Requirements

• Gender:  Does not matter
• Age:  25 Years - 55 Years
• Highest Education:  Minimum Education University
• Degree title:  A university degree in Engineering or Science.
• Experience:  Minimum Experience 10 Year
• Other experience: 10 years or more of experience in the Oil and Gas industry in a project environment.At least five years planning and scheduling experience post-graduation qualification.

Application Closing Date
31st May, 2019.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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