Principal Planning Engineer at International Energy Services Limited (IESL)

International Energy Services Limited (IESL), established in 1990, is a specialist, multidisciplinary, energy services company that provides integrated, client-focused and cost-effective services in the oil and gas industry.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Principal Planning Engineer

Location: Bonny Island, Rivers

Job Purpose / Objective

• The successful candidate would be required to develop, manage and maintain centralized planning and scheduling system for the overall Client’s CAPEX Projects Portfolio that will ensure effective schedule control, facilitate project delivery within established targets and provide key information for management reporting to achieve Departmental KPI’s.

Main Accountabilities

• Provide project management support in the development of the Client’s Projects Portfolio activities, resources planning leading to the creation of the Overall Project Portfolio baseline schedule including
• Schedule Basis documents and its subsequent maintenance to achieve schedule performance.
• Maintain the overall Project Portfolio Schedule at levels 1 to 4 required to develop and execute each approved project in their hierarchy relationship to meet the Client’s projects’ requirements.
• Develop and update the planning and schedule procedures to ensure sustainable and continuous improvements in line with the Client’s Quality Management System requirements.
• Execute schedule control activities to monitor physical progress against key deliverables and track trends on schedule over-run and under-run to identify timely corrective actions for the achievement of schedule performance targets.
• Provide input to monthly progress updates; forecast completions, together with the critical path and trend analysis as input to management reporting to reflect how Client’s project objectives are being achieved.
• Evaluate bid schedules and review contractor execution plan and develop the key milestone dates for critical projects for alignment with the overall integrated Project Portfolio Schedule.
• Verify that the contractors reported progress is correct and accurately reflected including Milestone Performance in the overall Project Portfolio integrated schedule for accurate management reporting.
• Enhance Schedule Visibility by regular interaction with project team to bring clarity around schedule, and schedule performance including progress variance analysis.
• Review scope change requests for the impact on schedules and the critical path of the project and prepare reconciliations between earlier schedules and the current schedule and provide schedule impact assessments to change control process for accurate progress monitoring.
• Perform risk and sensitivity analysis on project schedule or critical path analysis and evaluate impact on overall Project portfolio plan.
• Ensure Benchmarking data are captured in company’s central pool of Benchmarking information bank including Productivity Norms and same are used to enhance schedule robustness.

Job Requirements
Education:

• A University Degree in Engineering

Experience:

• 12 years post-graduate experience, of which at least 8 years in a planning role in the oil and gas industry.
• An understanding of contracting strategy, project optimization processes, construction constraints are prerequisites for the job.
• Extensive skills in the use of the Primavera P6 planning tool is mandatory.
• Ability to work across cultural boundaries.

Preferred:

• Experience with qualitative modelling techniques and tools (Primavera Risk Analysis or similar.

Application Closing Date
27th January, 2022.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Note

• The Curriculum Vitae must be properly titled and uploaded (e.g CV_Data Analyst_Chukwu Abiola Ahmed)
• Relevant Credentials, Professional and membership Certificates, where applicable, must be uploaded as a single PDF file
• Application for more than 2 positions will be automatically disqualified.
• Only applications received via the IESL online portal shall be considered.
• Only Shortlisted Candidates will be contacted.
• Any false information provided during or after the application process will lead to outright disqualification of such candidate(s).
• If you have any challenge with the application portal, please email: recruitment@ieslglobal.com for support only.