Senior Coordinator - Planning at Hobark International Limited (HIL)

Hobark International Limited (HIL) is the parent company of the Hobark group operating in the oil and gas industry. The company was incorporated in 1998, starting as a staffing agency based in Port Harcourt. Currently we have offices in 4 countries with our head office in Lagos.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Coordinator - Planning

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Contract
Department/Division/ Unit: Facilities / Project Services

Job Objective/ Purpose of Job

• Provide Planning, Scheduling and Reporting services for a wide range of upstream oil and gas projects for offshore and onshore projects within Nigeria undertaken by the Facilities department.
• In view of the maturity of the fields, projects typically include upgrades and expansion of existing facilities to accommodate infield drilling and secondary recovery (primarily water injection).
• Projects are typically in the $US 10 – 100 million range with an annual portfolio of some $US 150 – 250 million.

Reporting Relationships:

• Functionally Reports To: Manager, Project Services
• Administratively Reports To: Manager, Project Services
• Supervises: Planners (x 3)

Working Relationships:

• Internal Head Project Services, Planners, Lead Cost Engineer, Project Manager / Engineers
• External n/a

Job Duties / Responsibilities / Accountabilities

• Establish and maintain Project Planning and Reporting procedures.
• Provide input to the establishment and maintenance of a work breakdown structures (WBS’s), including AFE and cost centre numbers, to control and report costs at agreed levels.
• Establish and maintain appropriate Project control plans and schedules, including charts, S-Curves, resourcing plans and 90 day lookaheads.
• Monitor actual versus planned progress, highlight / resolve areas of concern and produce recovery plans, forecasts and re-baselines as required.
• Analyse and propose improvements to schedules, including use of critical path analysis and resource loading.
• Produce weekly and monthly Project Progress reports.
• Produce other ad-hoc reports and presentations that may be required by the Project.
• Review & audit contractors’ planning procedures & reports.
• Supervise three Planners.
• Responsible for development and mentoring of at least one National engineer.

Key Performance Indicators/ Performance Goals

• Maintain up to date Project Control documents, including charts and progress S-curves, with progress figures updated on a weekly and monthly basis.
• Issue Weekly and Monthly Progress Reports by the agreed deadlines.

Financial Dimensions:

• No direct responsibility but indirectly annual Facilities budget can be in the order of $US 100 – 500 million.

Job Specifications

• Education Qualification: University Degree in an Engineering discipline, although lower qualifications can be accepted where experience levels are demonstrably high and appropriate to job requirements
• Professional Qualification: Full membership of a relevant International Institution preferred
• Experience Minimum of 15 years in similar positions in the Upstream Oil and Gas industry.
• Experience of Cost Engineering is preferred.
• Previous Operator and Nigerian or West African experience preferred
• Age 40+

Key Competencies Requirements:

• Functional/ Technical: Broad, multi-discipline knowledge and experience of planning and scheduling of offshore on onshore Oil and Gas projects.
• Proficient in Primavera
• Proficient in MSProject/Word/Excel/Powerpoint/Access
• Excellent presentational skills.
• Managerial: Excellent communicator and team player
• Behavioural: Highly organised, interactive and methodical.
• Comfortable working within a multi-discipline, multi-cultural team environment

Primary Skills:

• Broad, multi-discipline knowledge and experience of planning and scheduling of offshore on onshore Oil and Gas projects.

Work Cycle (Hours/ Days):

• Monday - Saturday 0730 – 1630 hrs, with additional hours as operationally required
• Rotation 6 weeks on / 2 weeks off
• Shift n/a

Travel Requirements:

• None
• 0 – 30 % YES
• 31 – 60%
• 61 – 100%

Physical Requirements:

• Lifting Nil
• Drilling Nil.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.