Project Planner at an Oil and Gas Company - Wendernek Consulting Limited

Wendernek Consulting Limited - Our client in the oil and gas sector is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Project Planner

Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• Our client is looking to hire a Project Planner who will be responsible for developing, coordinating, and maintaining project schedules, budgets, and resource allocation plans to ensure successful delivery of projects within the organization.
• The role involves working closely with cross-functional teams to identify project requirements, establish project timelines, and monitor progress against plans.
• The role will also identify and mitigate potential risks, develop contingency plans, and provide regular project updates to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Create comprehensive project requirements in line with the scope of projects, including determining the start and delivery dates, creating and defining project goals and objectives with management.
• Analyze each phase of projects to determine budgets.
• Create and maintain schedules for all phases of the project.
• Deploy critical path analysisto identify tasks vital to the timely completion of projects, improve resource allocation and reduce delays and cost overruns.
• Deploy work breakdown structure (WBS) to organize a team's activities into manageable parts.
• Track project costs and ensure implementation stays within predicted estimates for each project phase.
• Estimate the project timeline and make sure teams adhere to delivery dates.
• Monitor progress of projects to ensure adherence to schedules, budgets, and quality standards.
• Manage the human and capital resources of a project to ensure timely delivery.
• Identify and evaluate potential risks that can delay and derail project delivery or the cost and take remedial action.
• Provide reports on deviations to the original project plan that can lead to serious delays and budget overruns.
• Prepare and present internal and external project reports for stakeholders.
• Document and maintain records on project scheduling processes.
• Prepare short and long-term resource allocation plans based on input from all key players and team members.
• Oversee schedules and risk management plans and provide serious deviations warnings hindering project results.
• Gather actual data, update project schedule and develop reliable schedule forecast with support from project team.
• Create reports detailing the status of projects and highlighting any potential issues that may arise.

Requirements

• First Degree in Engineering – (Petro-) Chemical Engineering; Environmental Engineering or Occupational Health and Safety, Environmental Science.
• Professional qualification with relevant engineering and/or Project Management body, such as Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, PRINCE2 (Projects in Controlled Environments).
• Knowledge and use of primavera is compulsory.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in similar role.
• Specific experience in oil and gas or petrochemicals.
• Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices
• Experience in project management, seeing projects through the full life cycle.
• Ability to prepare and interpret flowcharts, schedules and step-by-step action plans.
• Basic understanding of variance analysis.
• In-depth expertise with cost estimates and cost analysis.

Salary
N300,000 per month.

Application Closing Date
29th November, 2024.