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GE Oil & Gas is recruting for the position of:
Job Title: Project Management Planning Specialist
Job Number: 1944689
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Role Summary/Purpose:
The Specialist - Planning is responsible for defined work or projects with moderate complexity within the Oil & Gas Project Management organization. In this role you will follow an individual work plan and meets day-to-day short-term objectives and resolve issues through immediate action or short-term planning. In this role you will:
Essential Responsibilities:
- The Specialist - Planning is responsible for defined work or projects with moderate complexity. In this role you will follow an individual work plan and meets day-to-day short-term objectives and resolve issues through immediate action or short-term planning.
- Develop project schedule variances from commitment / order release meeting though contract terms
- Work to mitigate standard cycles to meet customer / contract needs dates for on-time delivery
- Schedule meetings to assigned projects with timely and proactive management to cost and cycle impacts
- Ensure consistent communication and processes across business segments with a focus on all aspects of equipment delivery, i.e. specification, order, manufacture, release, ship, and receipt
- Assist with implementation of "early warning" identification of potential issues and drive RCA functional ownership to reduce "Cost to Recover" exposure
- Demonstrate organizational leadership and ownership of key metrics and operational activities, as needed
Qualifications/Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma/GED with at least 4 years of related experience)
- Minimum 1 year experience in a professional work environment.
Additional Eligibility Qualifications:
Desired Characteristics:
- Experience in Project Planning and/or Logistics
- Experience in energy industry.
- Experience in planning systems ie: P6
- High energy level - self-starter.
- Microsoft suite proficiency.
- Six Sigma training (GE employees only).
- Sense of urgency in dealing with issues and tasks.
- Leadership skills and ability to effectively operate in a matrix team / organization.
- Ability to organize, assess, orchestrate, prioritize tasks, risks, resources, milestones, and deliverables.
- Presentation and Communication skills
Application Closing Date
7th May, 2014
Method of Application
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