Senior Planners (SP) at Alcon Nigeria Limited

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Alcon Nigeria Limited is a registered EPC contractor that has been operating in Nigeria for over 30 years with Operational headquarters in Port-Harcourt and Project locations across Rivers, Bayelsa, Akwa-Ibom and Delta States including Bonny Island. As a fast-growing indigenous Company willing to promote the Nigerian Content.

Alcon Nigeria Limited is recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Senior Planners (SP)

Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria

Job Summary:
The Senior Planner shall establish and effectively manage all project control measures relevant to completing projects on schedule. Responsible for providing project planning and scheduling services during the development and execution phases of projects.

Major Responsibilities:
  • Develops project schedule according to commercial needs.
  • Issues planning and scheduling procedures, project measurement procedures for verification by Project Manager and efficiently communicate them to the project team members as required.
  • During early phase of the project, shall support the Project Management Team in developing the execution plan for the scope of work
  • Resolves logic and schedule related conflicts through close interaction with project stakeholders
  • Instrumental in defining and scheduling key contractual milestones for inclusion into contract documents
  • Verifies the capacity to execute the contractual scope of work by analyzing resources (human and material) requirements
  • Ensures equipment, materials, and engineering are capable and committed to meeting the contractual schedule dates
  • Provides status updates to schedules, verifies accuracy of work completed and analyzes progress, schedule performance and variances from the plan and final time-impact.
  • Obtains and/or recommends corrective actions for mitigating deviations from the plan
  • Works closely with the entire Project Management Team, especially the Cost Control group to identify and resolve schedule deviations and, trends
  • Prepares and maintains quantity metrics
  • Interfaces and coordinate with other discipline leaders/ supervisors and managers to build up activities, assign milestones and constraints by issuing the logic network
  • Establishes and controls effectively planning and progress control system to assist the project manager in decision-making.
Qualification and Personal Attributed:
  • The ideal candidate must possess at least a bachelors degree in any Engineering discipline and must have at least 15 years experience in hands-on construction and at least 10 years experience in Project Planning and Control in Oil and Gas industry.
  • Must be a certified Project Management Professional
  • Must be competent in the use of primavera P6 software as well as other project management Soft wares.
  • Must be able to communicate effectively with project team members
  • Must be able to interface with other departmental and unit heads in order to gather information for easy project management and control.
  • Must be ready to work long hours and work well under pressure to meet deadlines.
Remuneration:
All advertised positions attract a competitive remuneration package comparable with the best in the industry.

Application Closing Date
21st July, 2014

Method of Application:
Suitably qualified candidates should forward their resume with the job code to: [email protected] not later than 21st July 2014. Only applications that meet the relevant qualifications will be considered.