Principal Planner

McDermott

The Role

Overview

Lead complex planning/scheduling, analyze project performance, and mentor teams.

Key Responsibilities

  • schedule management
  • progress tracking
  • primavera p6
  • baseline creation
  • critical path
  • mentor planners

Tasks

-Lead and deliver initiatives -Elevate and expedite operations that are delaying the schedule and analyze changes to the schedule to meet unforeseen conditions -Update and validate physical progress reported from EVMS systems -Maintain and review the sequence of Engineering, Procurement, Fabrication, Construction, Installation, Hook-Up, and Commissioning, and other operations for control of critical path and overall project durations -Identify current and potential factors that may delay the schedule. Assess actions for recovery and improvement and analyze changes to the schedule to meet unforeseen conditions -Create and Monitor schedule compliance, key performance, factors, and provide analysis of variations to baseline data -Perform detailed schedule quality and integrity checks -Produce workforce histograms and progress and quantity curves in connection with the schedules -Perform schedule analysis using Project Management software's including Primavera P6, Deltek Fuse & Risk, and Microsoft Project -Facilitate detailed multi-discipline scope reviews -Support project baseline creation during the project initiation and setup phase -Develop and maintain logically linked level 3 and level 4 activity schedules, for marine scope installation projects in the Oil and Gas Industry (pipelines, subsea, platforms, HDD), according to precedence flow planning, using best practices -Provide project schedule support and mentor junior planners as required

Requirements

  • primavera p6
  • ms project
  • advanced excel
  • epcic experience
  • bachelor's
  • scheduling

What You Bring

-Able to analyze project status and performance, deviations, performance factors, forecasts, and workarounds -10-15 years of EPCIC experience with Onshore or Offshore Oil and Gas or Power Generation related projects -Ability to effectively communicate with team members and management -Must be able to produce multidisciplinary logically linked activity schedules, according to precedence flow in planning, using best industry practices -Planning/Scheduling experience for Large LNG or Topside Fabrication projects preferred -Have solid commands of Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Office software -Able to produce and assess progress curves, histograms, variance reports, and critical paths -Must be able to use advanced features in Excel (curves, histograms, dynamic tables, formulas, etc.) -Able to produce and maintain logically linked activity schedules, according to precedence flow in EPCIC planning, using best practices -Bachelor's Degree in Project Management/Engineering/Construction/Business Management or equivalent combinations of technical training or experience required

The Company

About McDermott

-Provides a comprehensive range of services including engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) for both offshore and onshore projects. -Expertise encompasses the delivery of fixed, floating, and subsea production facilities, pipelines, and storage systems, from concept to commissioning. -Known for diverse product lines and innovative solutions across the oil and gas sector, including offshore and subsea production, onshore construction, engineering, and storage. -Developed the first steel template platform in the Gulf of Mexico in the 1940s, expanding its capabilities through strategic acquisitions and technological advancements.

Sector Specialisms

Wind

Hydrogen

Solar

Carbon Capture

Oil

Gas

Principal Planner at McDermott in London GB | Chiswick, London, United Kingdom