Planner

Project Progress Monitoring: Monitor project progress, identify any potential issues or delays, and communicate these to the Planning Manager. Work closely with the project team to ensure that projects are delivered on time and within budget.

Stakeholder Communication: Communicate with stakeholders, including project team members, clients, and suppliers, to ensure that project progress is understood and expectations are managed. Respond to inquiries, resolve any issues, and provide updates as required.

The Planner is responsible for providing support for the planning and delivery of projects, ensuring that projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards. Perform maintenance and outage planning and scheduling activities that include liaising with Outage Managers and Clients, manpower estimating, preventive and predictive maintenance. Reviewing schedules and s-curves and providing support for Junior Planners. Tracking of physical progress on site against the schedule and tracking man-hours (timesheets) in an accurate and consistent manner.

Project Reporting: Support the Project Control Department in the preparation of project status reports and presentations, ensuring that all information gets communicated in a timely manner.

• Development and maintenance of documentation required by management, insurance representatives, and auditors by maintaining records of all activities - outage and/or maintenance historical records to facilitate efficient and comprehensive planning and scope development of future work.
• To prepare Shutdown and Annual Outage Schedule using Primavera P6 and MS Project for the Shutdown Preventive Maintenance and shutdown hold corrective maintenance and to monitor the progress.
• Liaise with Outage Managers, Planning Manager & Technical Director to determine manpower requirements, both internal and third party.
• Generator robotic inspections, rotor and stator rewinds
• Assist in the management of project documentation, ensuring that all relevant information is stored in a centralized location. Ensure that project documentation is complete, accurate, and up to date.
• On site Surface Preparation – ice blasting, coating and curing of Compressor parts (blades/vanes) with Aluminum Chromate coatings
• Serve as a point of contact for Planning Manager and Senior Project Controls Manager, liaising with Junior Planners and back office daily in the form of reports.
• Optimize and innovate maintenance planning systems to ensure efficient use of resources & manpower at each outage.
• Continuously seek opportunities to improve project processes and procedures, improve planning, and identify and implement best practices to enhance project delivery.
• Schedule Development and Maintenance: Manage the creation and maintenance of project schedules, including the development of detailed project tasks and resource plans.
• Ensure that schedules are up-to-date and accurate at all times. Ensure that schedules are in line with planning best practices.
• To prepare Monthly, Quarterly and Annual Reports.

• Strong team player attitude: maintain flexibility within the changing business priorities and able to operate independently
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, such as project management, engineering, or any relevant internationally recognized project management certificate
• Proficiency in Microsoft Projects or Primavera scheduling software, certification in the same
• Able to identify opportunities and innovate improvements
• Strong organizational skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities/tasks simultaneously and work well under pressure, in a fast-paced environment
• Management and stakeholder management skills
• 3-5 years of experience in a similar role, generation experience preferred.
• Excellent customer, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Intermediate knowledge of Excel
• Must have the ability to troubleshoot to determine the causes of errors and the solutions to resolve the issues.

• GT / ST and Generator corrective maintenance and repairs on a standby basis