Senior Planner

McDermott International, Ltd; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

McDermott International, Ltd is seeking a Senior Planner to enhance our Planning/Scheduling discipline. You will mentor colleagues, solve complex scheduling problems, and work with multiple teams to ensure projects align with guidelines and policies.

You will handle schedule analysis, baselines, and detailed activity scheduling for marine and subsea projects, including pipelines and platforms; strong communication with management is essential in a fast-paced energy environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Engineering, Construction or related field.
• 7–10 years EPCIC experience with onshore/offshore oil & gas or power projects.
• Scheduling experience for LNG or topside fabrication preferred.
• Proficient in Primavera P6, MS Project and MS Office; advanced Excel features.

Responsibilities

• Perform schedule analysis using industry software and develop robust baselines.
• Mentor and support junior planners; lead multi‑discipline reviews.
• Develop linked activity schedules for offshore/onshore projects per best practices.
• Monitor progress curves, critical path, and variances; report deviations.
• Identify delays, propose recovery actions, and drive schedule improvements.
• Lead initiatives to improve planning processes and outcomes.

Skills

Schedule analysis

Mentor junior planners

Team communication

Precedence flow planning

Critical path analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in PM/Engineering/Construction/Business

Tools

Primavera P6

Deltek Fuse & Risk

Microsoft Project

Excel advanced

Job description

Job Overview

The Senior Planner uses McDermott's Planning/Scheduling discipline practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the Planning/Scheduling discipline within McDermott. They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the Planning/Scheduling discipline. They solve complex problems and use their discipline‑specific knowledge to improve their products or services. The Senior Planner impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the Planning/Scheduling team and other related teams and ensures that they are working within the appropriate guidelines and policies.

Job Description

Job Overview: The Senior Planner uses McDermott's Planning/Scheduling discipline practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the Planning/Scheduling discipline within McDermott. They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the Planning/Scheduling discipline. They solve complex problems and use their discipline‑specific knowledge to improve their products or services. The Senior Planner impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the Planning/Scheduling team and other related teams and ensures that they are working within the appropriate guidelines and policies.

Responsibilities

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Perform schedule analysis using Project Management software including Primavera P6, Deltek Fuse & Risk, and Microsoft Project
• Support project baseline creation during the project initiation and setup phase
• Facilitate detailed multi‑discipline scope reviews
• Provide project schedule support and mentor junior planners as required
• 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
• Produce workforce histograms and progress and quantity curves in connection with the schedules
• Maintain and review the sequence of Engineering, Procurement, Fabrication, Construction, Hook‑Up, and Commissioning, and other operations for control of critical path and overall project durations
• Elevate and expedite operations that are delaying the schedule 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
• Identify factors, both current and potential, that may delay the schedule. Assess actions for recovery and improvement and analyze changes to the schedule to meet unforeseen conditions
• Lead and deliver initiatives

Qualifications

Essential Qualifications and Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Project Management/Engineering/Construction/Business Management or equivalent combinations of technical training or experience required
• 7-10 years of EPCIC experience with Onshore or Offshore Oil and Gas or Power Generation related projects
• Planning/Scheduling experience for Large LNG or Topside Fabrication projects preferred
• Have solid commands of Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Office software
• 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
• Able to produce and assess progress curves, histograms, variance reports, and critical paths
• Able to analyze project status and performance, deviations, performance factors, forecasts, and workarounds
• Must be able to produce multidisciplinary logically linked activity schedules, according to precedence flow in planning, using best industry practices
• Ability to effectively communicate with team members and management

About Us

Our ingenuity fuels daily life. Together, we’ve forged some of the most trusted partnerships across the energy value chain to make what was once just an idea a reality: laying subsea infrastructure thousands of feet below sea level, installing platforms hundreds of miles from shore, using our expertise to design and build offshore wind infrastructure, and reshaping the onshore landscape to deliver the energy products the world needs safely and sustainably.

For more than 100 years, we've been making the impossible possible. Today, we're driving the energy transition with more than 30,000 of the brightest minds across 54 countries.