Senior Planner

Talentify; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

McDermott in Houston, TX is seeking a Senior Planner to join our Low Carbon Solutions team. The Senior Planner uses planning discipline practices to improve scheduling and acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the Planning/Scheduling discipline.

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

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• 7-10 years of EPCIC experience with onshore/offshore oil & gas or power projects
• Proven ability to build schedules for large projects
• Proposals experience on EPC projects
• Strong command of scheduling tools and Excel advanced features
• Ability to communicate effectively with team and management

Responsibilities

• Perform schedule analysis using Primavera P6, Deltek Fuse & Risk, and MS Project
• Support baseline creation during project initiation and setup
• Facilitate detailed multi-discipline scope reviews
• Mentor junior planners as required
• Develop and maintain level 3 and level 4 activity schedules for marine scope installations in Oil & Gas
• Produce workforce histograms and progress curves
• Review engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, hook-up and commissioning sequences
• Identify delays and propose recovery actions
• Lead and deliver scheduling initiatives

Skills

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Office

Advanced Excel

Schedule Analysis

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Project Management/Engineering/Construction/Business Management

Tools

Primavera P6

Deltek Fuse & Risk

Job description

Job Overview

We are looking for a Senior Planner to join our Low Carbon Solutions team in Houston, Texas.

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.

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
• Must be able to build schedules for a large project
• Proposals experience working with EPC projects
• 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

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