Greenfield Planning Specialist

About this role

• Advises the EPC Contractor's organization with respect to adequacy of project controls tools, reports and schedules to ensure mutual alignment.
• Reviews and endorses schedule and progress baselines and forecast prepared by Contractor(s).
• Reviews Contractor monthly schedule and veifies logical links, durations and overall achievability. Changes from baseline and from previous month schedule identified and identified for trending, schedule slippage and emerging schedule risks.
• Reviews Contractor(s) main subcontractor schedules and ensures that they have been correctly integrated into the overall EPC schedules.
• Reviews and monitors Contractors Level 4 databases for completeness and accurate representation into the Level 3 Schedule. This includes Contractor(s) vendors and suppliers for both critical equipment and bulks and ensures that they have been correctly integrated into into the overall EPC schedules.
• Ensures Contractor accurately captures external interfaces in the Level 3 schedule.
• Advises Project Team of any potential schedule issues and when necessary, provides guidance on, corrective action and measures to mitigate any adverse trends. Assists Project Team in developing and reviewing schedule corrective actions and recovery plans, and verifies needed actions/plans are implemented.
• Analyzes the planned quantity metrics projections for all home office and site disciplines (e.g. Piping, Civil, Electrical, etc.). Monitors actual metrics quantities completed against planned.
• Reviews, verifies and endorses Contractor(s) monthly progress claims for accuracy of progress measurement used in the monthly progress certification process and works with project accounting personnel within the Business Team as part of the monthly invoice and payment cycle.
• Reviews project changes proposals/requests to evaluate detail schedule impact and detailing in Project Management of Changes requests (PMOC) schedule impact quantification. Ensures approved changes are correctly incorporated by Contractor in the overall schedule for stewardship purposes.
• Develops and maintains PMT internal project schedules as required for work scope outside of the EPC Contract and external interfaces.
• Prepares and compiles Weekly and Monthly Reports (schedule & progress) input to Major Projects Reports.
• Responds and supports to ad hoc requests from PMT related to scheduling and reporting, including development of progress metrics, and/or key performance indicators.