Lead Planning Engineer - Trinidad

The Lead Planner is responsible for ensuring the provision of a high standard of schedule development and management for entire project lifecycle, including building schedules, monitoring progress, producing reports and guiding scopes towards the optimum completion date.

• Understand the corporate and contract specific planning procedures and carry out all work in accordance with these.
• Study and understand all relevant project documents pertaining to the preparation of plans and schedules.
• Work with all relevant project and discipline personnel to ensure that planning control procedures are in place.
• Assist in establishing project control schedules based on the client approved program schedule.
• Assist project management in the expedition of schedules and change request approvals.
• Prepare activities for entire project lifecycle, including engineering and construction.
• Reviewing schedule and progress information (for all WBS elements), for input to Primavera and Mpower on a weekly basis ensuring that all information received is accurate and correctly input.
• Ensure WBS is the same as the structure in Mpower.
• Producing regular schedule reports and advising Project Engineers of any forecast schedule overruns as soon as possible to allow corrective actions to be taken in a timely manner. Highlighting areas of concern and suggesting areas of improvement.
• Ensure ‘S’ curves for planning is in aligned to cost ‘S’ curve.
• Maintaining comprehensive accessible registers of schedule approvals, variations and change orders.
• Review project man-hours and the allocation of man-hours in conjunction with cost control on a weekly basis.
• Liaising with the Construction & Engineering departments with regards to establishing monthly evaluation of work done, goods received and services rendered for schedule preparation and verification.
• Ensure that all scheduled work is in compliance with the contract project execution plan.
• Maintain a good working knowledge with Mpower and Primavera.
• Ensure that adequate control of plans & schedules is in place.
• Support lead project controls personnel as appropriate.
• Liaise with other disciplines in the control and forecasting of budgets and ensuring that all scopes including change requests are included.
• Participate in schedule risk analysis as required.
• Ensure that corporate and project specific change control procedures are being adhered to.
• Perform all other job-related functions as required

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Management or related field, from a recognised university.
• PMP or related project management certification will be an asset.Ability to provide direction to and supervise others
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• High degree of Computer Literacy, particularly in MS Office applications
• Good general understanding of Planning, Estimating and Change Control.
• Good understanding of the basic principles of Project Management.
• Good working knowledge of Planning & Schedule Management Software e.g. Primavera or equivalent.
• At least eight (8) years relevant work experience.Ability to work well with external and internal customers
• Ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Ability to work in a Team environment and input to the resolution of problems.
• Ability to work unsupervised.
• Preference will be given to National Citizens or Permanent Residents of Trinidad & Tobago.