Planner - Temp

Massy Wood is searching for a Planner for a 6 week period for one of our projects.

The 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 all relevant project documents pertaining to the preparation of plans and schedules
• Work with all relevant project and discipline personnel, pertaining to the preparation of plans and schedules.
• Maintain a good working knowledge of planning of Primavera.
• Prepare schedules for entire project lifecycle, including engineering and construction.
• Prepare, review and ensure timely issue of all relevant reports to stakeholders.
• Verbally and in writing advise project and discipline personnel on impacts, contingencies and generally guide the scopes towards the earliest possible finish.
• Provide realistic resource forecast data at a project and corporate level.
• Maintain realistic future work forecast plans for resource management.
• Provide input into the budget forecasting process.
• Support the Project Controls Lead as required.
• Liaise with cost discipline to ensure accurate and timely control and forecasting of man-hour budgets and ensure that the impact of all change requests are properly assessed and included in the schedules.
• Ensure that the WBS structure for planning is the same for cost discipline.
• Participate in schedule risk analysis as required.
• May be required to visit offshore.
• Analyses and summaries activities and produces reports on progress.
• In collaboration with the Functional Managers, to identify and agree the critical activities that will deliver key Company/Project objectives.
• Combining separate functional and discipline plans into one integrated company plan.
• Establishing the status and updating the Integrated Project Plan on a weekly and monthly basis as required.
• Identifying critical changes and any slippages to key deliverables and milestones.
• Establishing with discipline and Functional Managers any changes to the risk profile for delivery of the plans.
• Measurement of CPI and Histogram reporting

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Management or related field, from a recognised university
• At least five (5) years’ experience in a Project Controls role.
• Good working knowledge of Project Management Software e.g. Primavera and Mpower
• Good understanding of the basic principles of Project Management.
• Good general understanding of Cost Management, Planning and Change Control.
• Experience in the oil & gas industry.