Job Description
Company Overview:
People power our future. That is why advancing a dynamic, inclusive environment, where everyone grows and thrives is critically important to 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 offshore platforms hundreds of miles from shore, and using our expertise to design and build offshore wind infrastructure.
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.
Here, what you do matters.
Job Overview:
McDermott has an opening for a Principal Planner in Houston, TX. The Planner will be responsible for preparing and maintaining Level 3 detailed Engineering/Procurement /Module Fabrication/Construction and Commissioning schedules, with the purpose of providing the Project Management Team with accurate progress, performance and schedule data to manage the project Facilitate project schedule validation workshops.
Responsibilities
Key Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Perform schedule analysis using Project Management software's 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
- Perform detailed schedule quality and integrity checks
- Update and validate physical progress reported from EVMS systems
- 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, Installation, 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 current and potential factors 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
Essential Qualifications and Education:
- Candidate shall have a minimum of 10 to 15 years of experience in the capacity as a planner.
- Must have solid commands of Primavera P6 and Microsoft Office software.
- Must be able to use advanced features in Excel (curves, histograms, formulas, etc.).
- Strong Onshore Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals Project Experience.
- Modularization Experience Preferred.
- Ability to think critically.
Re-Posted EA: 8/27/2024
