Planning Engineer

Higher education (University degree or higher) in the relevant speciality and not less than 2 years of work experience as Planning Engineer.

• Provide effective support to his/her Line Manager. Provide a planning function for work performed within PED for a particular project or projects;
• Responsible for coordination and submission of planning/progress data to support monthly progress reports and other statistical corporate data, ensuring it is accurate and reported in a timely fashion;
• Providing professional assistance and guidance to the project team in developing and implementing the project plan, monitoring project progress, and recording/reporting the impact of changes, statusing and forecasting an integrated project schedule (resources, cost and QTY loaded schedule), so that the schedule could be executed in an efficient manner;
• Prepare and provide schedule progress reports, S-Curves, schedule analysis, and what-if scenarios. Must maintain records of scope changes and variances that potentially affect schedule performance. Must understand the Scope of the Work to be performed and also be prepared; the planning data process input requires an understanding of the constraints and significant considerations specific to the end of project deliverables;
• Develop and analyze the project schedules, implement SRA software, conduct time impact and delay analysis, and review periodic schedule updates;
• Support the project team efforts toward the development of the project plan and understanding that project plan into the project schedule;
• Prepare overall plans for proposed work to be used as the basis of economic evaluation and Authorisation of Expenditure and cost estimation preparation;
• Monitor and update accurate schedule progress towards achieving the desired project completion date and inform the project team of changes to the schedule outcome;
• Assure the credibility of the information contained in the schedule;
• Develop at the completion of the project the recording of the project’s historical schedule information and lessons learned;
• Develop a master project schedule, identifying major milestones to achieve the project completion;
• Develop detailed schedules by WBS and assign labour and non-labour to each activity to determine progress requirements to meet the project completion date;
• Implement and control detailed progress measurement processes;
• Interface with Contractors as required to obtain planning and progress data;
• Coordinate preparation of weekly and monthly planning/progress data for input to reports for Project activities;
• Interface with Departments where relevant across KPO (e.g., PED, Operations Directorate Planning Department) in order to develop and maintain departmental project or business plans.

• Intermediate (B1) English level is an advantage for this role;
• Experience in EPC project management as a Planning Engineer or Scheduler. Background in managing schedules from Level 1 to Level
  3. Familiarity with all planning activities, including progress tracking, forecasting, and reporting;
• Sound understanding of full cycle development planning from Define through to Handover to operations;
• Knowledge of regulating documents such as resolutions, instructions, orders and other guiding, methodical and also regulating documents on planning, and analysis of project execution activities;
• Organisation of Company planned performance;
• Procedure for development of overall Company long-term and annual plans for production-economical activities;
• Planning – documentation;
• Methods and planning procedures of the company;
• Economy, process engineering, organisation of labour and control;