JOB DESCRIPTION

Remarkable people, trusted by clients to design and advance the world

Wood is seeking expression of interest for Planner & Scheduler (Shutdown) for six months assignment in Oman.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Designing the future. Transforming the world

Reflecting the market focus for the office in both brownfield and green field opportunities, multi-skilled personnel are sought, for those with experience in Onshore Oil and Gas.

What we can offer

• Meaningful and interesting projects delivered to leaders of industry across oil and gas and emerging energy sectors
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion; we are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our busiess with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice
• Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market
• Medical Insurance: Ensures inpatient and outpatient care is available should you require treatment. Cover limits apply, please refer to the terms of benefit and network list for further details.
• Workmen's Compensation: Provides payment of 3 x Annual Wage (up to a maximum of 5000 OMR) upon death or permanent disability.
• Employee Assistance Programme: Allows you to feel comfortable knowing that you or your immediate family members can confidentially discuss any work or personal issues that are an inevitable part of life. The programme helps support your mental, physical, social & financial well-being.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining Project and Portfolio Execution Schedules including Level 1/2/3 schedules.
• Ensure alignment on project assumptions with cost engineering, cost estimation, risk management and project management.
• Implement Schedule requirements of Company into the planning, interface with Construction, CSU & ORA to implement relevant requirements into planning, and cascade these to the contractors accordingly.
• Identifying trends or potential slippages and report on these to the Project Engineers or the Project Services Lead.
• Producing regular reports on progress against schedule. Reporting schedule performance index (SPI)
• Deliver and maintain consistent and realistic plans and control structures for the project. Understand the list of plans required to execute the assigned project sub‐elements and their interface to other subelements.
• Develop the activities, durations as per productivity norms, logic, resources and progress for the assigned project sub‐elements, leading to the creation of the baseline schedule and its subsequent maintenance.
• Develop, implement and comply with the planning and progress monitoring procedures.
• Conduct the schedule monthly progress update, forecast, critical path and trend analyses for assigned elements, including any impact from interface areas. Implement and maintain the status reports.
• Provide regular and comprehensive schedule status reports to project engineers.
• Assess and incorporate the impact of approved changes and any deviations from the key project targetsand milestones, including productivity monitoring and identification of alternate approaches to optimize the plan(s).
• Liaise with and challenge Project Engineering personnel to ensure proper understanding of the key schedule sensitivities and drivers. Ensure application of resource loading and levelling into the project schedules.
• Develop contract key dates, milestones and Project Hub plan dates that align with the overall project schedule. Ensure availability and levelling of resources through the project/portfolio.
• Participate in evaluating bid schedules and reviewing and assessing contractor plans to support contract award recommendations.
• Develop contract sections for planning and progress monitoring and reporting. Review, verify, assess contractors reported progress and ensure that this is reflected in the project schedule.
• Contribute to the translation of the project's and portfolio risk profile into the probabilistic risk model and understand the output, including the key risk drivers for the possible range of schedule completion dates.
• Track the criticality of the main paths to completion and float consumption.
• Provide input data for and participate in benchmarking activities.
• Contribute to close‐out data to enable knowledge retention (lessons learned, project data compilation) at completion of work
• Exposure to benchmarking process and competitiveness of projects with continuous improvement mindset
• Exposure to risk management process and tools for industrial projects inclu

QUALIFICATIONS

University degree preferred
Experience and Skill set:
Experience in Refinery Shutdown/Turnaround
Minimum 8 years experience in Project Planning roles in Oil and Gas Industry. 4 years must be in Lead roles managing a team of planning engineers.
Minimum 5 years experience in Project Planning in Brown Field Oil and Gas related project delivery

ABOUT US

Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people. www.woodplc.com

Diversity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.