Senior Planner

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 platforms hundreds of miles from shore, using our expertise to design and build offshore wind infrastructure, and reshaping the onshore landscape to deliver the energy products the world needs safely and sustainably. 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.

Job Description Job Overview

The Senior Planner uses McDermott's Planning/Scheduling discipline practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the Planning/Scheduling discipline within McDermott. They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the Planning/Scheduling discipline. They solve complex problems and use their discipline-specific knowledge to improve their products or services. The Senior Planner impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the Planning/Scheduling team and other related teams and ensures that they are working within the appropriate guidelines and policies.

Responsibilities Key Tasks and Responsibilities

Perform schedule analysis using Project Management software including Primavera P6, Deltek Fuse & Risk, and Microsoft Project

Support project baseline creation during the project initiation and setup phase

Provide project schedule support 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, 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 factors, both current and potential, 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

Qualifications Essential Qualifications and Education

Bachelor's degree in Project Management/Engineering/Construction/Business Management or equivalent combinations of technical training or experience required

7-10 years of EPCIC experience with Onshore or Offshore Oil and Gas or Power Generation related projects

Planning/Scheduling experience for Large LNG or Topside Fabrication projects preferred

Have solid commands of Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Office software

Must be able to use advanced features in Excel (curves, histograms, dynamic tables, formulas, etc.)

Able to produce and maintain logically linked activity schedules, according to precedence flow in EPCIC planning, using best practices

Able to produce and assess progress curves, histograms, variance reports, and critical paths

Able to analyze project status and performance, deviations, performance factors, forecasts, and workarounds

Must be able to produce multidisciplinary logically linked activity schedules, according to precedence flow in planning, using best industry practices

Ability to effectively communicate with team members and management

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