Snr. Planning Engineer
Sirti Mena for Projects
Total years of experience :17 years, 10 Months
• Plan operations, develop schedules and communicate status to manage the project aptly.
• Develop estimates to determine comprehensive project costs and financial reports to monitor ongoing costs at sites.
• Resolve conflicts and negotiate agreements between stakeholders to reach win-win solutions to disagreements and clarify misunderstandings.
• Negotiate agreements between employees to clarify misunderstood directions and resolve conflicts affecting performance.
• Work with the construction manager to resolve delays, improve operations and provide exceptional service.
• Develop team communications and information for weekly meetings.
• Plan and coordinate materials, equipment and labour for the project over the project duration.
• Make accurate estimates for timescales and costs for the project.
• Create detailed long-term plans and daily progress schedules while overseeing the project.
• Present progress schedules to project team outlining milestones and deadlines.
• Generate the detailed Primavera project plan, obtain and verify regular updates/progress data from the design team, prepare project plan updates for the Project Manager
• Create risk management plans with triggers that are tied to contingencies to reduce risk and impact scope, schedule, cost and quality
• Perform delay analysis using retrospective analysis techniques for preparation of Extension of Time Claims for the delay, leading to the award of 12million Qatari riyals in compensation.
• Create optimisation strategies to drive efficient and systematic decision making.
• Improve and update processes while forecasting annual revenues.
• Check and research legislation and laws relevant to planning and applied knowledge to address concerns or enhance department operations.
• Develop and maintain automated tracking systems, hard copy files and records to enhance workflows.
• Gauge installation progress to inform the project team of performance concerns.
• Address internal supply problems head-on and develop creative solutions to prevent delays and missed targets.
• Confer with managers, project team and engineering personnel to revise plans and achieve demanding targets.
• Work with site supervisors and team members to understand vendors’ needs and bring levels within desired tolerances.
• Conduct site visits and records reviews to investigate violations of planning regulations and ordinances and notify proper authorities of findings.
• Realign progress schedules to factor in changing conditions such as materials shortages and changing designs.
• Schedule deliveries of long-lead materials by a specified time to begin installation on time.
• Input data in Primavera P6 to create updated status reports for quick reference of project progress and deadlines.
• Complete engineering and procurement logs and reports were detailing installation data such as volume, materials used and quality assurance results, helping management make accurate operational decisions.
• Surmount delay obstacles by directly collaborating with vendor representatives and procurement manager and proactively adjusting strategies.
• Improve productivity by 9% through the installation phase through capacity-planning models and resource levelling.
• Prepare formal progress reports for the Project Manager as required, work with the Cost Engineer to prepare monthly Earned Value reports to the project manager, including resource balancing structures
• Work with the Integration Team to maintain coordination of programs between teams
• Take a proactive leadership role during project development, leading project interactive planning sessions to fully integrate with the project/engineering teams to provide best-fit solutions to determine a logical approach to planning scheduling backed up by engineering judgement.
• Participate in all evaluation meetings weekly.
• Evaluation of the project (Earned Value Management)
• Coordination with other departments for the adequate performance of the project team.
• Preparation of recovery and revised and updated schedule using acceptable international techniques.
• Support the team to issue the necessary reports regularly to demonstrate any program deviation and recommend mitigations actions required.
• Review and analyses delay notifications and extension of time claims and prepare recommendations in support of Engineer’s determinations.
• Ensure progress/delay data is captured systematically and robustly manner across all the project lifecycle, providing expert direction to project planning resources to enable efficient analysis of potential delay/disruption claims (Time & Cost).
• Prepare contract baseline programme package and revisions to ensure that all activities and milestones are in full compliance with all terms of the contract.
• Resources and cost planning, manpower histogram, progress S-curve, cash flow and Progress Measurement System.
• Preparation of daily, weekly and monthly progress reports including the updated baseline programme.
• Preparation of correspondences and responses regarding contractor’s delays.
• Monitoring and controlling of all critical and longest path activities, engineering submissions, approvals, cost and resources to ensure that they don’t delay the site works and the project contract completion date.
• Monitoring of procurement of long-lead materials and ensure that they are per the approved baseline programme.
• Preparation of 2 weeks and monthly lookahead programmes and production targets and monitor the progress at minimum weekly intervals and identify corrective action as necessary to ensure that the construction work is completed in full compliance with the master schedule and all terms of the contract.
• Preparation of an Extension of Time and prolongation assessment reports and claims, scope variations and earned value analysis.
• Assist the commercial team on the assessment of Invoice submissions and payment applications.
• Attend weekly progress and project management meetings.
• Preparation of Project Management System in weekly, monthly and dashboard reports
• Given professional advice and recommendations to the engineers and project manager on mitigation techniques to recover and avoid delays.