Principal Planning Engineer

Job Summary:

In this role, you will provide non-routine cost engineering/planning and scheduling needs to projects. You will establish stakeholder relationships, conduct schedule analysis and integrate activities, identify restraints, quantify risks, monitor cost and performance, recommend alternatives, and deliver training sessions and workshops. Your activities will synthesize project components into seamless execution.

Major Responsibilities:

• Prepares schedule data for proposals or contract negotiations
• Applies established unit job hour and pricing data for a specific discipline or other specialty including estimating parameters, factors, indices, productivity, and craft distribution reference data
• Performs integration of individual schedules into the total project plan.
• Prepares performing organization's work logic in support of overall project schedule
• Performs schedule resource loading and leveling
• Maintains open communications with other organizations to assist schedule maintenance and reporting
• Identifies schedule restraints
• Identifies and reports activities that have a critical or potential impact on the schedule
• Develops schedule recovery plans
• Evaluates subcontractor schedules for required workarounds or potential schedule improvements
• Conducts project schedule analysis and studies of problem areas to find criticality of schedule activities
• Recommends alternatives for schedule improvement to project team for discussion and/or decision
• Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of variable factors
• Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
• Assists and may mentor less experienced team members

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 10-13 years of relevant experience or 14-17 years of relevant work experience

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Experience of using Primavera (P6) for 10+ Years on EPC Projects.
• Strong communication, planning and organization skills;
• Skilled in oral and written communication.
• Knowledge of engineering and construction management customarily acquired over time through specialized instruction or practical experience
• Demonstrates an intermediate level understanding of Project Controls general technical skills
• Intermediate capabilities of using Primavera Risk Analysis (PRA) and/or Acumen Risk
• Intermediate capabilities of developing Power BI Dashboards
• Knowledge in the use of computers and several basic software applications such as Excel, Word and PowerPoint for executing work processes