Planning Engineer

Job Description:

Position : PLANNER / PLANNING ENGINEER
Responsibilities

• Initiate, prepare, and develop project plan and schedule according to standards, contract specifications and accepted project management practices.
• Coordinate with the project manager, site manager, site engineers, job estimators, engineers of various disciplines etc to acquire proper data and specifications for the schedule.
• Analyze drawings, specifications, and method of statements of works for the preparation of activity networks/scheduling/resources planning and allocation.
• Develop major milestone activities and establish a well-defined work break down structure, which includes all the scope of work.
• Establish the schedule based on key dates, milestone dates, scope of works, resource loading etc.as specified in the contract.
• Assign duration, resources (Manpower, Materials and equipment) and budgeted cost for each activity based on their weight factor and quantity/volume of work and identify long lead items required in the project.
• Generate detailed work plan, Critical activities/Path, Planned /Progress S-Curves, Budget histogram/Planned distribution tables etc.
• Coordinate schedule from multiple sub-contractors/Vendors and incorporate the information gathered into the overall project master schedule.
• Develop database for engineering deliverables, procurement deliverables and construction activities for monitoring/analyzing/tracking progress.
• Review, analyze and refine sequence and logic of tasks/activities and highlight any critical activity needs particular attention.
• Track, monitor and forecast progress of all activities and deliverables such as products, engineering documents, fabrication status and construction of all discipline.
• During project proposal, invite subcontractors for various discipline, conduct job explanation meeting and to collect BID for all packages.
• Conduct technical and commercial clarification meeting, negotiate the quotation to finalize the BID during proposal stage.
• Conduct BID clarification meeting, project explanation meeting with subcontractors.
• Review subcontractor quotation for execution stage in line with our budget, planed resource and profitability.
• Follow-Up with subcontractor/site team to monitor project progress and make reports.
• Monitoring, Updating and analysis of progress right from the field.
• Collate data and other pertinent information of project progress and update schedule.
• Evaluate dates to completion and project delay, if any, periodically by updating actual progress data.
• Prepare reports and charts, I.e. Daily, weekly and monthly reports as required by management and client.
• Support project management in accomplishing project status review and performance control.
• Attend project progress status review meeting with client, vendors and sub-contractors.
• Prepare reports about activities to be prioritized for site supervisors/Engineers.
• Record and assess the effects of project schedule changes.
• Assess actual progress versus planned progress to determine trends and variances. 

Requirement
Graduate / Diploma of Engineering in Instrumentation / electrical or related field.
Minimum 5 years’ experience as Planner / Lead planning engineer in medium size LSTK Projects
Capable of handling multiple projects at the same time.
Experience in working as planning engineer for the E&I related projects will be added advantage.
Working experience with SABIC/ARAMCO LSTK projects.