Job Description Summary
Job Description - Summary
HVDC Projects are large and complex projects with multiple sites across the world and international teams involved. HVDC Project Planner is part of the Project Controls team and his/her role is to develop and manage the project schedule, aligning with all functions.
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Key member of the project team providing schedule status to the PM and to the Lead Project Planner
- Develops and maintains the project schedule by integrating inputs from all functions, units and third parties contributing to the project
- Communicate about the schedule status to the Lead Planner, Project Manager, supplier and third parties.
- Provides schedule analysis to determine project schedule risks and opportunities then works with project team members to drive risk mitigation strategies
- Provides look ahead, backlog and future late reporting with prioritizations to clearly communicate potential and real risk and drive the project priorities
- Provides regular status reporting with forecasting and analytics to project team members
- Provides contractually required customer reporting and is able to communicate directly with customers on scheduling matters
- Preparation of critical path analysis and work with multiple critical and near critical paths
- Generates what if" scenarios to optimize execution and works with project teams to evaluate feasibility
- Aligns with cost controlling function to ensure clear alignment between cost and schedule to ensure accurate project execution
- Support change order analysis with schedule analytics and forecasts
- Load and manage resources into the project schedule
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Educational Requirements
- Graduate in Engineering or Economic studies
Experience and Knowledge
- As part of a project team, several years of experience in planning management
- Application of planning control principles (WBS, critical path, progress, resource loading)
- Application of Primavera P6
Behavioral skills / competencies
- Fluent in English is a must
- Likes to work in a Team with active collaboration
- Contribute to the decision making
- Critical approach of data on hands
- Rigor and Transparency
- Proactivity & Anticipation and problem solving attitude
As a Plus
- Carried out organizational and strategic planning process would be appreciated
- Planning integration principles and methods
- Contract management: made EOTs and supported negotiations
- Risk management
- Experience with CPA and EOT/delay analysis
- Experience in Substations
What we offer
- Working in a growing international team within Grid Systems Integration with extensive development opportunities
- A key role in a dynamic, international working environment with a large degree of flexibility of work arrangements
- Competitive benefits