Planning

Professional Experience

Minimum 8 years experience in EPC organization, preferably in Oil & Gas/ Petrochemicals/Fertiliser, of which at least 3 years in a planning role

Key Deliverables

• Planning & Scheduling
• Cost Monitoring and Control
• Quantity Control
• Project Budgeting
• Working Capital Management
• Cash Flow Management
• Risk Identification, assessment and mitigation (with respect to time and cost)

Key relationships

Internal to organization:         Employees

External to organization:        Site coordination 

Responsibilities

Prime Responsibilities

1. Provide leadership to the team of Planner and Cost Controller for Mid Hydrocarbon Mid and Downstream project
2. Provide direction to planners and Cost controllers in developing, setting up, monitoring and controlling of project schedules, plan costs and quantities and smooth cash flow management
3. Preparation and update of Project Controls sections of the Project Execution Plan, including WBS, CBS, Progress measurement procedure and Reporting procedure 
4. Monitor and analyse progress to give early warning signals for delays. Also suggest remedial actions for the same. 

Shared cross-functionally

1. To act as interface with Project Manager, Finance & account, functional managers and other stakeholders including customer while  preparing project budget and cost analysis and report on timely and accurate forecast of project cost and schedule on a monthly basis, raising alarms and maintain healthy cash flow
2. Continuous coordination of cross function activities on planning, monitoring and controlling of project activities right from proposal to commissioning phase of project
3. Support Project Manager in the development and delivery of written/oral presentations to the Management and Customer and preparation of progress report
4. Active participation in rollout of the project control system development, maintenance and  updating, including initial configuration and awareness to  all the stakeholders
5. To play a role of key support person to the Project Manager on major and minor issues such as change management, risk identification and mitigation etc. 
6. Providing leadership in the selection, appraisal coaching, mentoring, training and developing project controls personnel
7. To support on Forex / Commodity hedging actions
8. Give input related to Risk for to the Risk Coordinator

Key competencies – Functional

Need to have

• Experience of planning in Middle/ Large sized projects from concept to commissioning
• Hands-on Experience of Primavera

Nice to have

• Knowledge of Financial management with good understanding of Taxes and other duties
• Hands on experience with SAP and/ or any cost booking/ management interface
• Good understanding of controllable cost drivers in the EPC context