Planning Engineer

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• Ensuring HSSEQ goals, objectives and targets are met through personal leadership and involvement.
• Safe delivery and handover of the Project to the Owner, sustainably, safely, on time, within budget, ensuring that a quality product is produced that represents ‘best value’ for the Owner and their Stakeholders.
• To provide Cost and Estimating management, leadership and support for all Project activities.
• Oversee Budget, Cost, Estimating, Progress Measurement and Forecasting activities of the EPC Contractor and ensure these are aligned to the overall Project objectives.
• Support the Project Controls Manager and provide functional support to the Project PMC and Owner’s teams.
• Principal Accountabilities:
• Champion the Project Safety culture, behaviors and engagement activities.
• Reports to PMC Project Controls Manager and works under his direction.
• Identifying, evaluating, and resolving Planning/Cost Control/Financial issues during the EPC Contract phase.
• Reviews, monitors and controls Project costs.
• Review the EPC Contractor’s Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to assure compliance with the contractual scope of work to be used while preparing the total Project scope, Project coding, Project schedules and cost reporting.
• Review EPC Contractor’s proposed measurement weight factors.
• Review the EPC Contractor work schedule and ensure that the sequence and logic used is correct for Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Pre-commissioning, Commissioning, Start-up and Performance Testing.
• Reviews, monitors and controls costs, schedules, deliverables, programs, progress and productivity.
• Verify EPC Contractor requests for payments, including the required supporting documents and achievement of milestone events and certifying their entitlements for payments accordingly.
• Ensure that adequate information is supplied to verify progress claims against milestones and invoices submitted including calling for further information to substantiate progress claims where necessary, prior to payment by the Owner.
• Review EPC Contractor’s Invoices, Progress Measurement and Forecasts and provide assessments to Project senior management.
• Review Project Business Plans and Execution strategies to provide input to strategic priorities, Operating Budgets and cost forecasts.
• Review EPC Contractor’s nominated Subcontractor’s un‑priced bid submissions for Progress Measurement and Reporting requirements.
• Ensure that PMC procedures for Estimating, Progress Measurement and Forecasting are approved and implemented.
• Provide functional input to the review and approval of EPC Contractor’s invoices and Change Order proposals.
• Participate in Project risk reviews, constructability reviews and value engineering workshops.
• Provide functional input to PMC weekly/monthly progress reports and presentations to the Owner and provide exception reports related to the overall Project Cost.
• Review EPC Contract close‑out reports and performance evaluation reports and provide functional input to Project senior management.
• Review PMC systems and procedures to provide functional input and support continuous improvement.
• Establish and implement Project statistical database for benchmarking purposes.
• Review Project short term and medium‑term constraints and concerns to provide mitigation plans and corrective actions.
• Avoid or minimize the variations from EPC Contractor by taking proactive and preventive actions.
• Perform trend analysis on both schedule and cost for early identification of potential deviations and advise Owner of their implications.
• Evaluate, EPC Contractor change orders/claims request for any Engineering, equipment or materials and Construction extras as well as schedule extensions, with recommendation to approve, modify or reject.
• Prepare Project cost reports to Owner…