Lead Planner

About the Role:

• The Lead Planner role is responsible for all planning activities for the development of a hydrogen project. The role is also responsible for development of the associated management plans, systems, tools and processes required to oversee the project and meet corporate requirements.
• This role is critical to the project and as such must be based in the project office a minimum of 3 days / week. Other travel will be required within the region to engage with key package suppliers and additional contractor offices throughout delivery of the project. As construction commences there will be a requirement to be on site a minimum of 1 week / month to provide required assurance activities.
• This role reports directly to the Project Controls Manager and has a functional reporting line to the corporate Project Services function (1-2 direct reports).

Key Responsibilities:

• To provide a complete planning, control and monitoring service to the hydrogen project team, covering all contractors and associated licensors/sub-contractors.
• Closely monitor/update all aspects of the schedule, appraise & advise the package managers of progress and trends; make recommendations for preventive or corrective action in the event of any deviations from the program.
• Present clear and concise planning reports / documentation on a regular basis, this would include bar charts and networks, man-hours loading, S-curves and productivity reports.
• Attend progress/Co-ordination meetings and discuss planning items, communicate meeting outcomes as appropriate to the team members.
• Provide an independent assessment of individual contractor's progress and communicate accordingly to project team members.
• Assist the Operations team in development of a completions/systems handover and commissioning schedule.
• Provision of effective construction planning and Co-ordination of the project team inclusive of contractors, licensors and sub-contractors.
• To ensure that planning activities have satisfactory incorporated the requirements of project and appropriate regulations
• Develop and maintain the overall hydrogen projects integrated schedule.
• Liaise with the contractors and associated licensors/sub-contractors planning engineers, with regards to the status of agreed deliverables.
• Co-ordinate schedule interfaces with other members of the Project Services team, i.e. Cost team, Contracts and Procurement and other functions.