Job description

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities:

Overall

• Build integrated HVDC project schedule during tender according to GE standards and customer requirements.
• Build HVDC project baseline in accordance with both GE global standards and contract requirements, gains approval of client and internal stakeholders
• Maintain project schedule and resource forecasts throughout the project lifecycle in accordance with both GE global standards and contract requirements
• Analyse schedule and trends and communicate forecasted schedule risk to project team, drives risk mitigation proposals
• Maintain a register of potential schedule and cost risks in collaboration with the Risk Manager
• Checks and controls schedule movements, compares with current scope and progress as well as with previous forecast.  Also compares with productivity factors and validates accuracy of future task durations.
• Ensure that forecast task durations and logic are understood and committed by the task owners
• Produces and communicates internal and external project reporting of project status in accordance with both GE global standards and contract requirements
• Collaborates with 3rd parties on project schedule interfaces including maintenance of an interface register
• Presents all time schedule data in a transparent way, attends project and management reviews to present schedule status
• Provides time related calculations to ensure change order schedule/cost estimates are accurate
• Aligns with Cost Controller to ensure reconciliation between P6 schedule and approved cost phasing
• Support project close out ensuring tasks for compilation of final records are accurately represented and prioritised
• Ensure quality of the project schedule and forecast accuracy.
• Ensure accuracy of schedule alignment with resource and cost budgets (actuals and forecasting)
• Ensure collaboration with functional task and resource owners to find strategies to reduce durations and manhours
• Ensure alignment to established standards (WBS, process, procedures, tools usage)
• Ensure efficiency and effectiveness of the project controls team

Quality & Lean

• Good Knowledge and commitment with Quality Procedures, work instructions and Processes at GSI level and Project Controls Function
• Report or resolve any non-conformances and process in a timely manner
• Identify areas of opportunity for standardization / optimization and where possible participate in a Kaizen or similar lean event to implement any identified improvements

EHS

• Demonstrate commitment to safety through participation in formal and informal discussions
• Adhere to all safe working procedures in accordance with instructions
• Ensure safety work instructions are complied
• Participate in the resolution of safety issues.
• Initiate actions to improve health and safety where needed

Performance Measurement

• Schedule quality
• Schedule forecast accuracy
• Schedule performance of project
• Schedule mitigation actions proposed & implemented
• Timeliness of reporting

Required Qualifications:

• Degree qualified either in engineering or project management discipline
• Minimum of 3 years planning HVDC and/or large turnkey projects
• Deep domain knowledge of planning and use of Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project
• Knowledge of cost control function and interfaces with project schedule
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 30% - International and Domestic

Desired Characteristics:

• Experience as a planner on a HVDC project.
• Deep domain knowledge of planning and use of Primavera
• Data handling skills (Excel, SAP…)
• Communication (English language a must)
• Proactive attitude
• Problem Solving / Critical Thinking

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