Lead Planner at a very large Insurance company. we have manage around 800 projects each year and use Primavera as our scheduling too. I manage a team of planners that work with the Data Strategies for this company. we currently have over 70 projects within my span of control. I review schedules prior to baselining for quality, I meet monthly with the Planner, Project manager and Lead business Analysis to go over the health of the project. We disucss budget, timing and scope.
Participating in project review meetings for tracking project progress & de-bottlenecking & implementation of QA/QC procedures as per norms and standards.
Supervising all construction activities including providing technical inputs for methodologies of construction & coordination with site management activities.
Coordinating among Site, Office and Consultants for smooth execution of the project.
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