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Thiess Senior Planner

START Date: 
February, 2010
Responsible for the supervision, execution, quality and content of the planning, scheduling, analysis, trending, reporting and control in accordance with the contractual project specification for various projects within the company.

This role is the same role as I’ve had for the past 2 years within Perth.

• Lead planner on multi-million refurbishment project in Woodman Point, Perth, Australia.
• Responsible for the 5 major EPCM projects that make up the Woodman Point contract.
• Liaising between the project Joint Venture Management and the client to establish and understand the project objectives.
• Development and maintenance of the master programmes for projects using Primavera (P6) and ensuring that the sub-programmes are consistent in structure and timeframe.
• Determining the critical path and float for the project and creating priority lists for Design and Procurement.
• Monitor and report progress and provide weekly updated schedules, including resource histograms, earned value progress curves and current versus baseline comparisons.
• Developed full Field Progress Measurement System and KPI’s to accurately track project movement.
• Review resource availability to support plans and take action to address resource shortfalls and risks to delivery.
• Ensure that the project’s planning and scheduling requirements are properly and clearly communicated to those functionally responsible for executing the work.
• Generating Procurement Status Reports and inputting these into Business Connect to monitor and control all aspects of Procurement.
• Incorporating scope changes and trends into the project schedules and reset the baseline to reflect this in the current project scope.
• Completion of monthly reporting and preparation of documentation required for Formal Management Meeting to tight time lines and changing requirements to reflect the requirements of the programme.

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