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Project Planner & Scheduler, Nigeria LNG Limited, Bonny Island, Plant,Infrastrural , Head Office & Sustaniable Development Projects

START Date: 
May, 2006

Current Role

  • Developing and managing a centralized planning and control system for the overall production Project portfolio that facilitate project delivery within established targets.
  • Providing regular key information to management on schedule.
  • Providing of project management support in the developing of the integrated project schedule, leading to the creation of the overall project portfolio baseline schedule and its subsequent maintenance.
  • Developing and maintaining the overall Project portfolio plan at Level 1 to 5, required to develop and execute each approved project in their hierarchy relationship.
  • Developing and updating of the Overall CAPEX Project Plan – Plant (Maintenance), Infrastructural and Community Development Projects.
  • Scheduling control activities to monitor physical progress against key deliverables and track trends on schedule overrun and under-run and use such trend information to identify timely corrective action to maintain schedule.
  • Providing of monthly progress updates, forecast completion together with the critical path and trend analysis.
  • Assessing the impact of approved changes and any deviation from the key project targets and milestones, including productivity monitoring and “what if” scenarios to aid project management decision –making
  • Evaluate bid schedule and review contractor execution plan and develop the key milestone dates for critical projects for alignment with overall integrated Project portfolio.
  • Verifying that contractors reported progress is correct and accurately reflected in the Overall Schedule.
  • Reviewing of scope change request for the impact on schedule and critical path of the project, preparation of reconciliation between baseline schedule and the current schedule and provision of schedule impact assessments to change control process.
  • Monitoring of Projects Budget expenditure against plan.
  • Performing of risk and sensivity analysis on project schedules or critical path analysis and evaluation of the impact on overall Project portfolio plan.
  • Production of trend analysis as well as modeling forecasts of future equipment demand and lifecycles for business planning and plant capacity purposes.
  • Planning and coordination of site routines and shutdowns to include scheduling of resources in line with the production plan, etc. 

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