Oil / Gas / Power

Planning Manager for Primetals Technologies (formally Siemens VAI). Responsibility for managing a team of planning engineers working on blast furnace & rolling mills projects around the world.

Responsible for provision of Project Services in support of Project Management for Power Generation projects using Rolls-Royce Industrial Gas Turbines and Allens Diesel engines, including:

• Management of up to twenty in number support staff in the functions of Project Planning, Document Control, Resource Management and Project Administration.
• Manage and control the introduction of new working processes and procedures and the introduction of new IT systems for effective project controls.
• Producing reports for issue to both Senior Management and external part

Responsible for all First Wall related planning activity associated with the leading research project into power generation via Nuclear Fusion, involving:

• Development of detailed level 3 and 4 networks to cover all aspects in preparation of ( and during) interventions and planned shutdowns of the Torus machine.
• Production of detailed schedules covering all aspects of the required logistics to support Remote Operations during the Shutdown.
• Production of long term plans for work package co-ordination and resourcing purposes.
• Resourcing of the progr

Preparing programmes covering the Engineering and Installation phases of various subsea installation projects and bids, encompassing building detailed CPA networks covering all work elements, development of supporting Cost, Time, Resource ( CTR) sheets to identify resource requirements, analysis and reporting programme information to both Clients and Senior Management.

 Key Areas of Responsibility

• Planning and co-ordination of major installation projects from preliminary engineering phase through to Client handover.
• Promot

Responsible for the maintenance of the detailed project network to support all aspects of the construction of a 1875MW Gas Fired Power Station (comprising 8 Gas and 2 Steam Turbines)  The project covered all phases of site activity including:

•               Undertaking all planning activity involving developing bespoke system amendments/reports.
•               Major project elements planned included Civils and Structures, Mec

• Monitoring of all activities as per schedule using PRIMAVERA 3.1.
• Attending weekly/monthly meetings with the client.
• Know-how of latest construction materials being used in the project.
• Implementing project schedule in accordance with optimization of project resources.
• Conducting daily/weekly meetings with Site Engineers and giving them tasks as per schedule.
• Preparation of Work fronts for civil work with close coordination of execution departments.
• To ensure the complete implementation of PCS, Project Control System &amp

Currently working as Snr Planning Engineer on the Forties Alpha Satellite Platform for OGN at Newcastle