London (EU.UK.LON)

Project Description:

Multi-billion dollar project to build two new iron ore mines in Guinea, plus associated rail and port infrastructure.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Senior Planner within a 5-strong team acting on behalf of the client during the tender phase. My main focus of work was on the rail element of works (approx 670km single track, including approx 30km of tunnels)

Responsibilities include: 

Prepare ITT documentation

Assess Tender returns

Providing detailed Planning and Project Controls services within the team constructing the £63m Bermondsey Dive Under project for Network Rail .  Possession and pre possession planning, production and updating of lookahead programmes, cost and resource loaded contract/baseline programmes covering the 5 year delivery plan, quantitative risk analysis programmes, in conjunction with project team members who own delivery.  Analysis of data and compilation and production of 4 weekly reports including key issues / dashboard, EV reports, Cost Forecast, Safety and risk management.  S

Schedule Manager for the 16 design development consultants.  Working with a team of 3 planners building the programme for the development of the HS2 alignment, structures and environmental mitigations required to support the Environmental Statement and associated documents for public consultations and Hybrid Bill submission

Providing Project Controls advice as part of a specialist mobilisation team working with a Balfour Beatty/LUL partnership for a new 5 year NEC3 Option C track renewal and maintenance contract.  Advice and hands on assistance in setting up appropriate scope control, project coding, change control and cost and resource loaded programmes, all to enable effective planning and monitoring of progress and timely issues identification.

I prepared an integrated completion and operational readiness programme for the final phase of the CTRL for URN and all stakeholders, encompassing the works and ensuring the buy in of all Stakeholders involved in operating the railway, Builder, Operators, Maintainer, Approving Authorities and the Client (3 days per week).  On the remaining days of the week I worked with a loss adjusting firm pre-dominatly on Business interruption claim at Seabank gas fired power station near Bristol.

Hands on responsibility for the planning function for the whole of the CTRL project.  Develop and report an integrated project programme.  Liase with Project Managers (RLE) to ensure compliance with deliverables and accept Contractors programmes on behalf of the Client, and estbalish detailed mitigation plans, run QSRA's.  Advising Senior Management, Government Agents and Railtrack Board on programme issues. Lead programme discussions with Insurers agents on circa £70m claim for delay to Permit to Use.

As Divisional Planner I managed the production of integrated tack, signalling, comms, power and building finishes programmes at each of the 18 stations and shafts on the Project and well as tuneel installtions.  I started at the commencement of the Civils phase of thw works and implemented a co-ordinated progress reporting strategy and maintained function consistancy for the division.  Assisted in mitigation of programme delays for the Division, reporting to the Deputy Project Construction Manager.