Planning Engineer
The Planning Engineer will be responsible for developing and maintaining the project schedule and reporting performance progress against it. This role will be based in Singapore, Houston, London, Aberdeen, Trinidad.
Key Responsibilities
The primary part of the planning engineers’ role is to be forward looking and to ensure project teams are focused on critical activities ahead of them, to ensure the project schedule objectives are met.
• Assist in developing the project and programme integrated schedules consistent with the BP Major Projects Common Process
• Development and management of detailed schedules covering activities through to the start of operation
• Management, support and verification of the planning activities of the contractors chosen to execute the projects
• Ensure that Schedule learning's from complementary work in other BP Business units and external Companies are identified and appropriately utilised.
• Develop and implement progress measurement systems.
• Assess potential contractors / vendors schedule capabilities.
• Provide assurance that the Contractor's Schedule systems interface with BP and progress measurement productivity trending and forecasting is effective and consistent
• Promote collaborative information sharing with Team-members and Contractors
• Foster close working relationship with engineering, construction and offshore contractors
Essential experience and job requirements
Solid broad based project experience in the selection, design or construction phases of projects and a clear track record of delivery and a willingness/ability to work with all project disciplines.
Planning experience in the major project environment
Well developed interpersonal skills, ability to develop and maintain relationships with colleagues and contractors.
Good communications skills.
Well developed support/knowledge management networks.
Understanding of current Schedule best practices and familiarity with Primavera P6
Must have excellent teamwork skills being able to work with the various sub-teams to resolve issues and reach decisions that are in the best interest of the Programme.
Desirable criteria & qualifications
Planning experience in the oil or gas sector
•Performance Bias - Bias for action - does things before being asked to or forced to by events - Skillful - Essential
• Business Insight - Understands internal and external customer needs and strives to exceed their expectations - Basic - Essential
• Partnership and Teamworking - Actively engages and respects contributions of others, in face to face or virtual meetings - Skillful - Essential
About BP
Our business is the exploration, production, refining, trading and distribution of energy. This is what we do, and we do it on a truly global scale. With a workforce of 80,000 employees, BP operates with business activities and customers in more than 80 countries across six continents. Every day, we serve millions of customers around the world. We are continually looking for talented, committed and ambitious people to help us shape the face of energy for the future.
The Global Projects Organisation (GPO) is accountable for the line delivery of E&P’s global portfolio of over 45 major projects. GPO has 4 key roles: .
- Integration, with overall accountability for FM delivery from the beginning of project appraisal to first production, .
- Optimisation, with a focus on selecting the right development concepts, leveraging standardization, segment scale and learning, .
- Execution, continuously improving efficiency with rigorous performance management, .
- Advice, to inform segment portfolio decisions.
Significant value is created in the front end of projects where we optimize the development concept with multi-disciplinary input, and a standardized model will ensure that we performance manage the developments to ensure that we continuously improve. .
The goal of the GPO is to deliver sustainable efficiency improvement, close the learning loop with Operations, and to deliver functional performance into GPO Projects.
To apply for this role please send a CV and Covering Letter to [email protected]