Project Planning Engineer

**Your role**

Our major Oil & Gas Downstream Client is urgently looking for Project Planning Engineer who will be responsible for delivering, developing, and maintaining realistic and integrated plans and control structures for major capital projects and a portfolio of smaller projects. You will ensure that schedule are accurate, aligned, and effectively monitored, supporting project success through robust planning, progress tracking, and analysis.
- Deliver, develop, and maintain consistent and realistic plans and control structures for major projects and portfolio projects
- Produce schedule deliverable packages appropriate for the project stage gates (e.g., feasibility, FEED, execution)
- Align all stakeholders during the development of engineering, procurement, and construction schedules, ensuring integration with construction management and overall project objectives
- Understand and define the list of plans required to execute assigned project sub-elements and their interfaces to other sub-elements
- Develop activities, sequencing logic, resource plans, and progress measurement for assigned project sub-elements, establishing and maintaining the baseline schedule
- Develop, implement, and comply with planning and progress monitoring procedures
- Conduct regular schedule progress updates, forecasts, critical path and trend analyses, and communicate results for assigned elements, including the impact of interfaces
- Provide regular, comprehensive schedule status reports to project sub-element managers and stakeholders
- Assess and incorporate the impact of changes, deviations, and risks to key project milestones, monitor productivity, and propose alternate approaches to optimize plans when necessary
- Liaise with and challenge engineering, procurement, and construction teams to ensure understanding of key schedule sensitivities, risks, and drivers
- Develop contract key dates, milestones, and internal plan dates aligned with the overall program schedule
- Review and verify contractor-reported progress, ensuring it is accurately reflected in the integrated program schedule
- Manage interfaces between contractor and company teams to maintain a reliable, integrated working schedule and accurately report performance
- Perform schedule risk analysis using Primavera Risk Analysis or similar tools, identifying and mitigating potential schedule delays
- Conduct schedule benchmarking and work with IPA forms and datasets to compare project

**You are what we are looking for if you**:

- Have Engineering Degree and/or Certification as a Planning Engineer or equivalent experience
- Have experience in oil and gas, preferably downsteam, refinery, and/or chemical plant experience
- Have minimum 8 years industry experience including Planning & scheduling positions. Experience in Front-End Engineering and Execution
- Have excellent analytical, oral and written communication skills
- Have good working knowledge of Planning & Scheduling principles, techniques and industry scheduling tools
- Have possess understanding of Planning & scheduling principles
- Have experience in development of project plan and schedule across the project phases
- Have experience in Work Management Tools - Knowledge in the use of the Primavera, Primavera risk analysis, MS Project, Acumen fuse
- Are experienced in portfolio planning & scheduling, Advanced work package (AWP), 4D Planning
- Have practical understanding of all phases of the project delivery process
- Have good networking and influencing skills
- Have turnaround planning & scheduling experience preferably

**Job Types**: Full-time, Contract
Contract length: 12 months

Pay: $7,500.00 - $9,700.00 per month

**Benefits**:

- Health insurance

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Supplemental Pay:

- 13th month salary

Work Location: In person

Expected Start Date: 18/08/2025