Job Description Summary

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• ITO - OTR Handover

• ITO to OTR handover meeting to receive L1 bid schedule and contract details.
• Understand and Confirm ITO assumptions & risk summary is clearly understood provided during ITO/OTR handoff.
• Attend CKOM & follow-up on open action items from the CKOM related to schedule execution
• Attends release meetings led by ITO to understand project scope ITO assumptions and contribute to Delivery Matrix development.
• Drives development of the Commitment Meeting file based on functional inputs project requirements and contract requirements.
• Drives the Commitment Meeting with functional owners to resolve initial schedule disconnects and reach agreement on the project baseline.

• Project Launch:

  Attends release meetings led by ITO to understand project scope ITO assumptions and contribute to Delivery Matrix development.

  Develops the Commitment Meeting file based on functional inputs project requirements and contract requirements.

  Leads the Commitment Meeting with functional owners to resolve initial schedule disconnects and reach agreement on the project baseline.

  Sets up project schedule in alignment with Global Planning processes.

  L3 Baseline Schedule / KPIs Development

• Use the available standard schedule template based on scope of project
• Set up L3 baseline schedule by using process flow guidelines available within the company
• Develop baseline progress S curves based on allocated weightage
• Participate in the Constructability review to make sure project schedule is aligned with baseline schedule

• Project Schedule Maintenance

• Update project master time schedule based on inputs provided by each owner of tasks per process document.
• Lead and drive the Partner and Site Scheduling team members (chairing meetings driving actions and holding accountability for actions)
• Update the internal and external progress reports curves float reports and say/do ratio
• Perform schedule analysis on monthly basis to identify the critical impacts and provide the mitigations suggestions.
• Organize monthly schedule deep dives providing guidance & insights to project and senior management
• Ensure project schedule updates and KPIs are published in due time on company reporting platforms.
• Perform the critical path analysis for deliverables and ensure no impact to contract dates.
• Claims (EOT etc.); perform delay analysis to support extension of time and cost claims
• Revise and reissue the baseline schedule due to variation orders resulting in changes to the contract date and/or major scope. Progress will be track against revised baseline schedule
• Perform Resources analysis based on planned vs. actuals highlight and communicate the risk to project director and team
• Works with project team to identify mitigation strategies and ensure strategies are reflected in project schedule.
• Escalates critical project issues to the internal project manager and project team.
• Ensures reports for other functions and customers accurately reflect status of project equipment and provide to customer and business reporting.
• Communicates to functions impact of execution strategy changes and resulting changes to required dates.
• Acts as a resource for project team members and supports with data analysis and root causes of schedule variances.
• Uses some judgement and has some ability to propose different solutions to address more complicated project scenarios.
• Prepare Project close-out report including lessons learned to be completed two weeks before departure from team submit to Scheduling Pole Leader.

• Risk Management

  Participate in Weekly IPM meeting to review the cross-functional risks impacting time or cost and support IPM by working on mitigation actions for identified risks related to schedule & cost.

  Participate in PM Weekly meetings to support on any specific risks impacting partner/sub- contractor/client incl. risk & opportunities related to concurrency between GE/Partner/Client.

  Generate a forward-looking view on risks and headwinds to highlight potential cost/schedule impact exposure (in coordination with Cost Analyst & Scheduler); utilize Primavera Unifier Risk manager tool and update to Internal Project Manager (IPM) Contract Manager & Project Manager.

  Identify and escalate cost and schedule risks (early warning) and proactively propose corrective actions/trade-offs in order to improve (course correct/back on track) project performance.

• Proactively identify emerging headwinds quantify cost and schedule implications and support IPM & PD/PM to mitigate them. Participate in risk reserve assessments sessions & support PD/PM/CM/IPM by providing inputs related to schedule & cost
• Conduct monthly impact assessment with Scheduling of partner/customer driven delays; highlight GE driven delays that can be avoided

• Claims and Change Orders

• Investigate schedule impact of proposed change order and support/develop claim documentation
• Work with Contract team to update the Unifier on Schedule delays
• Identify customer change orders and support Internal Project Manager (IPM) Contract Manager & Project Director / Project Manager in quantifying commercial entitlement based on schedule impact to project
• Identify document and track potential contract scope deviations with IPM/Functions; escalate to Project Director/Project Manager claims requiring customer negotiation.
• Coordinates the preparation of claim proposal cost estimates with IPM/Project Engineering
• Manager/Scheduler/Functions and using reference GE and industry benchmarks.

• Continuous Improvement and Tool Administration:

• Leverages experience and expertise to lead small or support large cross-functional initiatives to improve processes and tools for the Planning team.
• Manages the administration of various planning tools to support the Global Planning team. Responsible to lead and support continuous improvement of Equipment Planning processes and tools for the global team and developing/maintaining KPIs (on time delivery key milestones say/do ratio physical progress schedule quality etc.) & critical path analysis for TK projects or complex EO & EEP projects

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma.

• 10 years experience in Project Control Planning & Scheduling function within an EPC environment including execution of several projects with significant site exposure.

Desired Characteristics

• Expertise in of power plant principles and work processes of EPC environments and work processes of large EPC Projects.

• Expertise in Primavera P6

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Able to lead large complex project team reviews as well as to simplify complex messages

• Resilient and ability to work under pressure

• Fluency in written and spoken English

• Experience of working with international teams and complex environment and open for travel

• 5 years experience in Extension of time claims / forensic planning

• Primavera P6 resources loaded schedules

• Expertise in the Earn Value Management

• Expertise in the Risk Analysis (tools like Acumen Fuse)

• Engineering and Sourcing expertise

• Project Control experience

  Note:

  
  To comply with US immigration and other legal requirements it is necessary to specify the minimum number of years experience required for any role based within the USA. For roles outside of the USA to ensure compliance with applicable legislation the JDs should focus on the substantive level of experience required for the role and a minimum number of years should NOT be used.