Job Description Summary

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Leads the creation and update of project schedules (L2/L3/L4) level across the complete project life cycle.
• Ensures timely creation and review of monthly quantified rolling plans for all project deliverables securing buy-in from internal stakeholders and client.
• Generates periodic updates of project schedules and generate histograms S-Curves to support project team and PMO reporting guidelines.
• Maintains a key milestone dashboard view at turbine portfolio level in coordination with project teams to keep track of overall project timelines project float and month-on-month variance.
• Engages with cross-functional team of engineering quality sourcing and construction to de-bottleneck critical open issues with right collaboration.
• Maintains a robust issue tracking and escalation management for project issues at multiple levels (Site DMS -> Weekly Project Reviews -> Run Call -> Leadership Daily Stand-up).
• Implement systematic documentation and records to help enable the delay analysis exercise with customer for L2 schedule revision and contract amendment.
• Maintain and strengthen punch point tracking Smartsheet and ensure adherence to the standard work on setting up of monthly rolling plans update of actuals constraint and mitigation actions.
• Proactively identify critical activities and helps the stakeholders in timely anticipating and mitigating potential roadblocks in engineering manufacturing logistics installation commissioning and commercial activities involved in the project.
• Drives and challenges project team members to ensure plans are adhered to negotiates what goes into the lookahead plans based on project schedule requirement high-level organizational strategy and customer needs.
• Ensures that forecast task durations and logical relationships are thoroughly understood and committed to by all responsible task owners including cross-functional teams and external suppliers.
• Creates and delivers contractual reporting (Monthly/Weekly Progress Reports Presentations for customer meetings) and confidently engages with customer on complex progress and scheduling matters.
• Provides planning and schedule analysis support for disputes and forensic analysis for claims related to schedule impacts.
• Mentors and guides junior members of planning team fostering best practices and continuous improvement within the planning function.
• Contributes to the development and standardization of planning processes tools and methodologies used in NB Steam Power portfolio.
• Embrace Lean Mindset in all work engagements strive to enhance efficiency and performance by eliminating waste and driving continuous improvement.
• Operate in a flexible fast-paced environment with evolving deliverables and changes in priorities.

Required Qualifications

• Engineering degree from a recognized college / university with 8-10 Years of relevant work experience.
• Strong proficiency in the use of MS office tools Smartsheet scheduling software and other enabling IT applications for project planning work
• Knowledge of general scheduling principles and methodologies.
• Good knowledge of power plant fundamentals
• In-depth understanding of construction and commissioning sequence in medium to large scale EPC projects
• Ability and willingness to travel to project sites as required
• Proficiency in English language

Desired Characteristics

• Experience in planning and execution of large-scale infrastructure projects
• Strong understanding and experience in working with Lean fundamentals and tools

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