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Duties:
• Lead the efforts of planning to establish the most time and cost effective methods of erection and convert that to a working programme model.
• Leads and is responsible for the development of overall baseline programme in accordance with contract. (This should include Baseline programme capable of acceptance, Major Milestone Indicator (MMI), Network precedence with critical path, Level 2 roll up schedules, Level 3 working control schedules for procurement, fabrication and construction and level 4 detail daily schedules for construction).
• Monitoring actual job progress, compare to baseline and report progress against schedule.
• Forecast the impacts on schedule of proposed changes.
• Development of working control schedules (Level 3 & 4) for day to day activities for area / units under control. (These should be agreed with key team members).
• Attend management, project team and customer meetings as requested.
• Develop and maintain an integrated progress reporting system including schedules, S-Curves, tables, milestones and earned value analysis.
• Interact with discipline leads to obtain programme updates.
• Act as a Primavera Data Base Administrator for Project.
• Interrogate progress reports and prepare action plans on deviations to targets with recommended remedial actions.
• Organise production and evaluation of alternative action plans to correct deviations from plan.
• Perform general planning & scheduling tasks that the HPA Planning Manager may direct.
• Contribution to monthly reporting on project both internally and externally.
• Assisting the HPA Planning Manager in the production of project monthly reports.
• Assist management, project managers and colleagues to understand and accept scheduling concepts, theory and alternative approaches in scheduling project activities.
• Be prepared to take on client facing roles as and when the project demands.
• Analyse engineering, procurement and construction data and perform resourcing calculations to determine material, tools, and personnel requirements for the schedule.
• Support and participate in the training and development requirements of project planning staff by ensuring the necessary structures and systems are in place.
• Prepare, preserve, secure and compile evaluation/ analysis reports, departmental records, statistical information, technical data and ensure that supporting documents administration and correspondence is up to date and accurate.
• Comply with all health and safety, company policies, procedures and standards.
• Display a professional, acceptable attitude and image for all work associated

Requirements
Project planning, scheduling and forecasting
Functional and management reporting
Materials and manpower requirements
Personnel, documents and records management