Job Description:
PDP is hiring a Senior Project Planner to lead and manage a team of planners with responsibility for delivering a large-scale CAPEX project in the BioPharma Industry. This person shall report to the Project Controls Manager. The Lead/Senior Planner, in conjunction with the planning teams, has a primary objective to support the engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning (EPCmV) group in the planning and execution of large-scale CAPEX projects by providing management with critical, decision-making information that ensures projects deliver on time.
The Project Planner function includes advanced planning, scheduling, progress measurement, change management implementation, and analysis that may involve a major project or several smaller projects. A thorough understanding is required of policies, methods, and procedures that includes advanced planning and scheduling techniques, risk analysis, risk management, and support of project objectives. The Planner will provide expertise and best practice implementation in the workplace for the region with regard to the planning and scheduling discipline.
The Project Planning Lead will provide expertise to the client project team to:
1. Ensure adequate definition of scope within the integrated schedule;
2. Establish reasonable baselines;
3. Identify and manage risk;
4. Track, monitor, and report project performance.
Main Responsibilities:
* Expertise in project controls and time/schedule management is required, preferably within the Pharma/Biotech or associated sectors.
* Expert experience level using project scheduling tools (MS Project, Primavera P6), Excel, PowerPoint, and Pertmaster.
* Ability to coordinate/organize multiple sources of schedule inputs/performance data into a master schedule platform and deliver project/program status reports as required.
* Implement Project Planning/Scheduling strategy, plans, and procedures, reflecting both Company and contractor roles, responsibilities, and expectations.
* Coordinate the development and implementation of project Work Breakdown Structures (WBS).
* Perform probabilistic analysis on integrated schedules and contractor schedules.
* Conduct the required project schedule analysis, critical path analysis, and schedule risk analysis for the project as a whole.
* Analyze deviations from the baseline in the Project Master Schedule highlighting bottlenecks/delays and propose corrective actions.
* Prepare the Integrated Planning/Scheduling contribution to the Monthly Project Report and specific reports/presentations.
* Analyze and highlight the overall schedule impact of any variance/change order.
* Prepare resourcing plans for the overall and individual project phases, identifying any excessive peak numbers and making recommendations for peak leveling.
* Ensure that schedule-related data from vendors, suppliers, engineering, and construction contractors is aligned and integrated into the overall Integrated Master Schedule.
* Ensure the accuracy and completeness of the schedules produced, maintaining independence as a planning engineer when advising on issues requiring judgment.
* Ability to balance multiple projects executed in multiple locations and by multiple contractors.
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
* Develop good working relationships with the project team.
* Other work as needed in support of successful project delivery.
Qualifications:
* 10 years of experience in CAPEX projects with roles in planning/scheduling, preferably in Biotech or Pharmaceutical industries.
* Significant experience in schedule setup, baselining, monitoring, and controlling on large-scale projects across all phases of EPCmV.
* Comprehensive understanding of risk and change management.
* Demonstrated problem-solving ability in a cross-functional environment.
* Advanced MS Excel skills.
* Experience with software systems and packages including Primavera P6.
* Ability to work within a high-performance, cross-functional organization with extremely tight timelines and aggressive goals.
* Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
* Good level of English, written and spoken.
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