Senior Planner

Airswift are a Global Manpower Provider specialising in the Energy, Infrastructure & IT sectors. Present in more than 70 countries around the world, our reach and capabilities in the markets we service is unparalleled in the industry.

We are working with a Major Oil & Gas operator to source for Senior Planner. This is a long-term contract role working on a residential basis with 6-days per week / 8-10 hours to be based Doha, Qatar or at site office. The role will report to Head of Project Management System and will be part of Major Projects Execution & Planning Team.

Please see details below:

Title: Senior Planner

Start Date: Negotiable (typically within 1 month notice)

Duration: 36 months (potential for extension)

Location: Doha Head office or Site (Ras Laffan Industrial City), Qatar
Working Schedule: 6-days per week / 10 hours per day

Job Purpose:

Plan, coordinate and support project planning and scheduling activities across Concept, FEED and EPC phases to ensure effective and efficient development and execution of project scope, activities and milestones. Provide planning and project controls guidance to contractors and facilitate effective coordination across project teams to optimize project delivery, mitigate schedule risks and ensure achievement of project objectives.

Key Job Accountabilities:

Reports to Business Division Manager

Promote and uphold safety, health, environmental and worker welfare standards across project planning and execution activities, supporting a strong safety culture throughout Concept, FEED and EPC phases.

Provide planning, scheduling guidance and oversight of contractor and subcontractor activities across Concept, FEED and EPC, ensuring alignment with project execution plans, key milestones, interfaces and reporting requirements.

Develop, maintain and coordinate integrated project schedules, including master schedules, detailed schedules and look-ahead plans, ensuring engineering, procurement, construction and other project activities are logically sequenced and aligned with project objectives.

Monitor and analyse project schedule performance, including critical and near-critical paths, milestone achievement, progress, forecasts, constraints and schedule trends to provide early identification of potential delays and support timely corrective actions.

Participate in project planning, schedule and performance reviews, including risk assessments, constructability reviews and planning workshops, to identify schedule risks, opportunities, interfaces and mitigation measures throughout Concept, FEED and EPC.

Coordinate planning interfaces with engineering, procurement, contracts and other project teams, monitoring key deliverables, contracting activities, vendor requirements and long lead items to ensure their timely integration into the overall project schedule.

Provide project controls guidance on cost estimating, change requests, schedule impact assessments, extension-of-time claims and other contract-related matters, supporting evaluation of potential cost and schedule impacts and informed project decision-making.

Monitor contractor planning and schedule performance, reviewing baseline schedules, schedule updates, progress measurement, forecasts and recovery plans to identify deviations and ensure appropriate corrective actions are developed and implemented.

Coordinate multidisciplinary schedule interfaces and dependencies across Concept, FEED and EPC, ensuring key decisions, approvals, deliverables, handovers and phase-transition requirements are identified and incorporated into project plans and schedules.

Support project risk management and execution planning activities, identifying schedule risks and constraints and developing mitigation, corrective and recovery strategies to protect key milestones and overall project objectives.

Minimum Requirements:

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, Commercial, Marketing, Sciences, Engineering, Project Management, Supply Chain Management, Law, Communication, Technologies, Mathematics, and 

Statistics.

Knowledge and/or Experience:

8 years experience in business related function or discipline, including 4 years in the Oil & Gas Industry.

Technical and Business Skills:

Broad experience working in large scale operating organizations in Operations, Projects, Subsurface, etc.

Experience with Oil & Gas Companies, EPC contractors, subcontractors, vendors or service companies involved in the oil and gas industry.

Knowledge in data and analytics, reporting, planning, scheduling, contracts, procurements, cost control, lesson learned and change management.

Knowledge in international business standards, best practices, and methodologies.

Good knowledge of relevant software and computer skills, e.g., dashboards, data analytics, SAP, etc.

Experience supporting large scale integrated operating and executing organizations, such as Operations, Projects, Subsurface, etc.