Job Title: PLANNER
Reports to: SUPERVISOR-PLANNING
Division/ BU: Production
Department: PIPE
Job OBJECTIVES (Summary of overall job purpose)
Responsible for the preparation of detailed schedules of all projects in the pipe department including manpower projection plan, progress measurement, milestone setup, and run-down curve. He will also be responsible for developing and implementing project control and monitoring systems to improve the efficiency of the department accordingly. Follow up of programs, to raise timely alarms, and take corrective measures.
2. Key Responsibilities
Policies, Processes & Procedures:
·Follows all relevant departmental policies, processes, standard operating procedures and instructions so that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner.
·Follow and comply to information Security Rules and data security measures in order to protect the company information / intellectual properties.
Day- to-day operations:
· Develop and maintain tracking mechanisms for engineering deliverables and raw materials for prefabrications and a line with projects execution plan.
· Overall project planning according with materials ETA, engineering deliverables, Supervisors and Sr. Foreman inputs.
· Updation of spool, support and joint details in ERP (Mariner or equivalent) by reviewing the drawing details properly. (Material grade, size, item wise details of individual components and joint configurations) for traceability records.
· Monitoring the man hours consumption project wise and highlighting the discrepancies to the supervisors in-charge and managers.
· Manpower planning and control in line with 5 weeks plan.
· Prepare and develop individual critical projects run down curve and updates weekly progress to supervisors and managers.
· Resource planning and control.
· Daily and weekly progress monitoring and reporting.
· Liaise with central planning department for different interface issues such as man hours/manpower loading.
· Working as a team for on-the-job training and performance appraisals of the other team members.
· Man hours calculation and preplanning of piping execution procedures.
· Actively assist the supervisors in implementation of the programs.
· Ensuring vessels programs and workshop jobs are updated.
· Monitoring in-house progress versus estimated manhours and identifying areas for improvement.
· Follow up with project team and commercial for the sequence wise man hours allocation and variance figures evaluation.
· Providing weekly project progress updates to managers, project planners and project managers.
· Reviewing the 5 weeks plan and ensuring the loading of manpower in line with the project manpower requirements.
· Controlling the man hours spent vs. Allocated for the jobs.
Safety, Quality & Environment:
·Complies with all relevant safety, quality and environmental management policies, procedures and controls to ensure a healthy and safe work environment.
Related Assignments:
·Performs other related duties or assignments as directed.
3.Key Competencies
Language skills:
·Working knowledge of English language.
·Knowledge of other languages will be an added advantage.
Technical competencies:
· Piping Construction plus minimum 3 years shipyard experience or similar construction industry.
· To be familiar with piping material grades and to extract details from Pipe.
· Minimum 4 years planning experience includes division of work scope within modules/locations through all stages of construction activities.
· Competency to read piping drawings in line with material grades and other basic process details.
· Comprehensive knowledge in ship construction and relationships between trades.
· Computer literate utilizing Microsoft Office Suite and basic familiarity with Primavera.
· Ability to extract information from available drawings, AutoCad, spools tracker/traceability, weld map.
· Ability to present to a formal audience.
· Proficient in Earned Value Management System (EVMS) and performance measurement techniques.
Behavioural Competencies:
·Safety, quality and environment conscious
·Possess cultural awareness and sensitivity
·Team oriented
·Be flexible and demonstrate sound work ethics
·Attendance & punctuality
·Work under minimum supervision
4.Dimensions (provide data that indicates scale of the job) – To be validated
5.Challenges (major challenges of the role – not more than 5) – To be validated
· Sometimes need work outdoors, in all weather conditions.
· Work with unreasonable deadlines.
· Poor communication from the supervisors/sr foreman.
· Working with multiple projects with very limited time.
6.Key INTERACTIONS & Communications (internal and external)
Internal
Nature of Interaction
· Supervisions, Engineering, Materials coordinators, Managers and PROJECT Managers.
· Discussion, Toolbox talk, Instructions
7.Minimum Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Education
· Graduate
· Diploma Mechanical Engineering
Training
· Primavera/MS Project/MS Word/Excel
· Piping Engineering/Primavera/MS Project/MS Word/Excel
Experience
· 2 yrs minimum experience for similar role
2 years and Above
8.additional information:
Working conditions:
Indoor & Outdoors
Job Type: Part-time
Pay: AED4,500.00 - AED5,000.00 per month
