[Vacancy]: Project Planner

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November 6, 2024
Full Time

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Job Description

  • Job Title: Project Planner
  • Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers
  • Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

Our client is looking to hire a Project Planner who will be responsible for developing, coordinating, and maintaining project schedules, budgets, and resource allocation plans to ensure successful delivery of projects within the organization.
The role involves working closely with cross-functional teams to identify project requirements, establish project timelines, and monitor progress against plans.
The role will also identify and mitigate potential risks, develop contingency plans, and provide regular project updates to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Create comprehensive project requirements in line with the scope of projects, including determining the start and delivery dates, creating and defining project goals and objectives with management.
  • Analyze each phase of projects to determine budgets.
  • Create and maintain schedules for all phases of the project.
  • Deploy critical path analysisto identify tasks vital to the timely completion of projects, improve resource allocation and reduce delays and cost overruns.
  • Deploy work breakdown structure (WBS) to organize a team’s activities into manageable parts.
  • Track project costs and ensure implementation stays within predicted estimates for each project phase.
    Estimate the project timeline and make sure teams adhere to delivery dates.
    Monitor progress of projects to ensure adherence to schedules, budgets, and quality standards.
  • Manage the human and capital resources of a project to ensure timely delivery.
  • Identify and evaluate potential risks that can delay and derail project delivery or the cost and take remedial action.
  • Provide reports on deviations to the original project plan that can lead to serious delays and budget overruns.
  • Prepare and present internal and external project reports for stakeholders.
  • Document and maintain records on project scheduling processes.
  • Prepare short and long-term resource allocation plans based on input from all key players and team members.
  • Oversee schedules and risk management plans and provide serious deviations warnings hindering project results.
  • Gather actual data, update project schedule and develop reliable schedule forecast with support from project team.
  • Create reports detailing the status of projects and highlighting any potential issues that may arise.

Requirements

  • First Degree in Engineering – (Petro-) Chemical Engineering; Environmental Engineering or Occupational Health and Safety, Environmental Science.
  • Professional qualification with relevant engineering and/or Project Management body, such as Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, PRINCE2 (Projects in Controlled Environments).
  • Knowledge and use of primavera is compulsory.
  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience in similar role.
  • Specific experience in oil and gas or petrochemicals.
  • Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices
  • Experience in project management, seeing projects through the full life cycle.
  • Ability to prepare and interpret flowcharts, schedules and step-by-step action plans.
  • Basic understanding of variance analysis.
    In-depth expertise with cost estimates and cost analysis.

Salary

N300,000 per month.

Application Closing Date

29th November, 2024.

Method of Application

Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: recruitment@wendernek.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail

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