Project Planning Engineer

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II POSITION SUMMARY

Part of Project Controls Team in Project Execution, supporting Project Execution and Engineering Teams to ensure successful execution of all (Sale of Gas) and third party (Sale of Equipment) businesses. Ensuring competitiveness, successful project execution, productive internal / external interfaces and risk management. Asset creation work involves developing, bidding, and executing projects.

Provide guidance and deliver planning execution plans and schedules per Air Products Standards to suit the project execution strategy and needs from both internal and external aspect. Ensure accurate and timely reporting input to the project and work within the project applicable procedures and process workflows.

III PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Motivated to help achieve a Project Planning team capable of managing internal/external customer projects including EPCs, both within the office and construction site.
• Use Air Products planning IT systems and functional discipline work processes to provide reliable and consistent reporting to ensure that we can meet the project, regional/global project portfolio and business requirements.
• Collaborate with Project Execution team to develop and deliver competitive project schedules aligned to the execution scope and strategy during the bid phase through award and execution, ensuring the growth of Air Products businesses whilst consistently delivering on project commitments in terms of cost and schedule.
• Develop and maintain accurate progress & earned value measurement systems for engineering, procurement, manufacturing, construction and commissioning to ensure credible control throughout the project execution phase.
• Provide close collaboration with and support across the other regional and global teams to ensure effective resource sharing, lessons learned, best practices and the development of appropriate work processes and procedures across the global execution teams.

IV. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering.

• Minimum 10 years’ project planning experience.

Sound knowledge, proven skills and competencies in application of project planning principles, methodologies and tools, supporting all phases of project execution, particularly around schedule development, progress measurement/reporting and earned value, within a large project-oriented EPC or Owner Organization. Must have a track record of delivering accurate schedule information, reporting and guidance to senior management.

Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project experience is essential.

• Global Project Planning Experience

Proven skills and experience of planning projects on global basis, executed by multiple engineering offices. Understanding of a variety of project types, structures and contract terms. This includes sales of gas (SOG), third party sales of equipment (SOE) and joint ventures.

• Flexibility

Potential to travel internationally to other regional engineering offices as well as domestically to support project / organizational needs.

• Core competencies

Commercial and technical acumen, detailed working knowledge of project planning tools and systems. Proven skills in planning coupled with a working knowledge of project management, business development and finance.

• English Skills

Possess fluent English language skills in both writing and speaking.

V Project Planning Function

General

Responsible for developing and maintaining the generic/baseline schedules for the project aligned with the generic discipline L4 deliverables list.

Responsible for supporting the Product Line, Project Execution and Engineering Teams during the Bid and Award Phases to deliver and maintain competitive project schedules. During Execution, ensuring the Project Planning team produce weekly / monthly reports in line with the project and company reporting calendar, providing details on progress, actuals, forecast and explanation of variances. Ensuring that project controls processes are consistently applied across the project

Project Planning During Bid Phase

Responsible for developing the key milestone dates and L1/L2 opportunity specific schedule based in the generic/baseline schedules in conjunction with the Product Line and Project Execution teams, understanding and incorporating the opportunity scope split and contract requirements.

Project Planning Project Award Phase

Responsible for updating key milestone dates and L1/L2 working schedule incorporating client milestones, update the discipline L4 deliverables list and confirm man-hours, conduct Last Planner sessions as required, prepare L3 schedule in conjunction with the Product Line and Project Execution teams, and consistent with the as sold scope, scope split, milestones, specific contract requirements and execution strategy. Prepare the progress measurement systems and reporting tools (including resource histograms and S-curves).

Project Planning During Project Execution

Responsible for guiding and advising Projects, Engineering, Construction and Commissioning on maintaining the schedule and optimizing working including critical and near critical path analysis, schedule risk review. Prepare L3 construction and commissioning schedules. Maintain accurate progress measurement systems (progress S-curves, resource histograms, resource efficiency curves, progress measurement tables, earned value reporting, internal/external milestone tables, critical path views) for engineering, procurement, manufacturing, construction and commissioning. Reporting on progress, progress variance, resource productivity, project KPI’s.

Founded in 1940, Air Products is a world-leading industrial gases company and has a proud history of innovation, operational excellence, with an unwavering commitment to safety and environmental stewardship. Working together, we are taking our passion and diverse backgrounds forward to reimagine what’s possible and generate a cleaner future for our customers, our communities, and the world.