Lead Planner

Role Overview

Lead Planner at ABIS. The role is responsible for developing, maintaining, and reporting the project schedule for ABICON's scope of work, coordinating progress measurement and ensuring schedule risks are identified and communicated to project management.

Role Purpose

Develop and maintain the baseline and progressive project schedule, supervise planning staff, monitor progress against plan, conduct critical path analysis, and ensure schedule risks are identified and communicated to project management and the client.

Key Responsibilities

Schedule Development & Maintenance

• Develop and maintain the baseline and progressive project schedule in Primavera P6 for ABICON scope.
• Supervise Planners and consolidate discipline-level schedules into an integrated master schedule.
• Monitor progress and update the schedule based on site input and productivity data.
• Maintain schedule documentation and historical records for lessons learned.

Analysis & Reporting

• Conduct schedule variance and critical path analysis, highlighting delays and risks.
• Prepare progress curves (S-curves), histograms, and progress reports for management and the client.
• Present schedule status in progress meetings.
• Support preparation of look-ahead schedules (weekly/monthly) for site execution.

Coordination & Integration

• Coordinate with construction, procurement, and engineering on schedule interfaces.
• Coordinate schedule-related information for change orders and claims.
• Support what-if scenarios and recovery schedule development.

Governance & Methodology

• Ensure progress measurement methodology is applied consistently across disciplines.

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum 10 years of experience in planning and scheduling on EPC or construction projects.
• Team leadership experience required.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field.

Skills & Competencies

• Primavera P6 proficiency.
• MS Project proficiency.
• Analytical Thinking.
• Attention to Detail.
• Problem Solving.
• Communication Skills.
• Time Management.
• Leadership.
• Project Scheduling.
• Progress Measurement Systems.
• Critical Path Method (CPM) Analysis.
• Earned Value Management (EVM).
• Reporting and Dashboard Preparation.
• MS Excel (Advanced).