Planning Manager

Role Overview

Planning Manager at HILL International. This role is responsible for developing, managing, and controlling the project schedule to ensure timely delivery in line with client requirements.

Role Purpose

The Planning Manager ensures the project remains on track from a planning and scheduling perspective by monitoring progress, identifying risks and delays, coordinating with contractors and stakeholders to maintain alignment, assessing the impact of changes, implementing recovery strategies, and providing clear, accurate reporting to senior management and the client.

Key Responsibilities

Schedule Management

• Review and comment on the Baseline Schedule and other schedules, reporting findings to the Controls Manager.
• Monitor the Contractor's major construction progress continuously against approved schedules.
• Ensure equipment and manpower are adequate; report any shortage to the Controls Manager.
• Review recovery schedules submitted by Contractors in detail and ensure manpower and site supervision staff are increased appropriately.
• Review commissioning plans submitted by the Contractor and ensure compliance with the approved Baseline Schedule.

Site Oversight & Validation

• Conduct regular site visits to validate whether work progress complies with approved schedules.
• Confirm that major milestones have been met and report deficiencies to the Construction Manager.

Reporting & Documentation

• Review all daily, weekly, and monthly reports submitted by the Contractor.
• Report any deficiency or non-compliance to the Controls Manager.
• Review any claim involving time impact submitted by the Contractor and report assessment to the Controls Manager.
• Assist Controls Managers during the preparation of Monthly Progress Reports and Monthly Executive Presentations.

Change & Risk Management

• Review field design changes and Trend Notices and assess any time impact.
• Advise the Construction Manager of any foreseen slippage of progress and corrective actions to be taken.
• Participate with PMC staff in reviewing Close-Out Reports submitted by the Contractor.

Stakeholder Coordination

• Attend weekly progress meetings and monthly Executive meetings.
• Participate in preparing meeting agendas.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or higher.
• Minimum 12 to 15 years' experience in Planning on similar projects.

Skills & Competencies

• Full proficiency with Primavera.
• Full proficiency with Microsoft Project.
• Full proficiency with PowerPoint.