Job Description

Job Overview:

The Senior Planner uses McDermott's Planning/Scheduling discipline practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the Planning/Scheduling discipline within McDermott. They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the Planning/Scheduling discipline. They solve complex problems and use their discipline-specific knowledge to improve their products or services. The Senior Planner impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the Planning/Scheduling team and other related teams and ensures that they are working within the appropriate guidelines and policies.

Responsibilities

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

Perform schedule analysis using Project Management software including Primavera P6, Deltek Fuse & Risk, and Microsoft Project
Support project baseline creation during the project initiation and setup phase
Facilitate detailed multi-discipline scope reviews




Provide project schedule support and mentor junior planners as required
Develop and maintain logically linked level 3 and level 4 activity schedules, for marine scope installation projects in the Oil and Gas Industry (pipelines, subsea, platforms, HDD), according to precedence flow planning, using best practices
Produce workforce histograms and progress and quantity curves in connection with the schedules
Maintain and review the sequence of Engineering, Procurement, Fabrication, Construction, Hook-Up, and Commissioning, and other operations for control of critical path and overall project durations
Elevate and expedite operations that are delaying the schedule and analyze changes to the schedule to meet unforeseen conditions
Create and Monitor schedule compliance, key performance, factors, and provide analysis of variations to baseline data
Identify factors, both current and potential, that may delay the schedule. Assess actions for recovery and improvem

📌 Senior Planner (Chennai)
🏢 McDermott International
📍 Chennai