Job highlights

- Lead a weekly planning challenge session with the Contractor Planner: review progress,critical path shifts,lookahead constraints,and mitigations
- Candidate should maintain the HSSEQ management system,and the tools required to implement it

About the Job: Kent is looking for an experienced Lead Site Planner to be based in Dahej, India

Skills and Responsibilities

- Provide schedule oversight, progress assurance, and forward-looking planning insights to the bp team, enabling early risk detection, informed decisions, and readiness of client-controlled interfaces, without taking responsibility for contractor planning or directing execution.
- Assist the project Telecom lead as required with management tasks and project control functions, planning and scheduling.
- Site pre-commissioning activities.
- In scope: Progress validation, independent schedule analysis, critical path/float monitoring, lookahead workfront readiness, bp resource forecasting (e.g., QA), interface/dependency tracking, reporting, and challenge of contractor planning/updates.

Key Responsibilities A) Progress Assurance Data Integrity

- Validate the Rules of Credit used on the project to ensure they are appropriate to fabrication.
- Support construction team in progress using field walks, progress quantity reports, and contractor daily reports.
- Reported productivity (throughput if productivity is not available); flag material variances to the bp team.

B) Schedule Analytics Critical Path Insight
- Maintain oversight (shadow) P6 view or analytics model populated with contractor schedule extracts.
- Track critical path, near-critical chains, and float erosion; produce what-changed summaries after updates.
- Quantify schedule variance and trend curves (SV, milestones slip, earned-quantity vs planned, plan reliability).
- Identify early warning signals (out-of-sequence work, logic gaps, calendar misuse, unrealistic durations).

C) Lookahead Workfront Readiness
- Run 2-week and 6-week lookaheads.
- Support construction with the Constraints/Readiness Log as required

D) Interface Dependencies (incl. items outside contractor schedule)
- Monitor cross-discipline dependencies: design deliverables, procurement/MR/PO/expediting, NCR rework, field changes, utilities, vendor presence, inspection/test plans.

E) Client (bp) Resource Forecasting (Quality Inspectors Others)
- Convert lookahead activities and ITP hold points into a QA inspection demand profile by skill/shift/hours.




- Identify under/over-resourcing against the forecast; propose levelling and prioritization options to the client QA lead.

F) Contractor Accountability Governance
- Lead a weekly planning challenge session with the Contractor Planner: review progress, critical path shifts, lookahead constraints, and mitigations; issue an action log.
- Verify contractor monthly schedule updates align to the approved baseline and change orders; log deviations.
- Ensure Punch List items are fed back into the Contractor schedule so all work is planned.

G) Reporting Communication
- Produce a concise Weekly Schedule Report:
- Last week: progress vs plan, key variances, critical path movement.
- Next: top-10 activities, workfront readiness status, constraint closures due.
- Risks opportunities: quantified time exposure, mitigations with owners.
- QA inspection forecast (rolling 6-week), resourcing gaps and proposals.
- Decisions/escalations required this week.

H) Data, Tools Standards
- Use P6 for analytics/oversight; define calendars, coding (Area/System/Discipline), version control, and a data dictionary.
- Establish cut-off times (daily/weekly) for progress and reporting.
- Keep all assumptions, mapping rules, and overrides auditable.
- Escalation Decision Support
- Define thresholds for immediate escalation (e.g.,
- Provide the bp team with options and impacts (time/risk) and a explicit recommendation, while ensuring any executed mitigation is contractor-owned.

Deliverables

- Daily: Plan vs Actual, Balance to go work-front and Catch-up report to PMT, Progress assurance notes (exceptions), updated constraints log.
- Weekly: Schedule Report; dashboard refresh; action log to/from Contractor Planner; QA inspection demand forecast.
- Monthly: Independent schedule health check (logic quality, progress realism, critical path validation), change/time-impact summary, S curve and milestone trends.
- Ad hoc: Time-impact analysis to support change/claim evaluation (client view).

Assist with as-building deliverables In addition to the responsibilities listed herein, the employee may be required to perform other ad-hoc tasks as needed or directed by the supervisor or management. These tasks will be within the reasonable scope of the employees skills, capabilities,



and role within the organization. The intent of this provision is to allow for flexibility and adaptability in meeting the dynamic needs of the organization, ensuring that operational requirements can be met efficiently. All such tasks will be assigned considering the employees current workload and with respect to their professional development. Your knowledge/skills, education, and experience:

- Bachelors or masters degree

Communication:

- Excellent oral and written communication and skills
- Strong coordination, communication, and problem-solving skills

Behavior/ Core Competencies:

- Leadership, Decision Making Delegation
- Teamwork, Coordination, Planning and Organizing
- Flexibility / Adaptability
- Business Acumen, Client Focus
- Training and Mentoring Innovation
- Working as per the Quality and Safety requirement Standards.
- Cultural sensitivity and ability to work in a global, multicultural environment.
- Flexibility in working hours to accommodate different time zones.

HSSEQ: The Employee shall observe the Health, Safety, Sustainability, Environment and Quality rules of the Company; it s clients and the governing authorities of the host country.

- Candidate should contribute to creating a workplace where everyone feels compelled to intervene whenever they observe an unsafe act or condition to ensure that everyone goes home safe and well and the environment is preserved in the successful operation of our business.
- Candidate should maintain the HSSEQ management system, and the tools required to implement it

Details about the role:

Location: Dahej

Relocation required: Not Required

Travel required: Sometimes

Contract type: Permanent

Experience level: 10+ years

Why Join us

- Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits
- Health Wellbeing Program
- Employee Assistance Program
- Inclusion Belonging Program
- Health insurance
- Work for a brand thats been in the industry for over 100 years
- Great Culture
- Safety-first culture with a collaborative and supportive team environment
- Opportunity to contribute to some of the largest and most impactful projects in the global energy sector

We foster an environment where you are challenged professionally and empowered to take the lead on your career development with the support and guidance of our Leaders. We re committed to making sure that every single person uses their time with us to gain valuable experience and skills for their future, so why not pursue your career so why not pursue your career with us today!

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