Senior Planning Engineer

Executing Assigned Scopes of Work:

Participates as a team member in a specific phase of a broad engineering assignment.
Directs preparation of appropriate documentation for assigned projects.
Ensures successful completion of the assigned project/phase within the budgeted time and cost constraints.
Participates in defining engineering approaches, and in planning and scheduling work
Evaluates problems, organizes investigations and establishes general performance specifications for components, equipment, systems, processes, etc.
Check Engineering calculations as well as check all drawings in accordance with industry codes and standards; Assist with the development of less senior Technical Professionals
Adhere to and comply with relevant discipline specific procedures and provide feedback for continuous improvement.
Participate in audits and incident investigations as required.
Performs complex engineering tasks related to specific units of major projects
Participate in site visits, project review meetings, design reviews and other workshops as require
Organising and active participation in design reviews
Providing discipline expertise:

Solves problems requiring development of new approaches or new uses for existing approaches; exercises mature professional judgment in evaluating and selecting technical strategic options.
As necessary, modifies established guidelines, devises new approaches, applies existing criteria in new ways and draws conclusions from comparative situations.
Regularly functions as a technical leader or significant contributor to a major complex problem or project
Produces innovative ideas and solves problems requiring development of new approaches or new uses for existing approaches
Consistently called on to use creativity and professional judgement to formulate results based on engineering standards, experience and constructive thinking
Develops unique solutions for complex technical problems
Anticipates potential problems and takes the initiative to solve complex problems through creative thinking and creative use of internal and external resources both inside and outside of discipline expertise
Exercises mature professional judgement in identifying the implications of experimental results
Understands customer needs and applies technical solutions to meet goals
Provide technical input and support to proposals as required

Supporting and Supervising task delegation to team:

May supervise a small work group consisting of technical/professional staff with some coaching from own supervisor, or may provide advice and guidance in area of specialization to others.
Assist in performing managerial tasks as requested, such as assigning tasks to engineers; planning and coordinating portions of the engineering work; preparing scopes, schedules, and budgets; attending project meetings; and developing lesser-experienced technical professionals
Discusses with other senior engineers to agree priorities and implications on work of others
Approves work schedules and makes recommendations for increased resources and special equipment
Makes commitments on acceptance of projects, completion dates, resources and staff required to meet goals.
Coordinates the activities of engineering and design groups assigned to small projects.
Participates in developing deadlines, projects and work to be done
May manage one or more small projects, with responsibility for cost, schedule, resources allocation and risk.
Provide appropriate HSSE leadership including compliance with site and office safety requirements and technical/design safety requirements

Qualifications
Bachelors Degree in a relevant technical or business discipline (or equivalent gained through relevant vocational training and/or industry experience)

Knowledge, skills, and experience:
Incumbents will typically have a minimum 10 years relevant scheduling/planning experience
Basic knowledge of Primavera and other scheduling software and related tools and techniques including Logic and CPM analysis, resource loading and levelling
Basic knowledge of Project Execution Procedures for Scheduling
Basic understanding of WBS & CBS structures and project reporting capabilities
Basic ability to develop project schedules and plans
Basic ability to prepare resource loading, progress and staffing plans
Understanding of earned value application, cost and schedule variance analyses/trending and what if scenarios
Understanding of project management principles and techniques
Understanding of Cost Management, Change Control, Planning & Risk Analysis & Management