Snr. Cost & Planning Engineer

Petroleum Development Oman (PDO)

About the Company
Petroleum Development Oman is the leading exploration and production company in the Sultanate of Oman. The Company delivers the majority of the country's crude oil production and natural gas supply.
Purpose of the Job
• Providing Integrated Planning Services for the Contracts handled by PDC team
• Coordinating with PDO planners (Project Delivery, Asset Engineering & Asset Operations) and Contractors planners.
• Ensuring all required Planning Deliverables received from contractors and input to PDO management reports completed in time.
• Review & Ensure that all Long Term Service Contractors have sufficient resources to meet the project requirements.
Education & Experience
1. B.Sc. in any Engineering Discipline or Equivalent .
2. Minimum 7 years experience in Planning & Scheduling in Oil & Gas projects and Contracts Management Planning
3. Thorough knowledge of Planning software Eg. Primavera, MS Project
4. Middle East work experience essential, aware of cultural differences and a clear communicator demonstrating high levels of personal integrity.
5. Familiar with Company and Shell standards & guidelines.
6. Ability to manage the relationship with key stakeholders.
7. Good spoken / written English.
8. PC literate, good inter-personals, communication and expression skills.
Main Responsibilities
• Assist Head of Contract Services Team Leader in Planning, directing,supervising and controlling the execution of technical and fiscal functions of the contracts
• Monitoring of intergated plans by working closely with contactors planners
• Interaction with contractors on aspects of resources allocations, HSE measures, monitoring of critical milestones.
• Prepare and maintain Risk register for all contracts and conduct Risk Analysis review and draw mitigation plan.
• Ensure all planning Deliverables are received from the contractors per the contract requirements.
• Coordinate with PDO planning teams in PD & Assets for any collection of input for management reporting.
• Attend the meetings between PDO & Contract planners, when any planning activities need contract team s interactions.
• Attend required meetings & support Operations team involeved for planning the shutdown activities with required resouces.
• Contractor s workload Forcasting & Analysis based on Program Builds.
• Improvement in planning processes by Contractor s planning scope