Lead Planner

**Lead Planner / Scheduler**

**About Santos**

Santos is a leading independent producer of oil and gas committed to ever-cleaner energy and fuels production. With operations across Australia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and North America, Santos has been supplying reliable and affordable energy for over 65 years.

**About the Assignment**

The Planning Lead plays an important role in ensuring coordination and integration of the portfolio of PNG projects into the PNG Business Unit (BU) Integrated Activity Plan and Schedule as well as corporate level summary reporting. The role will have oversight of, and support for, various planning-related initiatives across the portfolio as well as providing direct Planning support to the Brownfield Projects Project Manager who manages a portfolio of projects including refinery return to service, security hardening and some abandonment works.

**Tasks include**:
**Oversight of portfolio-level activities**:

- The development, coordination, and maintenance of portfolio performance reports;
- Transparent and consistent reporting and tracking of plan performance against targets to enhance decision making, opportunity identification, prioritisation and look-back analysis;
- Coordinate with the Lead Functional Planner for Santos to ensure that the PNG BU is implementing the required Planning practices and processes;
- Provide appropriate leadership and guidance to project planners;
- Assist with Identify planning and scheduling skills gaps and recommend suitable training courses; and,
- Provide review and assessment of plans received from Operator(s) of Major Capital Projects Operated By Others (OBO).

**Planning for Brownfield Projects**
- Develop and manage overall master project schedule(s), coordinating and incorporating Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Owner’s team, and contractor data (as required / appropriate);
- Maintain project schedule versions (e.g. baseline, control budget, concept alternatives) to enable management of change and comparison between reporting periods;
- Lead regular interactive, cross-functional planning sessions to ensure that the schedule is fully integrated and appropriately reviewed / challenged by all stakeholders;
- Proactively identify, analyse, and advise project management team regarding schedule risks (i.e. clashes, changes in critical path) ensuring these are appropriately reflected;
- Evaluate impacts through sensitivity analysis to identify optimum / alternative project strategies to resolve problems / issues;
- Implement regular schedule reporting regarding performance versus plan (incl. deviations);
- Own and develop schedule documentation, i.e. schedule development basis, schedule management plan, master project schedule;
- Review and steward contractors’ planning and scheduling performance in compliance with contract requirements; and,
- Support project management team with schedule communication presentation to business leadership.

**This assignment is initially offered for 12 months, engaged via Chandler Macleod.**

**Location for this assignment is Brisbane working full-time office hours.**

**About You**
- Tertiary qualified in engineering, project management or other relevant upstream oil and gas qualification; and,
- Relevant planning / project controls / management-related certifications are desirable.
- 10+ years’ experience in project planning;
- Experience in EPC delivered up-stream oil and gas industry;
- Experience across all phases of a project within the upstream oil and gas industry i.e., from front-end / pre-FEED project phases through to execution;
- Demonstrated experience planning multiple projects and capital works activities within a brownfield operational environment; and,
- Global experience, especially in developing countries and / or remote locations.

**How to Apply**

**_ To be considered for this assignment you must have current work rights in Australia (i.e., Australian citizenship, permanent residency, or eligible working visa)._**

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