Planner / Scheduler

**Introduction**:
**About MPK**:
Re-energised. The kind of thinking the world is demanding to transition to a new energy future. This requires the dynamic attitude that MPK is known for delivering. Whether it’s upstream LNG development and servicing, fluid transportation, or renewables, in the essential energy, water and natural resources sectors, we’re here to use our proven ingenuity to redefine the challenge and innovate solutions that solve problems and deliver high quality outcomes.
You need only look at our long term partnerships and outcomes with major industry leaders to see how we have successfully realised their vision.
With the world's growing demand for increased energy supply, MPK are there to provide essential infrastructure services and solutions. We offer three primary, but interconnected, divisions to clients - Infrastructure, Services and Solutions.
MPK. Right solutions. Right people. Right for the future.
**Our Values**:
**Care**: We are genuine and fair and have high expectations of ourselves. We are like family. We pull our weight and watch each other’s backs. We care for our people because our people are who we are.
**Solve**: We understand our client needs because we collaborate. We align with clients to pursue efficiency and safety and, as partners, anticipate challenges and adapt. We embrace technology to deliver the solutions our clients need.
**Deliver**: Our focus in delivering value to our clients is paramount and is the cornerstone of our commercial relationships.
**Description**:
**About the Role**:

- Build and Interpret schedules using Primavera and MS Office programmes.
- Provide project control reporting, including baseline schedule development and management, performance status and reporting, baseline change control, risk management, earned value management guidance and tools.
- Support program integration, plan optimisation and project scheduling best practices.
- Ensuring that the planning and scheduling for projects adhere to company standards and contract obligations.
- Support and advise on the definition of project planning and earned value management processes, procedures and the standards required to deliver projects.
- Support the development of integrated master schedules for specific programmes in Primavera and/or Microsoft Project that reflect all interface milestones and activity durations from multiple contractor’s schedules and feed changes to the integrated master schedule.
- Ensure weekly/monthly reports are in line with the project and MPC Kinetic’s (MPK) reporting calendar, providing details on progress, actuals, forecast and explanation of variances.
- Ensure that project control processes are consistently applied across the project.
- Identify opportunities of improved schedules.
- Manage governance to ensure robust cost and schedule performance for the agreed Scope of Work across integrated programmes managed across multiple subcontractors and suppliers.
- Support the development of requirements for specific resource
- loaded schedules.
- Monitor and report against KPI’s and analyse variances and make recommendations to maintain targets.
- Attendance and input into construction, testing, completions, programme, commercial meetings and workshops.
- Monitor, manage and report scope variance and delays, and holding meetings relating to progress.
- Work closely with the Project Manager, Commercial Manager and Quantity Surveyor to maximise the potential of the project.
- Provide innovative solutions to reporting and build data bases and documents for use inside and outside the project.

**Skills and Experiences**:
**About You**:
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