Planning Manager at Nestoil Limited – Warri, Delta

Nestoil Limited is recruiting a Planning Manager in Warri, Delta State. The successful candidate will oversee integrated operational and project planning, aligning production, maintenance, wells and development activities with approved budgets and delivery commitments.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain integrated project schedules covering milestones, dependencies, resource requirements and critical-path activities.
• Align near-term execution plans with the asset development plan and coordinate look-ahead schedules with Operations, Engineering, Maintenance and Supply Chain.
• Establish progress-measurement and reporting standards, validate updates with workstream leads and escalate significant delays with recovery options.
• Work with Finance and the Joint Project Management Team to reconcile commitments, actual expenditure and forecasts against approved budgets.
• Assess schedule and cost implications of scope changes, maintain project baselines and document agreed changes, decisions and actions.
• Coordinate inputs from cost-reporting and planning-support teams.
• Prepare consolidated schedule, cost and risk reports for management.

Qualifications and experience

• Degree in Engineering, Project Management, Quantity Surveying, Finance or a related discipline.
• Relevant upstream oil and gas experience in integrated planning and project controls.
• Experience in schedule baselining, progress measurement and cost forecasting.
• Proficiency in Primavera P6, Microsoft Project or equivalent project-scheduling software.
• Strong analytical, organisational and stakeholder-management skills.