Project Planner / Scheduler at De Talents – Lagos

De Talents is recruiting a Project Planner / Scheduler in Lagos for project planning and progress monitoring work in an oil and gas construction environment.

Key responsibilities

• Work with clients to review, renegotiate and amend scopes of work, proposals, contracts and budgets where required.
• Determine the time, funding, equipment and other resources needed to complete projects.
• Review project schedules with departmental heads and affected staff, revising plans when necessary.
• Plan work schedules and coordinate and monitor project activities using Microsoft Project or Primavera.
• Develop and maintain realistic project plans, control structures and baseline schedules for assigned project elements.
• Define activities, logic, resources and progress measures and maintain the associated schedules.
• Apply planning and progress-monitoring procedures.
• Prepare daily, weekly and monthly progress updates, forecasts, critical-path reviews and trend analyses.
• Maintain project status reports and provide schedule updates to supervisors and team members.
• Assess approved changes and deviations from milestones, monitor productivity and identify alternative approaches to improve plans.

Requirements

• BSc, HND or BEng in a relevant engineering discipline.
• Knowledge of project management.
• At least five years of experience in a similar role in an oil and gas construction environment.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project and Primavera or similar planning software.
• Ability to maintain schedule data and support project consistency and optimisation.
• Good planning, coordination and communication skills.