Planning Management Lead - Chartered Status/Professional Registration

Job description / Role

• Overall responsibility for the management of the planning discipline within the PMO
• Accountable for the visibility of the interfaces between programs and inform senior management of potential issues.
• Responsible for the management of the planning strategy and standards across the program, providing planning governance for the business.
• Responsible for administration of the QRDP Master Schedule
• Accountable for the critical path analysis and recommend mitigation to the business.
• Accountable for working with Cost & Budget function (PMO), Commercial and Finance, to provide a coherent approach for period reporting program costs.
• Accountable for working with Commercial and Finance to provide program information for future budget forecasting (Ministry of Finance).
• Accountable for period data feed (planning data) into PMIS
• Responsible for the data extracts to external stakeholders for the on-going national logistical exercise.
• Accountable for the data extract to the Risk Management team within the PMO
• Accountable for assisting the contract administration department in claims assessment (forensic planning)
• Provide leadership and direction to the planning function.
• Provides support to Qatar Rail at external stakeholder forums
• Supports the PMO Delivery Director at board level.
• Facilitate the planning forum (includes the PMCs).
• Accountable for harmonized P6 reporting throughout the business
• Accountable for schedule review analysis
• Accountable for the recommendations prepared with regards to schedule mitigation measures with respect to schedule risk, clashes and impacts
• Accountable (where assigned) for database synchronisation with respect to reference data (calendars, project codes, resource codes etc…..)
• Accountable to support the Program Systems Management Lead for tuning Primavera.
• Accountable to support the Program Systems Management Lead to ensure that all Primavera and Tilos upgrades are conducted seamlessly.
• Accountable to support in application performance is monitored so that it does not impact the business.
• Accountable to support to the Program Systems Management Lead with respect to Primavera interfaces and other business systems
• Accountable for all Primavera configuration data and settings and relying this information to the relevant parties within the Program
• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant Engineering discipline

Requirements

• Chartered status or Professional Registration
• 15+ years of relevant professional experience
• At least 3-4 years’ experience in similar size programs
• Heavy Civil /Rail experience essential
• Able to work without supervision and manage specialized activities for a phase of an assigned
• project
• Excellent leadership, communication and interpersonal skills
• 10+ years. of Primavera experience
• Tilos experience preferred

About the Company

Qatar Project Management (QPM) is an independent subsidiary of Barwa Real Estate Development Company that provides expertise in Project Management, Design Management, Construction Management, and Contract Administration together with other associated Project Management functions. Established in 2008, QPM is centralized platform for provision of Project Management services to Barwa and Qatari Diar as well as local and international markets. QPM provides these services through an in-house team of highly-skilled, motivated, and qualified professionals supported by state-of-the-art information technology and highly-effective Project Management systems.