Construction Planning Engineer

ROLE PURPOSE:

The construction planning engineer is a key field-based role within the Project Management Job Family, responsible for ensuring seamless integration between engineering, construction leadership, and quality management. This position involves in-depth problem-solving, coordination with construction teams, and oversight of system completion disciplines. The construction engineer plays a pivotal role in maintaining safety, quality, and efficiency in construction execution while supporting project goals and ensuring compliance with industry standards.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Act as a leader in safety performance, engaging actively with site teams to uphold and improve safety protocols and compliance.
• Support contractor and subcontractor workforce planning by integrating engineering, quality, procurement, and project completion activities.
• Oversee construction progress, ensuring conformance with project contracts, work scopes, and technical specifications.
• Provide on-site supervision and technical guidance to improve construction safety, quality, cost efficiency, and scheduling.
• Perform detailed analyses of construction execution data to identify inefficiencies and drive process improvements.
• Support and lead (as assigned) specific tasks related to construction management, safety planning, and execution methodologies.
• Actively identify and remove constraints affecting contractor performance, including execution bottlenecks, procedural gaps, and operational inefficiencies.
• Collaborate on interface management, including coordination with design teams, third-party contractors, commissioning teams, and startup operations.
• Facilitate continuous improvement initiatives and implement best practices to enhance overall construction performance.

Project Policies, Procedures and Systems

• Verify and check that all contractors are implementing the construction related policies, processes, procedures and systems as included in the approved project proposal
• Recommend improvements to departmental procedures and implement instructions and controls covering a specific area of activity so that al relevant procedural/legislative requirements are fulfilled.
• Be actively involved in the selection of the construction team members, acts as a resource on all project activities providing coaching / mentoring to supervisory staff and champions issue resolution, internal and external involving contract, safety, quality control, schedule and performance.

Budget and Plans (for specific individual projects)

• Prepare components of the budget related to individual projects to facilitate the preparation and presentation of the complete Budget for approval.
• Monitor the financial performance of a given area of the budget so that areas of unsatisfactory performance are identified and rectified promptly and potential performance
• Improvement opportunities are capitalised upon.

Invitation to Bid

• Review contract documents and administer all issues related to the project in accordance with company policies and procedures.

Execute Pegaga SD/Turn Around, MCM contract & future EPCI Projects

• Monitor the MCM & future EPCI progress of the Project in terms of scope, costs, time schedule and recommend corrective action where required. Manage and control changes and variations. Assesses the Quality Control Plans of sub-contractors and identify any necessary corrective measures.
• Provide overall construction leadership to different phases of the construction project life cycle.
• Supervisory responsibilities include guiding and directing construction functions.

Project Handover

• Oversee the development of the pre-commissioning activities and facilitate the handover to commissioning and Operations.

Risk Management

• Support regular project Risk reviews and that all construction related items and mitigating actions on risk register are closely monitored.

Reports

• Monitor the contractor progress reports to ensure they are on target in terms of cost and time schedules.
• Review contractor progress reports in order to keep informed and to facilitate planning of cost and time schedules timely and accurately to meet company and department requirements, policies and standards
• Ensure timely issue of accurate project progress report to keep internal management team on informed of overall project performance.
• Health, Safety, & Environment
• Ensure compliance with all relevant safety, quality and environmental management policies, procedures and controls across the project department to guarantee employee safety, legislative compliance, delivery of high-quality products/service and a responsible environmental attitude.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

Knowledge

• A degree in Engineering, preferably with a PMP professional qualification.
• A good understanding of the Oil and Gas industry

Experience

• 15+ years of construction experience in the Oil & Gas sector. It is advantageous if candidate has worked as Construction Manager in at least one EPCIC project involving large CPP.

Skills

• General and construction management skills, technical skills, good communication skills, analytical skills, and good interpersonal skills.