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Lead Planning Engineer, Sarawak Shell Berhad, Malikai Deepwater Project-Oil

START Date: 
August, 2006
END Date: 
January, 2017
Planning
 Ensuring the established planning and schedule methodology is fulfilled as in the developing project schedules.
 Managing contractor performances and to ensure they compliance with the established scheduling methodology.
 Planning and coordinating the schedule development process.
 Supporting the development of the Work Breakdown Structure to enhance project delivery.
 Developing project milestones and progress tracking baselines.
 Supporting schedule risk analysis and schedule contingency determination.
 Performing analysis (Acumen Fuse) of schedule date; communicate trends, issues and areas requiring attention to the project team. (Contractor Schedules vs Integrated Master Schedule)
 Coordinating and performing weekly/monthly/quarterly schedule reporting, including schedule forecast updates and schedule contingency management.
 Developing network logic to support integrated schedules.
 Participating and conducting presentation (behalf of Project Services) at "interface meeting" between partners (Petronas and KPOC)
 Developing and monitoring FID (Final Investment Decision) schedule alignment between Kebabangan Project (KBB) and Malikai to ensure ESAR (Estimate and Schedule Assurance Review), VAR (Value Assurance Review) and FID dates are aligned.
 Coordinating and developing Marine Operation and Pipelays schedule alignment between other projects (KBB, Gumusut, Kinabalu, SOGT) on monthly and weekly basis.
Cost & Planning Engineer
Project Involved:
SADERI- Subsea Development-GAS
Planning
 Provided project management support in the development and maintenance of the activities, logic, resources and progress of the approved integrated schedule (fabricators, suppliers, CAT1, CAT3, HUC, maintenance) against the baseline.
 Provided Project Manager/Project Lead with weekly/monthly progress update, forecast completions, together with critical path and trend analyses.
 Verified the correctness and accuracy of progress report by contractors, fabricators and suppliers as in the project integrated plan.
 Assessed the impact of approved changes and any deviations from the key project targets and milestones, including productivity monitoring and “What if?” scenarios to aid project management decision-making.
 Applied probabilistic techniques to determine and communicate the possible range of schedule completion dates for the project, including tracking schedule risk mitigation efforts, criticality of the main paths to completion, float consumption and release of the 50/50 schedule contingency.
Costing
 Maintained SAP cost structure for new PRs/POs (including invoice plan phasing, zeroing out from General Plan Cost-GPC, Actual vs plan tally and monitor cost in SAP).
 Ensured monthly capture of accruals in SAP
 Carried out cost progress report (Major Project Review, PROMIS, Petronas, Partners etc)
Regional EPA Supports for Primavera
 As Administrator to provide/manage the primavera database.
 Focal point for Primavera (Training, Testing, Migration, Update, Username/Password etc)
Cost & Planning Engineer
Project Involved:
Covering all EPA projects
Malampaya Phase II Project
 Developed the Integrated Schedule up to Level III
 Assisted and guided project team to develop the project schedule
 Developed CTR (Cost, Time & Resources) catalogs for budgeting
Probabilistic Analysis
 Mampak and Magpie Project (Brunei), B11 Project (Compression & Living Quarters), Saderi, St Joseph, Cilipadi, Seria North Flank (Brunei)
Principal duties:
Probabilistic assessment analysis.
 Analyzed the master programs from Primavera or Microsoft Project and performed an analysis using Pertmaster software for ESAR- Estimate and Schedule Assurance Review
 Analyzed cost estimation and performed an analysis using @Risk software (Palisade Decision Tools)
 Guided and assisted EPA project team to perform probabilistic analysis
Supported Project Engineers in developing realistic time schedules, networks and resource requirement.
Benchmarking
 Collected and analyzed data to enhance the schedule benchmarking data
 Liaised with Cost Engineers to provide structured database, benchmarking charts, and other trend analysis on live-link
Facilitate the monthly major Project Review meeting on behalf of the Regional Engineering Manager.
 Coordinated the meeting, Coordination, took the minute on meeting, maintain presentation slides in live-link
Maintain up to date project schedules and cost/budget forecasts
Regional EPA Supports for Primavera
 As Administrator to provide/manage the primavera database.
Focal point for Primavera (Training, Testing, Migration, Update, Username/Password etc)
Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling): 
20000
Experience Hours (Cost Management): 
10000
Experience Hours (Forensic Analysis): 
10000

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