START Date:
January, 1995 GPO Manager of Planning
Key Accountabilities
- Define, implement and maintain BP's project planning & scheduling best practices through standards, procedures, and guidelines
- Provide expert guidance on strategic and more detailed planning issues across the portfolio as the BP Technical Authority (TA) for project planning
- Manage and lead the Planning & Scheduling review effort on BP Group’s Value Assurance process and associated functional reviews
- Facilitate scheduled risk reviews at key stage gates, and ensure that schedule risks are identified together with mitigating actions
- Develop a strategic overview of BP's key capital projects and monitor performance against approved baselines
- Provide guidance to and assist Project teams develop fit-for-purpose plans and Schedules
- Ensure that inherent risks to the plans and schedules on all projects are identified and understood
- Work with project teams to ensure planning teams on projects are adequately resourced and trained, and establish an internal network of planners within BP
- Provide functional and first line technical support to Planning & Scheduling personnel (and users of BP's planning & scheduling software tools)
- Lead schedule claims avoidance and mitiagation efforts
- Lead role in schedule forensics; application, training
- Ensure lessons learned are fed back into the history data set for future planning