Planning Engineer (Contract)
Forefront Utilities Limited, United Kingdom                                                May 2010- November 2011

A Complete utility solution provider with services including gas repair and replacement, maintenance, gas fitting and reinstatement. A contracting partner with North London Gas Alliance’s (NLGA) gas main replacement programme.

Key Project:

The North London Gas Alliance (NLGA) is a single delivery team comprising National Grid and Skanska McNicholas Plc. Together they are charged with replacing metal gas mains with new plastic pipes (some 3200km of gas mains) across the North London and East Anglian regions - a contract valued at circa £560 million
Roles and Responsibilities:

¨       Generation of the detailed P6 project plan, obtain and verify weekly update/progress date from the design team, prepare weekly project plan updates to the project manager.

¨       Prepare formal monthly progress reports to the project manager as required, work with the Cost Engineer to prepare monthly Earned Value reports to the project manager.

¨       Work with the Integration Team to maintain co-ordination of programmes between design teams.
Provide the planning interface with client Project Controls Manager

¨       Designed dashboards to give the management team a live picture of progress and forecast which is an invaluable tool to monitor both financial and physical progress

¨       Establish the schedule impact of work complete / not complete against programme milestones & make recommendations to help recover programme slip

Key Accomplishment:
Anticipate potential pitfalls and ensure that these do not lead to delay of failures and hence reduce penalties for work not completed at the stated time.

Tools used: Primavera P6, Ms Project, Ms Office