Senior Project Control & Planning Engineer

About the role

A maintenance project is being scaled up in Oman and is looking for a Senior Project Control & Planning Engineer. The role owns schedule integrity for the contract, reviews the main contractor's execution schedule, tracks progress across all site clusters and leads the team's area-based planning engineers. It reports to the Technical Services Manager and liaises with planning functions across the main contractor's organisation and the asset owner.

Key responsibilities

• Review the main contractor's execution schedule, check and challenge the planning logic, and review detailed plans in Primavera P6
• Monitor the baseline, measure progress and track planning compliance and readiness across all site clusters
• Prepare weekly and monthly progress reports, 14-day look-aheads, 90-day plans and dashboards for the project's management meeting cycle
• Support resource optimisation and prioritisation with the main contractor's execution managers and give early warning of delays with mitigation options
• Align schedule progress with the main contractor's work order system
• Lead and quality check the work of the cluster-based Maintenance Planners

Required profile

• Proven background managing, executing or governing long-term maintenance contracts, brownfield projects or service agreements
• Direct, hands-on experience on major national oil company assets in Oman, with strong familiarity with operator HSE procedures and technical specifications
• Demonstrated operational and technical expertise on oil and gas maintenance projects, across upstream, midstream or downstream facilities
• Minimum 15 years of project management experience on oil and gas facilities
• Engineering degree; professional institute membership preferred

Required skills

• Primavera P6 proficiency (essential)
• Working knowledge of SAP (required)

The position is full-time and project-based, based in Muscat, Oman, running through an initial mobilisation phase and the main execution phase of a multi-year contract. Applications are submitted by CV via LinkedIn and are handled in strict confidence.