Associate Planning Engineer

Selangor, Malaysia

Job Family Group:

Projects

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

October 25, 2024

Business unit:

Projects and Technology

Experience Level:

Early Careers

Job Description:

Where you fit in?

What's the role?

• Support the delivery and maintenance of consistent and realistic plans and control structures for projects. Understand and monitor the interfaces between assigned project sub-elements and other sub-elements. Develop the activities, logic, resources, and progress for the assigned project sub-elements.
• Comply with the planning and progress monitoring procedures.
• Conduct the scheduled monthly progress update, forecast, critical path, and trend analyses for assigned elements, including any impact from interface areas. Provide input to the status reports and ensure that these include the incorporation of approved changes.
• Liaise with project engineering personnel to assist in a proper understanding of the key schedule sensitivities and drivers - Assist with the identification of alternate approaches to optimize the plan (s)
• Know the contract key dates, milestones, and Shell plan dates and how they relate to the overall project schedule. Understand the requirements of the contract sections for planning and progress reporting. Review and verify contractors' reported progress and incorporate it into scheduled progress updates.
• ·Maintain awareness of critical and sub-critical paths and track float consumption.
• Utilize the Shell standard tools and processes.
• Prepare of input data for benchmarking activities, including comparing with historical performance, industry norms, and established KPIs.
• Proactive demonstration of continuous improvement.
• Effective collaboration and alignment with various stakeholders. Intimate interaction with business partners on the project services support requirement and performance, such as Project Team, Front End Team, Discipline Engineering, Finance, Contracts & Procurement, Wells, and JV Partners.
• Ability to effectively communicate with everyone from contractors to Project Team LT.
• Proactive approach to work and possess a high degree of initiative.
• Most of the projects are brownfield projects. Brownfield projects as opposed to Greenfield are centred on existing facilities. Therefore, integrations and optimizations are key enablers as these projects have a high impact on production and need to be delivered faster at a lower cost.

What do we need from you?

• Engineering/Technologist Degree and/or Certification as a Cost Engineer or equivalent experience.
• At least 3-6 years refinery or petrochemical industry experience in Portfolio Planning.
• Experience in Planning Engineer positions for portfolio Capital/Maintenance projects
• Works effectively in a Team environment and build consensus & Customer focus.
• Working knowledge of a broad range of Planning tools, and practices specifically in Oil & Gas industry.
• Strong leadership, communication, report-writing, and presentation skills.
• Skill in Primavera P6, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, SAP/ GSAP, Excel
• Background in Oil and Gas maintenance and operations is an advantage.
• Excellent analytical, oral and written communication skills

Preferred:

• Preferred experience in following tools: Primavera , PowerBI
• Preferred experience in refinery or petrochemicals plant turnarounds.

Company Description

SBO Kuala Lumpur is home to 11 different functions that support Shell within the Southeast Asia, Oceania, and Middle East region. Housing more than 2000 employees, SBO Kuala Lumpur is focused on driving excellent corporate performance that enable Shell to operate in a global competitive and ever-changing business environment.

Shell Business Operations (SBO) Kuala Lumpur is focused on driving excellent corporate performance in Contracting and Procurement, Creative Solutions, Customer Operations, Finance Operations, Human Resource, Information Technology, Legal Operations, Retail Centre of Excellence, Supply Chain, Technical Asset Operation and Upstream Transformation. We enable Shell to operate in a global-competitive and ever-changing business environment.

An Innovative Place to Work

There’s never been a more exciting time to work at Shell. Everyone here is helping solve one of the biggest challenges facing the world today: bringing the benefits of energy to everyone on the planet, whilst managing the risks of climate change.

Join us and you’ll add your talent and imagination to a business with the power to shape the future – whether by investing in renewables, exploring new ways to store energy or developing technology that helps the world to use energy more efficiently.

An Inclusive & Progressive Place to Work

To power progress together, we need to attract and develop the brightest minds and make sure every voice is heard. Here are just some of the ways we’re nurturing an inclusive environment – one where you can express your ideas, extend your skills and reach your potential.

• We’re creating a space where people with disabilities can excel through transparent recruitment process, workplace adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Feel free to let us know about your circumstances when you apply and we’ll take it from there.
• We’re closing the gender gap – whether that’s through action on equal pay or by enabling more women to reach senior roles in engineering and technology.
• We’re striving to be a pioneer of an inclusive and diverse workplace, promoting equality for employees regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.

A Rewarding Place to Work

Combine our creative, collaborative environment and global operations with an impressive range of benefits and joining Shell becomes an inspired career choice. Our CARE benefits are mindfully curated to promote Eco Living, overall Wellbeing, Personal Growth and Caring for our loved ones.

We’re huge advocates for career development. We’ll encourage you to try new roles and experience new settings. By pushing people to reach their potential, we frequently help them find skills they never knew they had, or make career moves they never thought possible.

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