We are looking for a Senior IOP Planning Coordinator for one of our clients with the following details:

Start date: ASAP (tentative date)

End Date: 31-DEC-2027

Location: Doha, Qatar

Work status: Residential, Single

ACTIVITIES

IOP Process management - Annual Operation plan

• Overall responsible for developing, reviewing, and issuing complete validated annual operation plan.
• Responsible to perform gap analysis with validated Annual Work Program and Budget (AWPB) at each cycle to allow understanding the impact of planning changes and support senior management decision making when required
• Facilitate discussions among departments using raw data to initiate de-conflicting process.
• Collect Level 1 and 2 activities from department planners and 4M execution team planners to consolidate into annual work programm
• Ensure gate criteria for activities included in the plan are met; reject activities which do not meet gate criteria and ensure consistent coordination with department planners on rejected activities.
• Ensure attributes for all activities included in the plan are provided and accurate; ensure consistent coordination ith department planners for any inconsistency.
• Identify conflicts and opportunities for optimization on Safety, production, cost and resources. Leverage department focal points forecast team and HSE department for support in providing accurate POB, HSE and Production/Injection forecast information.
• Coordinate with Logistics team to optimize accommodation vessel Maintenance, JUB move
• Provide Inputs to Finance, Logistics with 1Y POB forecast after validation meetings
• Share list of conflicts to be discussed during de-conflicting meeting with department planners.
• Send draft of IOP annual Operations Plan to Forecast team 2 days prior to the de-confliction meeting to allow for scenario building.
• Facilitate de-conflicting and optimization of planned activities by liaising with department planners and leading the 1Y de-conflicting meeting.
• Trigger pre-arbitration meetings with departments as required.
• Prepare scenarios for arbitration and share with COO prior to validation meeting. Provide adequate support as required to COO on scenario arbitration
• Facilitate the 1Y validation meeting chaired by the COO, with all relevant departments and parties.
• Publish rolling 1Y IOP plan monthly.
• Provide feedback to the department planners on the validated 1Y IOP plans, to keep the IOP plan and departmental plans aligned and up to date.
• Attend 4M Execution deconflicting and Validation meetings.
• Prepare dossier with conflicts resulting from break-ins and provide adequate support as required to COO on activities arbitration.
• Review Break in vs Approved Internal Budget with Finance team
• Coordinate with 4M Execution planners to extract IOP activities from 1Y IOP into 4M-Look-ahead
• Ensure smart visualization for both detailed and high level plan to ensure clarity and support senior management decision making

IOP Process Continuous improvement:

• Support Head of IOP in development, implementation and revision of the IOP procedure
• Gather feedback and identify potential pain points in application of the procedure; share with head of IOP
• Contribute to efforts in revising IOP procedure
• Support implementation of procedure changes to the ongoing process

Reporting:

• Develop, implement, and maintain progress tracking and performance reporting tools related to the Annual work program and Internal Budget with OPP-operation performance team e.g. KPI Dashboards, Monthly Report Templates.
• Support 1Y IOP KPI reports with OPP Operations Planning team and share with OPP Manager and Head of IOP

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Education: Degree qualification in Engineering or Marine Engineer or Administration preferred
• Industry Experience: Min 10 years' experience in a production operations environment (ideally exposure to offshore environment) Min 7 years planning experience
• Demonstrable proficiency with integrated planning environments and processes
• Initiative to seek out required information and communicate issues proactively
• Ability to relate to and deal with a wide range of nationalities and personalities
• Ability to work across departments across multiple disciplines
• Good communication skills both in written and verbal
• User level in planning packages including MS Project and Primavera P6
• Proactive approach and problem-solving ability