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If you have world-class ambitions to reach the stars while keeping your feet on the ground, we’re the team for you. We've created a new breed of company – future-focused with reimagined ambition across all disciplines within the energy sector.
We love people who know their own potential and are not afraid to use it. We know that together, we’re far more than the sum of our parts. So, we celebrate people who want to grow and develop as we work together on some of the largest projects on the energy world stage.
We are committed to our diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. From day one, we offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds.
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Our purpose and beliefs:
As Kent, we’re tackling the greatest challenge of our time - to bring our world the energy it needs in the most responsible way ever imagined.
It’s the energy of every member of our team driven by our beliefs that is making this happen. Whatever our skill, our language, or our culture. These beliefs define and direct us every day to be the very best - for ourselves, our clients, our key stakeholders, the communities we operate in and the planet:
We PLAY BIG
We thrive on EMOTIONAL AGILITY
We are FANATICAL ABOUT PERFORMANCE
We are built on INFINITE THINKING
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Our vision for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging:
We recognise that diversity & inclusion are catalysts for success. We’re heightening awareness on the benefits of people diversity, diversity of experiences and diversity of our perspectives. Creating a culture of inclusivity where all employees feel a sense of belonging.
Our combined energy is fueled by different nationalities, across 6 continents and 24 countries. Our commitment is to celebrate character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability.
About the Job:
Kent is looking for an experienced Lead Site Planner to be based in Dahej, India
Skills and Responsibilities
- Provide schedule oversight, progress assurance, and forward-looking planning insights to the bp team, enabling early risk detection, informed decisions, and readiness of client-controlled interfaces, without taking responsibility for contractor planning or directing execution.
- Assist the project Telecom lead as required with management tasks and project control functions, planning and scheduling.
- Site pre-commissioning activities.
- In scope: Progress validation, independent schedule analysis, critical path/float monitoring, lookahead & workfront readiness, bp resource forecasting (e.g., QA), interface/dependency tracking, reporting, and challenge of contractor planning/updates.
Key Responsibilities
A) Progress Assurance & Data Integrity
- Validate the Rules of Credit used on the project to ensure they are appropriate to fabrication.
- Support construction team in progress using field walks, progress quantity reports, and contractor daily reports.
- Reported productivity (throughput if productivity is not available); flag material variances to the bp team.
B) Schedule Analytics & Critical Path Insight
- Maintain oversight (shadow) P6 view or analytics model populated with contractor schedule extracts.
- Track critical path, near-critical chains, and float erosion; produce what-changed summaries after updates.
- Quantify schedule variance and trend curves (SV, milestones slip, earned-quantity vs planned, plan reliability).
- Identify early warning signals (out-of-sequence work, logic gaps, calendar misuse, unrealistic durations).
C) Lookahead & Workfront Readiness
- Run 2-week and 6-week lookaheads.
- Support construction with the Constraints/Readiness Log as required
D) Interface & Dependencies (incl. items outside contractor schedule)
- Monitor cross-discipline dependencies: design deliverables, procurement/MR/PO/expediting, NCR rework, field changes, utilities, vendor presence, inspection/test plans.
E) Client (bp) Resource Forecasting (Quality Inspectors & Others)
- Convert lookahead activities and ITP hold points into a QA inspection demand profile by skill/shift/hours.
- Identify under/over-resourcing against the forecast; propose levelling and prioritization options to the client QA lead.
F) Contractor Accountability & Governance
- Lead a weekly planning challenge session with the Contractor Planner: review progress, critical path shifts, lookahead constraints, and mitigations; issue an action log.
- Verify contractor monthly schedule updates align to the approved baseline and change orders; log deviations.
- Ensure Punch List items are fed back into the Contractor schedule so all work is planned.
G) Reporting & Communication
- Produce a concise Weekly Schedule Report:
- Last week: progress vs plan, key variances, critical path movement.
- Next: top-10 activities, workfront readiness status, constraint closures due.
- Risks & opportunities: quantified time exposure, mitigations with owners.
- QA inspection forecast (rolling 6-week), resourcing gaps and proposals.
- Decisions/escalations required this week.
H) Data, Tools & Standards
- Use P6 for analytics/oversight; define calendars, coding (Area/System/Discipline), version control, and a data dictionary.
- Establish cut-off times (daily/weekly) for progress and reporting.
- Keep all assumptions, mapping rules, and overrides auditable.
- Escalation & Decision Support
- Define thresholds for immediate escalation (e.g.,