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Planning / Schedule Manager
About this role
The role is for a Planning / Schedule Manager who will represent Siemens Energy for planning, scheduling and progress control activities. The position focuses on developing and maintaining integrated schedules, tracking milestones, interfaces and resources, and reporting progress and risks. It requires extensive experience in industrial or HV substation projects and advanced scheduling tools. The employer, Tusen Consulting, is a Nigerian firm providing general HR and recruitment solutions and is listing this opportunity on behalf of Siemens Energy. The job is based in Lagos and targets candidates with strong CPM and project scheduling capabilities, with English proficiency required and French as a plus.
What you would do
- Develop and maintain the baseline schedule for engineering, procurement, civil works, installation, testing and commissioning.
- Maintain WBS, logic, calendars, coding, milestones and interfaces in P6 and MS Project.
- Integrate subcontractor schedules with contractual milestones and the approved baseline.
- Update actual progress, remaining durations, productivity and resources weekly.
- Analyse critical path, float, constraints, delays and schedule trends.
- Prepare short-term and look-ahead schedules for site and commissioning works.
- Identify schedule risks and issue mitigation, acceleration and recovery plans.
- Maintain progress curves, manpower histograms and productivity indicators.
- Support delay analysis, changes and extension-of-time assessments.
- Coordinate with Engineering, Procurement, Construction, QA/QC and Commissioning and issue reports and forecasts.
What they are asking for
- Minimum 10 years of planning experience on industrial or HV substation projects.
- Advanced skills in Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.
- Knowledge of substation works from civil construction to testing and commissioning.
- Strong CPM, WBS, resource-loading and progress-analysis skills.
- Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams and recovery schedules.
- English mandatory; French is an advantage.
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