What will you be doing?
Expertise in project planning and integrated project control will be deployed for the DRC project. The assignment includes the following activities and results:

Drafting and elaborating the project plan based on the available scope and in coordination with the project team.
Providing insight into the resources required at the role level to realize the project plan.
Processing and providing insight into the TECOP aspects: technical, economic, commercial, organizational, and political.
Establishing the link between project planning, project risks, and costs.
Conducting probabilistic analyses for project planning.
Creating time-path diagrams to provide insight into the work.
Analyzing progress and bottlenecks within the project schedule.
Providing insight into the consequences of bottlenecks for the project planning.
Drafting proposals for resolving or mitigating bottlenecks, aimed at meeting deadlines as effectively as possible.
If necessary, draw up and elaborate planning scenarios as input for an assessment of alternatives.
Providing reports on planning and progress.
Clearly illustrating the translation of issues and solutions into the project plan.
Maintaining contact with relevant stakeholders where this is necessary for the execution of the work.
Making an active contribution to the further development of expertise in project planning and integrated project control within the DRC project team and with the project planners.

Concrete Deliverables:

Delivery: Project planning
A fully detailed plan based on the provided scope.
Role and resource requirements based on consultation with the project team.
A visually and textually insightful plan incorporating potential solutions.
Delivery: TECOP integration
TECOP aspects (technical, economic, commercial, organizational, political) were incorporated into the planning.
Documentation that provides insight into how these factors have been taken into account.
Delivery: Risk, cost, and planning linkage
A document or analysis file in which planning, risks, and costs are linked.
Probabilistic analyses based on project data.
Delivery: Time path diagrams
One or more time path diagrams that graphically illustrate the work and phasing.
Deliverable: Progress and bottleneck analysis
Analysis of progress against the schedule.
Consequence analysis of bottlenecks.
Detailed proposals for solutions or mitigating measures.
Delivery: Planning scenarios
Alternative planning scenarios, fully elaborated, including substantiation.
Delivery of scenarios as input for weighing alternatives.
Deliverables: Reports and communication products
Periodic reports on planning and progress.
Clear communication outputs for the project team and stakeholders (e.g., slides, summaries, dashboards).
Delivery: Expertise development
Contribution to the development of project planning and integrated project control within the DRC team.
Knowledge sharing with fellow project planners (e.g., formats, working methods, checks).

What do we ask?

For the execution of the assignment, you are required to:

Minimum HBO working and thinking level.
Preferably at least 8 years of relevant work experience in a professional work environment.
Extensive experience in developing resource-loaded TECOP project plans for complex multidisciplinary projects.
Experience with responsibility for resource-loaded TECOP project schedules.
Extensive experience in creating timeway diagrams for complex multidisciplinary projects.
Extensive experience in preparing, chairing, and processing interactive planning sessions.
Knowledge of and experience with Primavera OPC, or the ability to quickly acquire this.
Preferably experience with large capital projects (€300M+).
Preferably experience with project controls and project risk management in OPC.
A technical background or affinity with technology.
Be able to clearly convey the importance of a realistic project plan.
The ability to communicate effectively with various stakeholders.
Good written and verbal communication skills in Dutch and English.
Ability to work in a structured and result-oriented manner within a dynamic and operational environment.
Demonstrable safety awareness

Project Planner