David Longe
Aberdeen,Aberdeen City
Summary
Accomplished Project Planner with over 5 years experience, expertise in Primavera P6, resource levelling, and the Critical Path Method (CPM). Demonstrates proficiency in Earned Value Management, Gantt chart creation, and project scheduling. Skilled in progress monitoring and reporting, V-lookup and advanced Excel techniques, baseline management, risk management, and delay analysis. Adept at creating work breakdown structures to optimise project efficiency. Committed to leveraging skills for effective project delivery and continuous professional growth.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work history
Project planner
Balfour Beatty
Aberdeen , `Aberdeen City
2022.05 - Current
- Produce progress reports, programme updates, and scenario planning for project teams and senior stakeholders
- Implemented Earned Value Management methodologies with resource histograms and float analysis, achieving 15% reduction in project schedule overruns through systematic variance reporting and critical path optimisation
- Develop and maintain detailed construction programmes from tender through to project completion.
- Highlighting key activities, risk and potential impacts to programmes
- Working closely with construction, commercial and engineering teams to keep programme aligned with how works are being delivered
- Performed comprehensive compensation events assessment and delay analysis, maintaining detailed risk registers and implementing recovery programmes to prevent cost escalation
- Contributing to both short-term look-ahead planning and long term project scheduling.
- Managed resource levelling across concurrent projects using histogram analysis and capacity planning, improving resource utilisation efficiency by 20% through systematic workforce optimisation and equipment scheduling.
Project Planner
The Clancy group
Aberdeen , Aberdeen City
2021.02 - 2022.04
- Generate weekly and monthly progress reports, including S-curves, variance reports, and four-week look-ahead schedules to provide insights into upcoming activities.
- Created detailed Primavera P6 project schedules for £20M commercial projects, establishing critical path networks with comprehensive work breakdown structures and activity coding to prevent schedule slippage.
- Performed day to day communication with design, consents, commercial, estimating, project team, client and supply chain to support with project delivery
- Monitor, update and report progress of project at regular intervals and make changes as required and where necessary, produce and analyse recovery schedules
- Initiate change event programme in accordance with contract and track any variations or change, analyse critical and non critical project paths and report back to delivery team.
- Resource-lead programme to support Earned Value Management reporting, forecasting productivity, and providing clear KPI's to stakeholders
Education
Bachelor of Science - Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management
Robert Gordon University
Aberdeen 2018.09 - 2022.06
Skills
- Primavera P6
- Resource Levelling
- Critical Path Method (CPM)
- Earned Value Management
- Gantt charts creation
- Project scheduling
- Progress monitoring and reporting
- V-lookup and advanced excel
- Baseline management
- Risk management and delay analysis
- Work breakdown structure creation
Certification
- Primavera P6 Professional - Oracle Certified (2021)
- Microsoft Project Specialist - Advanced Planning & Scheduling (2020)
- Project Management Professional (PMP) - PMI Certified (In Progress)
Languages
English
Fluent
Yoruba
Native
Hausa
Fluent
Timeline
Project planner
Balfour Beatty
2022.05 - Current
Project Planner
The Clancy group
2021.02 - 2022.04
Bachelor of Science - Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management
Robert Gordon University
2018.09 - 2022.06