Esther Sholola
Essex
Summary
Project Planner with experience delivering schedule control across Infrastructure, Construction, Energy, and Engineering projects. Works primarily in Primavera P6, with strong capability in Asta Powerproject and MS Project. Covering IMS development, baseline control, critical path analysis, progress tracking, and earned value reporting. Well-versed in NEC 3 and NEC 4 contract environments, including Compensation Event assessments and Extension of Time evaluations. Comfortable working across planning, commercial, and engineering teams to keep programmes aligned with project scope, cost, and delivery objectives.
Overview
1
1
Certification
5
5
years of professional experience
Work history
Project Planner
Morgan Sindall Infrastructure
2023.02 - Current
- Collaborate with Project Managers, commercial teams, and contractors to oversee the development and delivery of all project planning activities, ensuring alignment across stakeholders and identifying potential delivery risks.
- Develop, maintain, and update detailed project schedules using Primavera P6, ensuring all project activities are accurately sequenced and reflect current delivery plans.
- Integrate contractor programmes into the master project schedule, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and alignment with overall project milestones.
- Identify and track key deliverable dates, including start and finish dates, critical milestones, and overall project targets.
- Establish and maintain progress tracking and performance measurement systems to monitor project delivery against agreed baselines.
- Conduct schedule analysis, including critical path analysis, risk assessment, and identification of network logic conflicts to support informed decision-making.
- Review and challenge contractor Programmes, assumptions, and methodologies to ensure realistic planning and delivery.
- Support project reporting, governance, and performance tracking by providing accurate schedule updates, analysis, and insights.
- Contribute to risk, issue, and opportunity management processes by identifying schedule impacts and supporting mitigation planning.
Project Planner
TechnipFMC
2021.02 - 2023.01
- Undertake advanced schedule analysis, including critical path analysis, dependency mapping, float analysis, variance reporting, and forecasting to provide clear insight into current and future delivery performance.
- Collaborated with project teams to maintain integrated schedules, resource plans, and cost information, ensuring accurate progress tracking and performance measurement while enhancing risk visibility.
- Facilitate planning and progress review workshops with contractors and stakeholders, providing independent assurance, challenge, and schedule health checks to ensure adherence to planning standards and governance frameworks.
- Establish and maintain performance management systems, including earned value analysis (EVA), Schedule Performance Index (SPI), and Cost Performance Index (CPI), to assess project performance and drive corrective actions where required.
- Identified emerging risks, trends, and delivery threats within the schedule, providing early warning indicators and mitigation strategies to support informed decision-making.
- Evaluated compensation events and extension of time (EOT) requests from contractors, conducted detailed programme analysis and validation in line with NEC contract management processes, and advised project managers on acceptance, rejection, and schedule impact.
Education
BSc. - Computer science
Bowen University
MSc. - Fashion and Lifestyle Marketing
GCU london
Skills
- Project scheduling
- Critical path analysis, delay identification, and risk tracking
- Earned Value Management SPI, CPI, S-curves, and variance reporting
NEC 3 & NEC 4 contracts Compensation Events, EOT assessments, and programme compliance
- Contractor programme integration and schedule assurance
- Resource allocation
- Stakeholder coordination across planning, commercial, and engineering teams
- UK Right to Work
Certification
- Project Management Practitioner (PMP) - In View
- APM Project Management Qualification (In view) – Association of Project Managers
REFERENCES
Available on Request
Timeline
Project Planner
Morgan Sindall Infrastructure
2023.02 - Current
Project Planner
TechnipFMC
2021.02 - 2023.01
BSc. - Computer science
Bowen University
MSc. - Fashion and Lifestyle Marketing
GCU london