This site is designed for students graduated from technical universities to get knoledge of basics in planning and scheduling of construction projects. I have been worked over 15 years in different countries and construction sites. During these time I found out that princips and philosophy of planning and scheduling is same all over the world. It is simple and good payed position for living. Salary range is between 1000 to 12000 US dollars depending on counrty, project and your professional skills. As much your know the more your are payed and respected.
There are not to much time to spend to be a planner. University gives you education, but all of them are theory and mostly useless in real life. How often you used integrals or physical rules you learned? I would say not even 2% what unioversity filled your brain during seveal years to provide you with diploma. When you come to work you start to learn, what company needs from you and doing routin same simple things which you are payed for life. This site will help you to get 15 years planning experience in a short time!...
Information provided here will cost you not more than 10% of yours expected one month salary. Paying one time for education you will keep this knoledge for rest of your life. The reason of this business is selling the knowledge which comes from real experience, not from diffcult books.
Planning engineer position at company is very important to monitor the project. This is not such an engineering job which you see at Discovery channel on TV. You will be provided with a desk, chair and computer with insalled Primavera sofware to work. Mainly you will sit in the office, time by time visiting site to see the actual progress, drink coffee and look for better organisation of yours and companies' work performance. Some people like it, others prefer spend time at site. You will need to have good skills in Excell and planning programm to carry out scheduling job.
Here you will learn:
How to read drawings
- Civil
- Steel structure
- Piping
- Mechanical
- Electrical
Excel
- Simple formulas
- Formatting
- Diffcult formulas
- Charts
- S-Curves
- Histograms
- Macros
Scheduling in Primavera
- Primavera P3 lessons
- Installation
- Interface
- Activity inserting
- Duration
- Key dates and milestones
- Manpower inserting
- Links
- Floats
- WBS
- Sorting and organizing
- Import - export
- Target and current plan
- Calendars
- Analysing
- S-Curve and histogram preparation
- 2 weeks lookahead schedule
- Global change
- Delay reports
- Primavera P6 lessons
- Installation
- Interface
- Activity inserting
- Duration
- Key dates and milestones
- Manpower inserting
- Links
- Floats
- WBS
- Sorting and organizing
- Import - export
- Target and current plan
- Calendars
- Analysing
- S-Curve and histogram preparation
- 2 weeks lookahead schedule
- Global change
- Delay reports
- Easy way to learn Primavera on your own
Planning
- How to be oriented in new office
- How to know key people to work with in a project
- Organization chart
- Software
- Mailbox organisation
- How to be oriented at site
- Which drawings to use
- HSE
- Which info to get from site
- What to talk to a manager
- Collecting information for your work
- Contract
- Drawings
- Level 1 or 2 schedule
- Quantity estimates (MTO)
- How to start to work
- Check the schedule L1 or L2
- Assign or find out your projects data date
- Find out negative float if exsists, out of sequense activities, constraints...
- Find out actual progress done by quantities and compare with planned
- Check number of people working directly on site
- Indirect people
- Material delivery status
- Engineering status
- Check S-Curves and histograms
- Negotiate with subcontractors
- Working in Excel - lowest levels
- Quantity surveyers and subcontractors
- Spreadsheets with Quantity measurements
- Drawings to be used
- Actual progress
- Actual manpower
- Equipments list
- Progress roll up to higher levels
- Activity weightings
- Man hour distribution
- Pivot tables
- Macros
- Working with schedule
- Target plan (baseline)
- Current plan
- Putting progress
- Analysing
- Extending or redusing activity durations
- Meeting with subcontractors
- Updating S-Curves and histograms
- Creating tamplate
- Lookup formulas
- What to do if you got less progress
- What to do if you got more progress
- Rescheduling
- How to create S-Curves
- Meaning of S-Curves
- What are Early and Late curves
- Assigning resources to activities
- Export manhours from Primavera to Excel
- Formulas used for creating S-Curve
- Final design and issue
- How to create histograms
- Meaning of histograms
- Early, Late and actual histograms
- Final design and issue
- Produvtivity
- Formula and what is this for?
- What are actual and earned man hours
- How to use it
Additional info:
- How to prepare your CV
- How to find planning engineer job through internet
- How to talk over phone with recruiter
- How to talk with the client
- What to tell when asked your salary expectation
- How to keep in touch
- What to ask for travel
- How to prepare your baggage
- Your first days in new country
Prices for each topic will be placed soon for your conviniance to select necessary items to learn. It is possible order full course as well.
If you are interetsted please contact info@planning-engineer.com