David NW Smith

Project Controls Lead at Woodside Energy

Greater Perth Area

About

Experienced, pro-active planner with 20 years experience in planning. Starting in shutdown and HUC planning and progressing to large scale EPC Projects. Highly competent in Primavera software. Looking for position to further my career on a large scale project or similar. Highly computer literate and conversant in Microsoft Office products including Microsoft Project. Keen interest in engineering to aid planning efficiency. Experienced in both onshore and offshore planning roles. Adaptable, outgoing self-starter who fits readily into new environments. Logical, practical and analytical thinker. Experienced traveler.

Experience

  • Project Services Lead at Woodside Energy
    Oct 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 10 mos

  • Woodside Energy (7 yrs 11 mos)
    • Lead Planner
      Nov 2017 - Aug 2021 · 3 yrs 10 mos

    • Senior Planner
      Oct 2013 - Oct 2017 · 4 yrs 1 mo

      Planning control of the External Corrosion Portfolio. From project assurance through funding, Pre-Execute preparations into Implementation and close out. Govern EPCM’s planning to ensure they meet Integrated Activity Plan requirements. Work with EPCM on maintaining portfolio taking into account Risk and project yearly budgets. Supervise and closely monitor EPCM’s planning output – Lvl3 project plans and particularly level 4/5 shutdown plans, progress and trends. Liaising with site operations teams with project requirements. . Focus on benchmarking and demonstrating continuous improvement in portfolio performance and cost savings. Reporting and forecasting to Upper management at portfolio level.

  • Senior Commissioning & Hook up Planner at ConocoPhillips
    May 2011 - Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    Coordinating a team of planners to create PC and Dynamic Commissioning plans for the onshore site commissioning schedules and for the Offshore Commissioning, Hook up and Start up Schedule. Roles included working between three contractor sites (Aberdeen, Cadiz and Dubai) and creating a sub system based plan that aligns with Project Operations start up philosophy, focusing on critical path analysis for first production date. Creating and delivering a report suite to allow control of progress and react to plan variation.

  • Senior Turn Around, and Construction Planner at BP
    Oct 2009 - May 2011 · 1 yr 8 mos

    Responsible for annual shutdown plans. From conception to execution. Following BP’s planning procedures to align the plan with the overall BP Northsea functional planning systems. Plan created to minimise production losses. Control of POB for the shutdown period. Plans created to level 4/5 activity. Risk analysis carried on critical path and entire plan to identify tasks with high schedule sensitivity index.

  • Petrofac (2 yrs 7 mos)
    • Senior Construction Planner
      Nov 2008 - Mar 2009 · 5 mos

      Preparation of a full level 4 plan for a bid for a large scale de-mothballing project in Qatar. Including full resourcing, logically linked critical path analysed Plan in Primavera P6. Creating Planning procedures to allow efficient Cost control reporting and management. Liaising with subcontractors for 3rd party plan alignment.

    • Senior Shutdown Planner
      Sep 2006 - Nov 2008 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      Working with in the Shutdown team. Responsible for planning all shutdowns for client’s Assets. Role includes conceptualisation and creation of plan logically linked to job card level, creating manning histograms, area histograms. Risk assessing using Pertmaster, Progress through Man-hour S curves, Productivity and Availability. Evaluating critical path and communicating trends or problems to Shutdown management. Solely responsible for the plan through it’s life cycle for the shutdown for all stake holders. Twelve different Shutdowns on Heather & Thistle (Lundin), Kittiwake & Montrose (Venture) and Al Wasel (Dubai Petroleum)