Scheduling, Piloting and Coordination OPC training

REMINDERS OF THE FUNDAMENTALS

• The stakeholders of a project
• Overview of the project life cycle from design to completion
• Reminder of the different phases of a project: studies, procurement, construction, testing
• The organization chart of a project and the position of the pilot in an organization
• The different types of contracts, public, private, …

DEFINITIONS OF THE MISSION, ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Definition and fields of application of the mission of OPC
• Why an OPC on a project is mainly integrated to an MOE
• The concept of Lot
• Roles, missions, tasks and responsibilities of the pilot

THE OPC IN THE PROJECT FROM THE SERVICE ORDER TO THE RECEPTION

• The contractual documents of the contract file
• The notification of the contracts, the SO (Service Orders) and the preparation phase
• Management of subcontracts and monthly progress reports
• Acceptance, delivery and commissioning
• The various commissions: quality, safety, environment, etc.
• The OPR (Operations Prior to Acceptance) and the lifting of reservations
• The perfect completion of the works

SCHEDULING AND TASK PLANNING

• What is scheduling?
• Building the task schedule
• Analysis of graphic and written documents (customer and subcontractor contract
  documents)
• Define and list tasks by batch and by phase
• Determining the constraints related to the life cycle of your project
• Establish the work schedule
• The contractual deadline for the establishment of the work schedule and its notification
• The importance of the hypothesis note and its contents
• Project monitoring and establishment of weekly and monthly progress reports
• Causes of delay and their treatment
• Re-scheduling and optimization
• Practical case studies
• How to motivate and build the relationship in the OPC

THE MANAGEMENT OF AN OPC SITE

• The framing meeting or kick-off meeting
• The follow-up of the works on site in the respect of the scheduling
• The situations and the taking into account of the progress
• Anticipating, analyzing and managing the drifts of your project
• The site meeting and the site visit
• The minutes of the meeting, its content and its annexes
• Follow-up during the execution
• The critical and priority tasks of your project
• Awareness and penalties for delays
• Management of the workforce by lot
• Monitoring of bad weather and its consequences on the schedule
• Coordination with studies and synthesis and impact on studies
• Implementation of procedures and validation schemes for studies

COORDINATION OF THE WORKS

• Animation of the teams on site and motivation
• Ensuring compliance with the schedule by the various trades
• Analyze the drifts and know how to communicate them
• Alerts from the OPC to the stakeholders
• The deliverables of the OPC pilot