Project Planner

AIR Employment Services Sweden Filial; Boden-Berg; On-site; CHF 83,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Air Employment Services Sweden Filial is seeking a Project Planner for Boden to enhance scheduling discipline on a major 6 billion EUR green steel project. The role includes creating and maintaining detailed level 3/4 schedules, coordinating across engineering and construction, and mentoring junior planners.

Rotation or residential work patterns apply, with a 12-month initial contract and ongoing renewal possibilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combinations of technical training or experience.
• 5-10 years of EPCm experience with onshore oil & gas, power generation or industrial projects.
• Scheduling experience for large, complex projects preferred.
• Solid command of Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, and MS Office.
• Ability to produce and maintain logically linked activity schedules per EPCm planning standards.

Responsibilities

• Perform schedule analysis using Primavera P6, Deltek Fuse & Risk, and MS Project.
• Support project baseline creation during initiation and setup.
• Facilitate detailed multi-discipline scope reviews.
• Provide project schedule support and mentor junior planners as required.
• Develop and maintain level 3 and level 4 activity schedules for marine scope installation projects in Oil & Gas, using best practices.
• Produce workforce histograms and progress/quantity curves connected to schedules.
• Review sequences across Engineering, Procurement, Fabrication, Construction, Hook-Up, and Commissioning.

Skills

Schedule analysis

Mentor junior planners

Team communication

Critical path analysis

Lead initiatives

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Primavera P6

Deltek Fuse & Risk

Microsoft Project

Excel advanced

Job description

Location: Boden, SE

Contract duration: initial 12 month contract - renewable

Start Date: ASAP

Roster: Rotation (6 weeks on, 2 weeks off - 53 hours per week), or Residential (M-F, 40 hours per week)

Project: Boden - 6 billion EUR green steel project

Job Overview

The Project Planner uses our Planning/Scheduling discipline practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the Planning/Scheduling discipline. They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the Planning/Scheduling discipline. They solve complex problems and use their discipline-specific knowledge to improve their products or services. The Planner impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the Planning/Scheduling team and other related teams and ensures that they are working within the appropriate guidelines and policies.

Responsibilities

• Perform schedule analysis using Project Management software including Primavera P6, Deltek Fuse & Risk, and Microsoft Project
• Support project baseline creation during the project initiation and setup phase
• Facilitate detailed multi-discipline scope reviews
• Provide project schedule support and mentor junior planners as required
• Develop and maintain logically linked level 3 and level 4 activity schedules, for marine scope installation projects in the Oil and Gas Industry (pipelines, subsea, platforms, HDD), according to precedence flow planning, using best practices
• Produce workforce histograms and progress and quantity curves in connection with the schedules
• Maintain and review the sequence of Engineering, Procurement, Fabrication, Construction, Hook-Up, and Commissioning, and other operations for control of critical path and overall project durations
• Elevate and expedite operations that are delaying the schedule and analyze changes to the schedule to meet unforeseen conditions
• Create and Monitor schedule compliance, key performance, factors, and provide analysis of variations to baseline data
• Identify factors, both current and potential, that may delay the schedule. Assess actions for recovery and improvement and analyze changes to the schedule to meet unforeseen conditions
• Lead and deliver initiatives

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in relevant subject or equivalent combinations of technical training or experience required
• 5-10 years of EPCm experience with Onshore Oil and Gas, Power Generation or Industrial related projects
• Planning/Scheduling experience for large, complex projects preferred
• Have solid commands of Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Office software
• Must be able to use advanced features in Excel (curves, histograms, dynamic tables, formulas, etc.)
• Able to produce and maintain logically linked activity schedules, according to precedence flow in EPCm planning, using best practices
• Able to produce and assess progress curves, histograms, variance reports, and critical paths
• Able to analyze project status and performance, deviations, performance factors, forecasts, and workarounds
• Must be able to produce multidisciplinary logically linked activity schedules, according to precedence flow in planning, using best industry practices
• Ability to effectively communicate with team members and management