Project Planner

Afry Ab; Uusimaa; Hybrid; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch benefit

Wellness & culture

Commuting benefit

Private accident insurance

Family support

Sport & hobby clubs

Job summary

AFRY AB is seeking an experienced Project Planner to strengthen its Project Controls team in Vantaa, Finland. The role involves developing and maintaining schedules across project lifecycle, from sales proposals to execution, in collaboration with the project team and customers.

You will track progress, forecast timelines, and report deviations while actively engaging stakeholders. We value engineers who can create reliable baselines, foresee critical deadlines, and drive proactive planning.

Qualifications

• Degree in engineering or equivalent
• Fluent in Finnish and English
• Experience in industrial project planning or EPC

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain project schedules from sales to execution
• Collaborate with project team to baseline and update schedules
• Track progress, forecast timelines, and report deviations
• Communicate schedule status to stakeholders and customers
• Identify bottlenecks and mitigate risks in planning
• Travel and relocate as needed

Skills

Finnish English fluency

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

MS Project

Primavera

Job description

AFRY is a European leader in engineering, design, and advisory services, with a global reach. We accelerate the transition towards a sustainable society. We are 19,000 devoted experts in infrastructure, industry,energyand digitalization, creating sustainable solutions for generations to come.

Making Future

Process Industries Division is now looking for an experienced Project Planner to enforce its Project Controls team. As a planner, you develop and maintain project schedules in various projects and stages from sales proposal to execution project. You work side by side with project management to execute project planning in the most efficient way including typically:

• Setting up the project schedule development and control as well as progress reporting in all types of projects
• Working with the project team to develop the baseline schedule
• tracking project deliverables progress, calculating the progress, forecasting the Future
• Communicating the schedule status and reporting deviations
• Proactively managing the scheduling process including identifying critical timelines
• Actively engaging with project team and relevant customer representatives as well as other stakeholders

Besides the standard project objectives, you constantly aim to achieve set targets through proactive collaboration with all project stakeholders.

The person we are looking for has:

• Degree in Engineering in a relevant field
• Good command of scheduling tools such as MS ProjectandPrimavera
• Full professional proficiency in Finnish and English.
• Experience in industrial project planning for engineering, procurement and construction

In addition, we appreciate:

• Ability to develop schedules from first principles as well as critical integration of contractors’ schedules
• Ability to identify bottlenecks on the project looking at the schedule and advise the project team accordingly
• Good knowledge and direct experience in execution scheduling at the construction site
• Excellent leadership, communication and inter-personal skills to ensure smooth communication with client’s organization and within the project team
• Good command of data analytics and visualization tools
• Strong self-leadership skills, proactive and persistent attitude, hands-on mentality and desire to further develop in your role and grow within the team
• Readiness to travel and relocate

We provide you with a variety of interesting tasks and great opportunities to deepen your expertise in a specific field or widen your knowledge into new areas, according to your own interests. We support your career development and professional growth. We offer a position in a stable company where new ideas are encouraged and innovations are taken forward. You will work in a stimulating global environment with pleasant co-workers and team’s full support.

Our work is demanding, but it is accompanied by freedom - freedom to develop and learn, and to combine professional and private life into a fulfilling match.

Your primary place of work is in Vantaa. AFRY supports a hybrid work model.

Why AFRY?

As a stable and growing company, we provide you with a variety of opportunities to develop yourself. At AFRY, you will have theopportunity to broaden your knowledge to new areas according to your interestsand get to work together with the top experts indynamicand international project environment.

At AFRY we build sustainable future together and develop sustainable solutions that serve not only our clients but also society. The work at AFRY is versatile,interestingand challenging but at thesameflexible, allowing you to take care of your work-life balance.We apply flexible working in a hybrid model where possible,taking into accountproject needs.

We strive to include all new employeestoour work community from the first dayatAFRY. We are brave, devoted team players, and wewishthat you have the same mindset.

Benefits at AFRY

• All AFRY employees are supported with lunch, exercise, culture,wellnessand commutingbenefit.
• AFRY employees are insured by private accident insurance when working remotely and insparetime.
• Employees havepossibilityto receivehelp fortaking care of a sick child at home.
• The team player spiritstrengthens alsoin hobby clubs, in which employees spend time together.
• Depending on the officelocationthere arecross fitclasses, golfclubsand board game clubs.

Sustainability at AFRY

Sustainability and creating sustainable solutions are at the core of AFRY’s business strategy andall ofour operations. By combining the latest technologies and the topexpertiseof our employees, we create sustainable businesstoour clients. Read more about sustainability at AFRY: https://afry.com/en/insights/sustainability ;

At AFRY, we engineer change in everything we do. Change happens when brave ideas come together. When we collaborate, innovate technology, and embrace challenging points of view. That’s how we're making future. We are actively looking for qualified candidates to join our inclusive and diverse teams across the globe. Join us in accelerating the transition towards a sustainable future.