Project Planner

Afry Ab; Vantaa; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

AFRY is seeking an experienced Project Planner to join its Project Controls team in Finland. You will develop and maintain project schedules across proposals to execution, working with project management to ensure efficient planning. Key tasks include setting up schedules, developing baselines, tracking progress, forecasting timelines, and reporting deviations.

You will engage with the project team and customer representatives to keep schedules aligned. Primary work location is Vantaa.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• 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.
• We provide you with a variety of interesting tasks and great opportunities to deepen your expertise, etc.

Skills

Schedule management

Project tracking

Stakeholder communication

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

MS Project

Primavera

Job description

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.

Qualifications

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.

Company 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

Additional Information

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.

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. We also encourage our employees to commute by bike. Morning porridge is offered to all cyclists.

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&nbsp ;

Interested?

You can ask for more detailed information from Group Manager, Schedule Management, Roosa Juup, 0443435928, 6.11.2026 and 13.11.2026 at 12-16 and/or [e-mail] .

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.