Asset Planner

CB&I; Aberdeen City; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

CB&I Asset Solutions in the United Kingdom is seeking an Asset Planner to develop and maintain the short-term integrated activity plan for offshore assets. You will coordinate input from operations, maintenance, engineering and logistics to ensure safe, sequenced and ready-to-execute plans.

The role requires strong planning skills, experience with Primavera P6 and a good understanding of offshore maintenance practices.

Qualifications

• Good working knowledge of Maintenance, Operations, Commercial, Safety and People issues.
• Excellent computer skills with experience in Primavera 6.
• Appreciation of offshore maintenance practices, procedures and legislation.
• Good working knowledge of a maintenance management system (Maximo preferable).
• Organisational and planning expertise.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and assure the short-term integrated activity plan for the asset team.
• Coordinate input from operations, maintenance, integrity, engineering, projects, drilling and wells, shutdown, logistics, offshore supervision and activity owners to ensure planned work is properly sequenced, risk assessed, resourced and ready for execution.
• Provide day-to-day planning and scheduling control for near-term activity, ensuring workpacks, materials, vendors, competent personnel, aviation and marine logistics are understood and aligned before activities enter the execution schedule.
• Maintain close alignment with the Senior Asset Planner and Operations Lead on emerging constraints, conflicts, deferrals and readiness risks.
• Provide safety leadership in the planning and scheduling of offshore activity, ensuring short-term plans support safe, efficient and compliant execution.

Skills

Maintenance

Operations

Commercial

Safety

People skills

Tools

Primavera P6

Maximo

Job description

Worldwide, energy asset owners choose CB&I Asset Solutions as their asset management partner, confident in our ability to deliver tailored, value driven asset management solutions.

Our commitment is simple but powerful: to deliver value to our customers through safe, effective and efficient operations, maintenance, wells and decommissioning solutions, specialising in late life energy assets.

We're committed to investing in our people, and to building exceptional teams who deliver. Our people are trusted by our customers to safely operate their energy assets, improve performance and extend asset life through innovative solutions.

We support flexible working requests and have adopted a hybrid approach for most of our office-based roles. We ask employees to be present in the office at least three days per week.

Think smarter. Move faster. Deliver value.

JOB TITLE: ASSET PLANNER

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• This role exists to support safe and efficient asset execution by developing, maintaining and assuring the short-term integrated activity plan for the asset team. Embedded within the asset team and working for the Operations Lead, the Asset Planner converts agreed activity intent into a realistic, resource-levelled and executable short-term plan.
• The role coordinates input from operations, maintenance, integrity, engineering, projects, drilling and wells, shutdown, logistics, offshore supervision and activity owners to ensure planned work is properly sequenced, risk assessed, resourced and ready for execution. The Asset Planner provides day-to-day planning and scheduling control for near-term activity, ensuring workpacks, materials, vendors, competent personnel, aviation and marine logistics are understood and aligned before activities enter the execution schedule. The role maintains close alignment with the Senior Asset Planner and Operations Lead on emerging constraints, conflicts, deferrals and readiness risks.
• Provide safety leadership in the planning and scheduling of offshore activity, ensuring short-term plans support safe, efficient and compliant execution.
• Develop, maintain and issue the asset short-term integrated activity plan, ensuring it is realistic, resource-levelled and aligned with operational priorities.
• Translate agreed medium-term activity intent into executable plans and schedules, with clear sequencing, ownership, constraints and readiness requirements.
• Facilitate short-term planning and scheduling meetings, including agendas, draft and approved plans, decision records and escalation of unresolved conflicts.
• Manage plan entry, gate readiness and short-term schedule control, challenging activities that do not meet agreed readiness criteria.
• Apply the asset scheduling process, including coordination of weekly scheduling meetings, assurance of work order quality and readiness, and issue of a frozen, resource-levelled execution schedule aligned with offshore executability, routine PM, corrective and breakdown work.
• Confirm planned activities have appropriate scope definition, workpacks, permits, isolations, materials, vendor support, competent personnel and offshore supervision before entering the execution window.
• Maintain alignment between the activity plan, PoB profile, bed availability, helicopter demand, vendor mobilisation.
• Work closely with discipline engineers, JREs, maintenance, operations, logistics and offshore teams to resolve short-term constraints, clashes, sim-ops and readiness gaps.
• Support the Operations Lead in managing emergent work, unplanned events, activity deferrals and controlled changes to the short-term plan.
• Ensure the frozen execution schedule is realistic, resource-levelled and achievable, while retaining appropriate capacity for priority corrective, routine PM and breakdown work.
• Monitor short-term planning performance, including readiness compliance, schedule adherence, deferrals, activity waste and planning-related non-productive time, escalating trends to the Senior Asset Planner and Operations Lead.
• Maintain accurate planning data in Primavera P6, Primavera 802 or equivalent systems, ensuring short-term plans are current, controlled and visible to stakeholders.
• Provide planning cover and support across other assets as required, particularly during periods of emergent operational demand.

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:

• Good working knowledge and understanding of Maintenance, Operations, Commercial, Safety and People issues within an appropriate industry.
• Excellent computer skills with experience in use of Primavera 6.
• Appreciation of offshore maintenance practices, procedures and legislation.
• Good working knowledge of a maintenance management system (Maximo preferable).
• Organisational and planning expertise.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Effective problem solving and analytical skills.
• A strong team player.