Junior Planner in Heysham, England

Energy Jobline CVL; Heysham; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Booth Welsh is seeking a Junior Planner to join the Strategic planning team, focusing on safe, quality, timely delivery of station outage maintenance.

You will prepare outage plans, coordinate resources and spares, and monitor execution with the Lead Planner to mitigate risks. The role involves liaising across Engineering, Maintenance, Operations and Supply Chain to deliver results.

Qualifications

• HNC in engineering or relevant technical subject.
• Knowledge of basic planning principles.
• Ability to coordinate across different teams and with contractors.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Planning experience and Primavera P6 familiarity preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop fully logic linked and resourced level 3 (task) plan for specific plant areas.
• Integrate all activities in a given plant area and review logic/resource conflicts.
• Match work scope to available resources and group work permit boundaries.
• Coordinate use of common services and facilities within plant areas.
• Maintain plans during outage execution by updating progress and tracking critical path.

Skills

Planning principles

Team coordination

Effective communication

Primavera P6

SAP familiarity

Education

HNC in engineering or relevant technical subject

Tools

Primavera P6

SAP

Job description

Booth Welsh are looking to add to the team and are looking for a Junior Planner

We could hire someone on a permanent basis or an hourly rate, depending on individual.

As a Junior Planner you will be a key member of the Strategic planning department working on the safe, quality, timely and within budget delivery of the stations shut down maintenance periods.

Working as part of a team you will prepare outage plans and ensure that resources, spares, risk and plant realise is organised for a specific area.

During the outage execution, you will monitor progress and support delivery, highlighting risk to the lead planner and Outage Group heads.

An outage is a period during which the power station is shutdown for refuelling and/or essential maintenance. The Outage team coordinate preparation and delivery of several types of outages; statutory (3 yearly mandatory inspection and maintenance shutdowns), Refuelling Outages and Inspection Outages.

The role involves liaising with groups across the station, notably with Engineering, Maintenance, Operations and Supply Chain to develop and maintain logic linked & resourced execution plans for activities during outages.

Principal Accountabilities for Junior Planner

Develop fully logic linked and resourced level 3 (task) plan for specific plant areas, review historic similar plans to identify and review these with appropriate Station departments.

Integrate all activities in a given plant area, review logic & resource conflicts and;

• Match work scope to available resource
• Group work permit boundaries with SAP
• Co-ordinate use of common services & facilities within plant areas

The Junior Planner will maintain plans during outage execution phase by updating progress, tracking critical path, building in and managing the impact of emergent work and identifying any errors / improvements required in the plan.

Working with Operations to check and revise plans to maintain Tech Spec and other compliance requirements and to maximise 'Defence in Depth'

Play a role in post outage reviews, in particular by capturing all relevant OPEX from plan delivery and building the learning into future plans

Provide support to Lead Planner / Outage Co-ordinator

Identify and help to deliver outage optimisation opportunities

Support activities to deliver Pre Outage Milestone Plans (POMP) for both statutory and off load refuelling outages

Essential

• HNC in engineering or relevant technical subject
• Knowledge of basic planning principles
• Able to coordinate across different teams and with different companies and contractors
• Excellent written and verbal communication skill
• Planning experience would be a distinct advantage, especially someone that has used Primevera P6