Junior Planning Engineer (Nuclear/Outage)

Booth Welsh; Dunbar; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the nuclear sector is seeking a Junior Planning Engineer to join their Strategic Planning department. The role involves developing outage plans, coordinating resources, and ensuring timely delivery of maintenance activities. Ideal candidates will have an HNC in engineering and strong communication skills, with planning experience preferred. This position offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to work on critical projects within the industry.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of basic planning principles.
• Ability to coordinate across teams and with contractors.
• Planning experience, especially with Primavera P6, is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Develop logic-linked and resourced level 3 plans for specific plant areas.
• Maintain plans during outage execution, update progress, and manage emergent work.
• Participate in post-outage reviews, capturing lessons learned for future planning.

Skills

Coordination

Communication

Planning

Education

HNC in engineering or relevant technical subject

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

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Booth Welsh is seeking a Planning Engineer with experience in the Nuclear industry to join their team. The position can be offered on a permanent basis or hourly, depending on the candidate.

As a Planning Engineer, you will be a key member of the Strategic Planning department, responsible for the safe, quality, timely, and within-budget delivery of station shutdown maintenance periods.

You will work as part of a team to prepare outage plans, organize resources, spares, and risk management for specific areas, and monitor progress during outage execution. You will support delivery and highlight risks to the lead planner and Outage Group heads.

An outage involves shutdown periods for refuelling and essential maintenance, including statutory, refuelling, and inspection outages. The role requires liaising with Engineering, Maintenance, Operations, and Supply Chain to develop and maintain logic-linked and resourced execution plans.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Develop logic-linked and resourced level 3 (task) plans for specific plant areas, reviewing historic plans for differences and discussing with station departments.
• Integrate activities, review logic and resource conflicts, and match work scope to available resources.
• Coordinate use of common services and facilities within plant areas.
• Maintain plans during outage execution, update progress, track critical paths, manage emergent work, and identify improvements.
• Work with Operations to revise plans for compliance and maximize 'Defence in Depth'.
• Participate in post-outage reviews, capturing lessons learned for future planning.
• Support the Lead Planner and Outage Coordinator.
• Identify and help implement outage optimization opportunities.
• Support activities to deliver Pre Outage Milestone Plans (POMP) for statutory and off-load refuelling outages.

Essential Qualifications and Skills:

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