Lead Project Planner

JD Ross Energy; West Midlands; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A global energy solutions provider is seeking an experienced Project Planner to join their Operations team. You will manage project schedules for multi-million dollar international projects, ensuring timely delivery and efficient resource allocation. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in project management, electrical engineering knowledge, and excellent communication skills. This role offers opportunities for career progression within a large-scale organization impacting energy efficiency and decarbonization efforts across various regions.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in project scheduling and management.
• Experience in OEM space and working with multimillion-dollar projects.
• Strong skills in monitoring delivery and inventory management.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain project schedules from tendering to completion.
• Liaise with bid manager and resource owners for successful bid execution.
• Monitor and report on project progress and risks.

Skills

Project scheduling

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Electrical engineering knowledge

Job description

Job Description Summary

I'm partnering with a global business who's power business provides electrification systems that are critical to customers’ power and energy needs for their high-performance applications. They work with some of the world’s major energy, maritime and industrial organizations, helping to enable a transition to energy efficiency and decarbonization, including through our specialist motors, drives and control technologies.

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Project Planner to join our Operations team supporting the Business in running multi-million dollar international projects.

As a Project Planner, you will have key responsibilities for ensuring that all aspects of a customer project plan are effectively planned to minimise business and customer on time delivery (OTD) risk. The Project Planner is responsible for integrating Engineering, Manufacturing and materials requirements activities.

In this role you will focus on:

• Developing and taking ownership of project schedules from the project tendering through to completion of the contract, including progress reporting tools and detailed progress tracking.
• Developing project templates and schedules for bid work, ensuring high levels of liaison with the bid manager, resource owners and the supply chain to ensure bid work can be successfully executed.
• Maintaining, updating, and monitoring of progress on project schedules, including production of internal and external reports.
• Managing preparation and issue of schedule impact assessments/ summaries as identified by the Project Manager.
• Ensure materials scheduling aligns with customer milestones.
• Monitor monthly ‘on time delivery’ and ‘inventory management’ metrics, Identifying and communicating ‘risk’ relating to all schedules produced.

We are looking for a committed and professional individual with:

• Background of close interaction or prior experience in the OEM space.
• A proven track record in a similar functions.
• Strong experience across similar projects and timelines.
• Electrical engineering knowledge or background is preferred.
• Highly developed oral and written communication skills for the purpose of presenting to team members and liaising with customers.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to manage and resolve conflicting demands and priorities

This role is a crucial part of the GGU, and will allow clear career progression into new projects across the framework.

This business are a global player, with projects not only in the UK, but across Europe, the Middle-East, Asia and the USA, if working for a large-scale company playing a crucial role in the future of the UK grid, then this is for you!