Project Planner - Gas Projects

Bilfinger Berger SE; England; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering and maintenance provider seeks a skilled Project Planner for gas projects across various locations in the UK. This hybrid role involves developing project control strategies, ensuring cost transparency, and collaborating with project managers. Ideal candidates will possess a Bachelor's degree in Engineering and proficiency in project management tools like P6 and PowerBI.

Qualifications

• Knowledge and proficiency in P6.
• Strong communication skills, verbal and written.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related fields.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage effective project control strategies.
• Collaborate with project managers to achieve objectives.
• Establish cost engineering systems to monitor and report costs.

Skills

Communication

Analytical Skills

Project Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management or related fields

Tools

PowerBI

MS tools

P6

Job description

Warrington, Middlesbrough, Abe, UKM, GB, UK

Partial Remote (Hybrid)

Project Planner - Gas Projects

Location: Warrington, Middlesbrough, Aberdeen, Grangemouth

Bilfinger UK is a leading engineering and maintenance provider, supporting customers across the chemical & petrochemical, nuclear, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals & biopharma, power & energy, utilities, renewables and food & beverage markets. We enhance the efficiency of assets, ensuring a high level of availability and reducing maintenance costs.

We have extensive experience in offshore and onshore facilities; specialising in asset management services throughout all life cycle phases from consulting, engineering, manufacturing, assembly, operations, maintenance, and decommissioning.

This commitment is delivered by an experienced and highly competent workforce of over 4,500 employees operating from 14 offices in strategic industrial hubs, upholding the highest standards of safety, compliance and quality.

The Role

The P6 Planner is responsible for consulting and directing the function to provide cost/expenditure transparency, project controls, processes and planning activities to projects and contracts whilst ensuring parity and best practice across the business. This role requires a strong understanding of the NEC3/4 form of contract.

Location: Flexible working available with access to any of our 14 locations across the UK including Warrington, Teesside, Grangemouth and Aberdeen.

Key Accountabilities

• Develop and manage an effective project control strategy whilst maintaining the project controls plan and associated procedures
• Ensure project schedules, including resource loading, critical path analysis and progress monitoring are adopted across all projects
• Collaborate with commercial manager, project managers and engineers to ensure project objectives are achieved within scope, schedule, and budget constraint
• Establish cost engineering systems to monitor, control and report costs
• Aid in the development, integration and optimisation of project programmes
• Liaise with PMs to manage the provision of appropriate resources and expertise to successfully deliver the project control activities
• Liaise with project teams to identify project risks and associated control measures, plus opportunities
• Assist in the development and monitor the performance of key contracts
• Ownership of the update of business process and reporting systems/timelines through to project closure

Specific Activities

• Review and approve prior to issuance all cost/planning information required for Monthly Project Board meeting
• Set up and lead the Project Control Meetings
• Management of an NEC3/4 compliant programme
• Ensure we have robust monthly project updates to the project risk registers and value analysis processes
• Manage the integration of programmes from various sources
• Implement progress monitoring and productivity measurement
• Define and issue the project work breakdown structure and estimating format
• Monitor expenditure and adjust budgets in accordance with the project change control system

Experience & Qualifications

• Knowledge and proficiency in P6
• Strong communication skills both verbal and written, plusstrong analytical skills
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business or related fields
• PMO Experience
• Knowledge or and experience using PowerBI and MS tools

If you wish to speak to a member of the recruitment team, please contact 01224 246246.

Engineering & Consultancy| Bilfinger UK Limited| Temporary| White-collar workers| Professional| Project Management