Senior Planning Engineer

Morson Talent; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy is seeking a Senior Planning Engineer in Warrington. The role involves developing and maintaining project schedules, conducting risk analysis, and ensuring alignment of scheduling tools with financial demands. Key qualifications include a relevant degree and extensive experience in a similar environment. The position offers a pay rate of £63.00 - £76.00 per hour, inside IR35.

Qualifications

• Extensive recent and relevant experience in a similar environment.
• Advanced knowledge of scheduling toolsets.
• Forensic planning and full project lifecycle experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop/implement and maintain project structures.
• Provide regular status updates of the integrated schedule.
• Ensure alignment between scheduling and financial tools.

Skills

Project lifecycle management

Scheduling toolsets

Quantitative risk analysis

Resource management

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering/project/construction management or related field

Job description

Overview

Senior Planning Engineer

Location: Warrington

Pay Rate: £63.00 - £76.00 per hour Umbrella - inside IR35

Responsibilities

• Develop/implement and maintain the Project structures (WBS/OBS/RBS/CBS).
• Develop/baseline and maintain the Project integrated schedule (Level 1-3).
• Ensure alignment between the integrated scheduling toolset and the company’s financial and material demand toolsets, including alignment of any Level 4/5 schedules.
• Provide regular status updates of the integrated schedule with metrics (eg critical path/total float) and schedule analysis of impacts to the project.
• Resource/cost loaded schedules to inform the IBP and to provide financial status of the project.
• Provide schedule risk analysis updates on a monthly basis and inform the baseline, including milestones and status against them.
• Conduct critical path analysis of the integrated schedule regularly.
• Record project progress in the schedule, reschedule to reflect progress data, and communicate results to the project team with any corrective action required.
• Understand and report on project using Earned Value Analysis techniques and interpret/communicate results and corrective actions to the project team.
• Lead Interactive Planning workshops and Rolling Wave (lookahead) meetings.
• Ensure the schedule is cost loaded in line with Baseline budgets and updated with forecast dates and Estimates at Completion, including what-if scenarios.
• Support the commercial change process and impact assessments; include key supplier and subcontract schedules; lead alignment of schedule to project change register.
• Attend and contribute to the business Scheduling Community of Practice.

Key Outputs / Deliverables

• Project Cardinal Date Plan
• Level 3 Integrated Baseline Schedule
• Schedule Risk Analysis
• Schedule variance reporting/analysis
• Critical Path reporting/Analysis
• Toolset alignment reports
• Resource Profiles
• EVM Data
• Archived Schedules
• Scheduling maturity model
• PM Controls Framework

HSSE, Quality, Continuous Improvement, and Financial Awareness

• Health and safety responsibilities and accountabilities; explain safe systems of work and empowerment to stop work; report unsafe acts and unsafe conditions.
• Adhere to environmental processes and procedures as detailed by the Company.
• Quality: capture issues, risks, and opportunities to monitor a Quality Management system; communicate quality requirements and ensure they are met; mitigate risks.
• Continuous Improvement: identify and deliver improvements in quality, schedule and cost; capture lessons learned.
• Financial Awareness & Management: understand the financial aspects of the role and apply related processes and practices.
• Commercial: understand how the role contributes to commercial viability; follow governance procedures; discuss alternatives and involve line managers or stakeholders for improvements.

Experience/Qualifications/Skills

• Company/Industry Knowledge: extensive recent and relevant experience in a similar environment; awareness of contracting methodologies; advanced knowledge of scheduling toolsets; quantitative risk analysis experience; forensic planning; full project lifecycle experience from bid to closeout.
• Qualifications: bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in engineering / project / construction management or related field; professional qualification (e.g. APM/ACOSTE/RICS) or equivalent.
• Key Technical Skills: expert level in APM scheduling competencies (develop/baseleline, monitor integrated schedule; resource management; frameworks and methodologies; governance and change control; stakeholder management; contract management).
• Competency levels: expert, proficient, and competent across listed APM competencies with emphasis on schedule management, resource management, independent assurance, and change control.
• Behaviour: refer to Group Capability Framework: Team Members (or as role requires line management).