Senior Project Planner

NRL Ltd; Coalville; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering service provider is seeking a Senior Planning Engineer to support high-profile projects in the North West. This role requires extensive experience in schedule management and a strong understanding of planning tools like Primavera. The candidate should also have a bachelor's degree in engineering or a related field, along with knowledge of contracting methodologies. You will be responsible for developing integrated schedules, conducting critical path analysis, and leading planning workshops.

Qualifications

• Extensive recent and relevant experience in a similar environment/business sector.
• Awareness of various contracting methodologies (e.g., FIDIC, NEC, JCT).
• Full project lifecycle experience from bid phase through to close out.

Responsibilities

• Develop/implement and maintain the Project structures (WBS/OBS/RBS/CBS).
• Develop/baseline and maintain the Project integrated schedule (Level 1-3).
• Provide schedule risk analysis updates on a monthly basis.

Skills

Schedule management

Critical path analysis

Earned Value Analysis

Quantitative risk analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering/project/construction management

Tools

Primavera

MSP

Job description

Our client, a leading engineering service provider to the nuclear industry are now looking for Senior Planning Engineer to support high-profile projects in the North West (Warrington area). You will be responsible for applying schedule management independently, primarily in complex situations across P3M; Preparing and maintaining integrated schedules of project and/or programme activities and events, taking into account of dependencies and resource requirement.

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 companies financial and material demand toolset. This includes alignment of any Level 4/5 schedules.
• Regular status update of the integrated schedule and the provision of metrics (eg critical path/total float) and schedule analysis of the impact to the project.
• Resource/cost loaded schedules to inform the IBP and also to provide financial status of the project

Additional Key Accountabilities

• Provision of schedule risk analysis updates on a monthly basis and to inform the baseline
• Inclusion of key milestones and status against these
• Critical path analysis of the integrated schedule on a regular basis
• Correctly record project progress in the schedule, reschedule to take effect of the progress data and communicate the results to the project team and advise of any appropriate corrective action
• Understand and report on project using Earned Value Analysis techniques and interpret/communicate the results and any corrective action to the project team
• Establishing and leading on Interactive Planning workshops Leading on Rolling Wave (lookahead) meetings
• Ensuring that the schedule is cost loaded in line with the Baseline budgets
• Ensuring that the schedule is updated with forecast dates and Estimates at Completion
• What-if scenarios
• Support to commercial change process and impact assessments
• Inclusion of key supplier and subcontract schedules
• Lead on alignment of schedule to project change register
• Attending and contributing the business Scheduling Community of Practice

Ideally you will have

• Extensive recent and relevant experience in a similar environment / business sector
• Awareness of various contracting methodologies (Eg. FIDIC, NEC JCT etc.)
• Advanced knowledge of scheduling toolsets (Eg. Primavera, MSP etc.)
• Quantitative risk analysis experience
• Forensic Planning
• Full project lifecycle experience from bid phase through to close out
• A bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in engineering / project / construction management or a related field
• Professional qualification (e.g. APM/Acoste/RICS) (or equivalent)

The NRL Group connect global companies with the right people to bring engineering projects to life. Supporting contracting companies with energy transition plans and working with our clients to create a cleaner, greener future.

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