Senior Project Planner

Team Recruitment Ltd; Scotland; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is looking for an experienced Senior Project Planner to work on capital and decommissioning projects in Aberdeen. This is a full-time, office-based role requiring over 10 years of experience in the oil and gas sector or similar fields. The ideal candidate will be proficient in Oracle Primavera and have excellent communication and team collaboration skills. Responsibilities include building project plans, monitoring progress, and mentoring junior planners. This position comes with an initial contract duration of 1 year.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of proven Senior Project Planner experience required.
• Strong background in Oil & Gas, Energy, Engineering, or similar project environments.
• Ability to work proactively, unsupervised, within multi-discipline teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain project plans for capital and decommissioning projects.
• Monitor and report progress using earned value analysis, KPIs, and critical path tracking.
• Mentor junior planners and drive planning standards across the business.

Skills

Senior Project Planning

Oil & Gas Industry Experience

Oracle Primavera (P6)

Communication Skills

Team Collaboration

Education

Degree in Project Management or related field

Tools

Oracle Primavera

Job description

We are recruiting a Senior Project Planner for our client in Aberdeen.

This is a full time, office based position with an initial contract duration of 1 year.

Purpose of Role

• Planner will work within our Developments and Decommissioning Projects Team to produce and maintain project plans on our world class field development and field decommissioning projects
• This is a challenging and diverse role where you will provide a complete planning service to multi-disciplinary project teams
• The ideal candidate will have prior planning experience in Oil & Gas or similar industry such as engineering, refining, power industries etc

Duties & Responsibilities to include :-

• Build and maintain a number of project plans for key capital Projects and Decommissioning projects For example subsea development and installation, drilling and completions, asset decommissioning and facilities engineering
• Monitor and report progress through earned value analysis, S-curves, KPIs, and critical path tracking to support performance management.
• Lead internal and external stakeholders engagement & workstream input to plan sessions and schedule review meetings
• Chair the weekly planning meetings
• Lead baseline and re-baseline processes, ensuring schedule alignment with scope changes and project control procedures.
• Coordinate closely with multi-discipline teams (engineering, procurement, production) to validate planning assumptions and logic
• Liaising with the relevant Asset planner to ensure construction activities have been incorporated into the asset plan correctly
• Mentor junior planners and support continuous improvement, driving planning standards and best practice across the business.
• Any other Planning Tasks as requested

Desired Qualities / Qualifications Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven Senior Project Planner experience (10+ years)
• Strong background in Oil & Gas, Energy, Engineering, or similar major project environments
• Expert user of Oracle Primavera (P6)
• Strong CPM skills and schedule risk identification capability
• Experience supporting large-scale capital projects
• Ability to work proactively, unsupervised and within multi-discipline teams
• Excellent communication and reporting skills (verbal, written, graphical)

Preferred

• Offshore or site experience
• Decommissioning planning experience
• Degree in Project Management, Mechanical / Process Engineering, or related technical field
• Experience mentoring junior team member