Senior Project Planner

Team Recruitment Ltd; Scotland; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a Senior Project Planner for a full-time role in Aberdeen, UK. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in project planning within the Oil & Gas or similar industries. Key responsibilities include building project plans, conducting performance analysis, and mentoring junior planners. Candidates should be proficient in Oracle Primavera and possess excellent communication skills. This role offers the chance to contribute to complex, capital projects while working closely with diverse teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of proven experience as a Senior Project Planner.
• Strong background in Oil & Gas, Energy or Engineering project environments.
• Experience supporting large-scale capital projects.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain project plans for key capital Projects.
• Monitor and report progress through earned value analysis and KPIs.
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders during planning sessions.
• Chair weekly planning meetings and lead baseline processes.
• Mentor junior planners and drive planning standards.

Skills

Project Planning

Strong communication skills

Team leadership

Schedule risk identification

Education

Degree in Project Management or related field

Tools

Oracle Primavera (P6)

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

• 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

• 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