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EDF; Bridgwater; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

EDF is seeking an experienced Planning Engineer to develop, operate and monitor contract programmes on-site at HPC. You will ensure schedules align with contract requirements, update progress, and incorporate emergent works while coordinating with the client and management.

The role requires fluent Primavera P6 and Excel skills, and the ability to communicate effectively across teams, safety and cost considerations in a nuclear project environment.

Qualifications

• Sufficient and appropriate assistant/trainee Planning Engineer experience.
• Experience in Petrochemical, Power & Process Industry sectors.
• Ability to produce a feasible programme of activities from a given scope of work.
• Strong communication skills to liaise with all relevant parties and report status.
• Ability to anticipate and highlight critical programme areas for management action.
• Fluency in Primavera P6 and Excel to provide prompt accurate information.
• Awareness of safety, quality and cost implications in planning work.
• Staff salaried position based on site at HPC full time.

Responsibilities

• Produce programme reflecting contract requirements.
• Monitor programme and update it against performance.
• Incorporate programme variations and manage changes.
• Report progress to client/management with clear rationale.
• Anticipate critical path issues and advise remedial action.
• Allocate estimated costs to activities and support baselining.
• Develop and communicate resource requirements for project timelines.
• Analyze Earned Value Performance on the project.

Skills

Planning

Project coordination

Communication

Risk management

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Excel

Job description

Job Category: Project Management / Controls

The HPC Jobs Service supports local people into exciting, long-term careers across our Project.

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.

To develop, operate and monitor the relevant contract programmes for the work scope so that the contract can be controlled and executed within budget and duration.

Key Accountabilities

• To produce all necessary programmes at the appropriate times to reflect the overall contract requirements.
• To monitor and update all contract programmes by relevant discussion with all relevant parties.
• To predict and communicate critical path deviations to enable management to take corrective action.
• To optimise the use of approved computer software packages to ensure accountabilities 1 – 3 are met.
• To incorporate emergent works effectively into existing programmes.
• To report progress against programme on a regular basis and record any delays with associated reasoning.

Key Duties

• Produce programme
• Monitor programme continually against performance
• Incorporate programme variations
• Programme report to client/management
• Anticipate problem areas regarding critical paths and advise remedial action.
• Allocate the estimate costs to the activities on the programme and assist in the baselining of the programme.
• Development and communication of resource requirements necessary to meet the demands of the project timescales.
• Analyse Earned Value Performance on the project

Experience

• Sufficient and appropriate assistant/trainee Planning Engineer experience.
• Sufficient and appropriate experience in Petrochemical, Power & Process Industry Sectors.
• Ability to produce a feasible programme of activities from a given scope of work.
• Communication skills to liaise with all relevant parties to report accurate contract status.
• An ability to anticipate and highlight critical programme areas for management action.
• Fluency in Primavera P6 and excel to provide prompt accurate and regular information.
• Awareness of the technical implications and interfaces to be able to programme work effectively.
• Awareness of the impact of planning on safety, quality and cost considerations.
• This position is staff salaried and is based on site at HPC full time.

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Why Join Us?

For more than 60 years, nuclear power stations in the UK have been quietly keeping Britain fuelled with massive amounts of home-grown energy.

Our teams up and down the country are proudly continuing to serve the nation – but they also have an eye on the future.

EDF is leading the UK's nuclear renaissance with the construction of a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C and plans for a new power station at Sizewell C in Suffolk.

Nuclear power is the most reliable, low-carbon energy source currently available to the UK. EDF is playing a key role in the development of nuclear sites, while Hinkley Point C will provide low-carbon electricity to meet 7% of the UK demand. The project is already making a positive impact on the local and national economy as well as boosting skills and education.

We’re not just building new nuclear power stations. We’re developing careers, upskilling generations and creating thousands of employment and apprenticeship opportunities across a variety of skills areas.

It takes a special kind of person to work in the nuclear energy industry and although we have thousands of them there’s always a need for more.

Our industry has a mind-boggling range of opportunities and more jobs, and in more places, than you might think. But it’s also an industry which is changing.

We’re a responsible business and proud to be Britain’s biggest generator of zero carbon electricity. With size, age and experience, we believe we can do even more.