Senior Planner

Michael Page; Genova; On-site; EUR 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Michael Page is seeking a Senior Planner to join the Project Management Team in Genoa, Italy. The role involves building and monitoring the Master Plan and Project Schedule to ensure consistency with contractual milestones across various departments.

Ideal candidates will possess a Bachelor's or Master's in Engineering and have proven experience in planning and project control within structured environments, preferably in sectors like Defense or Naval.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in planning and project control within structured environments.
• Strong background in maintenance planning and site activities management.
• Experience in Defense, Naval, Energy, Oil & Gas, or EPC sector.

Responsibilities

• Build the Main Project Schedule, ensuring consistency with contractual requirements.
• Prepare, update and monitor the Master Plan progress.
• Support Project Director in analyzing Project critical paths.

Skills

Planning and project control

Multidisciplinary project management

Maintenance planning

Fluency in English

Fluency in Italian

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering

Job description

The Senior Planner reports to the Programme Director and works inside the Project Management Team. He/she has the responsibility to build and monitor the Master Plan and the Project Schedule to assure that all activities and detailed schedules made by all other offices involved in the project are consistent with the contractual milestones.

Company operating in Defense industry.

Key responsibilities

• Build the Main Project Schedule, verifying its consistency with the contractual requirements.
• Prepare, update and monitor the Master Plan progress, as a programmatic reference document for all functions based on the documents received from other departments and/or OEM/subcontractors/partners.
• Support the Project Director in the analysis of the Project critical paths by identifying mitigation actions and/or proposing alternative actions.
• Support the technical team in the monitoring of the Engineering planning.
• Monitor the progress of the Programme based on suppliers' documents: progress reports, integrated production programmes, and workshop detail programmes with evidence to the Project Manager of deviations from the preventive curves.
• Develop programmatic simulations on significant topics of the project and/or on the feasibility of strategic choices.
• Collaborate with functions to develop detailed programmes and integration between functions on critical paths.
• Support the PM to manage the Project Phase Review in the different phases of the programme.
• Support the BID director to build preliminary Master Plan.
• Support the Accounting and Administration manager to elaborate the project cash‑flow based on interim payments and relevant invoices planning.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Industrial, or equivalent).
• Proven experience in planning and project control within structured environments, preferably in Defense, Naval, Energy, Oil & Gas or EPC sector.
• Strong track record in planning and managing complex, multidisciplinary projects.
• Solid background in maintenance planning, shutdown coordination, and site activities management.
• Fluency in English and Italian (both written and spoken).
• Location: Genoa (Italy).