Project Planner

Taylor Hopkinson | Powered by Brunel; Rotterdam; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading offshore wind developer in the Netherlands seeks a Project Planner with 4-5 years of planning engineering experience. Responsibilities include managing planning controls, conducting progress updates, and liaising with project teams. Experience in offshore wind projects and proficiency in planning tools like Primavera P6 are advantageous. This is a full-time mid-seniority role with opportunities for impact in a rapidly growing sector.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4-5 years' experience in a planning engineering role.
• Experience in Offshore wind is an advantage.
• Track record of contributing to large-scale complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Identify and maintain the planning controls structure.
• Develop and implement planning and progress monitoring procedures.
• Conduct schedule monthly progress updates and status reports.

Skills

Planning principles and techniques

Team collaboration

Primavera P6 expertise

Microsoft Excel

Education

Engineering Degree and/or Certification

Tools

Primavera Risk Analysis

Microsoft Project

Job description

Project Planner for a major Offshore Wind Developer based in The Netherlands

Responsibilities

• Identify, implement and maintain the complete planning controls structure needed, including Key Performance Indicators for the project based on the contracting strategy, execution plan and the identified risks.
• Contribute to Employer Contractor reporting requirements in the contracts to enable an efficient planning control structure to stay on top of project development and provide early warnings of contractors/suppliers getting behind on progress as per plan.
• Understand the list of plans required to execute the project sub-elements and their interface to other sub-elements. Develop the activities, logic, resources, and progress for the project sub-elements, leading to the creation of the baseline schedule and its subsequent maintenance.
• Develop, implement, and comply with the planning and progress monitoring procedures.
• Review, assess, challenge, and approve Contractors' Planning and Progress Measurement & Monitoring procedures.
• Review Contractors' updated work program showing actual progress and identify areas of weakness and propose/advise means and methods for recovery, if any, as well as new critical activities.
• Drive, manage and ensure completeness of the development of the activities, logic, resources and progress for the integrated project schedule, leading to the creation of the baseline and its subsequent maintenance.
• Conduct the schedule monthly progress update, forecast, critical path, and trend analyses for assigned elements, including any impact from interface areas. Implement and maintain the status reports. Provide regular and comprehensive schedule status reports for Project and sub-elements and relevant input for the monthly project report.
• Assess and incorporate the impact of approved changes and any deviations from the key project targets and milestones, including productivity monitoring and identification of alternate approaches to optimize the plan.
• Liaise with and challenge Package leads, Project Engineering personnel to ensure proper understanding of the key schedule sensitivities and drivers.
• Translate the project's risk profile into the (probabilistic) risk analysis and understand the output, including the key risk drivers for the possible range of schedule completion dates. Track the criticality of the main paths to completion and float consumption.
• Work closely with the Project team to assist them in considering risks, opportunities and uncertainties in decision making and with other Project Services team members to ensure that quantitative assessments of risk are the basis for regular probabilistic cost and schedule analysis during the Execute phase.
• Work closely with the Contracting & Procurement team and Package Managers to ensure commitments are clear and closely monitored and imbedded in the project controls.
• Establish good working relationships with the relevant suppliers to stay on top of cost developments, commitments, schedule development and risks.

Requirements

• Engineering Degree and/or Certification.
• Minimum 4-5 years' experience in a planning engineering role, preferably in the construction phase of projects and in the offshore wind environment.
• Team player with clear evidence of working with others to deliver on goals.
• Track record of successfully contributing to project delivery of large-scale complex projects.
• Experience in Offshore wind is an advantage.
• Good working knowledge of Planning principles and techniques and strong level of hands‑on expertise with Planning tools particularly Primavera P6.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel for e.g. Key Performance Indicators development and reporting. Working knowledge of Primavera Risk Analysis is an advantage.
• Experience with weight loading in P6 and early and late curves set up and update.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft project is an advantage.
• Experience in contract management is a plus.
• Knowledge of the design and development of offshore wind farms, including related power transmission infrastructure would be a strong plus.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time