Planning / Senior Planner

IKM Consultants AS; Haugesund; On-site; NOK 1,000,000 - 1,400,000; Part time

Job summary

IKM Consultants AS in Norway seeks a Planning / Senior Planner to oversee Civil scope schedule planning, resource allocation, and cost control for multi-disciplinary EPC projects. The role requires integrating subcontractor plans into the master schedule and establishing detailed Level 4 and Level 5 schedules, ensuring alignment with contract requirements and work logic.

The successful candidate will lead progress reviews, identify critical paths, and propose optimization strategies while

Qualifications

• Degree in technical or commercial field; extensive relevant experience acceptable.
• Minimum 5 years of work experience in project planning from EPC projects.
• Experience with Safran Project software is essential.
• Experience from EPC, modification, or field development in oil and gas.
• Strong understanding of construction sequencing and work logic.

Responsibilities

• Oversee schedule planning, resource allocation, and cost control for the Civil scope.
• Integrate and communicate plans from subcontractors into the main project schedule.
• Establish and maintain detailed Level 4 and Level 5 project schedules.
• Lead project progress reviews, validating and challenging reported progress to ensure accuracy.
• Identify and highlight the critical path, schedule risks, and propose optimization and mitigation strategies.
• Provide project management with scheduling analysis to support decision-making.
• Ensure all scheduling activities comply with contract requirements, regulations, and internal work processes.
• Proactively identify and implement opportunities for schedule improvement.

Skills

Schedule planning

Resource management

Cost control

Communication

Collaboration

Proactive

Structured

Education

Master's or Bachelor's degree in a technical or commercial field

Tools

Safran Project software

Job description

Oversee schedule planning, resource allocation, and cost control for the Civil scope, establishing detailed Level 4 and 5 project schedules.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical or commercial field


• Minimum 5 years of work experience in project planning from EPC projects


• Extensive hands-on experience with Safran Project software


• Experience from EPC, modification, or field development in oil and gas


• Strong understanding of construction sequencing and work logic

Planning / Senior Planner

Responsibilities

• Oversee schedule planning, resource allocation, and cost control for the Civil scope.


• Integrate and communicate plans from subcontractors into the main project schedule.


• Establish and maintain detailed Level 4 and Level 5 project schedules.


• Lead project progress reviews, validating and challenging reported progress to ensure accuracy.


• Identify and highlight the critical path, schedule risks, and propose optimization and mitigation strategies.


• Provide project management with insightful scheduling analysis to support decision-making.


• Ensure all scheduling activities comply with contract requirements, regulations, and internal work processes.


• Proactively identify and implement opportunities for schedule improvement.

Required expertise

• Master's or Bachelor's degree in a technical or commercial field; extensive relevant experience can compensate for formal qualifications.


• A minimum of 5 years of work experience in project planning from EPC projects.


• Extensive hands-on experience with Safran Project software is essential.


• Strong understanding of schedule planning, resource management, and cost control.


• Experience from EPC, modification, or field development projects within the oil and gas industry.


• Solid understanding of construction sequencing, work logic, and interfaces between disciplines.


• Experience in planning civil works is highly advantageous.


• Proactive, structured, and results-oriented with strong collaboration and communication skills.

Duration: Temporary assignment from October 2026 to December 2027

• Kostnadskontroll (Financial controlling)

IKM Consultants AS is a company within the IKM Group. The company is one of Norway's largest Norwegian owned consultant companies, which offers multi-discipline engineers both nationally and internationally. Our consultants have a high level of education and experience. They participate in all project phases; from initial studies and planning activities to project execution and close-out. Our company is growing continuously and require competent people to supplement our existing staff.