Planning / Senior Planner

Ikm Gruppen AS; Oslo; On-site; NOK 800,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Ikm Gruppen AS is seeking a skilled Project Planner to oversee engineering scheduling, resource allocation, and cost control. The successful candidate will establish detailed Level 4/5 schedules, lead progress reviews, and identify optimization opportunities to align with contract requirements and regulatory standards.

With a minimum of 3 years in EPC project planning and strong proficiency in Safran Project and Primavera, you will collaborate with contract, estimation, risk, and cost control

Qualifications

• Requires a Master’s or Bachelor’s in a technical or commercial discipline; relevant experience may compensate for formal qualifications.
• Minimum 3 years of work experience in project planning from EPC projects, with focus on engineering planning.
• Excellent skills in Safran Project; strong Primavera proficiency will be evaluated.
• High competency in critical path analysis, schedule risk analysis, and monitoring.
• Experience with scenario planning and mitigating actions to recover delays.
• Proven ability to collaborate with contract, estimation, risk, and cost control teams.
• Systematic, precise, proactive team player with strong deadlines and quality.
• Solid verbal and written English communication.

Responsibilities

• Oversee schedule planning, resource allocation, and cost control for the engineering scope.
• Establish and maintain detailed project schedules (Level 4/5).
• Lead project progress reviews, validating and challenging reported progress.
• Identify critical paths and schedule risks, proposing optimization and mitigation strategies.
• Ensure overall scheduling aligns with contract requirements, regulations, and work processes.
• Provide detailed scheduling analysis to support management decision-making.
• Communicate potential scheduling issues and performance improvements to leadership.
• Proactively identify and implement opportunities to enhance the project schedule.

Skills

Critical path analysis

Schedule risk analysis

Monitoring

English communication

Team collaboration

Education

Master's or Bachelor's in technical/commercial discipline

Tools

Safran Project

Primavera

Job description

Responsibilities

• -Oversee schedule planning, resource allocation, and cost control for the engineering scope.
• -Establish and maintain detailed project schedules (Level 4/5).
• -Lead project progress reviews, validating and challenging reported progress.
• -Identify critical paths and schedule risks, proposing optimization and mitigation strategies.
• -Ensure overall scheduling aligns with contract requirements, regulations, and work processes.
• -Provide detailed scheduling analysis to support management decision-making.
• -Communicate potential scheduling issues and performance improvements to leadership.
• -Proactively identify and implement opportunities to enhance the project schedule.

Required expertise

• -Master's or Bachelor's degree in a technical or commercial discipline; relevant experience may compensate for formal qualifications.
• -A minimum of 3 years of work experience in project planning from EPC projects, with a focus on engineering planning.
• -Excellent skills in Safran Project; candidates with strong proficiency in Primavera will also be evaluated.
• -High competency in critical path analysis, schedule risk analysis, and monitoring.
• -Experience with scenario planning and proposing mitigating actions to recover delays.
• -Proven ability to collaborate with contract, estimation, risk, and cost control teams.
• -A systematic, accurate, and proactive team player with a high commitment to deadlines and quality.
• -Solid verbal and written communication skills in English.

Language: English

Location: Asker, Oslo, Haugesund

Work schedule: Full-time

Duration: 19/10/2026 - 31/12/2027