Senior Planner

Techconsult AS; Haugesund; On-site; NOK 700,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Techconsult is seeking a Planning / Senior Planner for projects based in Haugesund or Asker. You will manage schedule planning, resource planning and cost control for the engineering scope, coordinating with stakeholders to keep the plan on track.

The role requires 3+ years of EPC project planning experience and strong knowledge of Safran Project or Primavera, with emphasis on critical path and schedule risk analysis while meeting deadlines and quality.

Qualifications

• Master or Bachelor within technical or commercial topics. Relevant experience may compensate for lack of formal qualifications.
• Minimum 3 years work experience within project planning from EPC projects.
• Experience from engineering planning
• Experience with and working knowledge of Safran Project
• Experience with and knowledge of companys method
• Excellent skills within the use of Safran Project. Candidates with excellent skills within Primavera will also be evaluated.
• Highly competent within critical path analysis, schedule risk analysis – monitor and follow up closely
• Scenario planning with the ability to suggest mitigating actions to recover project delay.
• Experience with working together with contract, estimation, risk and cost resources to ensure alignment between plan and their deliverables.
• Systematic and accurate
• Team player
• High loyalty to deadlines and quality requirements
• Proactive, seeking advice and share own experiences with others
• Solid communication skills in English - verbally and written work

Responsibilities

• Schedule planning, resource planning and cost control for the engineering scope. This requires proactively collecting information from various stakeholders in the project.
• Establish and maintain Level 4 (and Level 5?) for the engineering scope.
• Lead project progress reviews and validate & challenge actual progress.
• Highlighting the critical path and risks linked to the project schedule for the scope and propose the optimization & mitigation actions.
• Follow up the overall scheduling according to contract, authority regulations and work processes.
• Provide planning manager and project management with scheduling analysis to ensure correct management decisions.
• Communicate all potential scheduling issues to planning manager to ensure needed adjustments, mitigations and improved performance.
• Proactively search for opportunities to improve the schedule and ensure materialization of these.

Skills

Critical path analysis

Schedule risk analysis

English communication

Team player

Proactive

Attention to deadlines

Engineering planning

Education

Master or Bachelor in technical/commercial topics

Tools

Safran Project

Primavera

Engineering planning tools

Job description

Techconsult is the link between jobs and professionals. For one of our customers we are now looking for a Planning / Senior Planner

Job responsibilities:

• Schedule planning, resource planning and cost control for the engineering scope. This requires proactively collecting information from various stakeholders in the project.
• Establish and maintain Level 4 (and Level 5?) for the engineering scope.
• Lead project progress reviews and validate & challenge actual progress.
• Highlighting the critical path and risks linked to the project schedule for the scope and propose the optimization & mitigation actions.
• Follow up the overall scheduling according to contract, authority regulations and work processes.
• Provide planning manager and project management with scheduling analysis to ensure correct management decisions.
• Communicate all potential scheduling issues to planning manager to ensure needed adjustments, mitigations and improved performance.
• Proactively search for opportunities to improve the schedule and ensure materialization of these.

Your experience and qualifications:

• Master or Bachelor within technical or commercial topics. Relevant experience may compensate for lack of formal qualifications.
• Minimum 3 years work experience within project planning from EPC projects.
• Experience from engineering planning
• Experience with and working knowledge of Safran Project
• Experience with and knowledge of companys method
• Excellent skills within the use of Safran Project. Candidates with excellent skills within Primavera will also be evaluated.
• Highly competent within critical path analysis, schedule risk analysis – monitor and follow up closely
• Scenario planning with the ability to suggest mitigating actions to recover project delay.
• Experience with working together with contract, estimation, risk and cost resources to ensure alignment between plan and their deliverables.
• Systematic and accurate
• Team player
• High loyalty to deadlines and quality requirements
• Proactive, seeking advice and share own experiences with others
• Solid communication skills in English - verbally and written work

The application deadline for this position is ASAP, but we will also consider candidates for similar or other relevant positions consecutively.

Workplace: Haugesund or Asker

Start: 19.10.2026

Duration: 31.12.2027

As an employee at Techconsult, we can offer you the following:

• Professional development and flexibility by working in projects with the major companies within oil, gas and land based industry
• A close follow-up of each employee
• Insurance benefits
• Social activities
• Training support

Techconsult emphasis being close to our employees and we focus on being a professional, safe and pleasant employer, where you will clearly notice that the focus is on you.