Job Description
Senior Planning Engineer
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Location: Hybrid, with 2-3 days in Birmingham
Competitive packages and excellent benefits are available
Projects: HVDC, Grid, Offshore
Turner Lovell are recruiting for afast-growingg international EPC contractor who have a strong pipeline of HVDC, HV-A,C and offshore wind projects across the UK and Europe.
We are looking for a Senior Project Planning professional with a strong background in HV Transmission & Distribution, to play an active role in project management support of multi-disciplined, multi-sector project delivery work by facilitating the planning, scheduling, and controlling processes. Providing advice, support, and clear communication of fact-based answers to key management questions which will aid in intelligent and effective decision-making.
The ideal candidate will have construction site experience, have advanced knowledge of Primavera 6 and be confident to support contract variation and claims.
The successful candidate will be the Senior Planning Engineer with the following expertise:
- experience in planning major turnkey infrastructure projects
- Primavera P6 user
- of risk management processes and tools
- managing small teams within a large project
- of cost control function and interface with schedule on large turnkey projects
- level of relevant industry knowledge within the Renewable Energy / Power Generation sector
- in applying forensic analysis on large turnkey projects
This role would see you working on the following:
- the project baseline gaining approval of client and internal stakeholders
- project schedule and resource forecasts throughout the project lifecycles
- schedule and trends and communicate forecasted schedule risk to the project team, drive risk mitigation proposals
- a register of potential schedule and cost risks in collaboration with the Risk Manager
- and controls schedule movements, comparing with current scope and progress as well as with previous forecast. Also comparing with productivity factors and validating accuracy of future task durations
- that forecast task durations and logic are understood and committed by the task owners
- and communicating internal and external project reporting of project status
- collaboration with 3rd parties on project schedule interfaces including maintenance of an interface register
- all time schedule data in a transparent way, attending project and management reviews to present schedule status
- time-related calculations to ensure change order schedule/cost estimates are accurate
- with the Cost Controller to ensure reconciliation between P6 schedule and approved cost phasing
- the team of Project Planning Engineers on large and complex projects
- full responsibility for the planning output for the assigned project(s) as part of the project controls function
- collaboration with functional task and resource owners to find strategies to reduce durations and manhours
- efficiency and effectiveness of the project controls team
This is an excellent opportunity to be at the forefront of renewable energy, HVDC, and HV infrastructure projects, and have clear career growth potential and job security working on high projects.
If this sounds like it could be your next challenge, working on a large-scale energy transmission project and you are available ASAP, please apply or contact or Yana Arif (yana.arif@turnerlovell.com) / 07939 391748 for further information.