Apprentice Planner

This is an exciting opportunity to begin your career as an Apprentice Planner. Perenco’s apprenticeship training programme will allow you to gain valuable hands-on experience whilst attending college to gain a Level 3 Business Administration qualification.

Working within our Planning team, you will be responsible for providing both short and long-term planning and delivery for work scopes. The role will require full flexibility to support planning activity across any Perenco assets and be agile to adapt to operational changes. The successful individual will liaise closely with both onshore and offshore team members and provide a crucial link to operational planning.

Working hours are Monday to Friday with one release day per week to attend college. Whilst this is an office-based role in Norwich, there may also be an opportunity in the future to travel offshore on occasion.

Key Responsibilities include:

• To attend and contribute to planning meetings with all relevant departments.
• Ensure plans are populated with relevant information and review the deliverability of these within planning constraints on resources and time.
• Review work scope requirements with relevant stakeholders.
• Coordinate with engineers, vendors and the Planning team to ensure requirements are met for offshore activities.
• Confirm status & readiness of planned activities.
• Highlight potential slippage/constraints of activities within the plan and communicate the potential effects to the respective Planner.
• Support with updating Attendance Tracking System (ATS) & Vantage administration.
• Manage available resource for platform visits using the NUI Planning tool.
• Update plans inclusive of progress and rescheduling of activities in line with the developing business needs outlined by the Planner.
• Provide the Planning Team support for administrative, analytical and reporting tasks where required.
• Liaise with the Logistics team to review logistical resource availability and impacts to proposed plans.
• Liaise with the Warehouse team for material/equipment shipping and readiness for planned activities.
• Manage hotel bookings for planned business needs and report on usage.
• Ensure contractor readiness to travel offshore are in line with PUK policy and Vantage is updated.
• Liaise with HR and PUK Medic regarding medical certification for company staff.
• Daily Vantage cost code administration.
• Daily management of Planners central email inbox.
• Raise any major changes or impacts to activities to Planning Team Leader.

Qualifications/Experience

• Computer literate with well-developed IT skills across Microsoft suite, specifically Word
• Solutions based with strong planning, organising and numeric skills, and an excellent attention to detail.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills both verbal and written.
• Full clean driving licence.
• Applicants will need to be age 16 or over to join the apprenticeship scheme.

Benefits

At Perenco we value and reward our people, offering competitive salaries and a wide range of benefits including:

• Life Assurance
• Private Medical Insurance
• Flexible Benefit Allowance
• Excellent Pension Provision
• 25 Days Holiday
• Discretionary Bonus
• Profit 'Units’ Sharing Scheme