Senior Planning Engineer

Senior Planning Engineer

• Location: Hybrid, with 2-3 days in Birmingham
• Competitive packages and excellent benefits are available

Projects: HVDC, Grid, Offshore
Turner Lovell are recruiting for a fast growing international EPC contractor who have a strong pipeline of HVDC, HV-AC 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 Lead Planning Engineer with the following expertise:

• Demonstrable experience in planning major turnkey infrastructure projects
• Expert Primavera P6 user
• Knowledge of risk management processes and tools
• Experience managing small teams within a large project
• Knowledge of cost control function and interface with schedule on large turnkey projects
• Good level of relevant industry knowledge within the Renewable Energy / Power Generation sector
• Knowledge in applying forensic analysis on large turnkey projects

This role would see you working on the following:

• Building the project baseline gaining approval of client and internal stakeholders
• Maintaining project schedule and resource forecasts throughout the project lifecycles
• Analysing schedule and trends and communicates forecasted schedule risk to project team, drive risk mitigation proposals
• Maintaining a register of potential schedule and cost risks in collaboration with the Risk Manager
• Checking 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
• Ensuring that forecast task durations and logic are understood and committed by the task owners
• Producing and communicating internal and external project reporting of project status
• Leading collaboration with 3rd parties on project schedule interfaces including maintenance of an interface register
• Presenting all time schedule data in a transparent way, attending project and management reviews to present schedule status
• Providing time related calculations to ensure change order schedule / cost estimates are accurate
• Aligning with Cost Controller to ensure reconciliation between P6 schedule and approved cost phasing
• Leading the team of Project Planning Engineers on large and complex projects
• Taking full responsibility for the planning output for the assigned project(s) as part of the project controls function
• Leading collaboration with functional task and resource owners to find strategies to reduce durations and manhours
• Ensuring 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, have clear career growth potential and job security working on high project.
If this sounds like it could be your next challenge, working on large-scale energy transmission project and you are available ASAP, please apply or contact or Yana Arif ((url removed)) / (phone number removed) for further information.