Senior Project Planner

We are recruiting a Senior Project Planner for our client in Aberdeen.

This is a full time, office based position with an initial contract duration of 1 year.

Purpose of Role

• Planner will work within our Developments and Decommissioning Projects Team to produce and maintain project plans on our world class field development and field decommissioning projects
• This is a challenging and diverse role where you will provide a complete planning service to multi-disciplinary project teams
• The ideal candidate will have prior planning experience in Oil & Gas or similar industry such as engineering, refining, power industries etc

Duties & Responsibilities to include:-

• Build and maintain a number of project plans for key capital Projects and Decommissioning projects For example subsea development and installation, drilling and completions, asset decommissioning and facilities engineering
• Monitor and report progress through earned value analysis, S-curves, KPIs, and critical path tracking to support performance management.
• Lead internal and external stakeholders engagement & workstream input to plan sessions and schedule review meetings
• Chair the weekly planning meetings
• Lead baseline and re-baseline processes, ensuring schedule alignment with scope changes and project control procedures.
• Coordinate closely with multi-discipline teams (engineering, procurement, production) to validate planning assumptions and logic
• Liaising with the relevant Asset planner to ensure construction activities have been incorporated into the asset plan correctly
• Mentor junior planners and support continuous improvement, driving planning standards and best practice across the business.
• Any other Planning Tasks as requested

Desired Qualities / Qualifications Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven Senior Project Planner experience (10+ years)
• Strong background in Oil & Gas, Energy, Engineering, or similar major project environments
• Expert user of Oracle Primavera (P6)
• Strong CPM skills and schedule risk identification capability
• Experience supporting large-scale capital projects
• Ability to work proactively, unsupervised and within multi-discipline teams
• Excellent communication and reporting skills (verbal, written, graphical)

Preferred

• Offshore or site experience
• Decommissioning planning experience
• Degree in Project Management, Mechanical/Process Engineering, or related technical field
• Experience mentoring junior team member