Senior Planning Engineer

Senior Planning Engineer

Initial 2 year contract

Sunderland – Fully site based

Outside IR35

Job purpose 

As the Senior Planning Engineer, you will be responsible for developing, monitoring and reporting the FEED schedule and for developing the EPC schedule. 

As the Senior Planning Engineer, you will be required to be based fully on site as part of the role. 

Main Accountabilities:

Develop the Management Schedule, schedule basis and assumptions document, Detailed Schedules, Critical Path Networks, 90-day front-end and look-ahead schedules and exception reports. 

As the Senior Planning Engineer, you will prepare and present project information to appropriate stakeholders. 

Ensure that scheduling control and progress reporting procedures are followed. 

As the Senior Planning Engineer, you will work closely with the project Cost Engineer to ensure cost phasing and forecasting aligns with the current control schedule. 

Identify all major events/milestones and critical interfaces. 

As the Senior Planning Engineer, you will support interface management for integrating scopes and stakeholders external to the project. 

As the Senior Planning Engineer, you will provide the necessary ad hoc schedules to ensure the development of proper estimates and studies within a project stage. 

As the Senior Planning Engineer, you Participate in the development and implementation of progress measurement and reporting system, including WBS roll-up levels, weightings and reporting. 

Prepare work breakdown structures, manpower histograms and S-curves. 

As the Senior Planning Engineer, you will review critical activity lists and proposed corrective actions. 

Update / produce weekly/monthly progress reports and dashboards. 

Review planned versus actual resource levels and highlight areas of concern. 

Review Monthly Project Reports on physical progress and financial status for completeness and accuracy. 

Assist with the preparation of Schedule Risk Analysis (SRA). 

As the Senior Planning Engineer, you will provide schedule input to and implement schedule elements of the change management procedure for proposed changes in the work and check that any approved changes are incorporated into the affected and relevant schedule documentation. 

Check that Construction Planning is consistent with commissioning requirements and, for example, that any systems that are required early are available in a timely manner. 

As the Senior Planning Engineer, you will act as primary interface with Operations Organization Activity Planning group at the detailed-planning level for Brownfield or interface scope. 

Attend coordination meetings, both within the Project Team and with Contractors. 

Typical background and experience required:

Must have: 

• Graduate engineer or equivalent qualification. 
• As the Senior Planning Engineer, you will have experience of engineering design service contracts. 
• Advanced user of Primavera Project Management software. 
• Experience in performing, monitoring and reviewing planning and scheduling functions including; schedule development, control and analysis in the field and the home office. 
• As the Senior Planning Engineer, you will have extensive experience in both greenfield and brownfield industrial or engineering projects, with at least 5 years in the oil and gas sector. 
• Good level of knowledge of engineering, procurement, contracts, construction, and start-up work processes for FEED and EPC projects. 
• As the Senior Planning Engineer, you will have experience with Risk Modelling packages. 
• Computer proficiency. 

At First Recruitment Group we understand just how important it is to secure the right people. That is why our Recruitment Consultants always take the time to understand requirements in detail and offer sound advice to both clients and candidates.

We actively recruit at all levels and this is a superb opportunity for Senior Planning Engineers who are looking for new employment.