Project Planner

Bilfinger UK is a leading engineering and maintenance provider, supporting customers across the chemical & petrochemical, nuclear, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals & biopharma, power & energy, utilities, renewables and food & beverage markets. We enhance the efficiency of assets, ensuring a high level of availability and reducing maintenance costs.

We have extensive experience in offshore and onshore facilities; specialising in asset management services throughout all life cycle phases from consulting, engineering, manufacturing, assembly, operations, maintenance, and decommissioning.

This commitment is delivered by an experienced and highly competent workforce of over 4,500 employees operating from 14 offices in strategic industrial hubs, upholding the highest standards of safety, compliance and quality.

To develop, operate and monitor the relevant contract programmes for the workscope so that the contract can be controlled and executed within budget and duration.

Key Competencies

1. Ability to produce a feasible programme of activities from a given scope of work.
2. Communication skills to liaise with all relevant parties to report accurate contract status.
3. An ability to anticipate and highlight critical programme areas for management action.
4. Fluency in Primavera P6 and excel to provide prompt accurate and regular information.
5. Awareness of the technical implications and interfaces to be able to programme work effectively.
6. Awareness of the impact of planning on safety, quality and cost considerations.

Key Accountabilities

1. To produce all necessary programmes at the appropriate times to reflect the overall contract requirements.
2. To monitor and update all contract programmes by relevant discussion with all relevant parties.
3. To predict and communicate critical path deviations to enable management to take corrective action.
4. To optimise the use of approved computer software packages to ensure accountabilities 1 – 3 are met.
5. To incorporate emergent works effectively into existing programmes.
6. To report progress against programme on a regular basis and record any delays with associated reasoning.

Key Duties

1. Produce programme
2. Monitor programme continually against performance
3. Incorporate programme variations
4. Programme report to client/management
5. Anticipate problem areas regarding critical paths and advise remedial action.
6. Allocate the estimate costs to the activities on the programme and assist in the baselining of the programme.
7. Development and communication of resource requirements necessary to meet the demands of the project timescales.
8. Analyse Earned Value Performance on the project

Competencies

Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations

Deciding and Initiating Action

Leading and Supervising

Entrepreneurial and Commercial Thinking

Relating & Networking

Creating & Innovating

Coping with Pressure and Setbacks

Persuading & Influencing

Experience

Qualifications

• Sufficient and appropriate assistant/trainee Planning Engineer experience.          
• Sufficient and appropriate experience in Utilities Industry Sectors.
• Working knowledge of IChemE and Utilities Framework contracts

• Relevant HNC/Degree qualification
• QCF Diploma Level 3/5 Planning
• APMP Practitioner
• Craft training, supported by relevant CPD training

If you wish to speak to a member of the recruitment team, please contact 01224 246246.