Senior Project Planner

Our client is currently recruiting for a Senior Project Planner. Located in Aberdeen, the role is offered on a 12 month contract.

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

RESPONSIBILITIES

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

REQUIREMENTS

Essential

Team player with ability to communicate at all levels of the organisation both onshore and offshore

Able to work in a multi – discipline team environment

Interface with different business departments

Self starter, with a positive attitude

Able to work on own initiative & be proactive

Willing to demonstrate flexibility

Excellent communication and reporting skills - verbal, written, and graphical

Promote a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion in line with CNR’s EDI strategy: commit to learning about developing inclusive cultures and eliminating blockers to diversity in the working environment

Expert / Proficient with Oracle Primavera

Experience in building and maintaining a project risk register / risk based tools

Proven experience as a Senior Project Planner

Ability to problem solve, identify and suggest solutions to resolve typical planning challenges related to project delivery

Able to work unsupervised.

Strong organisation skills

Multi-disciplinary experience preferably across asset, subsea or engineering

Strong command of critical path methodology (CPM) and schedule risk identification

Ability to produce high-quality planning outputs under tight deadlines.

Experience of planning large scale capital projects

Ability to lead multi-disciplinary meetings

Excellent communicator across functional and management teams

Demonstrable track record in a similar role

At least 10 years’ experience in a similar role

Preferred

Previous offshore or site experience

Previous Decom planning experience

Experience of Mentoring junior planners

Degree qualified – Project Management, Mechanical/Process Engineering or any other relevant technical discipline