PMC Senior Planning Engineer
Role Overview
Lead project planning, scheduling, progress monitoring, and forecasting to support delivery within approved timelines and client requirements.
Provide schedule analysis, risk assessments, and performance reporting throughout the project lifecycle for a high-profile client.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Lead project planning, scheduling, progress monitoring, and forecasting to support delivery within approved timelines and client requirements.
Provide schedule analysis, risk assessments, and performance reporting throughout the project lifecycle for a high-profile client.
Responsibilities
- Develop and manage integrated schedules spanning engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and start-up.
- Set baselines, milestones, work breakdown structures, and schedule control procedures; monitor variances and critical issues.
- Perform critical path, what-if, and schedule risk analyses; develop recovery plans and mitigation strategies.
- Review contractor schedules, reports, and productivity; coordinate schedule alignment across project teams.
- Prepare progress reports, dashboards, S-curves, and presentations; forecast completion and recommend performance improvements.
- Support cost control, EVM, resource monitoring, risk and change management, and claims analysis.
- Participate in reviews, advise stakeholders, mentor junior planners, and support close-out and lessons learned.
Expected qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
- Typically 15+ years of project planning, scheduling, and controls experience in EPC, PMC, energy, oil and gas, petrochemical, LNG, or infrastructure projects.
- Advanced Primavera P6 proficiency and working knowledge of Microsoft Project; experience with complex project schedules.
- Experience with CPM, schedule risk and delay analysis, recovery planning, EVM, KPI monitoring, productivity analysis, and performance evaluation.
- Knowledge of project controls, cost control, change and risk management, and engineering through start-up activities.
- Ability to assess contractor schedules, resource plans, and progress reports; strong analytical, communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and Power BI; strong written and spoken English; multicultural, multidisciplinary project experience.
- PSP, PMP, AACE, or equivalent professional certifications are preferred.
About Wood
Wood provides consulting, engineering, and operations services for the energy and materials sectors across the asset lifecycle.
Benefits
- The package includes medical, life, and personal accident insurance, end-of-service gratuity, an employee share plan, and long-service recognition.
- Wood offers professional development plans and access to its Energy Transition Academy.
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