Senior Planner

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Prepare, review, and report project schedules and plans throughout the project lifecycle.
• Develop schedules to contractual requirements and company procedures, policies, and standards.
• Maintain planning control structures aligned with the approved WBS and maintain baseline schedules.
• Monitor planning activities, progress, milestones, and performance against plan.
• Coordinate with engineering, procurement, construction, third parties, and cost teams on activities, manpower, budgets, forecasts, and schedule impacts.
• Issue project plans, schedules, progress reports, and manpower updates in line with reporting requirements.
• Participate in schedule risk analysis and project controls compliance and improvement reviews.
• Support the Planning team and mentor and develop planning personnel.

Qualifications and experience

• Typically requires a relevant bachelor's degree or equivalent vocational training and/or industry experience.
• Typically at least 10 years of relevant planning or scheduling experience.
• Advanced Primavera and scheduling knowledge, including logic and CPM analysis, resource loading, and levelling.
• Advanced understanding of project execution procedures, WBS, CBS, and project reporting.
• Knowledge of earned value, cost and schedule variance analysis, cost management, change control, and risk analysis.
• Strong English communication, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills; able to work independently and guide others.
• Relevant certification or willingness to undertake suitable training such as BOSIET and H2S Awareness for survey work.

Benefits

• The posting mentions competitive salary with regular reviews, an Employee Assistance Programme, professional membership reimbursement, and work on industry projects.

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