Senior Planner

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Develop, review, maintain, and report project schedules and plans to the required detail and in line with contracts, company procedures, and standards.
• Support Planning team management and development, project schedule control, and planning documentation.
• Act as planning focal point for project scopes and align control structures with approved WBS.
• Maintain baseline schedules, monitor planning through all project phases, and issue schedule updates.
• Coordinate with engineering, procurement, construction, third parties, and other teams to assess activity, schedule, and manpower effects.
• Provide project plans, schedules, progress reports, performance reports, and manpower updates in accordance with reporting requirements.
• Assess change impacts, track milestones, and evaluate project performance against plan.
• Coordinate with cost teams on man-hour budgets, forecasts, and change requests.
• Participate in schedule risk analysis, compliance reviews, and continuous improvement.
• Mentor Planning personnel, attend project meetings, and represent Wood in surveys when required.

Qualifications and experience

• Typically requires an ISCED level 6 bachelor's degree in a relevant technical or business discipline, or equivalent vocational training and/or industry experience.
• Typically at least 10 years of relevant scheduling or planning experience, including senior planning experience.
• Advanced Primavera and scheduling knowledge, including logic and CPM analysis, resource loading and levelling, and scheduling procedures.
• Advanced understanding of WBS and CBS structures, project reporting, earned value, cost and schedule variance analysis, cost management, change control, and planning risk management.
• Able to develop schedules, resource-loading plans, progress plans, and staffing plans.
• Strong written and spoken English communication; able to work independently, handle multiple priorities, and guide or mentor others.
• Experience in onshore or offshore oil and gas is particularly sought.
• Willing and able to represent Wood in onshore and offshore surveys; relevant certification or willingness to undertake training such as BOSIET and H2S Awareness.

Location and work context

• The role is based with Wood's Doha, Qatar team.
• The position may be delivered independently or as part of a project team and may require onshore or offshore survey representation.

What Wood offers

• Meaningful projects across oil and gas and emerging energy sectors, diversity and inclusion initiatives, and competitive salary with regular reviews.
• Employee Assistance Programme and reimbursement for one relevant professional membership, registration, subscription, certification, or licence per year for active employees.
• Global connections with industry experts.