Senior Project Planner

Cammach are currently recruiting a Senior Project Planner on behalf of our oil & gas client. The role is based in Aberdeen and will be on a 12 month contract basis.  

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

Person Specification

• 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 the EDI strategy: commit to learning about developing inclusive cultures and eliminating blockers to diversity in the working environment

Functional Job Skills

• 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 Preferred
• Previous offshore or site experience
• Previous Decom planning experience

Education/Qualifications

• Demonstrable track record in a similar role
• At least 10 years’ experience in a similar role Preferred
• Degree qualified – Project Management, Mechanical / Process Engineering or any other relevant technical discipline
• Other Skills as appropriate (e.g. Specific business skills) Must be confident and enthusiastic with a positive attitude