Planning Engineer

Planning Engineer for a major offshore wind project in Scotland.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed, construction-focused project schedules in Primavera P6 across the full project lifecycle - from early development through to delivery and operation.
• Issue and maintain logic driven schedules that meet the time, cost and quality requirements of the project.
• Create and assist with scenario planning requests a from the Senior Management Team.
• Understand impact on wider schedule interfaces at package, project and portfolio level.
• Ability to conduct a comprehensive review of the submitted 3rd party/supply chain schedules for schedule intregity and compliance with the contract.
• Identify and analyse critical paths, delays, and risks, supporting the development of robust mitigation strategies to maintain schedule integrity.
• Consult closely with engineering, procurement, and site construction teams to build realistic, logic-driven programmes that reflect actual site conditions and sequencing.
• Develop, implement, and monitor earned value management systems that accurately measure progress and performance and provide timely reporting and feedback to the project management team that are appropriate to the project needs. Thoroughly understand earned value management principles and apply practical field experience of planning & scheduling knowledge to identify challenges to the project schedule and suggest mitigation plans.
• With the support of the Project Services Risk Team, conduct Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis to understand where risk is in the schedule.
• Ensures full Baseline Change Management is applied to the programmes so that there is a clear audit traill of changes impacting the programme of works.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Planning Engineer using Primavera P6 on large scale construction or infrastructure projects.
• A solid understanding of construction methodologies, sequencing, and site execution, gained through hands-on experience with multidisciplinary project delivery teams.
• Practical experience working under NEC3/FIDIC contracts, including assessing delay impacts, change events, and contractor claims. Expertise in reviewing complex programmes and ensuring quality.
• Demonstrated ability to use Primavera P6 to build and manage complex, logic-linked construction programmes.