The Planning Engineer will play a key role within the department of Planning ensures that the project is given necessary support during tender, design, installation and handover to perform at its optimum level from a delivery, commercial, financial and resource perspective. They will be involved on projects throughout their project life-cycle, from tender stage through to completion.
Key Responsibilities:
Key Responsibilities:
- Create / Maintain a Robust logically linked, cost & resource loaded programme using accurate work break down structure from first principle.
- Maintaining Client expectations from programme point view.
- Updating Project programme on weekly basis
- Carrying out Regular Programme Reviews and ensuring contractual obligations are in place.
- Carrying Out impact assessment and presenting delay programmes, cause & effect programmes.
- Keep close track of progress via look ahead & site diaries as well as regular site visits.
- Prepare / Submit Weekly Site Progress Photo Reports.
- Preparing EOT Programmes, What If Programmes as required to Support Project Planning.
- Supporting Planning Team by carrying out similar duties on projects nationally as requested by Planning Manager.
- Implementing the planning Standards on the Project Programme.
- Ensuring realistic programme logic is in place & maintaining a Programme Log for all changes.
- Preparing programmes and progress narratives for all updated programmes.
- Highlighting programme concerns with Planning Manager & Project Team and proposing mitigations.
- Periodically issuing Earned Value Analysis & SPI, CPIs
- The ability to communicate with clients and collate and present programme information at all levels
- Recording and managing planning issues and escalating where necessary.
- Resolving cross-functional issues at planning level.
- Insuring all additional works (variations) incorporated & impacted in programme.
- Key dependencies and highlighted on programme and tracked regularly.
- Supporting Commercial on management of R&O on projects level.
- To formulate and support new business initiatives, taking the lead on some as required
- Minimum 2 years UK planning experience
- Experience at both tender and contract stages of projects
- Proficient in the use of Primavera P6 software
- Ideally from an electrical or mechanical background but not essential
- Previously worked within the infrastructure environment (utilities/civils etc)
- Be a competent and have experience in the production of planning related documentation.
