Planning Engineer

Competitive Salary and Benefits Package on Offer

Altrad are a market-leading provider of products and services to the energy, industrial and petrochemical sectors. Our success is built on the quality of our people, our reputation for technological expertise and best-in-class execution, and the collaborative relationships we establish with our clients. We believe in delivering exceptional value for our clients and creating unrivalled opportunities for our people.

Continuing our success in the nuclear industry, we are now growing our team in Cumbria, delivering more crucial, decommissioning activities and major infrastructure projects.

We’re actively looking for a experienced Planning Engineer’s to work on a range of complex nuclear decommissioning and new build work here in Cumbria.

As an employer, Altrad can offer unrivalled career opportunities across the UK. We’re deeply embedded and respected within the UK’s vibrant Nuclear industry, a respect forged over 65 years of work, from providing technology for the world’s first commercial nuclear power plant, to the decommissioning of the UK’s legacy nuclear infrastructure, and everything in between. Outside of Nuclear, our Thermal, Petrochemical, Oil & Gas, and Asset Management services, deliver equally crucial work for an even wider range of clients. As a business, we can offer opportunities across multiple markets, sectors and geographies, giving you the chance to work on some of the UK’s most complex and challenging projects, as a part of the ever growing and ever talented, Altrad team.

Responsibilities

• Provide and manage the planning framework, systems and resources to deliver an effective planning and reporting service to Project Managers and Sponsors.
• Facilitate the production of the project WBS.
• Prepare, monitor and forecast baseline and working schedules during all project phases.
• Establish and maintain a Basis of Schedule for all schedules produced.
• Ensure all applicable schedule activities have Rules of Credit and Quantity Tracking mechanisms established.
• Identify and track all changes or potential changes to the project baseline and subsequent underpinning of change control mechanisms.
• Prepare progress reports, including earned value analysis, identifying critical areas and trends and recommend recovery options.
• Maintain the planning database and validate data across systems.
• Provide the required information to support the risk process.
• Provide project outturns against baseline for LFE and Knowledge Management.
• Mentor and support Assistant Planning Engineers in their development.

Accountabilities

• Ensure the accuracy of data communicated and reported to all stakeholders.
• The highlighting of any current and potential issues to the Senior Planning Engineer, Lead Planning Engineer, PCM and Project Manager.
• Maintain compliance with approved processes, procedures and Project Execution Plans.
• The active contribution to continuous improvement of the functional quality and performance of Project Controls.

Essential Qualifications & Experience:

Qualifications:

• Professional qualification in Project Management, Project Controls, Quantity Surveying, Engineering or equivalent experience

Experience:

• Typically 3 years experience
• Experience of providing planning services for either a major project or a multiple-project programme
• Understanding of how engineering and construction projects are delivered

If the above role isn’t quite right for you or you’re not ready to apply just yet, why not join our Talent Pool? You’ll be kept up to date with all of our latest roles, tailored to your area of expertise or interest.

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