Wood
Lead Planning Engineer - PSC
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Wood is looking for a Lead Planning Engineer
Location: Sunbury or Darlington, England, UK
Position Details
- Type: Full-time
- On-site requirement: Minimum of 3 days per week
- Contract basis: PSC
- Duration: Approximately 8 months
About Wood
Wood delivers solutions across more than 60 countries with local offices covering all major energy and materials hubs globally.
For more than 160 years, we have partnered with clients to deliver engineering, advisory, and operational solutions to some of the world’s most complex and critical challenges in energy and materials.
Responsibilities
- Review and understand all relevant documentation pertaining to the project including scope of services, project execution plan, proposal/project schedule (including manpower projection plan), conditions of contract
- Work within the standard planning/scheduling procedures. Ensure that these procedures fulfil client requirements and develop additional project specific procedures where necessary
- Prepare activity plans to accomplish all work required by the procedures and to ensure that sufficient planning resources are provided
- Write job descriptions for Planning Engineers assigned to the project
- Direct and control the work of all Planning Engineers assigned to the project
- Liaise with Client Project Control personnel as necessary
- Timely preparation and issue of:
- Overall Project Schedule Level 1
- Project Schedule Level 2
- Project Network Level 3
- Schedule Basis Memorandum (SBM)
- Manpower Projection Plan
- Critical Equipment Lists/Schedules
- Progress 'S' Curves and tabulations
- Manhour/Manpower histograms
- Short-term look ahead schedules
- Monthly progress report including narrative
- Ensure that all involved parties participate in preparation of items described above and that they agree to their respective elements and approve documents where necessary.
- Produce current physical progress reports and final job statistics.
- Prepare and issue project action reports to Project Manager/Project Control Manager.
- Maintain accurate schedule and control curves in an updated condition.
- Analyse schedule trends and produce regular forecasts of schedule performance and issues for project review.
- Maintain awareness and understanding of relevant systems operated by other departments.
- Identify and control planning engineering interfaces between Project Operating Centres and any other Contractors.
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Qualifications
Education
- Typically requires ISCED level 6 (Bachelors) Degree in a relevant technical or business discipline (or equivalent gained through relevant vocational training and/or industry experience)
Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
- Substantial scheduling/planning experience
- Advanced knowledge of Primavera and other scheduling software and related tools and techniques including Logic and CPM analysis, resource loading and levelling
- Advanced knowledge of Project Execution Procedures for Scheduling
- Advanced understanding of WBS & CBS structures and project reporting capabilities
- Advanced ability to develop project schedules and plans
- Advanced ability to prepare resource loading, progress, and staffing plans
- Excellent understanding of earned value application, cost and schedule variance analyses/trending and what-if scenarios
- Advanced understanding of project management principles and techniques
- Strong understanding of Cost Management, Change Control, Planning & Risk Analysis & Management
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About Wood
Wood is a global leader in consulting, engineering, and operations for the energy and materials sectors. With 33,000 people in around 50 countries, Wood supports clients across the full asset lifecycle, delivering safe, predictable outcomes while enabling resilient operations and a lower carbon future. Wood forms the Energy & Materials pillar of Sidara - a global partnership uniting leading multidisciplinary engineering, design, and project management companies.
Diversity Statement
We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.
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