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Shutdown Planner
Wood is looking for a Shutdown Planner on a full-time basis on a Permanent Staff or Contract basis. This is an embedded role at our clients' offices in Aberdeen City. We offer hybrid working for this role – 3 days in the office, 2 days at home.
Why Join Us?
Our Operations team plays a key role in delivering maintenance and asset support across a focused portfolio of offshore facilities in the North Sea. This area of the business offers a range of opportunities, enabling you to develop and strengthen your skills within a high-performing asset environment.
Supporting late-life and mature assets, our work spans day-to-day maintenance, offshore campaign execution, and ongoing asset integrity and decommissioning scopes. This provides hands-on experience in a fast-paced, safety-critical setting, where efficiency, reliability, and collaboration are essential to successful delivery.
We are proud of our experienced and close-knit team, built on strong standards and a “one team” culture. Everyone plays a vital role, and you’ll be supported by colleagues who are committed to delivering work safely, efficiently, and to the highest quality.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a team at the heart of North Sea operations. You’ll contribute to critical offshore work scopes while developing your career in a supportive and forward-thinking environment. If you’re looking to be part of a team where your contribution matters and your development is encouraged, Wood offers the platform to help you succeed.
Designing the future. Transforming the world.
The Role
- To produce investment cost estimates for offshore/onshore development projects during the various project phases and as input into the project plan and budget
- To ensure accuracy of cost structures and cost estimates
- To validate estimates produced by Contractors or Third parties
- To gather and consolidate contribution from Professional Areas, ensuring cost completeness for project economic evaluation
- Ensure selection/development/update of appropriate methods and tools for the execution/validation of cost estimates
- To feed and update databases and to perform cross-project analysis
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What we can offer
- Meaningful and interesting projects delivered to leaders of industry across renewables and emerging energy sectors
- Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion; we are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business
- Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market
- Flexible benefits package; inclusive of 33 days annual leave (including public holidays), generous contributory pension scheme, private medical cover, 4x base salary life insurance; all of these and more that can be adapted to suit your own
- Commitment to continued professional development; development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests
- Global connections; join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession
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RESPONSIBILITIES
- Preparing cost estimate breakdown structures
- Producing the best estimate allowed from the available information
- Reviewing contractors or third parties cost estimates
- Participating/validating cost risk analysis
- Preparing the project cost estimate supporting documentation
- Supplying the necessary information to maintain updated the cost estimate database
- Development and update of procedures and tools
- Participating in cross-project analysis
- Transferring experience within the team
QUALIFICATIONS
What makes you remarkable?
At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world’s most critical challenges.
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Qualifications/Skills/Experience:
- Technical Diploma
- Engineering Degree preferred
- Oil & Gas Industry experience, onshore and/or offshore
- Cost estimating experience
- Development Project Cost Estimation (CAPEX, OPEX, DECOMMISSIONING)
- Cost Estimation Benchmarking
- Create WBS (Work Breakdown Structure)
- ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning System): SISTIP effective use and implementation
- Project Closing Process: Historical and Lessons Learned information’s collection and dissemination
- Specialist software training (Primavera basic & advanced, Que$tor, Palisade @risk, Microsoft Project)
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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