Kintec Global Recruitment
***TEST*** Senior Principal Planner / Planning Manager
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Senior Principal Planner / Planning Manager
Location
Chiswick, London
Contract Type
Annually Renewable, Residential, Inside IR35
Start Date
ASAP
Role Objective
Provide senior-level planning and scheduling leadership across complex subsea and offshore EPCIC projects.
- Develop robust, logically linked project schedules that provide clear visibility of critical path, progress, risk, and recovery requirements.
- Proactively identify and solve complex planning issues affecting project performance, direction, and resource allocation.
- Act as a specialist within Planning and Project Controls, providing guidance and mentoring to project teams and junior planners.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform detailed schedule analysis using Primavera P6, Deltek Acumen Fuse and Risk, and Microsoft Project.
- Support project baseline development during project initiation and set-up, including WBS, OBS, project and global codes, and calendars.
- Develop and maintain logically linked Level 3 and Level 4 schedules for marine installation scopes within subsea and offshore oil and gas projects.
- Maintain and review the sequence of Engineering, Procurement, Fabrication, Construction, Installation, Hook-Up, and Commissioning activities.
- Lead multi-discipline scope reviews and coordinate planning inputs across project functions.
- Monitor critical path, schedule compliance, key performance factors, and deviations from baseline.
- Evaluate schedule risks, facilitate risk-review meetings, and recommend recovery or improvement plans.
- Provide project schedule support and mentor junior planners as required.
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Tasks
- Run schedule quality and integrity checks using Deltek Acumen Fuse.
- Update and validate physical progress reported through earned value management systems.
- Resource-load schedules and align them with the project earned value system.
- Produce workforce histograms, progress curves, quantity curves, and variance reports.
- Identify current and potential causes of delay and expedite activities affecting project delivery.
- Assess schedule changes and develop practical workarounds for unforeseen conditions.
- Evaluate the validity of the critical path based on project logic, sequencing, and prior experience.
- Create and issue prepared and ad-hoc planning reports for project leadership and stakeholders.
Deliverables
- Approved project baselines and maintained Level 3 and Level 4 EPCIC schedules.
- Schedule quality, integrity, and risk-analysis outputs.
- Critical-path, progress, variance, workforce, and quantity reports.
- Recovery schedules and improvement recommendations where performance deviates from plan.
Project Documents
- Project baseline and detailed activity schedules.
- Schedule narratives, progress updates, and variance reports.
- Workforce histograms, progress curves, and quantity curves.
- Schedule risk assessments, critical-path analyses, and recovery plans.
Decision Authority / Responsibility
- Lead planning and scheduling activities within the assigned project scope and provide specialist recommendations to project management.
- Challenge schedule logic, reported progress, and forecast dates where supporting evidence is insufficient.
- Escalate critical delays and recommend sequencing, resource, or recovery actions to protect project milestones.
- Provide technical direction and mentoring to planners while supporting broader Project Controls initiatives.
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Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Engineering, Construction, Business Management, or an equivalent combination of technical training and experience.
- Approximately 15-20 years of relevant EPCIC planning and scheduling experience.
- Subsea planning experience is essential, including offshore oil and gas or marine installation projects.
- Experience planning the fabrication and installation of subsea modules such as PLEMs and PLETs.
- Strong command of Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Office; Deltek Acumen Fuse and Risk experience is highly desirable.
- Advanced Excel capability, including curves, histograms, dynamic tables, and formulas.
- Demonstrable ability to produce and maintain multi-discipline, logically linked schedules using precedence-flow planning and EPCIC best practice.
- Strong capability in schedule analysis, earned value, critical path, risk analysis, forecasting, and recovery planning.
- Managerial, team-lead, or substantial mentoring experience is preferred, together with the ability to influence project teams and senior management.
- France-based candidates must attend the office three days per week.
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Skills
Primavera P6
Deltek Acumen Fuse
Deltek Acumen Risk
Microsoft Project
EPCIC Planning
Subsea Planning
Critical Path Analysis
Earned Value Management
Schedule Risk Analysis
Resource Loading
Workforce Histograms
Project Controls
Marine Installation
Advanced Excel
Project Scheduling
Mentoring