Job Number: 17554

External Description:

Job title: Planning Engineer

Location: Manchester or Newcastle - Remotely working but travelling between both sites

Contract length: 12 months rolling contract potential to extension

Rate: £450 to £500/day PAYE

Work Hour: standard hours 37.5/week (On site days tend to be Tuesday to Thursdays and home working days Mondays and Fridays - Travel between Manchester and Newcastle)

 

Randstad Sourceright, a leading provider of RPO & MSP Recruitment Services are currently recruiting a Planning Engineer working on behalf of a leading Energy services company.

This role will focus on sales phase project scheduling for Substations, FACTS and HVDC builds across the UK&I. As an integral part of the front-end team, you will face new challenges every day across all the above business units in programme creation and risk mitigation. In this role, you will form part of a sustainable power supply strategy, which is to be further implemented in the coming years across many projects. Some of other duties include;

• You will create E&C programmes with the support of technical advisors to ensure a robust and achievable build sequence is agreed by all parties. 
• You will be crucial in identifying change and potential risk in programme amendments, with the overall objective of driving confidence in a programme that is achievable and competitive.
• Perform scheduling during the bid phase for complex turnkey power transmission projects.
• Build, customize and update a settlement schedule with more than 4000 activities (Primavera P6 scheduling software).
• Regularly updating the schedule through the bid phase considering established project management methods and project reporting (critical path analysis, milestone trend analysis, earned value management, deviation analysis).
• Detection of deviations and development of appropriate countermeasures,and etc

 

Requirements for the role:

• Completed studies with a technical background or technical training with corresponding many years of professional experience.
• Many years of professional experience with excellent knowledge of the methods of scheduling, resource and project planning and controlling, critical path analysis, network engineering.
• Proven professional experience in engineering, manufacturing, installation and commissioning interfaces.
• PRIMAVERA Enterprise, P6 / MS Project experience.
• Experience in EPC projects, ideally in the field of power transmission.
• Experience through construction site assignments
• Intercultural experience
• Right to work in the UK

 

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Job Number: SEFGJP00022065

Community / Marketing Title: Planning Engineer

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