Planning Engineer

About The Role

Do you enjoy a challenge? Do you want to make a difference? Are you ready to engineer change within the industry and wider community? At PD&MS, we’re determined to help drive the change that our world needs to see. To support current and new customers to be part of the energy transition, through future-friendly solutions. You can be part of our vision!

Working Pattern: Permanent / Full Time

As the Planning Engineer, you will:

• Prepare and maintain company project plan/schedule
• Attend Kick Off Meetings and gather data to determine scheduling constraints
• Ensure project baselines are set and agreed by all stakeholders
• Interface with and input to client project plan
• Liaise and interface with Client Representatives
• Manage issues of project planning
• Oversee data retrieval and review pursuant to project planning status
• Undertake general project related activities as requested from time to time
• Adhere to the company integrated management system
• Comply with quality assurance, health and safety and environmental policies
• Demonstrate and promote PD&MS QHSE principles and lead by example
• Ensure unsafe activities are challenged
• Adhere to the requirements of the best practice standards recommendations and processes in the undertaking of duties, in particular, risk assessment and control, reliability and failure prevention necessary to ensure the safe design, provision and use of tools, equipment and systems

About You

The role offers:

Development opportunities: the opportunity to develop within your planning team, to be appreciated, to work with people who have the same goals and are driven to succeed.

Varied workload: you’ll have the chance to transfer your skills and develop in our industry and deliver on projects across the fully energy sector, from conventional to renewable energies.

Salary: Competitive Salary depending on knowledge and experience plus a range of benefits that support your finances, wellbeing, and family.

Benefits: Pension, Life Assurance, Income Protection, Private Medical Cover, Private Dental Cover, 33 days holiday, Holiday Buy, Flexible Working and Employee Assist Programme and CashPlan.

Location: Aberdeen or Glasgow - hybrid working 3 days in the office with flexibility to work from home for 2 days.

You’ll have experience of:

• Identifying opportunities to improve project schedules and in providing comprehensive client reports Ensuring reporting tools are up to date and accurate
• Preparing, updating and issuing project plans as directed by Company PRP
• Liaising with Commercial Department to analyse productivity in terms of man hours and cost
• Ensuring professional development is maintained and identified competency requirements are undertaken in a timely manner

Our GENES, our core values, define who we are, what we stand for and how we deliver.

• Go the extra mile
• Empower our people
• Never get complacent
• Engage our partners
• Step up and deliver

About Us

PD&MS has been engineering solutions in the energy industry and beyond since 2002, our ability to combine innovative ideas with technical expertise sets us apart. A flexible, full-service provider committed to supporting the energy transition, we deliver high-quality project work across the entire lifecycle of assets within the oil and gas, renewables and nuclear sectors. But whoever we work with, it’s the energy, professionalism and purpose of our people that really makes the difference.

Be who you’re meant to be, with PD&MS 

We firmly believe in a work culture in which: individual differences are a source of collective strength and pride; everybody can perform to the best of their abilities and on a level playing field; and all colleagues feel they’re part of our team and their voices will be heard.  We’re already heartened by the diversity within our organisation, but we recognise that there’s always more we can do to improve further.  We welcome applications from all persons regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status. 

We’re energised by the prospect of operating successfully today, tomorrow and far into the future. But we’re also driven to ensure that our business activities are conducted in socially responsible, morally acceptable and sustainable ways.