Project Planner ( Lead)
Project Planner ( Lead)
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: PAYE/ Full Time
Working with the planning team, the Lead Planning Engineer is responsible for ensuring that all project planning, control management support to Projects and other corporate functions needs are met.
This opportunity would suit an experienced Planner who has in-depth project planning experience preferably within an Operator but not essential. The role is a secondment role into a client’s organisation at the clients office in Aberdeen. The project is made up of a small team dedicated to turbine scopes delivery for the client across multiple platforms. The role is available on an PAYE basis through an umbrella company.
Duties:
- Responsible for the preparation and maintenance of the Company project plan / schedule and interface with / input to Client project plan
- Understand and positively react to PD&MS needs in an expedient and proactive manner within the planning function
- Responsible for the identification and delivery of department project deliverables in accordance with agreed schedules and priorities
- Responsible for the development and improvement of Planning systems, tools and processes
- Lead and support the periodic review of company Planning procedures and policy
- Attend kick off meetings and gather data to determine schedule constraints
- Establish set project baselines and obtain agreement from all stakeholders
- Liaise and interface with Client Representatives on issues of project planning
- Carry out data retrieval and review pursuant to project planning status
- Undertake general project related activities as required
- Lead, attend and support Planning Risk Reviews as required
- Compliance with Corporate Planning standards
- Communicate potential project plan / schedule risk to PRP
- Prepare, update and issue project plans
- Incorporate up to date information on project planning and control principles to the wider team, providing guidance and mentoring as needed
- Provide planning support in preparation / approval of tenders
- Responsible for ensuring professional development is maintained and identified competency requirements are undertaken in a timely manner
- Adherence to the company integrated management system
- Compliance 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
- Adherence 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