Project Planner/Junior Project Planner - Life Sciences

Location: Stevenage

Bilfinger UK is a leading engineering and maintenance provider, supporting customers across the chemical & petrochemical, nuclear, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals & biopharma, power & energy, utilities, renewables and food & beverage markets. We enhance the efficiency of assets, ensuring a high level of availability and reducing maintenance costs.

We have extensive experience in offshore and onshore facilities; specialising in asset management services throughout all life cycle phases from consulting, engineering, manufacturing, assembly, operations, maintenance, and decommissioning. This commitment is delivered by an experienced and highly competent workforce of over 4,500 employees operating from 14 offices in strategic industrial hubs, upholding the highest standards of safety, compliance and quality.

To develop, operate and monitor the relevant contract programmes for the work scope so that the contract can be controlled and executed within budget and duration.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Produce a programme of activities from a given scope of work
• Liaise with all relevant parties to report accurate contract status
• Experience of using a planning software - ideally Primavera P6 - and excel to provide prompt accurate and regular information
• Awareness of the impact of planning on safety, quality and cost considerations
• To monitor and update the contract programme by relevant discussion with all parties
• To predict and communicate critical path deviations to enable management to take corrective action
• To incorporate emergent works effectively into existing programmes
• To report progress against programme on a regular basis and record any delays with associated reasoning
• Monitor programme continually against performance

• Anticipate problem areas regarding critical paths and advise remedial action
• Allocate the estimate costs to the activities on the programme and assist in the baselining of the programme
• Development and communication of resource requirements necessary to meet the demands of the project timescales
• Analyse Earned Value Performance on the project

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Sufficient and appropriate assistant/trainee Planning Engineer experience.
• Sufficient and appropriate experience in Petrochemical, Power & Process Industry Sectors.
• Working knowledge of NEC 3&4 contracts
• Relevant HNC/Degree qualification
• QCF Diploma Level 3/5 Planning
• APMP Practitioner
• Craft training, supported by relevant CPD training

If you wish to speak to a member of the recruitment team, please contact 01224 246246.

Engineering & Consultancy | Bilfinger UK Limited | Permanent | White-collar workers | Professional | Project Management