Planning Engineer

· Collaborate with and advise Project Managers and Engineering teams to fully capture scope, plan and sequence work to create logically linked schedules.

· Create resource and cost load schedules to support the generation of resource, progress and cost profiles.

· Identify and proactively monitor schedule risk within the project schedule and ensure that impact or avoidance is reflected in the schedule as drawdown of schedule contingency.

· Develop and maintain project progress trackers and Power BI reports to provide substantiated progress for schedule updates.

· Analyse, understand and challenge project teams on variance against Baseline schedules and previously reported forecasts.

· Lead the periodic reviews with Project Managers to assess project schedule performance within the wider context of the Customer Delivery department portfolio of projects.

· Ownership of Project Schedules, progress trackers and time related performance reporting.

· Support Principal Project Controls Manager with the updating of resource allocation on projects to enable capacity analysis of on-going projects and proposed projects.

· Participate in client progress reviews including the production of all schedule reporting requirements.

· Support Project Managers with internal and external progress reporting, Quality Assurance of Sub-contract schedules for scope, logic, durations.

· Utilise planning experience to aid with continuous improvement of systems and processes.

Requirements

You’ll be successful in this role if you have a combination of below knowledge, skills and experience:

· The ideal candidate will possess 5 - 8 years experience in an engineering project environment, preference for process industries knowledge (Chemicals, Oil and Gas or similar), with at least 4 years of project execution and delivery.

· Exposure, either working for or as an interfacing supplier or client to, EPC contracting environments.

· Highly experienced with scheduling systems (P6, MSP)

· Experience with schedule resource and cost loading.

· Experience with progress monitoring techniques and Earned Value concepts.

· Advanced Excel and Power Query skills are essential; knowledge of Power BI is good to have.

· Demonstrated high level of autonomy, diligence and a collaborative, positive nature is essential.

· A “can do” attitude, bringing solutions, not problems.

· Strong interpersonal and communication skills – able to influence both with and without authority across remote / dispersed teams.

· Negotiation and understanding – able to assist teams with competing priorities and workloads to continue progressing multiple projects.

· Comfortable with the tension between expectations to operate independently yet proactively engaging with others for support when needed – support a no surprises culture

· Demonstrable experience driving project delivery excellence in ambiguous and changing circumstances

· Commercial awareness with a focus on delivering to budget and schedule

· Structured, detailed and organised approach with an open mind to innovation

· Entrepreneurial spirit in maximising profit and finding opportunities.

Benefits

· The opportunity to continue to develop both personally and professionally, in our rapidly growing company

· A culture that encourages excellence, ownership, flexibility and care

· Our great workplaces with excellent facilities and perks, where we can come together to collaborate with like-minded colleagues

· Our flexible approach to working – including our hybrid approach and days to work from anywhere globally

We provide these benefits & perks

· 24 days leave per annum, plus 10 gazette public holidays

· Private Healthcare for you and your family

· Group Life Insurance

· EAP & Wellbeing programmes

· Individual training budget tailored towards your personal development

· Funding support towards professional memberships

· Breakfast and lunch provided in office

We believe everyone Belongs @ Carbon Clean

We are passionate and committed to our people. Our aim is to build a diverse and inclusive movement: teams of forward-thinking people, with unique talents, skills, passions, and experiences. It’s talent that matters to us and we encourage everyone to join us, whatever your gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, life experience, or background. So please come as you are – we can’t wait to meet you.

We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you!