Planning Engineer

Planning Engineer and Senior Planning Engineer
Location: Seascale
Working hours: 37 hours per week
Salary: £35 - £45 P/H Ltd (DOE)
Duration: 12 Months

Our client, a nuclear power site is seeking an experienced Planning Engineers and Senior Planning Engineers to provide an integrated planning and scheduling service within a comprehensive Programme and Project Controls framework, within a major project or multi-projects. 

Your responsibilities will include;

• To maintain compliance with standard and expectations concerning safety
• To comply with programme controls procedures, processes and systems to ensure that quality and consistency is maintained
• To contribute to improving the quality and performance of planning and scheduling processes and systems
• To prepare a work breakdown structure and plan (for the Lifetime Plan) in conjunction with the Work Scope Manager and in accordance with the requirements set by the Head of Planning Capability
• To assist the Work Scope Manager in developing the programme of work
• To prepare schedules that include all activities detailed within the scope of work
• Discuss and agree resources, costs and timescales with the Work Scope Manager so that the plan is fully resourced and cost loaded
• Gather information for progress reporting and report actual performance and analyse variance against the plan on a monthly basis (as a minimum)
• Develop and maintain (where appropriate) quantity tracking to underpin progress against schedules
• Recommend recovery action plans based on programme analysis
• Identify within the schedule key risk mitigation activities in conjunction with the OU risk manager
• Support and facilitate the project risk management processes in conjunction with the Risk Co-ordinator/Project Risk Practitioner
• Monitor and audit subcontractor plans
• Produces effective, deliverable based schedules – fully resource and cost loaded.
• Risk mitigation and schedule contingency integrated into schedules.

The successful candidate will posses;

• Previous planning experience
• NVQ Level 3 in Project Controls
• Previous P6 knowledge and experience
• IT literate with strong knowledge and experience of the Microsoft packages including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Previous Nuclear site experience desirable or other highly regulated industry experience.

PLEASE NOTE; If you are successful in securing this contract you will need to undergo a Disclosure Scotland security check.  This will be at a cost of £25 to yourself.