Job title: Planning Engineer
Location: Manchester or Newcastle - Remotely working but travelling between both sites
Contract length: 12 months rolling contract potential to extension
Rate: £450 to £500/day PAYE
Work Hour: standard hours 37.5/week (On site days tend to be Tuesday to Thursdays and home working days Mondays and Fridays - Travel between Manchester and Newcastle)
Randstad Sourceright, a leading provider of RPO & MSP Recruitment Services are currently recruiting a Planning Engineer working on behalf of a leading Energy services company.
This role will focus on sales phase project scheduling for Substations, FACTS and HVDC builds across the UK&I. As an integral part of the front-end team, you will face new challenges every day across all the above business units in programme creation and risk mitigation. In this role, you will form part of a sustainable power supply strategy, which is to be further implemented in the coming years across many projects. Some of other duties include;
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You will create E&C programmes with the support of technical advisors to ensure a robust and achievable build sequence is agreed by all parties.
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You will be crucial in identifying change and potential risk in programme amendments, with the overall objective of driving confidence in a programme that is achievable and competitive.
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Perform scheduling during the bid phase for complex turnkey power transmission projects.
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Build, customize and update a settlement schedule with more than 4000 activities (Primavera P6 scheduling software).
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Regularly updating the schedule through the bid phase considering established project management methods and project reporting (critical path analysis, milestone trend analysis, earned value management, deviation analysis).
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Detection of deviations and development of appropriate countermeasures,and etc
Requirements for the role:
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Completed studies with a technical background or technical training with corresponding many years of professional experience.
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Many years of professional experience with excellent knowledge of the methods of scheduling, resource and project planning and controlling, critical path analysis, network engineering.
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Proven professional experience in engineering, manufacturing, installation and commissioning interfaces.
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PRIMAVERA Enterprise, P6 / MS Project experience.
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Experience in EPC projects, ideally in the field of power transmission.
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Experience through construction site assignments
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Intercultural experience
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Right to work in the UK