Planning Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Developed, implemented, and managed integrated project schedules throughout the complete project lifecycle using Primavera P6.
• Created and maintained logic-driven baseline programmes, ensuring alignment with project scope, milestones, and contractual requirements.
• Monitored project progress, updated schedules with actual performance data, and forecast completion dates and remaining durations.
• Performed critical path analysis and identified programme risks, delays, and opportunities, recommending effective mitigation and recovery strategies.
• Produced regular planning reports, schedule narratives, and performance dashboards for project teams, senior management, and clients.
• Applied Earned Value Management (EVM) principles to measure project performance, monitor productivity, and support cost and schedule control.
• Conducted schedule risk analysis to evaluate programme contingencies and assess potential impacts on project delivery.
• Collaborated closely with project managers, commercial teams, contractors, site management, and engineering disciplines to ensure programme alignment and successful execution.
• Managed programme changes through robust change control processes, maintaining a clear audit trail of schedule revisions and their impacts.
• Supported NEC3 contract administration by ensuring planning and scheduling activities complied with contractual requirements.
• Performed resource loading, expenditure tracking, and forecasting to optimise resource utilisation and improve project performance.
• Facilitated project progress meetings, challenging programme assumptions and driving corrective actions where necessary.
• Mentored junior planners and promoted best practices in planning, scheduling, and project controls across multidisciplinary teams.

Key Skills & Expertise

• Primavera P6 Planning & Scheduling
• Critical Path Method (CPM)
• Project Controls
• Earned Value Management (EVM)
• Schedule Risk Analysis
• Baseline Programme Development
• Progress Monitoring & Forecasting
• NEC3 Contract Planning
• Resource Loading & Cost Tracking
• Change Management
• Project Lifecycle Management
• Construction Planning
• Stakeholder Management
• Programme Reporting & Schedule Analysis
• Microsoft Excel & Microsoft Office Suite

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