About the role
Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Planning Engineer to join our Power Transmission & Distribution business based from our Aberdeen office
You will be working on a variety of OHL, Underground Cabling and Substation projects across Scotland up to value of £100m.
We are open to sector experience but all applicants should be accomplished P6 Planners with knowledge of Project Controls.
Hours: 37.5 per week
What you’ll be doing

On a day to day basis you will be responsible for the following:

• Support the planning and monitoring of all activities within the project programmes.
• Ensure the delivery of weekly and monthly programme reports in line with the project reporting timetable.
• Maintain an accurate fully logically linked programme in line with the contract requirements.
• Participate in the development of the planning team and promotion of best practices

ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Competent Primavera P6 user- preferably within Power Transmission projects
• Significant Operational experience of complex large construction projects.
• Proven Experience of Project Management methodology
• Proven ability in working with engineering / operational teams to capture real time progress.
• Excellent communication / presentation skills.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: (FOR ALL MAJOR AND COMPLEX PROGRAMMES)

• Plan, structure and lead the planning of the project programme of works.
• Manage the interface between the programme and the operational staff through structured meetings, programme and progress reporting.
• Highlight both the dependencies and the interfaces between stakeholders.
• Identify programme risks and propose mitigation strategies.
• Identify programme opportunities and propose capture strategies.
• Maintain a fully logically linked Primavera P6 project programme
• Ensure the schedule is resourced (plant and personnel) and update to reflect modifications in execution strategy. This will require close work with the project delivery team to regularly maintain the status of the programme.
  Who we’re looking for

On a day to day basis you will be responsible for the following:

• Support the planning and monitoring of all activities within the project programmes.
• Ensure the delivery of weekly and monthly programme reports in line with the project reporting timetable.
• Maintain an accurate fully logically linked programme in line with the contract requirements.
• Participate in the development of the planning team and promotion of best practice