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Senior Planner

Bilfinger
Edinburgh
1 month ago
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Bilfinger UK is a leading engineering and maintenance provider, supporting customers across the chemical & petrochemical, nuclear, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals & biopharma, power & energy, utilities, renewables and food & beverage markets. We enhance the efficiency of assets, ensuring a high level of availability and reducing maintenance costs.

We have extensive experience in offshore and onshore facilities; specialising in asset management services throughout all life cycle phases from consulting, engineering, manufacturing, assembly, operations, maintenance, and decommissioning.

This commitment is delivered by an experienced and highly competent workforce of over 4,500 employees operating from 14 offices in strategic industrial hubs, upholding the highest standards of safety, compliance and quality.

The Role

Bilfinger UK are looking for a Senior Planner to be based on site at our Puma project in Hull. The Senior Planner is responsible for consulting and directing the function to provide cost/expenditure transparency, project controls, processes and planning activities to projects and contracts whilst ensuring parity and best practice across the business.

Key Accountabilities

  • Develop and manage an effective project control strategy whilst maintaining the project controls plan and associated procedures
  • Ensure project schedules, including resource loading, critical path analysis and progress monitoring are adopted across all projects
  • Collaborate with commercial manager, project managers and engineers to ensure project objectives are achieved within scope, schedule, and budget constraint
  • Establish cost engineering systems to monitor, control and report costs
  • Aid in the development, integration and optimisation of project programmes
  • Liaise with PMs/RDs to manage the provision of appropriate resources and expertise to successfully deliver the project control activities
  • Liaise with project teams to identify project risks and associated control measures, plus opportunities
  • Assist in the development and monitor the performance of key contracts
  • Ownership of the update of business process and reporting systems/timelines through to project closure
  • Develop bespoke and/or generic rules of credit
  • Develop structured naming conventions in P6 to be rolled out through the business



Specific Activities

  • Review and approve prior to issuance all cost/planning information required for Monthly Project Board meeting
  • Set up and lead the Project Control Meetings
  • Ensure we have robust monthly project updates to the project risk registers and value analysis processes
  • Manage the integration of programmes from various sources
  • Implement progress monitoring and productivity measurement
  • Define and issue the project work breakdown structure and estimating format
  • Monitor expenditure and adjust budgets in accordance with the project change control system



Experience & Qualifications

  • Knowledge and proficiency in P6
  • Strong communication skills both verbal and written, plus strong analytical skills
  • 8 years of experience in a leadership role in project controls
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business or related fields and twelve (12) years' experience in Construction Management, and or ICostE, CEng, IEng
  • ERP system, estimating software, SAP
  • PMO Experience
  • Knowledge or and experience using PowerBI and MS tools
  • Excellent communication skills


If you wish to speak to a member of the recruitment team, please contact .

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