Job Description

Lead Planner required for a major offshore windf arm developer based in Scotland

Responsibilities

• Lead the Planning team and manage the Programme schedule (Primavera P6) ensuring clear, timely and accurate information is provided to Project Management, the Project Board and Lenders as required.
• Co-ordinate development and management of the detailed project Execution programme, integrating Contractor programmes, internal Project Management, Financing and Engineering activities, and Regulatory/Consenting requirements, ensuring alignment with key project milestones and schedule drivers and accounting for interfaces between packages and scopes of work.
• Undertake analysis of Delay Events notified within Contractor\xe2\x80\x99s Claims to determine the validity of these claims.
• Assess and communicate schedule impact of project change control notifications, and schedule impact of progress reported.
• Co-ordinating monthly updates to Project programme.
• Work closely with Interface and Package managers to ensure project interfaces are optimised for Project delivery.
• Manage project programme reporting outputs.
• Take a leading role in Schedule Risk Analysis, both through What-if scenario planning, and through use of quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis tools.
• Assist Project Management decision making by providing clear and concise analysis of impacts of schedule delays and mitigation strategies.
• Regular presentation of programme information to senior leadership both within the project and within the wider Renewables business.
• Assist in training and development of other team members.

• Significant major Project Planning experience, working within large, multi-contract Engineering and Construction projects, including building fully integrated complex activity networks.
• Experience in a similar role within offshore wind.
• Significant experience of leading a Project Planning team.
• Highly skilled user of Primavera P6 planning software.
• Experience in carrying out delay analysis and analysis of schedule implications of contractor claims.
• Experience in running what-if scenarios and schedule risk analysis.
• Ability to produce clear and concise information that will assist senior management decision making.
• Focus on continuous improvement, striving to improve the quality of planning output as an aid to project decision making.
• Commercial Awareness \xe2\x80\x93 knowledge of construction contracting structures.
• Financial Awareness \xe2\x80\x93 knowledge of project financing strategies, routes to market within the wind industry, and an understanding of the interrelations between programme and revenue returns.

Taylor Hopkinson