Lead Planning Engineer
Posted 5 days ago by PMO Hive Ltd
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Bradford, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Lead Planning Engineer will be an integral part of the delivery team for a major agricultural manufacturing capital programme in the UK. This role requires extensive experience in project planning and scheduling, particularly with Primavera P6, to support a variety of capital projects. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with project teams to ensure effective planning and execution strategies are in place. The position demands a proactive approach to managing complex schedules in a dynamic environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain integrated project schedules using Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project across the capital programme.
- Perform critical path analysis, float management, and schedule risk assessment.
- Produce S-curves, resource histograms, and earned value metrics to track project performance against baseline.
- Deliver weekly and monthly schedule progress reports, variance analysis, and rolling look-ahead programmes.
- Provide specialist planning support for turnaround and planned outage scheduling, including resource loading and execution monitoring.
- Ensure alignment between project schedules, cost forecasts, and resource plans across the portfolio.
- Attend site regularly to validate progress, verify scope, and update schedules based on field conditions.
- Collaborate with project managers, engineers, and contractors to develop achievable execution strategies.
Key Skills:
- 10+ years' experience as a Lead Planning Engineer or Senior Planner on complex capital or industrial programmes.
- Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6 (essential) and Microsoft Project.
- Demonstrated experience in turnaround, shutdown, and outage planning within process, industrial, or energy environments.
- Strong understanding of critical path methodology, resource levelling, and schedule risk analysis.
- Experience producing multi-level progress reporting (Level 1–5), including graphical and tabular outputs and executive narratives.
- Track record of working in embedded client-side or PMC roles within multi-discipline project teams.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Self-motivated and comfortable working autonomously within a site-based environment.
- Desirable: Experience on pharmaceutical, chemical, FMCG, or agricultural manufacturing capital programmes.
- Familiarity with NEC contract scheduling requirements.
- Experience with Acumen Fuse or equivalent schedule quality assessment tools.
- Knowledge of EPC project lifecycle from FEED through construction and commissioning.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Bradford
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
We are seeking an experienced Lead Planning Engineer to join our delivery team on a major UK agricultural manufacturing capital programme. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in project planning and scheduling, with proven expertise in Primavera P6 and a track record of delivering complex schedules across construction, turnaround, and commissioning environments. In this role, you will be embedded full-time within the client's project team, providing dedicated planning and scheduling support across a growing portfolio of capital projects. You will work alongside a co-located PMO Hive team comprising cost engineering, document control, commercial, and strategic advisory functions.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain integrated project schedules using Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project across the capital programme.
- Perform critical path analysis, float management, and schedule risk assessment.
- Produce S-curves, resource histograms, and earned value metrics to track project performance against baseline.
- Deliver weekly and monthly schedule progress reports, variance analysis, and rolling look-ahead programmes.
- Provide specialist planning support for turnaround and planned outage scheduling, including resource loading and execution monitoring.
- Ensure alignment between project schedules, cost forecasts, and resource plans across the portfolio.
- Attend site regularly to validate progress, verify scope, and update schedules based on field conditions.
- Collaborate with project managers, engineers, and contractors to develop achievable execution strategies.
Requirements:
- 10+ years' experience as a Lead Planning Engineer or Senior Planner on complex capital or industrial programmes.
- Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6 (essential) and Microsoft Project.
- Demonstrated experience in turnaround, shutdown, and outage planning within process, industrial, or energy environments.
- Strong understanding of critical path methodology, resource levelling, and schedule risk analysis.
- Experience producing multi-level progress reporting (Level 1–5), including graphical and tabular outputs and executive narratives.
- Track record of working in embedded client-side or PMC roles within multi-discipline project teams.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Self-motivated and comfortable working autonomously within a site-based environment.
Desirable:
- Experience on pharmaceutical, chemical, FMCG, or agricultural manufacturing capital programmes.
- Familiarity with NEC contract scheduling requirements.
- Experience with Acumen Fuse or equivalent schedule quality assessment tools.
- Knowledge of EPC project lifecycle from FEED through construction and commissioning.