Senior Project Planner

Overview

Plan and manage EPC project schedules, lead baseline, risk, and bid support.

Key Responsibilities

• primavera p6
• schedule development
• earned value
• baseline management
• risk identification
• bid scheduling

Tasks

-Ensure compliance with client requirements and internal governance, including support for audits, reporting, and security standards. -Create and manage bid-phase schedules, supporting estimating and commercial teams with planning input for competitive tenders. -Identify schedule risks and opportunities, integrating mitigations into project plans and advising project teams on schedule impact. -Mentor junior planners and support continuous improvement, driving planning standards and best practice across the business. -Lead baseline and re-baseline processes, ensuring schedule alignment with scope changes and project control procedures. -Send Vacancy to a friend -Monitor and report progress through earned value analysis, S-curves, KPIs, and critical path tracking to support performance management. -Coordinate closely with multi-discipline teams (engineering, procurement, production) to validate planning assumptions and logic. -Develop and maintain detailed project schedules using Primavera P6 across the full EPC lifecycle, from initiation to closeout.

Requirements

• primavera p6
• sap
• cpm
• earned value
• security clearance
• communication

What You Bring

-Proven experience as a Senior Project Planner on complex EPC projects. -Ability to produce high-quality planning outputs under tight bid deadlines. -Proficient in baseline creation, maintenance, and re-baselining in dynamic project environments. -Experience working with or integrating data from ERP systems (Glovia, SAP, etc.). -Advanced user of Primavera P6. -You will need to be able to gain UK security clearance to be eligible for this position. -Comfortable working independently and quickly integrating into new teams or projects. -Strong command of critical path methodology (CPM) and schedule risk identification. -Experience with S-curves, earned value, productivity tracking, and forecasting. -Excellent communication and reporting skills — verbal, written, and graphical.

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About James Fisher And Sons Plc

-Evolved into a global marine engineering powerhouse. -A global marine engineering powerhouse. -Fleet underpins ocean-going and coastal transport alongside specialized technical services across energy, defence, and renewables. -Pioneered heavy-lift sea transport and nuclear-fuel carriage in the 1960s, and later developed deep-sea rescue submarines. -Typical projects include offshore oil decommissioning, diving, and ROV operations, and submarine rescue missions. -With subsidiaries like Fendercare, Divex, and JFD, serves sectors from energy and marine to defense, nuclear, ports, and infrastructure. -In 2005, helped rescue seven Russian sailors using its Scorpio 45 submersible—an unusual highlight in its history.

Sector Specialisms

Security Clearance

-uk security clearance required