Senior Planning Engineer

As the Senior Planning Engineer you will support the entire High Voltage (HV) network projects portfolio emcompassing Cabling, Overhead Lines & Substations, ensuring accurate and robust programmes are in place to enable efficient reporting and planning. The Senior Planning Engineer will accurately monitor programme development and delivery through Microsoft Projects ahead of implementing a suitable resource-loaded portfolio programme management tool such as Primavera P6 or similar. You will enable full sensitivity analysis of current baseline portfolio and help inform future decisions for new connection applications and inform business growth decisions.

Main Responsibilities​

• Provide accurate management information on portfolio progress and reliable lookahead forecasts, closely supporting the project teams and Executive Team.
• Establish baseline delivery phase programmes that incorporate tendered scopes of works from the supply chain.
• Provide interpretative analysis of interactions between suppliers, informing the interface risk.
• Undertake sensitivity analysis as required across a range of delay scenarios to inform risk requirements.
• Establish a resource and cost loaded baseline portfolio that can be used to test and analyse risks and issues and can also be used to present cost justifications.

Knowledge & Skills

• Expert application of MS Projects and Primavera P6 (or similar) with the knowledge to originate, integrate, test, maintain and report against programmes through the complete project lifecycle.
• Excellent communication and engagement skills when reporting, negotiating, or dealing individually with stakeholders.​

Experience & Qualifications

• Degree qualification in a relevant subject or previous experience will be considered for this role. Ideally this will include certification in a suitable planning software tool(s).
• Experienced working knowledge of capital project lifecycles from a programme perspective.
• Ideally have worked within the energy industry before.