Senior Planner

Overview / Responsibilities:
Wood is currently looking for a Senior Planner to work on the engineering and project management services in Saudi Arabia
- Responsible for the development and delivery of the resource loaded, robust baseline project schedules
- Produce of all project plans and associated documents (“S” curves, Histograms, tabulated man hour / progress data)
- Prepare the required weekly and monthly progress reports for the project
- Provide analysis of the progress and schedule performance including productivity and critical path
- Provide the Project Team with the relevant planning and reporting information
- Ensure that all services and deliverables conform to Company, Client and Project QA Plan, policies, requirements and standards
- Ensure that, at all times, the project team are fully aware of The Project targets
- The current status
- Exceptions to plan
- Required remedial actio
- Provide forecast for recovery to the plan where required
- Promote good working relationship within the Project Controls Teams and other project departments and client representatives
- Ensure all planning work is carried out in compliance with Corporate and Project specific procedures

Skills / Qualifications:

- Degree in Engineering or equivalent
- Minimum of 7 years’ experience within a similar Engineering Company environment
- Level 5 QCF in Planning / Project Controls
- Member of a Professional Institution
- Previous Planning experience, responsible for a large sized project or large sized - sub - element of a major project
- Previous experience in controlling, directing, supervising and managing the day to day activities of a planning team
- Able to communicate with all levels up to top management
- Demonstrates excellent leadership skills
- Capable of setting up, managing and motivating a team to deliver the planning objectives and achieving targets / milestones
- IT / Computer Literacy, in particular, Primavera P6 102, Primavera P6 106 and Microsoft Excel
- Understands and applies planning theory, process, and best practices
- Capable of communicating with project groups and third parties to agreed standards, systems, processes to meet the project and client requirements
- Capable of managing and coordinated approach to resolving procedural issues in a timely manner
- Capable of the development and maintaining of performance targets

Company Overview:
Diversity Statement:
We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.