Hybrid Lead Planning Engineer

at GE Vernova

• Job title: Lead Planning Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Stafford, United Kingdom

About the role

• Lead Planning Engineer for GE Vernova, focused on projects delivering energy transitions. Engage with teams to drive project planning and execution across renewable energy initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Builds the project baseline gaining approval of client and internal stakeholders
• Maintains project schedule with periodic updates, including resource forecasts throughout the project lifecycles
• Identifies activities prerequisites and help anticipate blockers with wider project team and third parties
• Drive and challenge progress, agree forecast and develop mitigations / catch up plans
• Ensure schedule analysis through various means (schedule movements, S curve, commodity curve, OTD, Say/Do ratio, overplanning, resource loading, productivity…) to determine project schedule trends and related risks & opportunities then work with project team members to drive mitigation strategies
• Provides evidence to PM to advocate for support as appropriate
• Leads collaboration with functional task and resource owners to find strategies to optimize durations and manhours
• Ensures that forecast task durations and logic are understood and committed by the task owners
• Presents all time schedule data in a transparent way, attends project and management reviews to present schedule status, describe trends and forecasts/landing, make proposals and influence strategic decisions
• Produces and communicates internal project reporting of project status
• Produces contractually required customer reporting and is able to communicate directly with customers on scheduling matters
• Leads collaboration with 3rd parties on project schedule interfaces including maintenance of an interface register
• Maintains a register of potential schedule and cost risks in collaboration with the Risk Manager
• Provides time related calculations to ensure change order schedule / cost estimates are accurate
• Aligns with Cost Controller to ensure reconciliation between P6 schedule and approved cost phasing
• Generates “what if” scenarios to optimize execution and works with project teams to evaluate feasibility
• Support disputes and analysis of claims
• Takes full responsibility for the planning output for the assigned project(s) in close coordination with his Project Manager(s)

Requirements

• Degree qualified either in engineering or project management discipline
• Relevant experience in planning turnkey projects in the transmission business (electrical substations)
• Relevant experience in Primavera P6 user (Essential)
• Any experience in HVDC project is a differentiator
• Experience on large & complex infrastructure projects or in international and multicultural environment is a plus
• Knowledge of risk management processes and tools, quantitative risk analysis is a plus
• Experience of cost control function and interface with schedule is a plus
• Experience in applying forensic analysis for EOT claims preparation is a plus
• Robust experience in Primavera P6 user (Essential) and in EPC / turnkey projects
• Excellent interpersonal skills for cross functional daily interaction / good communicator / anticipation and problem-solving aptitude / team spirit / resilient
• Autonomous and reliable
• Customer focus

Benefits

• Competitive benefits
• Professional development opportunities