Overview In this Senior Principal Planner role, you solve complex planning challenges that shape program direction and resource allocation across major projects. You will serve as a planning expert within Project Controls, influencing schedules and governance to support delivery. You'll work with cross-functional teams to translate strategies into integrated plans, addressing risks and constraints. This position offers impact across offshore, subsea, and energy-transition initiatives at a global company.
Responsibilities- Lead development and governance of Level 3 and Level 4 schedules using Primavera P6
- Translate execution strategies and scope into integrated schedules
- Establish WBS, calendars, milestones, and reporting frameworks
- Facilitate multidisciplinary planning workshops and schedule reviews
- Develop integrated schedules across Engineering, Procurement, Fabrication, Construction, Installation, Commissioning, and Readiness activities
- Ensure schedules reflect resources, long-lead procurement, interfaces, permitting, marine logistics, weather, and other drivers
- Analyze project performance with critical path, trend analysis, and schedule forecasting
- Perform schedule risk assessments and develop mitigation and recovery strategies
- Coordinate schedule integration with cost, progress, earned value, risk, and reporting systems
- Lead stakeholder engagement, schedule reviews with clients and internal teams
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and development of planning standards and processes
- Lead lessons learned and continuous improvement initiatives in planning
Key requirements- 15+ years of planning and scheduling experience on major EPC/EPCI/EPCIC capital projects
- Advanced Primavera P6 expertise
- Strong understanding of critical path methodology, schedule forecasting, schedule assurance, and risk analysis
- Experience creating and managing integrated multidisciplinary schedules across full project lifecycle
- Advanced Excel skills (curves, histograms, dynamic tables, formulas)
- Experience in Oil & Gas, LNG, Power, Industrial or related industries
- Strong communication, leadership, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to influence decisions using objective analysis and sound judgment
- leadership
- facilitation
- stakeholder management
- Primavera P6
- Excel (advanced)
- Deltek Acumen Risk or equivalent
