Planning Engineer

Astute’s Power team is exclusively partnering with a leading CCGT company in the UK to recruit a Planning Engineer to join the team, ideally based in North Lincolnshire with travel to the fleet across the UK.

This permanent role is site-based, with travel required UK wide and offers up to £63,000 plus overtime and benefits.

If you have experience in project planning within a large industrial or power generation environment, with strong knowledge of project controls, scheduling and outage planning, submit your CV today.

Responsibilities of the Planning Engineer

Reporting to the Lead Quality and Planning Engineer you will:

• Support the development and delivery of a standardised outage planning structure to facilitate the safe and efficient execution of projects across the fleet.
• Monitor and report on key project KPIs, including safety, programme, financial performance, environmental compliance and quality assurance.
• Act as the main planning interface across the portfolio, helping implement and improve outage planning procedures, best practices and standard reporting.
• Identify, record and report risks to project milestones, ensuring potential delays and issues are communicated effectively.
• Liaise with site outage managers and internal support functions, including Health & Safety, Environmental, Engineering, Finance and Performance teams.
• Work closely with external contract partners to ensure project programmes accurately reflect planned works and integrate into wider project schedules.
• Ensure ad hoc and emergent projects are subject to the same planning requirements as scheduled works, supporting safe and efficient delivery despite changing priorities.

Required qualifications and experience

To be considered, you must have:

• A minimum HNC qualification in an engineering-related discipline, with a degree being desirable.
• Strong project lifecycle knowledge, including project execution, handover and contract completion.
• Experience in budget forecasting, financial reporting, cost control and contract management.
• Strong experience using planning software such as Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project.
• Knowledge of Health & Safety legislation, CDM, environmental requirements and quality management systems.
• Experience with work planning tools and large rotating plant and/or HRSG pressure systems within a large industrial environment.

Desirable experience

It would be an advantage, but is not essential, to have:

• Previous experience within the power generation industry.
• Experience using Maximo and wider business IT systems.
• Experience working with outage planning and project delivery across multiple sites.

Salary and benefits

• Salary: £60,000 – £63,000
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Site-based, with regular UK-wide travel and overtime as required.
• Location: Ideally North Lincolnshire, with travel to sites across the UK
• Benefits: includes bonus of up to 30%, private medical insurance and 10% pension

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