Engineering Planner

Drydocks World is expanding to Serbia!

We are establishing a new Engineering Project Support Centre in Belgrade , creating exciting opportunities for talented Serbian engineers to contribute to major global EPC, FPSO, Offshore Oil & Gas, and HVDC projects.

If you are interested in working on world-class projects while helping build a new engineering hub from the ground up, we would love to hear from you.

Job Purpose:

Responsible for project planning services on projects and proposals, in accordance with information approved by the Project Manager / Project Proposal Manager. Responsible for the development, monitoring and control of project schedules throughout the lifecycle of an EPC project. This role ensures effective planning and progress tracking across, engineering, procurement, and construction phases aligning with project milestones and contractual requirements. The senior Planner works closely with Planning Manager, Lead Planner, Discipline Leads and subcontractors to maintain schedule integrity, identify delays and risks and provide timely analysis and reports for informed decision making.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the integrated project schedule covering Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Commissioning phases.
• Regularly update the schedule with actual progress and forecasted activities.
• Collect progress data from discipline leads, site teams, and subcontractors.
• Analyze schedule performance (Planned vs. Actual) and issue weekly/monthly progress reports and dashboards.
• Monitor critical paths and highlight deviations or slippages.
• Conduct daily/weekly planning meetings with project teams to review schedule status and upcoming activities.
• Interface with Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Quality teams to gather input and validate schedule assumptions.
• Communicate schedule risks and mitigation plans to the Project Manager and relevant stakeholders.
• Identify schedule risks and constraints and perform what-if scenarios or delay impact analyses.
• Support the project team with recovery plans and optimization strategies.
• Coordinating with discipline leads to ensure resource loading is accurate and aligned with the project schedule.
• Analyze resource availability vs. demand and report any imbalances or bottlenecks.
• Manage interfaces between internal departments and external parties (vendors, subcontractors, client).
• Ensure schedule alignment across all interfaces and milestones.
• Assess the schedule impact of variations, scope changes, and rework.
• Support preparation of Extension of Time (EOT) claims with substantiated delay analysis.
• Ensure all planning activities adhere to project procedures, contract requirements, and client expectations.
• Maintain records of planning documents, schedules, baselines, and progress evidence.

Required experience:

• Minimum of 7 years experience in Planning (EPC projects)
• Experience in HVDC/ OFFSHORE FEED and EPC projects.
• Demonstrated experience and working understanding of project planning and scheduling.
• Demonstrated capability to lead a group responsible for planning, scheduling.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in any engineering discipline preferred.

Key Competencies

• Proficient in Primavera (P6) & Microsoft project with working experience.
• Working experience as a Lead project planner in oil and gas construction, or a shipyard.
• Familiarity with day-to-day yard operations / resource allocations.
• Ability to interpret and perform analysis of schedule reports and data.
• Ability to integrate schedule for multiple facilities constructed at multiple locations.
• Experience in preparation of cost estimates.

Izvor: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4477361838/

Nivo: mid level