Senior Planning Engineer

Rubicon Consulting is currently recruiting for a Senior Planning Engineer on a 11 month contract based in Stafford. Role Summary The candidate should be proficient in P6, with strong interpersonal skillset to interact across all the organisation function leaders and the regional leadership. He is comfortable in leading a medium size Project Controls team. He shall have an overarching view of the project controls impact in the execution of large projects and influence major decisions on those projects. His technical background and HVDC experience support strategic orientations aiming at delivering such complex project on time and in budget, despite the various external factors and risks. Responsibilities and Accountabilities: • Leads the Project Controls team on large and complex HVDC projects, and ensures efficiency and effectiveness of that team. • 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 schedu…