Senior Planner in Boden

SENIOR PLANNER

Location: Boden, SE

Contract duration: initial 12 month contract - renewable

Start Date: ASAP

Roster: Rotation (6 weeks on, 2 weeks off - 53 hours per week), or Residential (M-F, 40 hours per week)

Project: Boden - 6 billion EUR green steel project

Job Overview

The Senior Planner uses Planning/Scheduling discipline practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the Planning/Scheduling discipline. They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the Planning/Scheduling discipline. They solve complex problems and use their discipline‑specific knowledge to improve their products or services. The Senior Planner impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the Planning/Scheduling team and other related teams and ensures that they are working within the appropriate guidelines and policies.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Perform schedule analysis using Project Management software including Primavera P6, Deltek Fuse & Risk, and Microsoft Project




• Support project baseline creation during the project initiation and setup phase




• Facilitate detailed multi‑discipline scope reviews




• Provide project schedule support and mentor junior planners as required




• Develop and maintain logically linked level 3 and level 4 activity schedules, for construction projects in the Oil and Gas (or similar) industry, using best practices




• Produce workforce histograms and progress and quantity curves in connection with the schedules




• Maintain and review the sequence of Engineering, Procurement, Fabrication, Construction, Hook‑Up, and Commissioning, and other operations for control of critical path and overall project durations




• Elevate and expedite operations that are delaying the schedule and analyze changes to the schedule to meet unforeseen conditions




• Create and Monitor schedule compliance, key performance, factors, and provide analysis of variations to baseline data




• Identify factors, both current and potential, that may delay the schedule. Assess actions for recovery and improvement and analyze changes to the schedule to meet unforeseen conditions




• Lead and deliver initiatives

Essential Qualifications and Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Project Management / Engineering / Construction / Business Management or equivalent combinations of technical training or experience required




• Minimum 7-10 years of Planning and Scheduling experience on major EPC / EPCm projects, working within the Oil & Gas, Energy, Steel, Mining, Industrial, or Heavy Construction sectors.




• Have solid commands of Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Office software




• Must be able to use advanced features in Excel (curves, histograms, dynamic tables, formulas, etc.)




• Able to produce and maintain logically linked activity schedules, according to precedence flow in EPCm planning, using best practices




• Able to produce and assess progress curves, histograms, variance reports, and critical paths




• Able to analyze project status and performance, deviations, performance factors, forecasts, and workarounds




• Must be able to produce multidisciplinary logically linked activity schedules, according to precedence flow in planning, using best industry practices




• Ability to effectively communicate with team members and management

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