Senior Planning Engineer

Overview

In this role you will design and manage the planning framework for a major project, portfolio, or business area within KBR’s nuclear team. You will work closely with project managers to create and maintain schedules, baselines, and change controls, driving timely delivery and reliable reporting. You will mentor planning staff and provide data to risk processes, supporting project outturns and recovery options. This is a pivotal role for shaping planning across complex decommissioning and new-build initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the planning framework and resources to support Project Managers and Sponsors
• Facilitate production of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Prepare, monitor, and forecast baselines and schedules across project phases
• Establish and maintain Basis of Schedule for all schedules
• Ensure schedule activities have Rules of Credit and Quantity Tracking
• Identify and track changes to baselines and support change control
• Prepare progress reports with earned value analysis and recovery options
• Maintain planning database and validate data across systems
• Support risk processes with requisite information
• Provide project outturns against baseline
• Supervise and mentor Planning Engineers and Assistant Planning Engineers
• Contribute to the Project Controls Plan
• Contribute to Policies, Systems, Processes & Procedures

Key requirements

• Extensive experience in planning, scheduling and coordination of inspection and maintenance in oil & gas or petrochemical sectors
• Advanced Primavera P6 skills
• Advanced Excel skills
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Strong ability to coordinate multi-discipline activities and ensure quality/integrity
• Solid planning and coordination capabilities

• Strategic thinking
• Excellence-driven performance
• Collaborative mindset
• Primavera P6
• Excel
• Planning and scheduling

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