Job Title: Senior Planning Engineer
Job Location: Aberdeen (Hybrid 3 days per week from office)
Industry: Oil and Energy, Tech
Employment type: Contract (12 months initially)
Role Overview
Responsible for the development and monitoring of project plans at various levels, schedule basis and assumptions document, key dates and milestones driving the critical path and produce scurves. There will also be a requirement to validate and integrate schedules from internal and third-party sources in conformance with BP Planning, Scheduling and Project Coordination procedures.
Key accountabilities:
- Develop and monitor Level 1, 2 & 3 schedules including the Schedule Basis and Assumptions document.
- Create simple visualisations using data from P6 to support communications with a broad set of stakeholders.
- Develop and assure integrity of the project schedules, provide analysis to ensure the project team are aware of key changes and impact to critical / near critical paths including production of scurves to support this.
- Ensure the integrity and efficiency of planning and progress measurement.
- Provide planning support to the Project Team and Project Leader to ensure compliance with the Project Planning and Scheduling Procedure and projects common process.
- Ensure contractor compliance with contractual planning, scheduling, and reporting requirements especially those detailed contractually within the Project Coordination Procedures (PCP).
- Integrate offshore activities into the 8Q schedule and manage the MO process to ensure platform support is known and approved by Ops.
- Ensure all project work Adhere to the gate readiness process for Ops which will also include any contractors working on the projects.
Qualifications
- Primavera P6, schedule risk analysis
Key Skills
- Strong capability within P6,
- Excellent communication
- and to simply planning visuals
- ability to identify and articulate critical path(s)
- ability to integrate across multiple delivery and functional streams
We believe the world wants and needs a better and more balanced energy system that delivers secure, affordable and lower-carbon energy. We're playing our part by investing in today's energy system, which is mainly oil and gas – and, not or – in our transition and the energy transition. While today we’re mostly in oil and gas, we increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon & other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023. Increasing investment in these engines is a sign that bp’s wider transformation is underway.
