Team Recruitment

Job Description

Team Recruitment is supporting a leading energy operator in the search for an experienced Senior Project Planner to join their Developments and Decommissioning Projects Team. This is a key role supporting world-class field development and decommissioning projects, providing a full planning service to multi-disciplinary project teams.

This is a challenging and varied position, ideal for an established planner with strong technical capability and the confidence to engage across complex project environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and manage detailed project schedules for capital projects and decommissioning activities
• Support projects including subsea development and installation, drilling and completions, facilities engineering, and asset decommissioning
• Monitor and report project progress using earned value analysis, S-curves, KPIs, and critical path analysis
• Lead planning workshops, schedule reviews, and stakeholder engagement sessions
• Chair weekly planning meetings and coordinate planning inputs across disciplines
• Lead baseline and re-baseline activities in line with scope changes and project controls
• Work closely with engineering, procurement, production, and asset planning teams to validate assumptions
• Liaise with asset planners to ensure construction activities are accurately reflected
• Mentor junior planners and promote planning best practice
• Support continuous improvement initiatives across planning activities

Desired Qualities / Qualifications

Essential:

• Proven experience as a Senior Project Planner within Oil & Gas or a similar heavy engineering environment
• Expert or proficient user of Oracle Primavera
• Strong knowledge of critical path methodology (CPM) and schedule risk
• Experience producing high-quality planning outputs to tight deadlines
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Ability to work independently and proactively
• Strong communication skills (written, verbal, and graphical)
• Experience supporting large-scale capital projects

Preferred:

• Offshore or site experience
• Decommissioning project planning experience
• Experience mentoring or supporting junior planners

Qualifications

• Demonstrable track record in a similar senior planning role
• Minimum of 10 years’ relevant experience
• Degree qualification in Project Management, Engineering, or a related discipline (preferred)

Personal Attributes

• Strong team player with the ability to engage across all organisational levels
• Self-motivated with a positive, flexible, and proactive approach
• Organised, detail-focused, and comfortable working in a multi-disciplinary environment

• Consultant(s)

  Darren

• Vacancy ID

  TR2026023

• Job Type

  Contract