Planning Engineer

Job Description

As Planning Engineer you will be a fundamental part of our Project Controls team responsible for providing planning support, working with Project Managers to develop and manage schedules to incorporate risk, change, resource requirements and cost.

Please note potential candidates for this role must be able to obtain and retain CTC (Counter Terrorist Check) level security clearance to be considered for this position. (Minimum 3 years residence in UK).

Responsibilities

• Develop, control, monitor, analyse and report on schedule related aspects for designated projects with a portfolio
• Establish and monitor a cost and resource loaded, logic linked, baseline plan for the project in accordance with EDF processes
• Capture project budgetary costs and resources in the plan to determine time phasing of expenditure and the total project budget
• Establish robust Work Breakdown and Project Control Structures in terms of project scope
• Maintain and control project baselines in line with company procedures and guidance, challenging schedule and cost variances against the baseline plan
• Lead on EVM methodology and practice within the project
• Facilitate acceptance of and ensure that the project plan embraces the full project work scope, is fit for purpose and is achievable
• Regular interfacing and integration with the project controls team to maintain an aligned financial position with the Project Plan
  
  

Qualifications

Essential

• Primavera (P6) trained and experienced
• Experience in building cost and resource loaded plans
• Experience / understanding of Earned Value Analysis
• High level of numeracy and excellent analytical skills
  
  

Desirable

• Experience / understanding in the interpretation of estimating, scheduling, programming and risk tools
• Relevant experience in Project Controls and/or Project Delivery, preferably in a highly regulated environment
• HNC/HND, degree qualified or experience in a cost related discipline is desirable
  
  

About Us

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

About The Team

Costain helps to improve people’s lives by deploying technology-based engineering solutions to meet urgent national needs across the UK’s energy, water and transportation infrastructures.

Skills

Costain provides a project controls and commercial managed service to portfolios and programmes of work across EDF Energy’s eight UK nuclear power stations. As part of this work Costain will develop people capability in core project control skills and provide specialist support to EDFs Central Technical Organisation to improve project performance and deliver cost efficiencies. We are supporting EDF in 2 main areas:

• to successfully deliver projects that maximise the lifespan of their generating stations
• to successfully deliver a Defueling & Decommissioning programme, a first of a kind
  
  

endeavour for the UK.