Project Planning Engineer / Scheduler

Enoella Consult - Project Planning Engineer / Scheduler

Location: Rivers Project: Power / Engineering Projects Employment Type: Full-Time / Project-Based Reports To Head of Operations & Projects / Project Manager

Key Interfaces: Client, Project Manager, Engineering, Procurement, Contracts, Operations, HSE, QA/QC, Finance, Subcontractors, Vendors and Site Teams

Position Purpose

• The Project Planning Engineer / Scheduler is responsible for developing, maintaining, and monitoring project plans and schedules to support the successful delivery of the Gas Turbine Power Plant Construction Project, which includes engineering, fabrication, procurement, construction, inspection, testing, and commissioning activities.
• The role will provide reliable project controls information to the Project Manager, Client and Management Team by establishing realistic schedules, monitoring planned versus actual progress, identifying critical path constraints and schedule risks, and supporting timely recovery actions where projects are delayed.

Key Responsibilities

Project Planning & Scheduling:

• Develop detailed project schedules in line with approved project scope, deliverables, milestones, contractual requirements, and project execution strategies.
• Develop Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), activity lists, logic networks, sequencing, dependencies and project milestones.
• Establish realistic activity durations, relationships, calendars and resource requirements.
• Develop and maintain appropriate Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 schedules as required by project scope and reporting requirements.
• Integrate engineering, procurement, fabrication, logistics, construction, inspection, testing and commissioning activities into project schedules.
• Establish approved baseline schedules and maintain schedule revisions in accordance with project controls requirements.

Progress Monitoring & Schedule Control:

• Monitor planned versus actual progress and identify schedule variances, slippage, and emerging constraints.
• Track critical path activities and identify activities that may affect contractual or project completion dates.
• Prepare and maintain weekly and monthly project progress updates and planning reports.
• Develop S-curves, progress measurement tools and look-ahead schedules, including short-term planning horizons where applicable.
• Analyse schedule slippage and support the Project Manager in developing recovery, mitigation and acceleration plans.
• Follow up outstanding activities, commitments and interfaces that may affect project delivery.

Project Controls, Reporting & Coordination:

• Establish and maintain project planning and reporting systems appropriate to each project.
• Collect, validate and consolidate progress information from engineering, procurement, operations, construction and other project teams.
• Prepare project dashboards showing schedule performance, milestones, progress trends, key risks and constraints.
• Provide Planned versus Actual analysis and schedule performance information to Management and the Project Manager.
• Support Earned Value Management and other project performance measurement activities where applicable.
• Participate in project planning meetings, progress meetings, and schedule review sessions.
• Coordinate planning inputs from Engineering, Procurement, Contracts, Operations, HSE, QA/QC and Finance.

Risk, Change & Delay Management:

• Identify schedule risks, constraints, interfaces and activities that may affect project performance.
• Maintain a schedule risk and constraints register and monitor actions to closure.
• Assess the schedule impact of approved and proposed changes, variations and revised project requirements.
• Support delay analysis and Extension of Time (EOT) documentation where required.
• Provide early warning of potential schedule risks and recommend practical mitigation measures.
• Support the development and monitoring of recovery and acceleration schedules.

Subcontractor & Vendor Schedule Coordination:

• Review subcontractor and vendor schedules and confirm alignment with the approved project programme.
• Obtain and validate progress updates, delivery dates, and schedule commitments from subcontractors and vendors.
• Monitor procurement and material delivery milestones that may affect project execution.
• Identify interface issues between vendors, subcontractors and project disciplines and escalate them appropriately.

Documentation & Project Close-Out:

• Maintain current project schedules, schedule revisions, progress records and planning documentation.

• Ensure project planning records are properly controlled, traceable and available for reporting and audit purposes.

• Provide planning inputs to client reports, management reports and project review presentations.

• Support project close-out by documenting final schedule performance, key delays, recovery actions and lessons learned.

• Maintain historical project planning data for future estimating, planning and project execution activities.

• Key Performance Indicators

• Schedule quality: accuracy, completeness and logical integrity of project schedules and baselines.

• Progress monitoring: timely and accurate capture, validation and reporting of planned versus actual progress.

• Schedule control: early identification and escalation of critical path issues, delays, constraints and emerging risks.

• Reporting: timely, accurate and decision-useful weekly and monthly planning reports, dashboards and schedule analyses.

• Recovery planning: timely development and monitoring of practical recovery and mitigation actions for schedule slippage.

• Stakeholder coordination: effective collection and consolidation of planning information from project disciplines, subcontractors and vendors.

Requirements

• B.Eng. / B.Sc./HND in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying or a closely related discipline.
• 3–5 years relevant experience in project planning, scheduling or project controls, preferably within Power, Oil & Gas, EPC, engineering, fabrication, construction or industrial projects.
• Demonstrable experience developing and maintaining project schedules rather than only performing administrative schedule updates.
• Able to evidence direct involvement in comparable projects, including project scope, responsibilities, duration, and measurable planning deliverables.
• Professional certification in project management or project controls is an advantage.

Technical & software competence:

• Strong practical knowledge of Primavera P6 is highly desirable; experience with Microsoft Project is an advantage.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint for project reporting, analysis and presentations.
• Working knowledge of Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Critical Path Method (CPM), schedule baselines, progress measurement, S-curves and look-ahead planning.
• Ability to perform Planned versus Actual analysis, schedule variance analysis and critical path monitoring.
• Knowledge of resource-loaded schedules, schedule recovery planning, change control and delay analysis is an advantage.
• Experience with Power BI, project dashboards or other project controls/reporting platforms is an advantage.

Key Deliverables:

• Approved project schedules, WBS and bas