Job Description:

Astute's Power team is exclusively partnering with a leading CCGT company in the UK to recruit a Planning Engineer to join the team, ideally based in North Lincolnshire with travel to the fleet across the UK.

This permanent role is site-based, with travel required UK wide and offers up to £63,000 plus overtime and benefits.

If you have experience in project planning within a large industrial or power generation environment, with strong knowledge of project controls, scheduling and outage planning, submit your CV today.

Reporting to the Lead Quality and Planning Engineer you will:

• Support the development and delivery of a standardised outage planning structure to facilitate the safe and efficient execution of projects across the fleet.
• Monitor and report on key project KPIs, including safety, programme, financial performance, environmental compliance and quality assurance.
• Act as the main planning interface across the portfolio, helping implement and improve outage planning procedures, best practices and standard reporting.
• Identify, record and report risks to project milestones, ensuring potential delays and issues are communicated effectively.
• Liaise with site outage managers and internal support functions, including Health & Safety, Environmental, Engineering, Finance and Performance teams.
• Work closely with external contract partners to ensure project programmes accurately reflect planned works and integrate into wider project schedules.
• Ensure ad hoc and emergent projects are subject to the same planning requirements as scheduled works, supporting safe and efficient delivery despite changing priorities.

To be considered, you must have:

• A minimum HNC qualification in an engineering-related discipline, with a degree being desirable.
• Strong project lifecycle knowledge, including project execution, handover and contract completion.
• Experience in budget forecasting, financial reporting, cost control and contract management.
• Strong experience using planning software such as Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project.
• Knowledge of Health & Safety legislation, CDM, environmental requirements and quality management systems.
• Experience with work planning tools and large rotating plant and/or HRSG pressure systems within a large industrial environment.

It would be an advantage, but is not essential, to have:

• Previous experience within the power generation industry.
• Experience using Maximo and wider business IT systems.
• Experience working with outage planning and project delivery across multiple sites.

• Salary: £60,000 - £63,000
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Site-based, with regular UK-wide travel and overtime as required.
• Location: Ideally North Lincolnshire, with travel to sites across the UK
• Benefits: includes bonus of up to 30%, private medical insurance and 10% pension

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