Description
At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life.
Due to continued growth across our Infrastructure and Rail portfolios, we are looking to appoint Planning Engineers to join our expanding Planning & Scheduling team within our Project, Programme and Commercial Management (PMCM) business.
As a Planning Engineer, you'll work closely with project managers, engineers, commercial teams and delivery partners, helping to develop and maintain robust programmes that enable successful project delivery.
We're looking for experienced professionals who can bring established planning, scheduling or project controls expertise to our growing team.
Responsibilities
- Developing project schedules from first principles, the utilisation of dependencies for schedule integration, using industry-standard planning and scheduling software.
- Experience working as part of an integrated project team, supporting the successful delivery of complex infrastructure or capital delivery projects.
- Understanding of project delivery lifecycles, programme management principles and applying project controls methodologies including EVM.
- Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret project data and produce basis of schedule and schedule narrative documents.
- Excellent client communication and stakeholder management skills, with the experience to facilitate planning workshops with multi-disciplinary project/client teams.
- Experience of programme reporting, and the production of L2/L3 summaries.
- Experience in managing schedule changes, risk management/QSRA, NEC3/4 schedule acceptance/assurance, and variance analysis.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel.
- Degree in Civil Engineering.
Desirable
- Consultancy, project construction or client-side project controls experience.
- Professional accreditation, Chartership or progress towards professional qualification or APM.