Planning Engineer

Location: City of Edinburgh

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** Planning Engineer  SP Energy Networks (Cambuslang/Edinburgh)
**** Salary from £53,280 per annum with strong benefits
**** Permanent/Hybrid Working
**** Help us create a better future, quicker
** At SP Energy Networks, we know that our people are our strongest asset, so we’re always looking for individuals whose energy, intelligence and passion can help us reach our goals.

At the heart of all business visions and activities are the people whose individual efforts and performance make it happen. We encourage our people to be proud of where they work, to share their ideas and to own their careers. We promote a safe working environment and push people to shape and progress their careers so that we grow our talent within the company.

As a Planning Engineer within Scottish Power Energy Networks Transmission, you will be at the centre of a vibrant and evolving project delivery team , responsible for development and management of project schedules within a portfolio for the multi-billion-pound future investment plan.

Schedules have, and will in future, be generated to support ‘once-in-a-generation’ Critical National Network Infrastructure projects, reinforcing the existing Electrical Transmission asset base and expanding the Transmission Network to meet the future UK Network electricity demand and facilitate delivery of UK Net-Zero strategy.
** What you'll be doing
** Developing and managing evolving SP Energy Networks Transmission project schedules through the Development and Delivery project lifecycle by interfacing with internal and external stakeholders, you will obtain the task detail required to provide accurate project scheduling information which will allow on-time, on budget, project delivery and project performance to be monitored against agreed project controls (KPIs).Project workscopes vary from existing asset and system upgrades to the SP Energy Networks Transmission network, to major new national inter-license construction projects with multiple Land & Planning, Design, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning interactions.

Using project schedules to identify and communicate inter-dependencies and clashes whilst leading development of innovative programming solutions, you will be required to resolve programming issues in project schedules and co-ordinating inputs from internal and external stakeholders to identify and resolve issues.

As part of your work, you will also assess schedule risk within your portfolio, highlighting specific risk to the Project Manager and stakeholders, suggesting solutions to alleviate or mitigate the identified risk.

You will be required to analyse internal departmental schedules and external contractor project schedules, advising the project team of their suitability and what actions are required to meet the overall project schedule and control targets.

Following the programme update cycle, portfolio-level monthly reports will be produced, based upon the most up-to-date project schedule KPIs, informing and assisting the Senior Management decision making process.
** What you'll bring
** As an integral part of the Project Team, you will bring an enthusiastic, measured and systematic approach to the role. Previous experience scheduling, programming and planning large-scale projects is essential in order to manage the internal and external programme schedule, cost and resource updates.

Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline or possessing equivalent experience, you will have worked with large-scale, cost and resource loaded schedules within a utility environment.

Possessing a strong knowledge of MS Office tools such as Excel, Word and PowerPoint, you will be adept with planning software tools such as MS Project, Primavera (P6) and MSPe.You will be expected to possess good verbal and written communications skills with strong numerical and analytical abilities.

As Planning Engineer, your role will involve conducting a risk analysis of the schedule, identifying and communicating…