Planner - Essen, Germany

Requisition ID : 93025

Job Category : Project Controls; Engineering

Location : Essen, North Rhine, Germany

Join a company that is passionately committed to the pursuit of a better world through positive change. With more than 65 years of business and technical expertise in mining , energy , and infrastructure , our 10,000 colleagues in 150 countries tirelessly work toward bettering the industries in which we operate.

With practical solutions that are safe, innovative and sustainable, we think globally while acting locally.

Join our Project Delivery Group (PDG), a dynamic team of professionals passionately committed to world-class project delivery across the globe.

With expertise in sustainable studies, asset building and operations, and industry-leading efficiencies, our best-in-class team leverages methodologies, governance and systems that are unparalleled in the engineering space.

Are you looking for an opportunity to join a diverse group of professionals who are committed to remaining exceptional? We look forward to hearing from you.

The Hatch Project Controls Group is a global practice providing project controls expertise to Hatch's commodity-based business units.

Our capability spans through the whole project lifecycle, comprising scoping, conceptual design, pre-feasibility and feasibility studies, basic and detailed engineering, construction and project management.

We are current seeking Experienced Planner to deliver planning and progress measurement on high complexity capital projects.

These roles will suit candidates with strong experience in engineering consulting and EPCM projects in the metals, energy or infrastructure sectors.

Key Responsibilities

Safety

• A strong personal commitment to safety
• Personal responsibility for safety incident reporting
• Behavioral-based safety ethos to be embraced
• Personal responsibility for stopping any unsafe behavior as and when it occurs, and thereafter reporting the safety incident so that corrective action may be obtained
• Familiarization with Hatch safety processes, protocols and procedures.

Project Master Schedule Development

• Delivery of project planning and progress measurement, ensuring that Hatch procedures and best practices are applied
• Confirm and refine FEL4 level 3 scheduling
• Identify and schedule critical vendor data requirements
• Populate approved measurable commodity quantities and labor to produce baseline S-curves
• Participate in project schedule risk analysis and include resultant contingency in baseline
• Using progress reports (early and late curves) and project schedule (level 3 baseline); maintain, optimize and monitor progress.

Identify and resolve issues

Analyze contractor level 4 schedule and provide recommendations.

Project Schedule Monitoring and Updates Preferred

• Generate and verify weekly updates and issue progress reports
• Maintain and optimize schedule, monitor progress, highlight and resolve schedule issues
• Generate all progress curves
• Develop and maintain commodity and resource profile
• Extract and publish four-week look ahead schedule
• Monitor slippages and critical and near critical paths and discuss with Project Controls Manager for resolution
• Establish all equipment / material and contractor ROS (Required on Site) dates
• Provide schedule input to the procurement bid process including reporting requirements and vendor and contractor milestone dates
• Assist with bid evaluation and ongoing management of the vendors and contractors with respect to their schedule commitments.

Project Trend and Change Management

Once a change is approved, maintain and optimize the schedule, monitor progress and highlight / resolve areas of potential concern.

Project Progress Measurement and Earned Value

• Generate and verify weekly updates and issue progress reports
• Obtain progress info via progress reports, EPCM status report, vendor progress report and cost report and calculate progress for construction packages.

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

• Tertiary qualification in engineering or other relevant discipline
• Sound technical knowledge in a multi-discipline environment
• Knowledge of the estimating and tendering processes
• Knowledge in the use of Primavera Project Planner P6
• Technical overview of work methods and techniques
• Risk management principles
• Good knowledge of project management principles

Preferred

• Interpersonal and good communication skills in the areas of both written and verbal communication
• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Problem solving and mitigating skills
• Presentation skills.

Why join us?

• Work with great people to make a difference
• Collaborate on exciting projects to develop innovative solutions
• Top employer

What we offer you :

• Flexible work environment
• Long term career development
• Think globally, work locally

Don't meet every single requirement? You don't need to. At Hatch, we are building a diverse, inclusive workplace that fosters innovation.

If you're interested in this role, we encourage you to apply even if your past experiences don't perfectly align with the skills we've listed.

We're committed to fostering a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities in which we operate and serve. Hatch is an Equal Opportunity Employer that considers applicants without regard to age, race, color, national origin, citizenship, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, veteran, or any other protected status.

If you have any accommodation requirements, please let us know. We'll do our best to meet your needs in accordance with applicable local legislation.

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