Project Planner

About the Role

This contract-based Project Planner position allows remote work with occasional office visits to Berlin or Dresden. The role requires a professional with extensive project planning expertise, ideally related to Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) or similar sectors.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and update project schedules within the authorized planning software, following established instructions.
• Apply and uphold standard planning frameworks, including calendars and coding schemes.
• Conduct regular schedule updates, perform data validations, and manage version control.
• Generate standard reporting extracts for internal distribution and review.
• Assist in integrating schedule inputs from diverse internal departments and workstreams.
• Develop summary schedules and forward-looking views to aid coordination meetings.
• Identify missing data or discrepancies and communicate them to the planning lead.
• Gather progress data as per defined guidelines and input into the system accordingly.
• Support the creation of planning key performance indicators (KPIs), trend analyses, and schedule performance reviews.
• Help prepare recurring planning reports and visual dashboards.
• Facilitate review and integration of contractor schedules by supporting the validation and consolidation procedures.
• Provide comparison analyses and schedule summaries for coordination and evaluation sessions.
• Assist in clarifying schedule-related queries via the planning lead.
• Document updates related to scope modifications or delays.
• Maintain logs and registers connected to planning activities as directed.
• Supply accurate scheduling data to assist internal assessments, reviews, and risk mitigation discussions.

Qualifications and Experience

• Degree or diploma in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrable practical knowledge of Oracle Primavera P6 for project planning and schedule upkeep.
• Between 5 and 8 years of work experience in project planning or scheduling roles, preferably within industrial, infrastructure, or EPC fields.
• Strong grasp of Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)-based planning principles, schedule logic formulation, and progress measurement methodologies.