Senior Planning Engineer

A Snapshot of Your Day
As a Senior Planning Engineer within our Grid Technologies High Voltage Solutions business, you will play a pivotal role in supporting a new project. You will establish and manage the project’s scheduling framework, ensuring successful delivery aligned with strategic objectives. Your focus will be on strategic project planning and control, team leadership, resource management, and risk and stakeholder engagement, providing comprehensive oversight throughout the project lifecycle.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Develop and maintain the integrated master project schedule for large-scale High Voltage projects, ensuring alignment with project scope and objectives.
• Establish and enforce planning and scheduling standards, procedures, and governance across the project team.
• Conduct forecasting, scenario analysis, and critical path analysis to optimize project timelines and resource utilization.
• Monitor and report on project status, including cost, timing, and progress, to executive leadership, highlighting deviations and proposing corrective actions.
• Lead and manage a team of planning and scheduling professionals, assigning responsibilities and overseeing performance.
• Direct the strategic allocation of resources to align with project priorities and budget constraints.
• Identify and develop mitigation strategies for project risks related to schedule, cost, and resources.
• Ensure all project plans adhere to internal and external quality standards and governance requirements.
• Serve as the primary authority on scheduling matters, influencing and negotiating with stakeholders to resolve obstacles.
• Manage communication and integration with vendors and subcontractors to ensure alignment with the master project plan.
• Monthly travel to UK sites is required for this role.

What You Bring

• Extensive experience in project planning and scheduling, typically 8-10+ years, within complex engineering, energy, or construction environments.
• Proven leadership experience overseeing a team of project controls or planning professionals.
• Proficiency in project management methodologies, including PMP certification.
• Strong skills in advanced planning tools, particularly P6 and Earned Value Management.
• A full UK Driving License is required.

About the Team
Our Grid Technology division enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.

Who is Siemens Energy
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world’s electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

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Rewards/Benefits

• 26 days holiday, increasing to 29 days with time served
• Access to a flexible benefits portal for private medical cover, cycle-to-work schemes, and more
• A class-leading adjustable pension scheme
• Opportunities for career development and continuous learning
• The chance to work on cutting-edge projects that shape the future of Siemens Energy and manufacturing