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Baker Hughes · Onsite · GB-AC-ABERDEEN-BAKER HUGHES BUILDING

Senior Project Planner

Do you enjoy driving complex projects through exceptional planning and scheduling?

Are you passionate about project controls, schedule optimization, and Primavera P6?

Join a team that delivers essential projects

We devise smarter systems to control and monitor oil and gas extraction. Innovating in the energy industry, our subsea and surface pressure capabilities are industry-leading. Our team is responsible for the successful development, deployment, and delivery of cutting-edge, world-class control systems that support our customers' operational success.

Partner with the best

As a Senior Project Planner, you will play a critical role in driving project success through effective planning, scheduling, forecasting, and project controls. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining integrated project schedules, ensuring schedule integrity, identifying risks and opportunities, and providing strategic planning support to project teams. Working closely with Project Managers, Engineering, Procurement, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Customer stakeholders, you will help ensure projects are executed safely, on time, and within budget.

Fuel your passion

As a Senior Project Planner, you will be responsible for:

  • Developing, maintaining, and controlling complex integrated project schedules in Primavera P6, ensuring schedule quality, logic integrity, resource alignment, and execution excellence throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Leading project planning and scheduling activities by providing schedule forecasts, milestone tracking, critical path analysis, look-ahead planning, and recovery plans to support successful project delivery.
  • Collaborating with Project Managers, Engineering, Procurement, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Customer stakeholders to ensure project schedules are aligned with business objectives and customer requirements.
  • Performing schedule development, baseline management, progress measurement, variance analysis, forecasting, and project performance monitoring using Primavera P6.
  • Monitoring project progress, identifying schedule risks, opportunities, and constraints, and driving mitigation strategies and corrective actions where required.
  • Preparing and delivering planning reports, dashboards, schedule analyses, forecasts, and project performance metrics to support effective decision-making.
  • Supporting change management activities by assessing schedule impacts related to scope changes, resource constraints, and project risks.
  • Driving continuous improvement by implementing planning best practices, schedule governance, and project controls processes that enhance project execution excellence.

To be successful in this role, you will:

  • Have a bachelor's degree in engineering, Project Management, Supply Chain, Business, Construction Management, or a related discipline.
  • Have significant experience in project planning, scheduling, and project controls within Oil & Gas, Subsea, EPC, Manufacturing, Industrial, or Engineering environments.
  • Demonstrate advanced expertise in Primavera P6, including schedule development, baseline management, critical path analysis, forecasting, and schedule control.
  • Possess strong knowledge of project controls, project execution, schedule performance monitoring, risk assessment, and recovery planning.
  • Be able to identify schedule risks and opportunities and drive effective mitigation and corrective action plans.
  • Have experience working with ERP/MRP systems such as Oracle and integrating planning data across multiple business functions.
  • Demonstrate excellent analytical, communication, customer-facing, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams.
  • Display strong leadership, accountability, and a results-driven mindset, with the ability to deliver projects safely, on time, and within budget.

Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working pattern:

  • Working 4 days in the office per week, with 1 day of remote work.

Working with us

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all our people are developed, engaged, and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent, and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.

Working for you

Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. To keep moving forward, we continue to push the boundaries of innovation and reward those who embrace change and drive results. Join us, and you can expect:

  • Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing initiatives
  • Comprehensive private medical care options
  • Life insurance and disability coverage programs
  • Tailored financial and retirement programs
  • Additional elected and voluntary benefits
  • Professional development and career growth opportunities within a global organization.

The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: Project Management Senior Specialist - Project Planning
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About Baker Hughes

At Baker Hughes, we are transforming the future of energy. With operations in over 120 countries, we are developing and deploying industry-leading technologies and services to take energy forward. For more than a century, our inventions have revolutionized energy. Today, we are bringing our expertise to make oil and gas safer, cleaner, and more efficient. Our people are the trusted experts, relied on to solve customer challenges big and small. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent, and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other. We believe in creating an environment of diversity and inclusion, without bias. We know we are bett

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