Job Title:
Lead Planning Engineer

Duration:
12 months

Schedule:
Monday - Friday

Location:
Madrid

This opportunity is suited to a senior planning professional supporting major EPC and PMC projects across oil and gas, petrochemical, LNG, power and infrastructure environments. The role focuses on integrated project scheduling, progress measurement, delay analysis and schedule risk management, with strong use of Primavera P6 and critical path method planning. This position offers broad project exposure across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and start-up phases, with direct impact on delivery performance and milestone achievement.

Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development, implementation and maintenance of integrated project schedules across major project phases.
- Establish planning standards, procedures and reporting requirements for project delivery.
- Ensure alignment between engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and start-up activities.
- Review contractor schedules, logic sequences, resource loading and critical path activities.




- Monitor schedule performance and forecast milestone achievement and project completion dates.
- Track progress against approved baselines and identify schedule deviations or slippages.
- Produce weekly and monthly planning reports, dashboards and schedule presentations for stakeholders.
- Evaluate contractor progress updates, recovery plans and schedule assumptions.
- Perform critical path analysis, schedule impact assessments and delay analysis.
- Review Extension of Time submissions and support schedule-related claims assessment.
- Identify schedule risks and bottlenecks and develop mitigation and recovery plans.
- Support planning during construction, commissioning, handover and start-up activities.
- Coordinate planning interfaces with contractors, vendors and project stakeholders.
- Lead planning review meetings, schedule workshops and progress discussions.
- Manage, mentor and develop pla

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