Lead Product Planner

Overview

Lead Product Planner for a large subsea project. Responsible for planning, schedule quality, and on-time project delivery. Reports to the Materials Manager. The role focuses on coordinating with planners and execution functions to ensure an integrated and accurate project schedule.

• Scheduling Management: Own the overall project schedule management, ensuring quality (logic, clarity) and accuracy (updates reflecting scope of supply).
• Coordinating: Collaborate with other planners (product line planners and engineering planners) and with execution functions (engineering, procurement, manufacturing) to ensure schedule quality and accuracy.
• Supporting Project Management: Act as right-hand to the project manager, providing visibility on lookaheads, schedule risks and mitigation actions, and opportunities; provide relevant reports to enable informed decisions for on-time and on-budget execution.
• Customer Interaction: Communicate schedule updates, challenges, and opportunities to customers.
• Process Adherence and Improvement: Adhere to approved processes and drive new initiatives for fully integrated planning.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or relevant experience.
• Experience in planning, ideally in oil and gas/subsea or related large-scale mechanical manufacturing or controls equipment environments.
• Knowledge of Oracle MRP is a plus.
• Ability to understand project status and link schedule to execution reality.
• Ability to identify risks and opportunities in the schedule and drive appropriate actions.
• Strong expertise in planning large projects and using Primavera P6.
• High energy, motivation to deliver, and the ability to make a difference.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills to collaborate with a team of planners and interact with a broad range of contributors to project performance.

• Flexible working patterns:
  Working flexible hours to fit productivity and personal needs.
• Comprehensive private medical care options, life insurance and disability programs, and tailored financial programs.
• Additional elected or voluntary benefits.

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