Lead Product Planner

Lead Product Planner

Do you enjoy being part of a team that provides high-quality project delivery for our customers? Are you passionate about meticulous planning and attention to detail?

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 our cutting‑edge, world‑class control systems.

As Lead Product Planner you will be in charge of planning a large subsea project. The planner will be accountable for the schedule quality and project on‑time delivery. The position reports to the Materials Manager.

• Scheduling Management:
  The planner is in charge of the overall project schedule management, ensuring its quality (logic, clarity) and accuracy (update of dates, reflection of the scope of supply).
• Coordinating:
  The planner will be collaborating with other planners (product line planner & engineering planners) allocated to the project and with the execution functions (engineering, procurement, and manufacturing) to ensure overall quality and accuracy of the schedule.
• Supporting Project Management:
  The planner is the right-hand of the project manager and will provide visibility on: creating lookaheads for activities to be completed in the future; risks in schedules and mitigation actions; opportunities in the schedule.
• Providing relevant reports to project management to ensure the project manager has all the tools to make the right decisions and drive on‑time and on‑budget project execution.
• Interacting with the customer to provide schedule updates and explain the current situation, challenges, and opportunities.
• Adhering to the approved processes and proactively driving the implementation of new initiatives that will lead to fully integrated planning.

• Bachelor / Master’s degree or relevant experience.
• Experience working within planning, ideally in the oil and gas/subsea industry or a related large‑scale mechanical manufacturing or controls equipment environment.
• Additional knowledge of Oracle MRP is considered a plus.
• Ability to understand the status of a project and link the schedule to the reality of the execution.
• Ability to quickly understand risks and opportunities in the schedule and identify and drive appropriate actions.
• Strong expertise in planning a large project and using the Primavera P6 planning tool.
• High energy and motivation to deliver, making a difference in the position.
• Strong leadership and excellent interpersonal skills to collaborate with a team of planners and interact with a large panel of individuals who will contribute to the project's performance.

• Working flexible hours – flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

• Contemporary work‑life balance policies and wellbeing activities.
• Comprehensive private medical care options.
• Safety net of life insurance and disability programs.
• Tailored financial programs.
• Additional elected or voluntary benefits.

The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is:
Project Management Senior Specialist – Project Planning.