Engineering Resource Planner

What Are We Looking For?

Our Treatment Solutions team is seeking an Engineering Resource Planner to join our Inverness team on a full-time, permanent basis. In this role, you will be responsible for coordinating the allocation of engineering resources and skills across RSE’s project portfolio. Acting as a key link between Project Management and Engineering Leadership, you will provide clear, up-to-date visibility of resource availability, commitments, and any emerging gaps or conflicts.

This is an excellent opportunity to play a key role in supporting our Design, Engineering, Production and Delivery Teams by coordinating project resource planning in collaboration with the Design, Delivery, Commissioning and Commercial teams. Reporting directly to Senior Management, you will help ensure engineering resources are effectively planned and aligned with project requirements, priorities and delivery objectives.

• Developing resource programmes to inform Tenders which are cost-loaded and logic-driven, showing the dependencies between activities and having the deliverables and milestone dates explicitly identified.
• Build and maintain resource plans across engineering disciplines (mechanical, process, civils, electrical, commissioning, structural, design and production), aligned to the project delivery schedule.
• Provide detailed resource extracts from master programmes to the Design, Engineering, Production & Delivery Teams.
• Incorporate Contractor, Sub-contractor, Supplier and any third-party programmes into our overall programme.
• Monitor, track and regularly update progress and status of resource programmes.
• Keep projects on track by identifying critical activities and evaluating remedial actions to help resolve constraints.
• Identify resourcing gaps, clashes and over-commitments early, and propose practical options to resolve them.
• Track utilisation, availability and the skills matrix for the engineering team, keeping planning tools current and accurate.
• Develop and maintain regular resourcing reports and dashboards for engineering and project leadership.
• Maintain and improve the resource planning tools and processes used across the engineering department.
• Attend project and engineering review meetings to keep resource plans grounded in real project status.

• Demonstrable resource planning experience within similar engineering environments
• Proficient in Programming software packages – Microsoft Project and Primavera P6
• Strong analytical skills and problem-solving ability
• Initiative and ability to work alone and as part of a team
• Ability to develop and recommend alternative approaches to improve resource planning
• Ability to work under pressure and against tight time deadlines to achieve on-time delivery
• Experience in preparing and coordinating detailed resource plans encompassing design, engineering, construction, installation and commissioning
• A working understanding of engineering project life cycles, from tender through design to delivery.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work confidently with engineers, delivery managers and senior leaders.
• A methodical, analytical approach and good attention to detail.
• Full UK Driving Licence.

RSE is a trusted clean water technology company, developing market-leading products and solutions for purifying drinking water, recycling wastewater, and cleaning water in industrial processes. We are disrupting the water sector, delivering water treatment products, technologies, and services to clients across the UK. RSE provides offsite modular build solutions using a low-carbon approach compared to traditional construction methods and our unique offering to the market focuses on innovation, efficiency, and…