Planning Engineer

Exciting Opportunity for an Experienced Planning Engineer in Civil Energy Projects!

Role: Planning Engineer
Location: Highlands, Northwest Scotland
Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

About the Company:
Contract Scotland is actively seeking an experienced Planning Engineer to join our esteemed client, a prominent Civil Engineering Contractor based in the Northwest of Scotland.  With a robust order book, our client is expanding their permanent team to cover a large range of projects within Infrastructure, Energy, and Utilities sectors.

About the candidate:
This role would be suited to an experienced Planning Engineer who has come from a Site Engineering background with good practical knowledge in the delivery of civil engineering projects. A high level of proficiency in Primavera P6 software will also be essential. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Working closely with bid teams, producing outline programmes for tenders
• Production of detailed production programmes in conjunction with multi-discipline teams of Project Engineers and Project Managers
• Close liaison with production and site teams on project mile-stones and updating programmes accordingly
• Providing regular progress reports to the senior management team
• Engineering: Leading the engineering solutions adopted on bids and projects

Essential Requirements:

• Degree or an equivalent qualification in Civil Engineering and or Construction Management.
• You should have site-based Engineering experience, ideally within a specialist contractor or principal contractor environment.
• Demonstrable experience of leading, inspiring, coaching, managing and mentoring others.
• You should be an enthusiastic individual that can implement instruction from the Senior or Principal Planning Engineer to your colleagues and give guidance when needed.
• You will be a key team player that strives to work with other stakeholders to deliver the vision and complete projects with success.
• Flexibility on travel for sites is required.

What’s On Offer:
This is a full-time role that assures long-term job stability. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package. If you're enthusiastic about this opportunity, we'd love to discuss the company and the role with you in detail.

How to Apply:
If you believe this role aligns with your expertise and career aspirations, kindly apply with your most recent CV.  For additional information, feel free to reach out to Karin Campbell at (phone number removed), quoting reference J43586.

Legal Information:

We act as an employment agency for permanent work and as an employment business for temporary work.

For roles in the UK, applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

We value diversity and promote equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all areas of society and can discuss any reasonable adjustments to support your application.