HVDC Lead Planning Engineer (m/w/d)

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Job Description Summary Job Description Role Purpose Electrification projects are large and complex projects with multiple sites across the world and international teams involved. The Lead Planning Engineer is responsible for developing, maintaining, and controlling the Integrated Master Schedule to support predictable and transparent project delivery. The role ensures alignment across Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Commissioning while integrating closely with Cost Control and Estimation to maintain schedule-cost consistency, performance measurement, and early-warning insights

Key Responsibilities: Planning & Scheduling Governance Develop and implement the planning, scheduling, and performance measurement framework, procedures, and tools (including Primavera P6 and Power BI). Establish and maintain the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS), coding systems, calendars, reporting levels, and progress measurement methodology. Integrated Master Schedule Management Develop, update, and control the Integrated Master Schedule, incorporating contractor schedules and internal interfaces

Conduct schedule logic checks, variance analysis, critical path assessment, and forecasting of key milestone and completion dates. Ensure full alignment of Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Commissioning schedules with the execution strategy. Progress Measurement & Reporting Prepare and manage the project-wide progress measurement system, including progress weightings and earned progress rules

Issue regular project performance reports, dashboards, KPIs, and early-warning trends for the Project Controls Manager and Project Leadership. Present schedule status and recommended mitigation or acceleration actions. Contractor & Interface Coordination Review contractor planning deliverables for compliance with project scheduling standards

Ensure full schedule integration and alignment across all internal and external stakeholders. Conduct schedule re

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