Planning Engineer

About the role

Wood is recruiting a Planning Engineer to join its team in Baku, Azerbaijan. The role develops, maintains and optimizes operational schedules to support safe, efficient and timely execution of maintenance, shutdown and operational activities, working closely with operations, maintenance and project teams.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and update integrated operational schedules using Primavera P6, and prepare short-, medium- and long-term schedules.
• Plan, schedule and coordinate maintenance, inspection, operational and shutdown activities, and review work scopes with operations, maintenance, engineering and project teams.
• Produce manpower and resource forecasts, monitor schedule performance and recommend corrective actions for delays, bottlenecks and conflicts.
• Facilitate weekly and daily planning meetings, analyze schedule impacts of scope changes and help develop recovery plans.
• Generate regular schedule updates, progress reports, KPI reports and planning dashboards, and liaise with operations teams on work status.
• Support shutdown, turnaround and campaign planning, resource leveling, and schedule risk assessments.
• Maintain records of completed work and outstanding tasks, mentor junior planners, and support audits and process improvements.

Required profile

• Advanced user of Primavera P6, with proven experience developing, maintaining and optimizing complex operational, maintenance and shutdown schedules.
• Experience planning maintenance, operations, shutdown or brownfield activities.
• Excellent analytical, reporting and problem-solving skills.

Required skills

• Strong working knowledge of SAP PM (plant maintenance), including work orders, maintenance planning, backlog management, resource allocation and scheduling.
• Proven experience integrating Primavera P6 and SAP PM for planning, scheduling, progress tracking and reporting.