Education Required: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field preferred, PMO certification
Position start: ASAP
About Principle Power
Principle Power is a leading global technology and services provider for the floating offshore wind energy market. The WindFloat®, the company’s globally and proven floating platform technology, enables offshore wind turbines to be sited in any water depth or seabed condition, unlocking offshore wind potential worldwide and allowing projects to harvest the best wind resources. Principle Power acts as a trusted partner to developers, independent power producers, utilities, and EPCs, supporting its customers throughout the entire lifecycle of their projects. With 105 MW of cumulative capacity in operation or under advanced development and a multi-GW commercial pipeline globally, Principle Power is the market leader in floating offshore wind technology.
General Description
The Engineering Planner is responsible for developing, implementing, and managing fully resource loaded schedules for use by the Engineering Management and Project Management functions in the estimation and execution management of the full range of proposals, projects and engineering programs undertaken by Principle Power.
The Engineering planner may also be called upon to assist project teams in the development of Project Execution Plans addressing procurement, construction and logistics activities associated with the development of WindFloat based wind farm developments.
The Engineering Planner reports to the VP Engineering.
Interfaces
Internal: Engineering Discipline Leads, Project Engineering Managers, Study Managers, Project Managers, Business Development Managers
External: Customer, Fabricators, Installation Contractors, Engineering Subcontractors, and Equipment Vendors
Main Accountabilities
- Establish a suite of baseline, resource-loaded Engineering schedules for the full range of WindFloat Engineering and R&D projects to include: Concept Definition, Pre-FEED, FEED / Basic Design and Detailed Design
- Establish a rolled-up master Engineering program schedule to enable the forecasting of engineering resource requirements on a discipline by discipline basis, based on current projects and forecast awards
- In response to RFQs, develop tender-specific resource loaded schedules to support CTR development and proposal development
- For successful project awards, update proposal schedules to establish the baseline project schedule
- Manage each project schedule to reflect progress and agreed changes and feed back into the master Engineering program schedule
Skills & Competencies
- Minimum 5 years of directly applicable professional experience is required
- 6 to 10 years is highly preferred
- Experience in setting up engineering planning and control systems and processes from scratch would be an advantage
- In depth experience of offshore floating platform engineering and delivery for the wind energy and/or oil and gas industry
- Demonstrated experience in Engineering planning for floating offshore platforms either in the wind industry (preferred) or oil and gas
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office software including Project, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
- Advanced knowledge of industry-standard planning software such as Primavera P6
- Fluency in English; proficiency in French and Portuguese would be an advantage
Other requirements
- Excellent interpersonal and oral communication skills
- Creative approach to problem-solving
- Systematic and detail-oriented approach to deliver high-quality outputs both within defined schedules and with short notice
- Process and results oriented with high degree of operational autonomy and responsibility for output
- Customer-minded and collaborative
- Comfortable working in a multi-cultural environment and willing to travel abroad to support responsibilities, potentially for extended durations
- Authorization to work in the scope location