Lead Project Planner

Baker Hughes

Lead Product Planner in Baker Hughes responsible for scheduling and project management in subsea sector. Collaborating with teams to ensure successful project delivery within the energy industry.

Posted 6/29/2026full-timeAberdeen • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Oracle

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Scheduling Management: The planner is in-charge of the overall project schedule management, ensuring its quality (logic, clarity) and accuracy (update of dates, reflection of the scope of supply).
Coordinating: The planner will be collaborating with the other planners (product line planner & engineering planners) allocated to the project and with the execution functions (engineering, procurement, and manufacturing) to ensure the overall quality and accuracy of the schedule.
Supporting Project management: The planner is the right-hand of the project manager and, as such, will provide visibility on: i) Creating lookaheads for activities to be completed in the future ii) Risks in schedules and mitigation actions iii) Opportunities in the schedule.
Providing relevant reports to project management to ensure the project manager has all the tools to make the right decisions and drive on-time and on-budget project execution.
Interacting with the customer to provide schedule updates and explain the current situation, challenges, and opportunities.
Adhering to the approved processes and proactively drive the implementation of new initiatives that will lead to fully integrated planning.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Have a Bachelor / Master's degree or relevant experience.
Have experience working within planning, ideally in the oil and gas/subsea industry or a related large-scale mechanical manufacturing or controls equipment environment.
Have additional knowledge of Oracle MRP is considered a plus.
Have ability to understand the status of a project and link the schedule to the reality of the execution.
Have ability to quickly understand the risks and opportunities in the schedule and identify and drive appropriate actions.
Have strong expertise in planning a large project and using the Primavera P6 planning tool.
Have strong leadership and excellent interpersonal skills are required to collaborate with a team of planners and interact with a large panel of individuals who will contribute to the project's performance.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities
Comprehensive private medical care options
Safety net of life insurance and disability programs
Tailored financial programs
Additional elected or voluntary benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

Project SchedulingSchedule Quality ManagementLookahead CreationRisk AnalysisOpportunity Identification

Soft Skills

LeadershipInterpersonal SkillsCollaboration