Planning Associate

Planning Associate working on a flagship US offshore wind project. The role is working directly for a global leader in offshore renewable energy development, construction and operations.

This is a full-time, permanent staff position based in Boston (hybrid).

Role

The Planning Associate plays a crucial role in supporting the development and maintenance of project plans, ensuring consistency and realism while aligning with assessed risk parameters.

Main Responsibilities:

• Assist in delivering and maintaining consistent and realistic plans and control structures for the
• project.
• Support the development of activities, logic, resources, and progress for project workstreams.
• Assist in implementing and complying with planning and progress monitoring procedures.
• Contribute to monthly progress updates, forecasts, and trend analyses for assigned elements.
• Aid in assessing and incorporating the impact of approved changes and deviations from project targets.
• Collaborate with workstream leads to understand key schedule sensitivities and drivers.
• Support the development of contract key dates, milestones, and project schedule alignment.
• Contribute to the translation of the project’s risk profile into probabilistic risk models.
• Assist in assessing project targets through internal and external benchmarking.
• Apply fit-for-purpose tools and procedures for offshore wind projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Certification as a Planning Engineer is a plus.
• Minimum of 2-3 years of industry experience in planning positions.
• Familiarity with Planning principles and techniques.
• Basic knowledge of Primavera P6 is advantageous.
• Exposure to offshore projects is desirable.
• Effective communication and engagement skills.

Behaviors:

• Ability to rapidly move between different assignments that have a wide variety of technical elements, carefully managing time and assignments.
• Very strong written and oral communication skills including proven ability to quickly review and edit complex documents.
• Attention to detail and a willingness to roll up their sleeves to come up with creative solutions.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, meet competing deadlines, and work both independently and on teams.
• Strong sense of values and ethics, as well as confidentiality when dealing with sensitive information.
• Ability to thrive within and contribute to a collaborative, entrepreneurial, mutually supportive, team culture dedicated to producing high quality work products, and shared success.
• Ability to foster the development of a team culture that values perspectives and experiences of people from different backgrounds to drive better decisions and improved business results.