Planner

**Planner - Projects Team**

**Basedin**: Wilton International, Teesside

**Salary**: Negotiable - Whilst all salaries are graded, Sembcorp are keen to attract, retain and develop the highest calibre of colleague. Also, the company offer a market leading benefits package and annual bonus.

**Company Overview**:
Sembcorp Energy UK (SEUK), a wholly owned subsidiary of Sembcorp Industries, is a leading provider of sustainable solutions supporting the UK’s transition to Net Zero. With an energy generation and battery storage portfolio of nearly 1GW in operation, ourexpertise helps major energy users and suppliers improve their efficiency, profitability, and sustainability, while supporting the growth of renewables and strengthening the UK’s electricity system.

Our Wilton International site on Teesside sits within a hub of decarbonisation innovation. At the site, we provide energy-intensive industrial businesses with combined heat and power (CHP) via our private wire network that supplies electricity generatedby gas and biomass.

These services are complemented by our fleet of fast-acting, decentralised power stations and battery storage sites situated throughout England and Wales. Monitored and controlled from our central operations facility in Solihull, these flexible assets deliverelectricity to the national grid, helping to balance the UK energy system and ensure reliable power for homes and businesses.

We have announced some exciting growth projects in recent months:

- Sembcorp Energy UK announces plans to build Europe’s largest battery - a 360MW energy storage system at Wilton International on Teesside | Changing Energy Management to Ensure a Sustainable Future
- Whitetail Energy - Clean Power, Clean Air, Clean Jobs, The Whitetail Energy Project
- Sembcorp Energy UK welcomes Tees Valley Lithium, UK’s first Lithium Hydroxide Processing Facility on Teesside, to Wilton International | Changing Energy Management to Ensure a Sustainable Future

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Planning and scheduling of all work related to project activities and direct responsibility for the completion of tasks relating to the relevant project/s adhering and encouraging a culture of safety first
- Update and maintain schedule data to ensure project consistency and optimisation
- Single point of contact for all project related planning tasks across multiple projects
- Ensure contractors provide resource schedules to ensure construction is completed on time and in budget
- Create and maintain project capital and non capital spending plan working with Contract Manager
- Create and maintain project financial justification
- Support the contract manager in the daily operations tasks
- Recognise and understand the requirements to make recommendations to project delivery
- Perform project progress monitoring duties including identifying critical activities and reviewing forecast and progress to date and future planning
- Identify schedule impacts arising from sourcing decisions
- Meet all project deadlines

**Requirements**:

- Technical background, preferably time served.
- Relevant planning skills.
- Ability to read and understand drawings.
- Good Safety awareness.
- Contractor management skills.
- Good communication skills.
- Enhanced IT skills (Maximo, Microsoft project etc, primavera).
- Basic leadership qualities.
- High concern for standards
- Proactive with a high level of self motivation.
- Ability to work to strict deadlines.
- Problem Solving
- Good report writing, communication and meeting skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Good influencing skills.
- High level of personal resilience.