Project Planner
Air Employment Services Sweden Filial · Boden · 12 månader – upp till 2 år · Deadline 2026-12-20
Air Employment Services Sweden Filial is hiring a **Project Planner** in Boden for a 6 billion EUR green steel project, offered on an initial renewable 12-month contract with an immediate start. The position offers a choice of two working schedules: a **rotational roster** of 6 weeks on and 2 weeks off working 53 hours per week, or a residential schedule working Monday through Friday, 40 hours per week. Responsibilities include performing schedule analysis, supporting project baseline creation, and developing level 3 and level 4 logically linked activity schedules using Primavera P6, Deltek Fuse & Risk, and Microsoft Project. The planner also monitors schedule compliance, critical paths, and variations to baseline data, produces workforce histograms and progress curves, assesses delays, and mentors junior planners. Applicants must hold a **bachelor's degree in a relevant subject** or equivalent combinations of technical training or experience. Candidates must have 5 to 10 years of EPCm experience in onshore oil and gas, power generation, or industrial projects, alongside planning and scheduling experience on large, complex projects preferred. Solid proficiency in Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, and advanced Excel features—such as formulas, curves, dynamic tables, and histograms—is required, as is the ability to produce multidisciplinary activity schedules and communicate effectively with management and project teams.
Location: Boden, SE
Contract duration: initial 12 month contract - renewable
Start Date: ASAP
Roster: Rotation (6 weeks on, 2 weeks off - 53 hours per week), or Residential (M-F, 40 hours per week)
Project: Boden - 6 billion EUR green steel project
Job Overview
The Project Planner uses our Planning/Scheduling discipline practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the Planning/Scheduling discipline. They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the Planning/Scheduling discipline. They solve complex problems and use their discipline-specific knowledge to improve their products or services. The Planner impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the Planning/Scheduling team and other related teams and ensures that they are working within the appropriate guidelines and policies.
Responsibilities
- Perform schedule analysis using Project Management software including Primavera P6, Deltek Fuse & Risk, and Microsoft Project
- Support project baseline creation during the project initiation and setup phase
- Facilitate detailed multi-discipline scope reviews
- Provide project schedule support and mentor junior planners as required
- Develop and maintain logically linked level 3 and level 4 activity schedules, for marine scope installation projects in the Oil and Gas Industry (pipelines, subsea, platforms, HDD), according to precedence flow planning, using best practices
- Produce workforce histograms and progress and quantity curves in connection with the schedules
- Maintain and review the sequence of Engineering, Procurement, Fabrication, Construction, Hook-Up, and Commissioning, and other operations for control of critical path and overall project durations
- Elevate and expedite operations that are delaying the schedule and analyze changes to the schedule to meet unforeseen conditions
- Create and Monitor schedule compliance, key performance, factors, and provide analysis of variations to baseline data
- Identify factors, both current and potential, that may delay the schedule. Assess actions for recovery and improvement and analyze changes to the schedule to meet unforeseen conditions
- Lead and deliver initiatives
- QualificationsBachelor's degree in relevant subject or equivalent combinations of technical training or experience required
- 5-10 years of EPCm experience with Onshore Oil and Gas, Power Generation or Industrial related projects
- Planning/Scheduling experience for large, complex projects preferred
- Have solid commands of Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Office software
- Must be able to use advanced features in Excel (curves, histograms, dynamic tables, formulas, etc.)
- Able to produce and maintain logically linked activity schedules, according to precedence flow in EPCm planning, using best practices
- Able to produce and assess progress curves, histograms, variance reports, and critical paths
- Able to analyze project status and performance, deviations, performance factors, forecasts, and workarounds
- Must be able to produce multidisciplinary logically linked activity schedules, according to precedence flow in planning, using best industry practices
- Ability to effectively communicate with team members and management