Schedule Junior Engineer

Job Title: Schedule Junior Engineer

Client: Multi-national corporation providing consulting, engineering, and architecture services internationally

Assignment Type: Annually Renewable Contract

Location: Lulea, Sweden

Residential / Rotation:
3 weeks on site, 1 week working remote, on rotation.
Working 5 days per week, 8 hours per day.

Benefits:
Accommodation and flights covered, paid holiday leave.

Overview:
Exciting opportunity to join a leading international engineering and consulting organization on a major industrial construction program in Northern Sweden focused on sustainable, low-emission production technologies.

Responsibilities

Project Scheduling and Integration
- Integrate, manage, and optimize project schedules, ensuring alignment with project objectives and seamless integration with engineering and procurement plans.
- Coordinate with supervisors and the construction manager to synchronize field activities and mitigate potential schedule deviations early.
- Implement advanced planning and sequencing strategies to maximize efficiency, reduce discipline interferences, and optimize resource allocation on-site.

Monitoring and Control
- Establish monitoring and control systems for tracking physical progress, ensuring accurate reporting and data-driven decision making.
- Perform precise schedule updates, incorporate actual progress data, evaluate impacts of changes, and analyze recovery scenarios when needed.
- Generate and interpret progress curve analyses segmented by key areas, disciplines, and work packages.
- Identify scheduling risks and develop contingency and recovery plans to minimize schedule impacts.

Requirements and Skills

General Requirements
- Minimum of 4-5 years of experience in project planning and scheduling within EPC/EPCM environments (mining, energy, oil and gas, infrastructure).
- Strong proficiency in Primavera P6 (mandatory), with solid command of MS Project and reporting tools such as Power BI.
- Familiarity with integrated systems such as SAP, EcoSys, or Deltek Cobra is an asset.
- Experience working with multidisciplinary teams on large projects, supporting master schedules, lookaheads, progress curves, and resource histograms.
- Ability to develop and maintain integrated schedules (engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning) using CPM, EVM, and Lean Construction methodologies.

Technical Skills

Project Scheduling and Planning
- Expertise in Primavera P6, including:
- Creating and maintaining project schedules.
- Developing detailed schedules across permitting, engineering, procurement, construction, and start-up phases.
- Preparing package-specific schedules for procurement and bidding processes.
- Maintaining discipline-level schedules aligned with the overall project timeline.
- Developing WBS structures, defining work activities, estimating durations, and establishing dependencies.

Project Monitoring and Control
- Experience in schedule monitoring and progress tracking, including:
- Identifying critical path activities and ensuring alignment with project targets.
- Performing Earned Hours (HH) analysis (planned vs. earned vs. forecasted).
- Creating and maintaining critical path reports and other schedule performance metrics.
- Conducting schedule impact analysis to determine delays, risks, and potential recovery options.
- Coordinating with cost engineering and project teams to ensure integrated planning.

Progress Reporting and Data Visualization
- Preparation of weekly and monthly progress reports summarizing schedule performance indicators.
- Development of S-curves, including:
- Overall project S-curves for monitoring progress trends.
- WBS Level 2 S-curves for detailed analysis.
- Identification of early and late curves through Primavera P6.
- Proficiency in Power BI dashboards for real-time construction progress and schedule reporting.

Soft Skills
- Strong communication skills for effective coordination across multidisciplinary teams.
- Solid problem-solving and analytical thinking for addressing scheduling challenges and risks.
- Active participation in risk workshops, schedule reviews, and progress meetings.

Languages
- Fluent English (Intermediate-Advanced) for reporting, meetings, and technical communication.

Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with outage planning or startup sequencing.
- Background in mechanical trades or maintenance planning.
- Knowledge of industry standards and best practices related to project scheduling.