We are looking for Planning Managers!

Job Description

 

• As the Planning Manager/Lead in the project, you'll be at the forefront of strategic planning, delivering decision-making insights and streamlined schedules for stakeholders. Collaborate with your team and the Project Management Team to create predictable, cost-effective plans. Reporting to the Business Manager in the project and VP of Operations and Project Management in the Offshore Wind Team, you'll drive success in dynamic environments.
• Leads and manages the planning group.
• Translates the plan and schedule strategy into the execution plan with all schedule owners.
• Ensures that all plans are aligned with the contract and administrative requirements, including key interfaces with partners, sub-contractors, suppliers, and third parties.
• Proactively controls, monitors, analyses, and reports the performance of the work to all relevant stakeholders.
• Proactively communicates trends, critical path analyses, and consequences of scope changes, variations, risks, and opportunities to key internal and external stakeholders.
• This role formally reports to the Business Manager; however, is expected to collaborate across the project and enable all project stakeholders to deliver on their scheduled scope.

 

Qualification Requirements

 

• Master’s degree in business administration or technical discipline or equivalent experience.
• +10 years’ experience in leading planning teams on international projects.
• +10 years of proven experience with strategic planning, providing planning insights for decision-making, and simplifying schedules for internal and external stakeholders.
• Offshore or construction experience is a plus.
• Product planning and scheduling experience for system solutions is a plus
• Excellent communication, analytical, and technical skills.
• Proven experience in leading people through change and ensuring schedule ownership with key stakeholders.
• Ability to translate complex changes into predictable outcomes.
• Work Location: Preferred locations are Oslo, Haugesund, Bergen and Stavanger.

Duration: 31/12/2026

Candidates are expected to openly offer all relevant information about themselves during the hire-in process. Candidates may be asked for information on affiliation to high-risk countries for a security assessment.

About MDE

When the right people connect, we create value.

MDE Group is a global recruitment company, specializing in finding and placing the greatest talents worldwide. MDE currently consists of 12 companies that offer consulting, staffing, recruitment services as well as offshore personnel. With our unique knowledge of both the local and the international market, we will connect employees and companies, so they both find exactly what they are looking for. MDE aims to contribute to people developing and to ensure that our customers achieve great value from our services. We first succeed when both clients and our candidates reach their goals, together.

Our mission is to deliver relevant expertise. The right person with the right competence, at the right place and time. So simple, yet so difficult!