# Principal Planner

We are recruiting for a role at McDermott. If you are passionate about building energy's future and want to be considered, we encourage you to submit your details. Job Overview: The Principal Planner will be working as part of a Joint Venture planning team and is responsible for interpreting internal or external business issues and recommending best practices. They will be tasked with solving complex planning / scheduling-related problems and will work independently with minimal guidance. The Principal Planner may be responsible for leading Projects and is regarded as a specialist in the field of planning / scheduling. As such, they must have in-depth expertise in planning / scheduling as well as broad knowledge of the planning/scheduling discipline within the Project Control function. Key Tasks and Responsibilities: Perform schedule analysis using Project Management software's 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 Perform detailed schedule quality and integrity checks Update and validate physical progress reported from EVMS

- **Id**: 4333931
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/mcdermott-principal-planner-5>
- **Role**: Operations
- **Role family**: Operations
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-06-22T14:19:59Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-06-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T10:05:36Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 146
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2684
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Oil & Gas, Engineering Services, Construction

## Company

- **Id**: 1877428
- **Name**: McDermott
- **Domain**: mcdermott.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/mcdermott-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 91
- **Open postings**: 122
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.344
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 52
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Technologies

- **EVMS** — Optional: no
- **Microsoft Project** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 146

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-15T10:05:36Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 17
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.618
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 146
- **Expected fill days**: 52
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T14:32:57Z

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