Senior Project Planner

  • Rotterdam, Netherlands; Karlskrona, Sweden; United Kingdom
  • On-site
  • Full-time
  • Posted

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No local language required
English
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Plan and deliver complex international project schedules

Are you an experienced project planner who enjoys working with large-scale projects from tender phase through execution to completion? As a Senior Project Planner at NKT, you will play a key role in planning, monitoring, and reporting across complex projects that support the green transition. Working closely with international teams, clients, and project stakeholders, you will help ensure transparent and reliable project execution. Would you like to contribute to some of the infrastructure projects shaping a more sustainable future?

Coordinate planning across major project phases

As Senior Project Planner, you will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and optimising integrated project schedules covering the full project lifecycle. You will work closely with project teams, clients, subcontractors, and management to provide clear visibility of project progress and support informed decision-making through accurate planning and reporting.

Your responsibility will be to:

  • • Develop and maintain integrated project schedules in Primavera P6 from tender to project completion
  • • Monitor project progress, identify schedule risks and support mitigation activities
  • • Coordinate planning activities across subcontractors, suppliers, manufacturing, installation and commissioning
  • • Prepare planning reports, dashboards, S-curves, milestone analyses and executive summaries
  • • Support contract and project management teams with delay assessments, claims support and schedule analysis

The position is based in Rotterdam, Netherlands. You will collaborate with international teams and be expected to travel for client meetings, site visits, and department activities held in Karlskrona.

Structured planner with collaborative stakeholder approach

You are a structured and proactive person who enjoys balancing detailed analysis with collaboration across different functions and cultures. You communicate clearly, build positive working relationships, and are comfortable discussing different perspectives to support well-founded project decisions. You take ownership of your work, maintain a methodical approach, and keep focus on quality and accuracy.

You also have:

  • • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, or a related discipline
  • • Extensive experience in project planning within large project environments
  • • Advanced knowledge of Primavera P6
  • • Experience with project reporting and data visualisation tools such as Power BI
  • • Professional fluency in English, written and spoken
  • • Experience from renewable energy, offshore wind, submarine cable, oil & gas, EPC or large infrastructure projects is considered advantageous

Contribute to the development of sustainable infrastructure projects

We aim to create a workplace where people of all backgrounds are valued, supported, and able to do their best work. We are dedicated to increasing gender diversity at NKT and welcome applications from a wide range of candidates. We welcome varied backgrounds and career paths—even if you don’t meet every single requirement. We believe inclusive teams contribute to positive results and create a better everyday work environment.

In this role, you will be part of an international environment where collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and professional development are prioritised. You will have opportunities to broaden your planning capabilities, work alongside experienced colleagues, contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, and support major projects that are enabling the global shift towards renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure.

Read more about our offer and listen to some voices of NKT Connectors here!

We will review applications continuously, but we recommend you apply no later than 2026-12-07. Be aware that personality and cognitive tests might be included in the recruitment process. If you have any questions about the role,or the recruitment process, please reach out to Cajsa Carlsson at cajsa.carlsson@nkt.com. Please note that due to the GDPR regulations we cannot accept any applications via e-mail.

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We are a leading cable and cable accessories supplier to the energy sector. NKT develops and offers high-end cables, cable accessories and cable services.