Planning Manager

Trainor Consulting is an internationalconsulting firm specialized in heavy industry and energy projects, supporting clients acrossChina and the APAC region. The company delivers high-value expertise in sectors such asoil & gas, refineries, tank farms, fuel storage infrastructure, and large-scale industrial EPC projects.

With a strong focus ontechnical excellence and project delivery, Trainor Consulting partners with major industrial players to provideengineering consulting, project management, and workforce solutions tailored to complex and capital-intensive environments.

The firm is recognized for its ability to mobilizehighly skilled international and local talent, includingexpatriate technical experts, consultants, and project specialists, to support critical operations and infrastructure development.

• Develop, review and approve overall project baseline schedules, weekly/monthly rolling schedules and milestone plans for offshore EPC projects.

• Track daily/weekly project progress, monitor critical path activities, identify schedule risks, and propose corrective and preventive measures.

• Prepare regular progress reports, schedule analysis reports and project forecast reports for internal management and client review.

• Coordinate with engineering, procurement, construction, site and subcontractor teams to ensure all work packages are executed in accordance with the approved schedule.

• Manage schedule changes, assess the impact of design changes, site variations and resource adjustments on project timeline, and update schedule baseline accordingly.

• Standardize project planning management procedures and continuously optimize the planning system for fast-track offshore project delivery.

• Professional Experience: Minimum 10 years of solid working experience in EPC project planning and scheduling within the offshore/marine engineering industry, withno less than 2 years of independent working experience as a Planning Manager.

• Project Background: Must have hands-on planning experience infast-track production-focused offshore projects or wellhead platform projects, familiar with the full-cycle schedule management of offshore fabrication, integration and delivery.

• Schedule Management Capability: Responsible for establishing project baseline schedules, executing rolling planning, analyzing schedule deviation, identifying critical paths, and providing feasible progress optimization solutions to ensure projects are delivered on time.

• EPC Process Proficiency: Familiar with complete offshore EPC workflows including engineering design, procurement, fabrication, offshore installation and commissioning; able to coordinate multi-disciplinary teams to control overall project progress.

• Tool Proficiency: Proficient in commonly used planning tools such as Primavera P6 / MS Project, skilled in progress data sorting, report compilation and regular progress presentation.

• Communication & Coordination: Good cross-department and client communication ability, capable of aligning schedule targets with internal teams, clients and subcontractors, and efficiently resolving schedule conflicts.

• Language: Native or fluent English speaker (expat candidate).

What We Offer 

• Opportunity to work on major offshore Oil & Gas projects  

• International engineering environment  

• Career development and technical growth opportunities  

• Dynamic and multicultural workplace in Shanghai, China