Department: Projects

Reports to: Head of Projects / Project Planning Team Lead

Salary: Competitive

The Role

Join Serica as a Senior Projects Planner, where you’ll play a key role in enabling safe, well‑sequenced and efficient delivery of projects across our asset portfolio. Reporting to the Head of Projects / Project Planning Team Lead, you’ll be responsible for developing and maintaining high‑quality, detailed project schedules that provide clarity, insight and confidence to project delivery teams.

Communication is central to this role. You’ll work closely with project engineers, operations, subsea, wells, construction and contractors to ensure schedules are robust, clearly understood and accurately reflect scope, logic, constraints and execution strategy. Your ability to translate complex project activity into clear planning insight will support effective decision‑making.

Through Learning, you’ll contribute to continual improvement in planning standards, tools and ways of working. You’ll share best practice, support assurance reviews and apply lessons learned to strengthen planning quality and consistency across the portfolio.

We believe in Empowerment and Accountability. You’ll be trusted to build credible schedules, interrogate logic and progress, highlight risks and opportunities, and take ownership for the quality and integrity of planning data that underpins reporting, KPIs and portfolio reviews.

Above all, you’ll work with Respect — collaborating positively across disciplines, valuing different perspectives and supporting a team environment focused on safe, coordinated and successful project delivery.

This role offers the opportunity to make a visible contribution to how Serica plans, governs and delivers complex offshore and onshore project activity.

What we are looking for in potential candidates

We’re looking for an experienced project planner with strong technical planning capability, attention to detail and a collaborative approach.

Key requirements include

• Proven experience in oil & gas project planning, ideally within an operator environment
• Strong Primavera P6 capability, including logic build, critical path analysis and schedule troubleshooting
• Experience supporting complex scopes such as asset modifications, offshore campaigns, wells, subsea or decommissioning
• Ability to analyse progress, identify risk and provide clear planning insight
• Strong communication skills and confidence working with multidisciplinary teams and contractors
• High attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously

Our Culture

Serica offers the opportunity to be part of a busy, vibrant working environment with a strong culture rooted in mutual respect and trust.

We are passionate about building an inclusive culture that attracts and encourages diversity. We want our employees to feel that they can bring their true self to work, as we recognise the potential that this unlocks and the value that it brings.

We have created an environment that puts people at the heart of everything we do, based on a shared set of values.  This means not just doing the essentials of looking after everyone’s health, safety and wellbeing but their development, their sense of belonging and their success.  Only by making our values a real part of everyday life at Serica can we achieve our goals and grow as individuals and together.

In real terms this means being truly supportive of the things that matter to our people.

What can a career at Serica Energy offer you?

We offer the opportunity to be supported with further training if required and access to competitive benefits such as

• Company Pension
• Private Medical & Dental Insurance
• Health Cash Plan
• Share Save and Share Incentive PlanLife Assurance
• Group Income Protection
• Personal Accident Insurance and Business Travel.
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work
• Electric Vehicle Scheme
• We also offer the opportunity to work flexibly.

Serica’s Equal Opportunity statement

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunities employer and conduct our recruitment and selection process in a fair and consistent manner that does not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, sex or sexual orientation, religion or belief. 

Serica will make reasonable adjustments in line with the Equality Act 2010.

Recruitment Process

We recognise that recruitment is a two-way process.

We will acknowledge all applications and communicate clearly with candidates throughout the process.  If you are unsuccessful, we will let you know. We will also provide advance information on interview question areas, as well as post interview feedback, for candidates attending this stage of the process. 

Serica will make reasonable adjustments during the interview process if required.

If you would like to apply for the role, please send a copy of your CV to our recruitment team, recruiting@serica-energy.com

A copy of the full job description can be found here.