Effiong Joseph
Scotland,UK
Summary
Project Planner with over 5 years of experience delivering civil engineering and commercial construction programmes, including work within Bouygues UK's major project portfolio spanning HS2 and EPR civils. Proficient in Primavera P6 EPPM at Level 3/4, with practical experience across critical path analysis, earned value management, resource levelling, and NEC4 contract administration. Comfortable across the full project lifecycle from tender through to completion, translating complex schedule data into clear stakeholder reporting through Power BI and advanced Excel.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
year of post-secondary education
Work history
Project Planner
Bouygues
, UK
06.2024 - Current
- Produce progress reports, programme updates, and scenario planning deliverables for project teams and senior stakeholders, supporting timely decision-making across all project phases.
- Implemented Earned Value Management methodologies with resource histograms and float analysis, achieving 15% reduction in project schedule overruns through systematic variance reporting and critical path optimisation.
- Develop and maintain detailed Primavera P6 construction programmes from tender through to completion, ensuring schedules accurately reflected live site conditions and contractual milestones.
- Highlighting key activities, risk and potential impacts to programmes, enabling proactive mitigation.
- Collaborating closely with construction, commercial, and engineering teams to maintain programme alignment with actual works delivery, improving cross-functional schedule adherence
- Performed comprehensive compensation events assessment and delay analysis, maintaining detailed risk registers and implementing recovery programmes to prevent cost escalation.
- Contributing to both short-term look-ahead planning and long-term
project scheduling. - Managed resource levelling across concurrent projects using histogram analysis and capacity planning, improving resource utilisation efficiency by 20% through systematic workforce optimisation and equipment scheduling.
Project Planner
The Clancy group
, UK
03.2022 - 05.2024
- Generated weekly and monthly progress reports, including S-curves, variance reports, and 4-week look-ahead schedules, providing stakeholders with clear visibility of upcoming activities and schedule performance.
- Developed detailed Primavera P6 schedules for £20M commercial projects, establishing critical path networks with structured WBS and activity coding to identify and prevent schedule slippage.
- Maintained day-to-day communication across design, commercial, estimating, consents, and supply chain teams to support coordinated project delivery.
- Monitored and updated project progress at regular intervals, producing and analysing recovery schedules where programme slippage was identified.
- Managed change event programme in line with contract requirements, tracking variations and analysing critical and non-critical paths to keep the delivery team informed of schedule impacts.
- Maintained resource-loaded programmes to support Earned Value Management reporting, productivity forecasting, and KPI reporting to stakeholders.
Trainee Project Planner
True Troop Consulting
, UK
01.2021 - 02.2022
- Assisted in the development and maintenance of Primavera P6 construction programmes, updating activity progress, remaining durations, and logic under the direction of the Senior Planner.
- Supported the production of weekly progress reports, 4-week look-ahead schedules, and S-curves, helping to communicate schedule status to the project team and site management.
- Collated progress information from site supervisors and subcontractors, reconciling reported percentage complete with on-site observations to maintain an accurate live baseline.
- Gained working knowledge of NEC contract administration, supporting Early Warning logging and compensation event tracking to develop foundational understanding of programme entitlement and change control.
Education
Master of Science - Petroleum Production Engineering
Robert Gordon University
Aberdeen 09.2019 - 09.2020
Skills
- Primavera P6
- Project scheduling
- Work breakdown structure creation
- Gantt charts creation
- Critical Path Method (CPM)
- Baseline management
- Progress monitoring and reporting
- Resource Levelling
- Earned Value Management
- Risk Management
- Delay Analysis
- Recovery Programme Development
- Power BI
- Advanced Excel (VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables)
- NEC3/4 Contract Administration
Certifications & Training
- Association for Project Management (APM) - Project Controls Certification (In Progress)
- Primavera P6 Professional - Oracle Certified (2021)
- Microsoft Project Specialist - Advanced Planning & Scheduling (2020)
Additional Information
Full eligibility to work in the UK
Timeline
Project Planner
Bouygues
06.2024 - Current
Project Planner
The Clancy group
03.2022 - 05.2024
Trainee Project Planner
True Troop Consulting
01.2021 - 02.2022
Master of Science - Petroleum Production Engineering
Robert Gordon University
09.2019 - 09.2020