Lead Project Planner
Hybrid
West Midlands
Are you looking for a role as a Lead Project Planner?
Then look no further!
What's in it for you?
- Pension - 5% employer + 5% employee contributions
- Death in Service - 3x salary
- Annual Leave 25 days plus bank holidays (Buy and Sell up to 5 days)
- Paid leave to attend medical appointments - up to 2 hours
- ADO - opportunity to accrue additional 5 days off each year for hours worked over
- Professional Membership fees paid
- Employee Assistance Programme (confidential advice)
- Sickness Benefit (after successful completion of probationary period) paid sickness entitlement
- Free parking
- Employee portal that offers discounts, offers, employee assistance programme (after probationary period)
What you'll be doing?
- Coordinate the Project Planning team
-Establish planning standards across all projects
-EPS Structure is in line with expectations
-Project Schedule, resources and budgets to agreed estimates and timescales
-Earned Value Analysis
-Critical Path Analysis
-Resource Analysis
-Look-ahead schedules
-Production of timely and accurate Client schedules/reports
-Inclusion of change as per the change control system
-Development and maintenance of reporting systems in order to meet project demands
-Assessment of progress and subsequent reporting of project KPIs
-Identification and prioritisation of likely overspends
-Participation in Risk Management process and inclusion of mitigating action
-Liaise with all the members of the project team to develop and instil an appreciation of planning issues/importance
-Liaise with Customer planning engineers and project team members
-Development of planning structure and reporting in line with Project and client WBS
-Accuracy of all data and reports presented
-Take direction from the Projects Delivery Director/Project Manager for any ad-hoc planning/reporting or assessments
What you'll need?
- P6 Experience (ideally superuser)
- Fully conversant in all aspects of Earned value Analysis and project cost controls
- Good understanding of project management principles and processes
- Comfortable leading a small team and contributing within a team
- HNC/HND in engineering or similar
- Strong understanding of all project controls (including cost engineering, change control and risk management)
- Data manipulation skills particularly within MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and MS Access
- Excellent IT skills (MS Excel, Access, PowerPoint), numeric and analytical skills
- Good spoken and written English
Please Note
Due to the nature of this work, you will need to have SC Clearance or above (or be able to obtain)
If your CV is not up to date, no worries, simply apply and we can look at it later.
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