Lead Project Planner

Multi National Defence Company • Portsmouth, ENG, United Kingdom • 16h ago

Job Description

Our Client who are a multi national Defence company are looking to recruit a number of Lead Project Planners to join existing teams to assist in the delivery of complex projects.

By joining the team, you will be working together and using world-class project control techniques to provide expertise with supporting Project Managers in the delivery of exciting and strategically important programmes within our Maritime & Land Sector businesses.

The business has a drive towards professionalism, this includes support towards Chartership and further career development.

What you will be doing:

Using your range of skills, you will support the planning, monitoring and control of projects which will range in size and complexity
Operating a project planning or scheduling system to work with stakeholders to resolve scheduling issues and formulate recovery / acceleration plans
Support in the generation of project resource demand profiles
Support the project team to analyse progress and identify schedule performance issues
Manage the integration and involvement with internal and external stakeholders and projects across various levels

Your Skills and Experience

You will need to have Planning/Scheduling experience demonstrated in a professional capacity in a project and within that, have an understanding of tools and techniques
No Degree Needed but suitable experience of between 3-5years deemed essential
Have demonstrable knowledge and experience of applying and using integrated schedule tracking and reporting systems/processes
Hold knowledge of cost control processes and the interface with scheduling
Knowledge across the full project lifecycle from engineering through to manufacturing
Requisite skills to look out for: monitoring, planning, estimating, scheduling, analysis, reporting, influencing, cost, budget, forecasting, reporting, finance, performance management, baseline management, quality, risk, change, earned value management
Looking for experience of Microsoft Project (basic) through to Primavera P6 (high end)