Role: Senior Planner
Salary: Up to £85,000 + package
Location: London
Working Pattern: Hybrid working
Senior Planner Job Summary
The Senior Planner establishes and maintains the overall time plan for the project and monitors and reports performance against it.
Senior Planner Key Responsibilities
- Prepare and maintain a robust and realistic integrated master schedule for the project, highlighting critical milestones relating to key activities, deliverables, and interfaces.
- Clarify and maintain the visibility of programme interface requirements and dependencies; ensure that responsibilities for the management of interfaces are clearly assigned and understood.
- Collate regular and ad-hoc reports for the Project SLT to provide a timely overview of programme time performance on an exception basis.
- Develop and present regular forecasts of anticipated milestone achievements and use EVA techniques to measure trends and maintain an up-to-date view of the expected completion date for the project as a whole; recommend project-level actions where appropriate to mitigate potential time over-runs.
- Provide advice and guidance to the project delivery team in reviewing and challenging, where appropriate, sub-contractors’ programmes.
- Ensure that adequate time provision is included in individual project schedules to allow for overall programme integration.
- Ensure the effective management of the time contingency built into the programme for programme-level risks to ensure that contingency allowances reflect the current programme position.
- Establish programme-level commissioning and testing schedules, taking into account project interfaces and planned completion schedules.
- Ensure consistency of planning techniques and the use of common WBS at all levels of the project.
Senior Planner Qualifications, Certifications & Experience
- Expert knowledge of construction techniques, methods, and durations.
- Strong understanding of techniques for project planning control and other facets of project control.
- Expert knowledge of Primavera and similar planning software.
- Strong knowledge of integrated project planning.
- Expert knowledge of EVA techniques.
- Ability to use schedule risk modelling software such as Pertmaster.
- Relevant experience in project planning.
- Significant past experience in large projects.
- MAPM or formal PM/Project Controls qualification.
- Experience in the railway environment.
Senior Planner Behavioural Competencies
- Strong team leader.
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to “deep dive” into planning.
- Comfortable with presenting at a senior level.
- Able to present facts clearly and simply.
- Able to collaborate effectively with others to develop integrated programmes.
- Ability to mentor and train subordinate staff.
If this role is of interest apply now and we will be in touch soon to discuss the next steps in the application.
