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Senior Planner

  • Location: Warrington, WA3 6YD
  • Salary: £35 - £65 per hour
  • Job Type:Contract

Posted 22 days ago

  • Sector: Nuclear
  • Contact: Christian Hart
  • Contact Email: chart@nrl.co.uk
  • Contact Phone: 01942 323277
  • Start Date: 23 October 2024
  • Expiry Date: 23 November 2024
  • Job Ref: V-175601

Our client, a leading engineering service provider to the nuclear and defence industries are now looking for a Senior Planning Engineer (PMO Scheduling specialist).

The role is responsible for applying schedule management independently primarily in complex situations across P3M. Preparing and maintaining integrated schedules of project and/or programme activities and events, taking into account of dependencies and resource requirement.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop/implement and maintain the Project structures (WBS/OBS/RBS/CBS)

  • Develop/baseline and maintain the Project integrated schedule. (Level 1-3)

  • Ensure alignment between the integrated scheduling toolset and the companies financial and material demand toolset.

  • This includes alignment of any Level 4/5 schedules.

  • Regular status update of the integrated schedule and the provision of metrics (eg critical path/total float) and schedule analysis of the impact to the project.

  • Resource/cost loaded schedules to inform the IBP and also to provide financial status of the project


Additional Key Accountabilities:

  • Provision of schedule risk analysis updates on a monthly basis and to inform the baseline

  • Inclusion of key milestones and status against these Critical path analysis of the integrated schedule on a regular basis

  • Correctly record project progress in the schedule), reschedule to take effect of the progress data and communicate the results to the project team and advise of any appropriate corrective action.

  • Understand and report on project using Earned Value Analysis techniques and interpret/communicate the results and any corrective action to the project team.

  • Establishing and leading on Interactive Planning workshops

  • Leading on Rolling Wave (lookahead) meetings

  • Ensuring that the schedule is cost loaded in line with the Baseline budgets

  • Ensuring that the schedule is updated with forecast dates and Estimates at Completion What-if scenarios

  • Support to commercial change process and impact assessments

  • Inclusion of key supplier and subcontract schedules Lead on alignment of schedule to project change register.

  • Attending and contributing the business Scheduling Community of Practice


Experience/ Skills Required:

  • Extensive recent and relevant experience in a similar environment / business sector

  • Awareness of various contracting methodologies (e.g. Advanced knowledge of scheduling toolsets e.g.

  • Quantitative risk analysis experience

  • Forensic Planning

  • Full project lifecycle experience from bid phase through to close out


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