Senior Planning Engineer

You will be responsible for developing and maintaining robust control of the planning schedule. This includes providing active support the project and programme teams in all planning and reporting activities. This role would suit a collaborative individual with great leadership and communication skills who enjoys multi-tasking, loves a busy working environment and thrives under pressure.

• Manage the framework for maintaining the schedule interdependencies between projects, programmes and portfolios
• Work closely with the Project Controls Specialists to ensure that the schedule, budget and risk/contingency baselines are consistent and integrated
• Define and control the schedule baseline for our capital delivery schedule and project, programme and portfolio levels, ensuring that they incorporate learning from previous projects and is realistic/achievable
• Establish, maintain and continuously improve the framework for template schedules, schedule activity norms and standard work
• Maintain the framework for forecasting critical resources – to enable the identification and mitigation of bottlenecks
• Produce and continuously improve schedule management information as part of our monthly reporting cycle.
• Develop the scope and work breakdown structure for the delivery schedule, including the capture of key assumptions
• Development, deployment and continuous improvement of planning processes, procedures and systems.
• Ensure that capital investment programme schedule information is accurate and timely
• Make sure that schedule progress is regularly reviewed and reported, identifying risks, issues and opportunities

You must have right to work in the UK.

You will be based in our office in Birmingham.

• Ability to interface with all relevant levels of client organisation
• Strong planning and organising skills with demonstrated ability to manage in fine detail
• You will be a good all-round team player with the ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Expert level knowledge of Primavera (P6) and MS Project
• Degree educated ideally
• Good level of technical understanding
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• Excellent written and verbal skills
• You will have a a logical mindset and methodical approach.
• A proficiency in Microsoft Office Applications
• NVQ level 3 or equivalent (A-level)