Senior Planner (Birmingham/London)

Description

• Provide planning and controls leadership for the scope under your control
• Perform critical path analysis and advise of possible actions and areas of concern.
• Perform analysis and scenario modelling for any potential project change and be able to provide risks, issues, cost, resource and delay analysis.
• Work closely with the central Bids & Tendering team to ensure tender plans are developed through the mobilisation process into contract plans
• Work closely with site and possession planners to ensure cohesion between these different activities and the main project schedule.
• Adopting NEC3 ECC contractual methods of working to ensure your contributions and deliverables are in accordance with the contract
• Build and maintain close working relationships with client representatives and work collaboratively to find the most efficient and effective planning and controls solutions.
• Be the technical planning expert ensuring consistent application of standards and procedures, including templates and guidance and support to your team
• Promote and improve planning and controls within the immediate team and the wider Siemens organisation.
• Develop and maintain plans in accordance with Rail Infrastructure UK project management, planning and PM@Siemens procedures and processes.
• Ensure that the periodic project reporting requirements are met for both internal and client through the provision of KPI, EV, schedule delay and critical path analysis reports as required.
• Undertake Short Term Planning (STP) on a weekly basis in coordination with other disciplines to ensure tangible and measurable progress is captured regularly to inform the monthly update of the clause 32 updated contractual programme.
• Work closely with project, commercial and finance managers and members of the wider project team to ensure project schedules are accurately developed, maintained, resource and cost loaded.

Requirements

• Experience of planning major and complex infrastructure projects preferably in the rail industry.
• Practiced analytical and problem solving skills with a collaborative approach
• Self-motivated with sound interpersonal and communication skills, coupled with an assertive style of behaviour.
• Experience of working with senior management both internally and in the client organisation.
• Technical planning expert to advanced Primavera level with knowledge and use of Short Term Planning processes and respective tools (e.g. Aphex, MS Planner)
• Experience of working with NEC3/NEC4 contracts, particularly the Clause 32 updated programme process and Clause 60 Compensation Event process
• Awareness of how Earned Value Management is executed on complex projects and the role of the planner and respective data sets they’re responsible for.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance