Senior Project Planner

The Senior Project Planner will work closely with Portfolio Managers and their teams to produce accurate and reliable project schedules. They will also produce regular reports showing progress compared to agreed baselines, showing reasons for deviation.

An important part of this role is also to support the Commercial team in assessing the impact of Compensation Events under the NEC contract. Using the project schedule, they will make assessments of changes, including Extensions of Time and communicate clearly and in an evidence-based manner on the results of this analysis.

This role is central to creating, maintaining and communicating project delivery schedules using specialist planning tools (including MS Project and Primavera P6) to ensure that projects are delivered on time.

• Progress the programme on a monthly basis using information and reports from site, as well as contractor applications/reports/progress updates – query any discrepancies as necessary with the Project Manager
• Ensure the monthly cost forecast and programme schedule align and the delivery assumptions in both the commercial forecast and schedule forecast are matching
• Review contractor programmes (as a requirement of the NEC contract) for completeness/accuracy/functionality and feed comments back to the Project Manager for action with the Contractor
• Set up projects in the planning system according to standard WBS codes and the Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)
• Establish a delivery baseline for the project as follows: Initial baseline – based on AMFP (Renewals), Linear / Structural Inspections or HE agreed dates (Improvements)
• Use the schedule information to create schedule benchmarks for future projects from previous actual schedule data
• Provide the Project Manager with (at least) a monthly update of the delivery programme in an agreed format
• Undertake programme assessments of Compensation Events on behalf of the Project Manager, advising on any valid Extensions of Time, together with providing clear evidence to support decisions and commercial discussions.
• Create new baselines as necessary to monitor and report performance
• Provide summary management information on programme performance by project/programme/portfolio
• Ensure that common coding structures are applied throughout the programme to allow reporting
• Analyse schedule information for trends and issues – for example, trends in late achievement of project stages, overall delivery predictability

***This position can be based out of South Mimms, Leatherhead or Dartford sites.

*Please note, to be considered for this role, you must be based in the UK and must already be able to legally work in the UK. We are unable to offer or provide sponsorship for this position*

• Experience of working in a multi-stakeholder environment
• Educated to A-level standard or equivalent, preferably including mathematics or technically-base subjects
• Experienced in the use of project planning and scheduling software (such as Primavera P6 or MS Project)
• Experience of working with NEC contracts preferred
• Knowledge and experience of handling large volumes of data with the ability to summarise key points and trends
• Highly organised and able to handle many ongoing priorities without impact on outputs