Planning & Commissioning Officer

The successful candidate will support project leaders in generating a high standard of project planning service delivery, achieving successful outcomes for our client, capturing and sharing knowledge across projects, enhancing our culture of innovation and reinforcing our reputation as a preferred consultant and service provider. The successful candidate will be a key contributor in the project management team assisting in the successful implementation and delivery of large and complex projects.

Responsibilities include:

• Providing a planning and programming service to both external and internal clients, from feasibility stages through to C&Q post completion and occupation, ensuring that all time-related issues are effectively considered and can be controlled or addressed.
• Providing consultancy advice on all programming and monitoring issues.
• Monitoring and reporting against programmes at all stages of pre-construction and construction, including the use of S-curves, trend analysis, baselines, critical path analysis, rescheduling, etc.
• Undertaking analysis of tender and contract programmes from contractors.
• Preparing critical path analysis.
• Establishing sequence, durations, and options for all stages of projects including design and procurement, legal, financial, gateways, construction, commissioning and qualification.
• Development of ambitious What-if scenario planning, in close association with Works Contractors and Construction Management, with acceleration of outcomes in mind.
• Monitoring and advising the Construction Management effort on multi-faceted key Trigger points, obtained from liaising closely with Contractors.
• Co-ordinating with project teams including clients, project managers, cost consultants, design and other consultants and contractors, to negotiate and co-ordinate project programme issues.
• Providing consultancy advice on delay mitigation and undertake comprehensive delay and forensic analysis activities.

Qualifications and skills required:

• Extensive post-qualification experience as a project planner and schedule management within the construction industry, with the ability to demonstrate skills at high level, working within a variety of project teams.
• Skilled in the use of Oracle Primavera P6 and other planning software.
• Relevant experience in the pharmaceutical and life science sectors beneficial.
• Experience, knowledge and understanding of the commissioning, qualification and validation (CQV) processes and associated schedule/activity requirements.
• Experience working on high-profile projects.
• Experience in a project controls and/or programme management environment.
• Ability to achieve buy-in to work from clients and other project stakeholders.
• Ability to adapt planning skills to new and differing situations.
• Excellent IT Skills (MS Office including Excel, Word, PowerPoint and MS Power BI).

Currie & Brown is one of the world’s leading physical assets management and construction consultancies, dedicated to advising clients in respect of the management and utilisation of their physical assets, and is differentiated by innovation, expertise and experience. As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job.