Lead Planner for ACS in Stafford

The candidate should be proficient in P6, with strong interpersonal skills to interact across all the organisation functions. He shall have a proactive behaviour to facilitate solutions and capacity to influence and anticipate mitigations. His technical background is wide so he understands the constraints and logical sequences of our business segment. He is acquainted with electrical substations, at least on AC. Knowledge on HVDC converter station would be a plus.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Builds the project baseline gaining approval of client and internal stakeholders.
• Maintains project schedule with periodic updates, including resource forecasts throughout the project lifecycles.
• Identifies activities prerequisites and helps anticipate blockers with wider project team and third parties.
• Drives and challenges progress, agrees forecast and develops mitigations/catch up plans.
• Ensures schedule analysis through various means (schedule movements, S curve, commodity curve, OTD, Say/Do ratio, overplanning, resource loading, productivity…) to determine project schedule trends and related risks & opportunities then works with project team members to drive mitigation strategies.
• Provides evidence to PM to advocate for support as appropriate.
• Leads collaboration with functional task and resource owners to find strategies to optimize durations and manhours.
• Ensures that forecast task durations and logic are understood and committed by the task owners.
• Presents all time schedule data in a transparent way, attends project and management reviews to present schedule status, describe trends and forecasts/landing, make proposals and influence strategic decisions.
• Produces and communicates internal project reporting of project status.
• Produces contractually required customer reporting and is able to communicate directly with customers on scheduling matters.
• Leads collaboration with 3rd parties on project schedule interfaces including maintenance of an interface register.
• Maintains a register of potential schedule and cost risks in collaboration with the Risk Manager.
• Provides time-related calculations to ensure change order schedule/cost estimates are accurate.
• Aligns with Cost Controller to ensure reconciliation between P6 schedule and approved cost phasing.
• Generates “what if” scenarios to optimize execution and works with project teams to evaluate feasibility.
• Supports disputes and analysis of claims.
• Takes full responsibility for the planning output for the assigned project(s) in close coordination with his Project Manager(s).

Qualifications & Experience

• Degree qualified either in engineering or project management discipline.
• Relevant experience in planning turnkey projects in the transmission business (electrical substations).
• Relevant experience in Primavera P6 user (Essential).
• Relevant experience on large & complex infrastructure projects or in international and multicultural environment.
• Knowledge of risk management processes and tools, quantitative risk analysis is a plus.
• Experience of cost control function and interface with schedule is a plus.
• Experience in applying forensic analysis for EOT claims preparation is a plus.

Educational/Soft Skills Requirements

• Degree qualified either in engineering or project management with significant experience in planning management, including some experience in electrical substations.
• Robust experience in Primavera P6 user (Essential) and in EPC/turnkey projects.
• Excellent interpersonal skills for cross functional daily interaction / good communicator / anticipation and problem-solving aptitude / team spirit / resilient.
• Analytical / contributes to the decision making.
• Provides factual element to support decisions.
• Autonomous and reliable.
• Customer focus.