Senior Planner

As a Senior Planning Engineer you will be a fundamental part of the project, programme or portfolio team, working with stakeholders to develop and manage programmes. You will ensure visibility and alignment of programmes with business plans and Performance Commitments throughout.

To work collaboratively with the supply chain and partners ensuring the integrated schedules are developed and maintained providing the client with confidence. To work with and support the Planning Manager's and Project Controls lead with project assurance processes such as the Integrated Baseline Reviews and Schedule Peer Reviews. To work with the team to provide monthly reporting inputs and outputs as per our own and client's processes and requirements. To monitor progress, identify any potential risks and issues and make necessary adjustments. To input into planning workshops, provide adhoc schedules as required, ensure cost forecast is in alignment with the schedules and input into risk workshops and risk reduction meetings. Planning Tranche 5 works in P6 and also supporting engineers in Aphex.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining integrated schedules ensuring interface milestones, WBS, client governance gateways (not exhaustive) are captured correctly.
• Providing monthly progress updates and input into reporting requirements (internal and external).
• Apply Earned Value Management techniques.
• Ensure alignment of costs with the programme and resource where necessary.
• Arrange timely planning workshops and reviews with the team.
• Ensure compliance with quality management systems (internal and external).
• Analyse schedules and provide critical path analysis and proactively manage activities and milestones ensuring constructability, phasing and sequencing are embedded in the integrated schedules.
• Co-ordinating and managing, within the integrated schedule all interfaces with other programmes occurring concurrently with the overall client programme.
• Administer the programme part of the NEC contract, both with the client and with sub-contractors.
• Assess sub-contractor programmes for acceptance and impact programmes.
• Prepare impact programmes and narratives for the contract with the client.
• Develop breakdown structures, quality criteria, product descriptions and monitoring strategy.
• Challenge and define project assumptions to ensure that plans are realistic and achievable.
• Support the risk analysis process and integrate the QSRA outputs into the project and/or programme baseline(s).
• Regular interfacing and integration with the project controls team to maintain an aligned financial position with the Project/Programme Plan.
• Analyse interfaces and dependencies between projects for different scenarios and recommend appropriate actions where anomalies exist or there are areas of concern.
• Support the project manager to identify options to optimise delivery through resource smoothing, resource levelling and rescheduling of activities.
• Ensure that stakeholder requirements are understood and addressed in reporting arrangements.
• Provide advice on planning processes and different tools that could be used throughout the lifecycle of the project.
• Analyse performance data, looking at trends to identify areas for improvement and collaboration, and selecting appropriate methods and tools to resolve them.
• Contribute to capability building and the use of best practice in planning and reporting.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

• Substantial project and construction planning experience.
• Experience with working on NEC contracts, applying terms and conditions and associated requirements.
• Detailed knowledge of Primavera P6 including use of cost consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery.