Project Planner in Redhill

When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support Project Managers and Engineers in the construction of resourced project plans using Primavera in accordance with company standards.
• Coordinate liaison with resource managers to ensure timely allocation and utilisation of staff resources.
• Coordinate the production of detailed budgets consistent with resourced project plans.
• Coordinate and report on the status of project progress.
• Assist and advise in the reporting of progress to customers, senior management and project team members.
• Advise on techniques for analysing progress, identifying problem areas, establishing current position and forecasting trends.
• Report significant schedule slippages.
• Coordination of earned value and critical path reporting process.
• Assist in the analysis of project costing reports.
• Assist the Bids and Proposals team as required in the preparation of proposals and estimates, including project/contract mobilization stage and engineering development stage.
• Ensure plans are accurate, realistic and consistent with estimates of costs to complete.
• Build credible relationships with key stakeholders, including customers, colleagues and project team members.
• Support the PMO and Head of Project Planning with monthly reporting requirements.
• Work in conjunction with Programme and Engineering Managers to establish robust schedules.
• Attend and contribute to project review meetings.
• Assist Business Development in the preparation of bid/proposals schedules as required.
• Update Cubic’s planning standards/procedures and educate/train project managers in their use.
• Travel to customer and other Cubic sites for meeting attendance as and when required.

Comply with Cubic’s values and adherence to all company policy and procedures. In particular comply with the code of conduct, quality, security and occupational health, safety and environmental policies and procedures.

Minimum Job Requirements:

• Extensive experience of working in a busy Planning role.
• Extensive experience of working with planning software (such as Primavera).
• Significant knowledge and understanding of all aspects of Project Management including its effects on the implementation and delivery of project objectives.
• Proven track record of creating and maintaining robust project plans throughout the entire project lifecycle.
• Proven track record of providing planning support to complex and varied engineering projects.
• Proven track record of working across large and complex project teams and with multiple parties (internal and external).
• Able to demonstrate the ability to challenge project managers/teams on their plans and resource assignment/utilization.
• Established experience of establishing and reporting earned value management processes.
• Experience of working within an engineering or IT development environment.
• Experience of risk analysis software (e.g. for Monte Carlo analysis).
• Competent user of MS Office suite, specifically Word and Excel.

Education and qualifications:

• A Level education or equivalent (or equivalent level of experience).
• APM qualification or equivalent.
• Desirable: Degree or equivalent in a Project/Business discipline (or equivalent level of experience).

Personal Qualities:

• Able to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing with colleagues at all levels of seniority.
• Self-motivated and proactive with the ability to work unsupervised.
• Able to learn quickly and to think laterally, with the perseverance to understand, identify and explain shortcomings in complex arguments.
• Able to effectively explain key issues to mixed audiences.
• Strong negotiation skills with the ability to be persuasive.
• Accurate with a keen eye for detail.
• Resilient with the ability to multitask and work effectively under pressure.

The description provided above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities and requirements. Duties, responsibilities and requirements may change over time and according to business need.