Senior Planner in Birmingham

Base salary: Depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top of the base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

As the Senior Planner you will be responsible for leading the development of an integrated project schedule across a delivery area and supporting the coordination of dependencies and interfaces across the programme.

About the role:

• To be accountable for leading the development of an integrated project schedule across a delivery area, ensuring dependencies and interfaces are effectively managed, identifying any risks and potential impacts, and proposing mitigation strategies where applicable.
• To be responsible for leading schedule input into the development of an integrated project baseline across development and delivery areas.
• Correlating schedule, cost and risk assessment through to influence critical path analysis and providing robust and quality plans to support decision making.
• To be accountable for identifying key programme interfaces and working with delivery teams within both HS2 and the supply chain, to document and manage these.
• To be responsible for working with Project Managers and Project Controls Managers to maintain project schedules and effectively manage change, providing assurance to the plans and schedules submitted by the supply chain.
• To be responsible for supporting What-if scenario planning, providing integrated solutions to programme and project conflicts and recoveries, supporting trade-off decision making.
• Provide specialist planning and integration support where required.
• To be accountable for collaborating with project delivery teams, the supply chain and stakeholders (including regulatory bodies, and the Department for Transport) where necessary to integrate all time, cost and quality information to support the monitoring of project progress and supply chain performance.
• To be responsible for working closely with the Project Controls Manager(s) to progressively enhance planning capabilities across the programme.
• To have accountability for providing functional line management, performance management and objective setting support to any direct reports.
• To have accountability for developing and delivering the planning and integration policy, processes and standards across the business, taking industry best practice to facilitate continuous improvement and ensure these are implemented consistently and effectively across development and delivery areas.
• Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

About you:Skills:

• Ability to use planning software including Primavera P6 at an advanced level.
• Ability to lead and integrate planning activities across multiple complex projects.
• Ability to lead a team of Planners to deliver processes, procedures and guidance that support project delivery and improve efficiency and accuracy within planning systems.
• Ability to analyse and interpret data, producing accurate, timely and informative reports in multiple formats targeted to the needs of the audience.
• Ability to present information clearly and concisely to a variety of audiences at various levels.
• Able to solve problems with an attention to detail.
• Ability to support, coach and motivate direct reports.

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of planning systems, processes and procedures that are capable of delivering large complex programmes.
• Knowledge of the core Project Controls disciplines, including Schedule Management, Cost Management, Change Management and Risk Management and an understanding of how they interrelate.
• Understanding of NEC contracts, amendments, early warning notices and the workflows of communications between contractor and client.
• Knowledge of all stages of the project life cycle.

Type of experience:

• Experience delivering a senior planning or planning role within complex delivery projects.
• Experience in the core project controls functions, including; baseline maintenance, schedule management, earned value, cost performance, change management, risk management and performance reporting.
• Experience of working on projects during all stages within the project lifecycle.
• Experience of governance procedures such as re-baselining, funding approval or major contract implementation.
• Experienced in the management and control of key Project Controls systems (e.g. Primavera P6, Prism, CEMAR, etc.).
• Experience of leading contract progress and schedule change reviews.

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect. It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

About Us

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK’s new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain’s major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs. HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities. HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others’ health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our ‘Safe at Heart’ programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.