Senior Project Planner - Special Projects

We’re looking for a Senior Project Planner to join our Special Projects team at our Advanced Manufacturing Facility in Ampthill, Bedfordshire. This role benefits from our 4xFlex working pattern, offering a 4-day working week Monday – Thursday. As part of the Special Projects team you could be required to work onsite up to 4 days a week. You’ll play a key role in supporting the end-to-end planning lifecycle — from proposal to execution — helping deliver some of the UK’s most complex and innovative engineering programmes. What You'll Be Doing Maintain the end-to-end lifecycle of planning and schedule management in support of programme capture and execution. Lead proposal preparation planning including development of planning artefacts for solicitation response. Interfaces with program management, senior management and the contractual customer as the programs planning integrator. Manage the validation of cost and schedule integration for effective program performance management. Manage the vertical and horizontal integration between all schedules and other program artefacts compliant with LM's command media. Manage the modelling and measuring techniques to integrate risks and opportunities with schedule and cost baseline. Manage the resolution of schedule conflicts, develops and implements work-around strategies and tactical alternatives. Utilises performance and health metrics to communicate actions to the programme team resulting in improved program performance. Maintenance and status updates of the IMS on a weekly