Senior Project Planner in Guildford

Providing a consultancy service to Project Managers and the Engineering functions regarding the preparation, monitoring and updating of project plans.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Project Managers and Engineers in the construction of resourced project plans using Primavera in accordance with company standards and the project structure as identified by the Project Manager.
• Build credible relationships with key stakeholders, including customers, colleagues and project team members.
• 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.
• 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 Cubic’s resource planning process.
• Reporting of Earned Value and critical path analysis.
• Assist in the analysis of project costing reports.
• Assist the Bids and Proposals team as required in the preparation of proposals, including project/contract mobilization stage and engineering development stage.
• Ensure plans are accurate, realistic and consistent with estimates of costs to complete.
• Work in conjunction with Programme and Engineering Managers to establish robust schedules.
• Ensure plans are correctly set-up and configured for monthly synchronisation with SAP.
• Attend and contribute to project review meetings.
• Support the PMO and Head of Project Planning with monthly reporting requirements.
• Provide planning guidance to junior team members 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, particularly the code of conduct, quality, security and occupational health, safety and environmental policies and procedures.
• Perform other duties assigned by their manager from time-to-time, as may be reasonably required of them.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience:

Essential:

• Experience of working in a busy Planning role.
• Experience of working with planning software e.g. Primavera P6 & MS Project.
• Detailed knowledge and understanding of all aspects of Project Management including its effects on the implementation and delivery of project objectives.
• Experience of creating and maintaining robust project plans throughout the entire project lifecycle.
• Providing planning support to complex engineering projects.
• Experience of working across large and complex project teams and with multiple parties (internal and external).
• Experience of reporting earned value management processes.
• Able to demonstrate the ability to challenge project managers/teams on their plans and resource assignment/utilisation.
• Experience of working within an engineering or IT development environment.
• Knowledge or experience of risk analysis software (e.g. for Monte Carlo analysis).
• Competent user of MS Office suite (Word & Excel, Primavera P6 and MS Projects).

Education and Qualifications:

Essential:

• Degree or equivalent in a Project/Business discipline (or equivalent level of experience).

Desirable:

• APM Practitioner qualification or equivalent (this is a Project Management qualification).
• Prince 2.