P6 Planner - EPN

This P6 Planner - EPN will report to the Project Controls and Data Excellence Manager and will work within Capital Programme based in our Bury St Edmunds office. You will be a permanent employee. You will attract a salary of £65,241 and a bonus of 3%. This role can also offer blended working after probationary period (6 months) - 3 days in the office and 2 remote.

We also provide the following additional benefits:

• 25 Days Annual Leave plus bank holidays.
• Reservist Leave – Additional 18 days full pay and 22 unpaid.
• Personal Pension Plan – Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%).
• Tenancy Loan Deposit Scheme, Season Ticket Loan.
• Tax efficient benefits: Cycle to Work, Home & Tech, and Green Car Leasing Schemes.
• Occupational Health support.
• Switched On – scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers' products.
• Discounted gym membership.
• Employee Assistance Programme.

Job Purpose:

The P6 planner manages and maintains the end-to-end P6 project schedules within the Capital Programme department of UK Power Networks. They sit client side and support the whole delivery team (Programme Managers, Project Managers, Quantity Surveyors, Designers, Consents and more) to forecast milestones, activities and costs utilising their knowledge of best practice project controls and P6 activity planning/cost forecasting.

Where and when works are contracted out during delivery, the P6 planner maintains the UKPN master schedule, assesses and incorporates monthly contractor submissions, holds contractor planners and plans to account and supports the analysis of an impact submissions utilising their NEC3 knowledge. P6 is utilised as the hub of reporting within UKPN Capital Programme for forecasting project costs, activities and milestones. It is also used for recording actual cost to date by activity. You will record and manage the data which is reported from their projects. For each month end reporting cycle, we ask that you are detailed when it comes to the data integrity of your projects ensuring that all actual costs are recorded and coded correctly in your projects and that milestone, activity and cost forecasts for the month, next month, in year and to completion reflect the best view of the project team.

Dimension:

One of the UK Power Networks Capital Programme DNO's with an approximate annual expenditure of £110m. You will manage numerous projects across different stages of the project lifecycle alongside multiple project managers.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Provide specialist P6 planning, project controls and contractor schedule review for allocated major projects.
• Deliverables to include for each project: Independent management, ownership and progression of P6 master schedules for UKPN's Capital Programme Major Projects.
• Apply project controls and NEC3 best practice / contract governance processes.
• Review and assessment of contractor schedules. 14 point standard checks, NEC contractual obligations checks and data integrity checks against UKPN requirements for master schedule and reporting integration.
• Schedule progress reporting accountable to the requirements of the project manager but expected to include month on month variance and forward lookaheads for cost, schedule and earned value.
• Apply the UKPN project controls handbook requirements to assigned projects.
• Understand and management of project key milestones, dependencies, risks.
• Manage actuals and accruals reporting in P6 utilising store period performance.
• Work together with the Portfolio Manager, Programme Managers, Project Managers and Planning team, and suppliers to ensure approved contract baseline schedules are established and maintained.
• Provide advice on the schedule impact of proposed change and integrate approved changes into baseline updates.
• Validate construction methodologies, resource and cost loading, activity durations, schedule logic, float allocation and critical path identification within plans.
• Maintain currency of Programme plans and schedules at Level 4 and below where not assigned to a third-party (supplier).
• Work with Risk Managers and programme teams to identify and incorporate risk mitigating actions into the planned work scope and to incorporate appropriate time/cost contingency levels across the baseline schedules.
• Lead/facilitate collaborative planning workshops with project stakeholders.
• Co-ordinate the flow of information to ensure that interfaces within projects are managed to increase efficiency.
• Attend site for major/critical projects following requirements.
• Obtain agreement to the schedule from project teams and co-ordinate schedule interfaces between the different control areas.

Qualifications:

• Engineering-based degree or equivalent.
• Programme management qualification (APMP etc.) desirable.

Experience:

• Extensive experience managing complex construction programmes using Primavera P6 within a multi-disciplined environment desirable.
• Experience in the principal accountabilities.
• Excellent technical skills in resolving issues and making decisions.
• Experience communication to all levels to both internal and external personnel.
• Good oral, written and presentational skills with experience presenting data for analysis and review.
• Familiarity with standard office software including Project, PowerPoint, Access, Excel and Outlook.
• Competent experience with P6 planning software specifically.
• Work with team to obtain information and commitment to formulating schedule whilst commanding respect from all stakeholders through technical and personal credibility.
• Experience reviewing schedule impact assessments and extension of time disputes.
• Experience reviewing contractor schedules and incorporating into the master schedule.

Health & Safety Responsibilities:

Managers and supervisors carry both legal and company responsibilities for ensuring the health and safety of their employees, those under their control and those who might be affected by the work undertaken, i.e. public, visitors and employees of other organisations. This includes briefing individuals working for them and ensuring there is the necessary understanding, competence and application of requirements to work safely and without harming the environment.

Employees will ensure they understand the health and safety risks involved in their work activities and their responsibility to apply the controls needed to manage those risks to acceptable levels. Similarly where work activities can have an adverse impact upon the environment, and where there are legal requirements, employees will understand those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied. If in doubt ask!

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