Project Planner

Job title: Project Planner

Location: South-West England (Hybrid Working)

Job type: Permanent

Within the Southwest region one of our clients, a Global Professional Services company, has strong positions in Transport, Utilities, Power and Defence. Over the past years we have seen significant growth in the Defence sector and have a range of opportunities to develop experience across various projects and programmes. We are currently seeking applications from Project Planners interested in working in the Defence Sector.

Job Objectives:

• Tailoring planning approaches to meet the client's needs in line with best practice.
• Leading members of the planning team to develop and maintain plans on highly complex, high-risk projects or programmes.
• Working with the project team to define scope of work to develop and update detailed schedules, cost information and identification of variances from original plan.
• Evaluating project schedule progress and performance and identify developing problem areas.
• Breakdown of the critical path and constraints to understand the effect of changes to schedule and recommend work-arounds.
• Lead analysis to understand alternative courses of action or recovery on slipped schedules.
• Lead the development of status reports to keep management informed on project progress.
• Training and coaching clients and less experienced team members on planning processes and practices.
• Challenging schedule information to ensure it is realistic, robust and stands up to scrutiny.
• Understanding and be able to explain the EVM reported periodically.

Qualifications:

• Experience in using a standard scheduling tool (Primavera P6, MS Project etc) is essential.
• Practical application of Earned Value Management (EVM).
• Having attended formal training in Time location software is desirable.
• Demonstratable experience of Contract Management tool or equivalent is desirable.
• Familiarity with NEC contracts is desirable.

Please note, due to the nature of this project, successful applicant may have to be able and willing to go through security clearance to the SC level.

How to Apply: Interested candidates should submit their CVs and a cover letter detailing their relevant experience to .