Senior Project Planner

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Job Description

Location: Barrow-in-Furness. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: From £42,215 per annum dependent on skills and experience

The Planning Team:

This is an exciting time to join us in the team where you will have a diverse and varied remit; from the management and control of schedules for software systems, instrumentation and hardware to mechanical and electrical projects. The team is integrated within Engineering and Project structures to create, develop and maintain Level 3 & Level 4 plans to define the method and support the stakeholder's expectations. We offer relocation support packages across all roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

What you’ll be doing:

• Managing the construction of a Level 3 and Level 4 plan including governance aspects, stakeholder management, the inclusion of key events and milestones as well as the application of EAC resources, process of striking a PMB, and the experience of the PMBCR change procedure.
• Overseeing the alignment of Level 3 and Level 4 plans, whilst identifying a critical path and investigating methods to define and mitigate negative variances.
• Being responsible for the acquisition of data; communicating variances, open dependencies, etc., to all stakeholders alongside defining risks to schedule and demonstrating proactive engagement to find acceptable resolutions.
• Maintaining stakeholder engagement across various teams, functions, and clients.
• Using and applying various toolsets and applications such as TeamCentre, APEX, SAP, and Microsoft Excel.

Skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Extensive, in-depth experience of Primavera P6 with knowledge of administration functions for the package.
• Experience with the construction of Level 3 and 4 plans including governance aspects, stakeholder management, the inclusion of key events and milestones, alongside the application of EAC resources, process of striking a PMB, and experience of the PMBCR change procedure.
• Knowledge of the alignment of Level 3 and 4 plans with the ability to identify a critical path to investigate methods to define and mitigate negative variances.
• Experience of Microsoft Office functions; Excel (the generation and manipulation of data), Outlook, PowerPoint (construction of presentations and reports), and Word.
• The ability to provide proactive training, guidance, and mentoring to junior Planning members of staff, increasing their SQEP, capability, and performance.

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