Planner

Groupe Talents Handicap; Paris; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Groupe Talents Handicap is seeking a Planner to maintain master project schedules and drive integrated planning across multiple projects. You will coordinate with sub-discipline leads to ensure alignment, coach junior planners, and operate autonomously with supervisory guidance from a Project Controls Manager.

Responsibilities include leading the planning process from requirement to baselined schedule and delivering EVM reporting, resource analysis, and milestone tracking.

Qualifications

• APMG PPC Foundation, APM Project Fundamentals Qualification, ECITB Planning & Scheduling Practice, APM Associate Membership are required qualifications.
• Desirable: APM Full Membership, PPC Practitioner, Earned Value Management Foundation, NEC3/4 Programme Training.

Responsibilities

• Maintain master project schedules for larger projects and ensuring outputs from other functions are integrated into the master programme.
• Lead planning processes from requirements through WBS to baselined schedule.
• Lead integrated schedule reporting including EVM, resource analysis, schedule performance and milestone reporting.
• Advocate the Planning discipline's tools, processes, guidance and templates and promote engagement across the business.

Education

APMG PPC Foundation

APM Project Fundamentals Qualification

ECITB Planning & Scheduling Practice

APM Associate Membership

APM Full Membership

APMG PPC Practitioner

APMG Earned Value Management Foundation

NEC3/4 Programme Training

Job description

Planners will be responsible for maintaining integrated master project schedules and associated artefacts within their delegated area of responsibility. These outputs will be one of the core project controls outputs in support of project management and customer/ business reporting requirements, and the role is responsible for ensuring that all outputs produced that feed into this are suitable and timely.

This role is expected to produce outputs within the planning sub-discipline but to also engage with other sub-discipline leads to ensure outputs are integrated and aligned. Planners are expected work autonomously with some oversight and guidance from a Project Controls Manager, and will coach, support and direct junior planners in producing supporting outputs.

Key Activities:

Maintain master project schedules for larger projects/ collections of projects in an area and assuring the outputs of other functions before integrating these back into the master programme.

Lead the planning process on projects, taking the integrated project team from requirement through to WBS through to the baselined schedule.

Lead on integrated schedule reporting and outputs to the business and customer including Earned Value Management (EVM), resource analysis, schedule performance and milestone reporting.

Being an advocate for the tools, processes, guidance and templates of the Planning discipline on their projects/ in their area by promoting engagement with them across the business to foster buy-in and adoption.

Key Outputs:

• Master Schedules
• PBS, WBS, OBS and RAM
• EVM reporting
• Schedule reporting
• Resource analysis
• Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis (QSRA) model and reports (supporting RAID manager)

Planners are expected to hold the following:

• APMG Project Planning & Controls (PPC) Foundation
• APM Project Fundamentals Qualification
• ECITB Planning & Scheduling Practice (or other equivalent Planning qualification)
• APM Associate Membership

It is desirable they hold, or aim to gain within 2 years, the following:

• APM Full Membership
• APMG Project Planning & Controls (PPC) Practitioner
• APMG Earned Value Management Foundation
• NEC3/4 Programme Training