Assistant Project Planner

Expleo UK LTD; Devon and Torbay; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering and consulting firm is seeking an Assistant Project Planner at their Devonport site. The role involves supporting project planning services for a capital investment portfolio. Ideal candidates should have experience in project support and schedule management, with a focus on delivering project objectives. This position offers a negotiable salary based on experience.

Qualifications

• Experience in a project support role is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional schedule management services across the Capital Investment Portfolio Team.
• Assist in tactical scheduling of live projects.
• Support implementation of strategic objectives.
• Assist Project/Programme Managers in Scheduling.
• Prepare internal and external schedule-driven reports and documentation.
• Align Project Cost with scheduling software.

Education

Level 3 Qualification or equivalent experience

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Overview

Expleo is a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting for digital transformation. We help businesses harness unrelenting technological change to successfully deliver innovations that will help them gain a competitive advantage and improve the everyday lives of people around the globe.

We are seeking an Assistant Project Planner to join our client's Project Management Office (PMO) at their Devonport site. This is an exciting role, offering a negotiable rate based on experience and seniority. You will play a key role in supporting the delivery of project planning services across a Capital Investment Portfolio worth 50m- 100m annually, contributing to the successful delivery of complex outputs in support of the UK submarine programme.

This role will suit candidates with a background in schedule, project management and project controls; looking for a change in direction and a strong desire to develop themselves, as well as people with existing project experience in a supporting role.

Responsibilities

• Covering a wide range of projects, the successful candidate shall be responsible for providing professional schedule management services across the Capital Investment Portfolio Team. The role will provide a key interface between project managers, commercial, engineering, construction, projects, subcontractors and supply chain functions to aid the effective scheduling of the projects undertaken.
• Assisting the Infrastructure Planning team in tactical scheduling of live projects
• Supporting the implementation and maturity of Infrastructure strategic objectives
• Assisting the Project/Programme Managers in all aspects of Scheduling
• Prepare and deliver data that is necessary to internal and external schedule driven reports and documentation (including Cost, Risk, Estimating, Change)
• Alignment of Project Cost with the nominated scheduling software (Primavera P6)
• Assist the development of project/programme annual-spend projections, critical path management, and cost and schedule variance analyses

Qualifications

• Level 3 Qualification or equivalent experience in a project support role