P6 Project Planner

AtkinsRéalis; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working culture

Flexible holiday allowances

Competitive salaries and rewards

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis is seeking a Transportation Planner to shape projects across roles and scales. You will establish performance baselines, support monthly progress data, and advise on delays or issues with the Project Manager/Director.

The role involves administering project control, audits, and KPI-aligned payments while coordinating monthly reports. You will handle trend reporting, change management, and cost control, with the opportunity to guide teams and participate in reviews.

Qualifications

• Understanding of Project Control principles for major programmes.
• Experience in facilitating multidiscipline meetings with large stakeholder groups.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
• Ability to deliver timely reporting under demanding deadlines.
• Strong relationship building and drive to grow within the organisation.
• Experience supporting Project Manager/Director in a project environment.

Responsibilities

• Establish PMB and assist monthly data collation for time, cost, risk and quality reports.
• Provide specialist advice to respond to delays and challenges.
• Administer project control activities and audit contractor data submissions.
• Support trend/forecast reporting and Baseline Change Management of budget.
• Prepare and submit monthly performance reports to project lead and support decision-making.
• Guide teams to ensure quality of submissions and cost reporting.
• Attend monthly reviews and other required meetings.

Skills

Project control

Stakeholder management

Excel proficiency

Client interaction

Teamwork

Initiative

Minimum supervision

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Be the essence of collaboration.

Are you ready to take up a vital role in shaping some of our exciting projects? How about joining our talented team, where everyone has a voice, and together we face our clients' problems head-on. It's'a diverse and inclusive work environment where world-class talent knows no distinctions. We know that different people have different priorities, which is why we're here to support you. Flexible and remote working is a central part of our culture. So talk to us about what's'ideal for you – from reduced weeks to buying more leave over school holidays. And if you're returning from a career break, ask us how we can help you transition back into work with us.

Join our Transportation team as a Planner and play a crucial part in projects of all sizes, scopes and scales.

You’ll find plenty of interesting opportunities to grow and challenge yourself across your technical, people, stakeholder and management responsibilities. If you believe that anything worth doing is worth doing properly, then you'll fit in here.

Your Role

• Help establish the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) and support the project on the monthly collation of progress data related to time, cost, risk, and quality for monthly business reporting.
• Support the Project Manager/Director by providing specialist advice and technical knowledge to respond to delays, issues, and other challenges throughout the project.
• Administer Project Control activities, conduct audits, assurance checks of contractors' monthly data submissions and ensure the submissions are fully assessed and are paid in line with the project KPI's.
• Support the administration of trend/forecast reporting and the Baseline Change Management of the agreed project budget, ensuring that all changes are correctly attributed and charged accordingly.
• Coordinate the preparation and submission of monthly performance reports to the project lead, in line with business reporting requirements and timescales, to enable prompt decision making, approvals and financial forecasting.
• Provide guidance and corrective actions to teams to ensure the quality of task submissions and reporting of costs.
• Attend monthly reviews and other meetings as required.

About You

• Understanding of Project Control principles for major programmes.
• Experience in facilitating and administering multidiscipline meetings with large groups of stakeholders.
• Technical Competencies - Primavera P6 proficient.
• Understanding of the importance of timely reporting and the energy to deliver against demanding deadlines.
• The ability to build strong relationships and support colleagues Enthusiasm, ideas, and drive to grow, learn and develop within our organisation.
• Experience within a project environment supporting the Project Manager/Director.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
• Experience of interacting with internal and external clients.
• Initiative – ability to work with minimum supervision and make suggestions on best practice and improving current processes and procedures.
• Teamwork – willingly cooperate with the others towards the same goals and objectives.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

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About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's'infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

Find out more.

Additional information

Security clearance

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.

We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability.

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