Project Planner

Meridian Business Support; Nash; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Project Planner for a temporary role based in Yeovil, United Kingdom. The ideal candidate should have experience in planning and scheduling, with strong skills in Microsoft Excel and excellent communication abilities. Responsibilities include maintaining assembly plans, reporting on schedules, and managing technical labour plans. Candidates with a numerical qualification or relevant experience will be considered. Join a dynamic team and contribute to crucial projects within the aviation sector.

Qualifications

• Experience in planning or scheduling is advantageous.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills required.
• Experience with MS Project is a plus.
• Clear communication skills to articulate data effectively.
• Financial awareness regarding budgets and cost estimations is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Produce and maintain level 2 Final Assembly plans.
• Report on schedules and financial milestones for aircraft.
• Maintain technical labour plans for firm contracts.
• Create and manage SAP networks as needed.
• Ensure accurate loading of Operations network activities.
• Control integrity and quality of schedules.

Skills

Planning techniques

Microsoft Excel

Communication skills

Financial awareness

Earned Value techniques

Education

Qualification in numerical subject or equivalent experience

Tools

MS Project

Job description

Overview

We are looking for a Project Planner to work with our prestigious client based in Yeovil. This role would suit someone who is already a Project Planner/Scheduler or someone who is working towards doing this or in a similar role. This is a temporary role contract.

Responsibilities

• Produce and maintain level 2 Final Assembly plans in accordance with the Aircraft Centre planning process that takes into account the key constraints of build logic and material availability.
• Report on schedule, including financial and contractual milestones, and cost performance for all aircraft in production, providing timely information at the right level of detail for the various customers including Aircraft Centre department managers, the aircraft managers, the aircraft boards and for customers outside of the UK Aircraft Centre organisation such as programme management and finance.
• Maintain a technical labour plan in order that for all firm contracts and potential work under the control of the Aircraft Centre an estimated cost at completion and a labour profile for technical labour can be produced for all departments within the Aircraft Centre with bookers.
• Create, maintain and close SAP networks as required
• Ensure that all Operations network activities are properly loaded with accurate start and finish dates, budget hours and that activity is being correctly booked against them.
• Ensure integrity and quality of the schedules are controlled and timely implementations of baseline changes are made.

Key Skills / Qualifications

• Experience of planning or scheduling is advantageous, with the ability to demonstrate an understanding of planning techniques such as work breakdown structures, dependencies, risk contingency, resource constraints and forecasting, estimating and level 1 and level 2 planning
• Computer literate with strong skills in Microsoft Excel
• Experience of MS Project is advantageous
• A qualification with a numerical based subject or equivalent relevant experience will be considered.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate data to a wide range of key internal and external stakeholders.
• Financial awareness (budgets, cost to date, estimate at completion, variance, cash & turnover milestones) is desirable
• Knowledge of Earned Value techniques and processes is desirable