Project Planner

Amerilink International Corp | AICHOTELS.COM; Stafford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Project Planner for a full-time permanent position in Stafford. The role involves driving project teams, forecasting outcomes using analytical skills, and developing tender schedules. Candidates should possess strong communication abilities and be proficient in Primavera. This is a strategic position critical to project execution, requiring collaboration with multiple stakeholders to ensure successful project completion.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills to forecast outcomes.
• Clear communicator with influencing skills.
• Ability to manage project scheduling effectively.

Responsibilities

• Drive project teams to control project schedules.
• Develop and maintain project schedules integrating inputs from various functions.
• Provide regular status reporting and scheduling risk analysis.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication

Scheduling

Risk Management

Influencing Skills

Project Management

Tools

Primavera

Job description

Staffordshire, UK

Full time permanent Hire // Contract

Role & Responsibilities

Able to drive project teams to control the project

Analytical skills to use data to forecast outcomes

Clear communicator with strong communication and influencing skills

Primavera skills

Scheduling / Planner

Develop tender schedules using the established tools and processes and challenges the team to ensure schedule risk is managed with a balance of competitive offering aligned to historical performance

Develops and maintains the single project schedule representing the entire project by integrating inputs from all functions, units and third parties contributing to the project

Ensure proper linkages in schedule to show all interdependencies between contributing parties

Ensure functional owners sign off on commitments and are made accountable for their date

Work collaboratively with other overall project planning team to ensure optimal alignment of schedule with overall schedule

Delivers a high quality schedule aligned with global standards to ensure project is accurately represented

Maintains schedule thru the entire project obtaining inputs from all project contributors

Drives regular operating rhythm with project team to review schedule status and operating rhythm

Challenges functional owners on forecast completion dates to ensure dates are realistic

Provides schedule analysis to forecast schedule risk and opportunities using available tools and experience

Provides look ahead, backlog and future late reporting with prioritizations to clearly communicate potential and real risk and drive the project priorities

Generates what if scenarios to optimize execution and works with project teams to evaluate feasibility

Provides strategies to mitigate risks

Drives functional owners to mitigate risks and follows up with functional owners on risk mitigation actions

Provide and communicate regular status reporting

Provides contractually required customer reporting and is able to communicate directly with customers on scheduling matters