Project Planner

SEA Ltd; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid/flexible working

25 days annual leave

Private medical insurance

Group pension plan

Cycle to work

Job summary

SEA Ltd in the United Kingdom seeks a Project Planner to provide professional planning and scheduling across portfolios, programmes and projects. The role is based at Beckington, Bristol or Barnstaple with flexible working.

The salary is circa £50k, depending on experience. You will establish detailed schedules, support baselines and deliver schedule analyses to enable timely decisions. Proficiency in Microsoft Project and EV reporting is preferred.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable project planning and scheduling experience on complex programmes or projects.
• Experience with progress measurement, forecast maintenance and schedule performance reporting.
• Familiarity with integrated project controls and relationships between scope, schedule, cost, risk and change.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain detailed and logically linked project schedules, including integrated and master schedules where required.
• Support development and maintenance of baselines at bid stage and through authorised re-baselining during delivery.
• Provide schedule analysis, progress reporting and performance insight to support timely decisions.

Skills

Project planning

Scheduling

Schedule analysis

Prog baselines

Risk & mitigation

Earned Value

Microsoft Project

Power BI

Tools

Microsoft Project

Power BI

Acumen Fuse

Job description

About The Role

Engineered to Protect, that’s our promise, we protect what matters - our nations, our waters, our land, our cities, our people, our environment, our world.The Project Planner provides professional planning and scheduling support across SEA portfolios, programmes and projects

Project Planner will be based at either our Beckington, Bristol or Barnstaple site. This role allows for flexible working.

The salary for this role is circa £50k, depending on experience.

Whatyou’llbedoing

• Establish and maintain detailed and logically linked project schedules, including integrated and master schedules where required
• Support the development and maintenance of Performance Measurement Baselines at bid stage and through authorised re-baselining during delivery
• Provide clear schedule analysis, progress reporting and performance insight to support timely, evidence-based decisions
• Help delivery teams identify schedule risks, opportunities, assumptions and dependencies, and develop practical recovery or mitigation actions

About our company

At SEA, we develop and deliver advanced solutions to make our world safer, cleaner and more efficient.

We provide state-of-the-art applications for naval ship and fleet protection, and undersea surveillance systems. In-service across the globe, our systems deliver a rapid response to threats and system effectiveness and interoperation. Our systems support an ever-growing number of navies across the world, and we continue to bolster our already specialist, on-the-ground knowledge of key overseas markets.

What we offer

At our core, we encourage innovation, flexibility and out-of-the-box thinking to solve problems, so we’re always looking for talented, flexible, and creative people to bring their best to SEA. In return we offer generous rewards, a fantastic work/life balance, and excellent career and training opportunities for everyone who joins. Havea look atthe benefits we offer:

Work life balance

• Hybrid/flexible working arrangements
• 25 days’ annual leave, plus buy and sell
• Up to 16 days flexi leave accrual
• Half day Fridays
• Reservists in theArmedForces receive special paid leave

Family & wellbeing

• Private medical health insurance & Employee Assistance Program
• Health Cash Plan
• All Staff Bonus
• Group Pension Plan of up to 8% employer contribution
• Cycle to work scheme
• Wellbeing Centre
• Sports & Social activities
• Employee Discounts portal - online and in-store discounts, travel savings
• Life assurance policy
• Publication and recruitment bonus rewards
• Development opportunities, including LinkedIn learning

Facilities & resources

• Electric vehicle charging points at all sites
• Private seated lunch areas
• Onsite bistro (Barnstaple office) and free hot and cold beverages
• Onsite showers and toiletries provision
• Free onsite parking

Theskills you need

• Demonstrable project planning and scheduling experience on complex programmes or projects
• Practical experience developing and maintaining logic-linked schedules in Microsoft Project or an equivalent enterprise scheduling tool
• Experience of progress measurement, forecast maintenance, critical-path analysis and schedule performance reporting
• Working knowledge of integrated project controls and the relationships between scope, schedule, resource, cost, risk and change.
• Experience supporting baseline development, change control and re-baselining within a controlled project environment
• An engineering, defence, maritime or other high-assurance delivery background is desirable.
• APM PMQ, APMG Project Planning and Control qualification, or an equivalent project-management or project-controls qualification is desirable - Candidates working towards relevant accreditation will be considered
• Experience with Earned Value Management, schedule risk analysis, Acumen Fuse, Power BI or equivalent analysis and reporting tools would be advantageous

Join us and be part of something smaller - with500people in the UK and Canada - doing something bigger: protecting what matters.