Project Planner | 3-Month Contract | Hybrid (Theale)

Project People; Theale; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 66,000; Part time

Job summary

Project People is seeking an experienced Project Planner to join a busy delivery team on a 3-month contract at Theale, with three days in the office. You will establish planning governance, maintain schedules, and report on progress.

You will collaborate with Project Managers, operations, customers and suppliers, manage risks and dependencies, and drive standard planning practices across multiple workstreams.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Project Planner, Project Coordinator, PMO Analyst, PMO Coordinator or similar.
• Strong understanding of project planning, governance and lifecycle management.
• Proven experience maintaining project schedules, action logs, risk registers and delivery reports.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and monitor project plans, schedules and milestones.
• Manage project governance, including action logs, risk registers, decision logs and delivery reporting.
• Coordinate activities across project teams, operational stakeholders, customers and suppliers.
• Support governance meetings through reports, updates and presentations.
• Track dependencies, risks, issues and mitigation plans.
• Produce project reporting and dashboards for decision-making.
• Drive consistency across planning, governance and control processes.
• Identify opportunities to improve planning methodologies and delivery practices.

Skills

Project planning

Governance & reporting

Stakeholder management

Excel & PowerPoint

Monday.com

AI-enabled reporting

Tools

Monday.com

Job description

Project People is seeking an experienced Project Planner to join a busy delivery team on a 3-month contract at Theale, with three days in the office. You will establish planning governance, maintain schedules, and report on progress.

You will collaborate with Project Managers, operations, customers and suppliers, manage risks and dependencies, and drive standard planning practices across multiple workstreams.