Senior Planner

Ridge & Partners Llp; West of England; Sur place; GBP 55 000 - 85 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Ridge & Partners Llp is seeking a Senior Planner to develop robust, resource-loaded programmes for work packages and forecast budgets and schedules across NEC contracts. You will create coherent baselines, monitor milestones, and report risks and constraints, with any office-based role possible.

The candidate should have a degree in engineering or project management, 8+ years of experience, and proficiency in Primavera P6 and Microsoft Office.

Qualifications

• Degree in engineering or project management and related professional accreditation.
• 8+ years of experience in planning/project controls or similar.
• Proven track record in planning/controls responsibility.
• Accreditation (MAPM/PMI) preferred.

Responsabilités

• Liaise with planning and scheduling counterparts to analyse and track baseline programmes.
• Assess and report on contractor programmes under NEC3 (Option C) for PM acceptance.
• Develop robust programmes reflecting scope with delivery teams to maintain baselines.
• Attend and contribute to meetings on behalf of Planning or Delivery teams.
• Support gate reviews and preparations for internal/external reviews.
• Provide budget and schedule forecasting, including resource- and cost-loaded schedules.
• Participate in period-end reporting, capture actuals, monitor progress and EV data.

Formation

Degree in Engineering or Project Management

MAPM or PMI accreditation

Outils

Primavera P6

Microsoft Office

Excel

Access

Asta Power Project

Risk management software SAFRAN

Description du poste

As a Senior Planner you will be responsible for developing robust and underpinned programmes for delivery of work-packages; providing budget and schedule forecasting for the project / work package – including the development of resource loaded and cost loaded schedules, analysing and reporting on contractor’s programmes. Under NEC contracts you will develop robust and coherent programmes, reflecting the correct scope of work, ensure that programme milestones, risks, issues, and constraints are monitored and reported through suitable processes. This role can be based in any of our offices.

What you need to do to be effective in this role

• Liaise with planning and scheduling counterparts in contractor’s and / or Client’s project teams; analyse and track contractor’s baseline programmes.
• Assess and report on contractor’s programmes, under NEC3 (Option C), to support the Project Manager’s acceptance.
• Develop robust and coherent programmes, reflecting the correct scope of work, from the contractor’s programme in conjunction with the delivery teams, to maintain associated baseline programmes.
• Attend and contribute to all appropriate meetings on behalf of the Planning team or delivery team as appropriate.
• Support any gate review process and preparations for any internal / external review (e.g., Investment reviews).
• Provide budget and schedule forecasting for the programme – including the development of resource loaded and cost loaded schedules (with support from the Project Controls Manager).
• Participate in the period end reporting process, including collation of actuals, measurement of performance (site based or office based as applicable), updating of the schedule, production of reports to advise on progress against baseline and variances (including Earned Value Management data).

The skills and experience you need to have for this role

• Qualified to Degree level – preferably: Engineering or Project Management
• Minimum of 8 years relevant experience working within a similar or related role
• Proven track record of Planning / Project Controls responsibility
• Project Management fundamentals via accreditation preferred (e.g., MAPM, PMI)

Technical skills and experience

• Desire to challenge and strive for improvement in all parts of the organisation.
• IT literate:
  • Experienced in the use of the Microsoft Office suite
  • Expert user of Microsoft Excel / access
  • User of Primavera P6 (essential)
  • User of Asta Power Project (not essential)
  • Knowledge of risk management software (e.g., SAFRAN) and QSRA would be useful.