Senior Planner

ASSYSTEM; Whitehaven; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An international engineering firm located in the UK is seeking a planning professional to provide integrated project planning services. The role requires expertise in Primavera P6 and earned value management principles. Candidates must understand change control measures and have a professional planning qualification. Due to security clearance requirements, residency in the UK is necessary. The firm values diversity and aims to foster innovative solutions through varied backgrounds.

Qualifications

• Conversant with planning software and tools like Primavera P6.
• Competence in earned value management and reporting.
• Actively develop project risk registers with updates.
• Understanding of NEC contract model and change control measures.

Responsibilities

• Provide planning services to an integrated project team.
• Prepare, monitor, and forecast resource requirements.
• Identify changes to the project baseline and control mechanisms.
• Discuss potential mitigation options with stakeholders.

Skills

Planning software and tools (Primavera P6)

Earned value management and reporting

Project risk analysis

Commercial awareness

Knowledge of NEC3 contracts

CEMAR or other contract management tool

Power BI

Education

Professional planning Qualification

Job description

Assystem is an international company with one mission: accelerate the energy transition around the world.

Every day, our 6,500 switchers located in 12 countries (Europe, Middle East, Pacific Asia & Africa) connect their six thousand billion neurons to tackle the task of the century: switching to low-carbon energy.

We are a collective committed to the actors who are making the energy switch. Sharing our knowledge, expertise and values allows us to innovate and think differently about the energy transition.

Drawing on more than 55 years' experience in highly regulated sectors subject to strict security and safety requirements, we provide our customers with engineering and project management services, as well as digital services and solutions to optimize the performance of complex infrastructure projects throughout their life cycle. The Group is currently ranked second in the world for nuclear engineering.

To ensure a viable, efficient, and reliable energy future for all.

Job Description

To provide planning services to an integrated team including individual schedules and the coordination and integration of all project schedules.

• A self-directed individual capable of communicating key issues to the project & project control team.
• Prepare, monitor, and forecast resourcing requirements in line with the ‘live’ integrated schedule of works.
• Must communicate effectively in verbal and written format at all levels, including project documentation for clients, project reporting and day to day discussion of tasks with engineers and others.

Identify and track all changes or potential changes to the project baseline and subsequent underpinning of change control mechanisms. Provide project outturns against baseline for LFE and Knowledge Management.

• Fully partake in estimating process to ensure consistency across all estimates produced for new work packages.
• Understands EV principles & able to explain variances within the project & discuss potential mitigation options / recovery scenarios with stakeholders.

Ability to apply change control measures & a thorough understanding of the NEC contract model.

Qualifications

• Conversant with planning software and tools (Primavera P6).
• Competence in earned value management and reporting.
• Actively feed into and develop project risk registers in line with live schedule updates.
• Analysis of project risk and estimating uncertainty.
• Commercial awareness (e.g. planning requirements, change control / compensation events / cost control). Thorough knowledge of NEC3 contracts.
• Professional planning Qualification.
• Working knowledge of CEMAR or other contract management tool.
• Working knowledge of Power BI would be beneficial.

Additional Information

Due to the nature of work to be undertaken applicants will be required to meet certain residency criteria in order to attain a minimum level of UK security clearance if not already security cleared to a minimum SC level.

We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people’s ability to dare are the only things that matter !. Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.