Senior Planner (P6) for Defence Programme | IMS Expert

AWE; Old Warren; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 79,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

9-day fortnight

Pension scheme

Family-friendly policies

Professional development

Employee assistance

Life Assurance

Discounts

Special Leave

Job summary

AWE in the United Kingdom is recruiting a P6 Senior Planner to deliver the complete planning capability within the business, maintaining the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS). You will support Task Managers with business rhythms, schedule integrity, network analysis and communications with programme and business teams.

You will provide planning expertise, implement planning processes and policies, and produce planning and reporting deliverables in line with agreed business rhythms.

Qualifications

• Experience of planning on projects/programmes in a dynamic, delivery focused environment.
• Advanced level of skill with Oracle Primavera P6.
• Skills in Microsoft Office.
• Qualification in an appropriate business or technical discipline, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality project controls planning capability through the development, maintenance and assurance of complex Integrated Master Schedules (IMS).
• Lead and support planning activities across the full project life-cycle, ensuring alignment to scope, cost and delivery strategy under configuration control.
• Undertake schedule analysis and performance management, including critical path, dependencies, variance analysis and forecasting.
• Facilitate planning workshops and provide independent assurance and challenge through peer reviews, schedule health checks and adherence to planning standards and governance.
• Drive continuous improvement and planning excellence, evolving processes, tools and capability while championing best practice across the programme.
• Identify emerging risks, trends and delivery threats, providing early warning, recovery options and decision support to stakeholders.
• Lead, coach and mentor junior planners, developing planning capability and embedding consistent standards of quality, integrity and delivery excellence across teams.
• Champion the highest standards of safety, health, environment, security and quality, recognising the critical importance of these principles in delivering a programme central to the UK's national security.

Skills

Primavera P6

Microsoft Office

Education

Degree in a relevant discipline

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

AWE in the United Kingdom is recruiting a P6 Senior Planner to deliver the complete planning capability within the business, maintaining the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS). You will support Task Managers with business rhythms, schedule integrity, network analysis and communications with programme and business teams.

You will provide planning expertise, implement planning processes and policies, and produce planning and reporting deliverables in line with agreed business rhythms.