Senior Project Planner

Lockheed Martin; Ampthill; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Project Planner to join their dynamic team in Ampthill. This role offers a unique 4-day work week with hybrid working options, allowing for an excellent work-life balance. You will be responsible for managing project schedules, ensuring effective integration of costs and timelines, and communicating with various stakeholders. With a focus on continuous improvement, you'll play a key role in enhancing program performance through innovative planning practices. Join this forward-thinking company and contribute to exciting projects in the defense sector.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Critical Illness Coverage

Life Assurance

Travel Insurance

Employee Discounts

Employee Assistance Program

Internal Training and Development

Professional Membership Reimbursement

Enhanced Maternity Leave

Flexible Working Options

Qualifications

• Proven experience in project planning or coordination roles.
• Strong analytical skills to assess schedules and cost data.

Responsibilities

• Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of planning and schedule management.
• Support proposal preparation and validate cost and schedule integration.

Skills

Project Planning

Earned Value Management (EVM)

Problem Solving

Communication Skills

Integrated Master Schedules (IMS)

SAP Cost Planning

Primavera P6

Education

Relevant Degree or Equivalent Experience

Tools

SAP

Primavera P6

Job description

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We're looking for a Senior Project Planner to join our team based from Ampthill, Bedfordshire. This role benefits from our 4xFlex working pattern offering a 4 day working week Monday - Thursday. Also benefiting from hybrid working with typically 2 days a week onsite.

The Planner shall be responsible for, but not limited to, the following:

• Responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of planning and schedule management in support of program capture and execution.
• Supports the proposal preparation planning including development of planning artefacts for solicitation response. Interfaces with program management, senior management and the contractual customer as the programs planning integrator.
• Supports the validation of cost and schedule integration for effective program performance management.
• Supports the vertical and horizontal integration between all schedules and other program artefacts.
• Supports the modelling and measuring techniques to integrate risks and opportunities with schedule and cost baseline.
• Works alongside the Risk Manager to Perform time-phased predictive analyses, critical path verification and schedule risk analysis to assess the capability of the program to meet their commitments and communicate this to the programme manager.
• Supports the resolution of schedule conflicts, develops and implements work-around strategies and tactical alternatives.
• Utilises performance and health metrics to communicate actions to the programme team to drive improved program performance.
• Maintenance and status updates of the IMS on a weekly & monthly basis.
• Maintenance of the Performance Measurement Baseline.
• Creation and Maintenance of the Project Business Rhythm.
• Generation of Schedule Information for client and management reviews.

Security Clearance Requirement

The successful candidate must be eligible for Security Clearance (SC). More details can be found here.

Required skills, qualifications and experience

• Proven experience in a Project Planner, Project Coordinator or similar project related role.
• A confident individual who will ensure that best planning practice is always adhered to, even in occasional pressurised situations.
• Understanding of Earned Value Management (EVM).
• Proven ability to analyse schedules and cost data for impending difficulties and clearly communicate to Project Manager/Control Account Manager by using strong problem solving skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills.
• Experience in the development, maintenance and control of complex event-driven Integrated Master Schedules (IMS).
• Working knowledge of and experience in SAP cost planning & reporting.
• The ability to quickly pick up new tool sets and processes.
• Working knowledge of, and experience in Primavera P6.
• Experience in planning and scheduling in complex design and development programmes (preferably MoD or Defence related) and be able to understand and work with a technical and skill-diverse team.

What we offer you

At Lockheed Martin our employees come first and therefore your physical, mental and financial wellbeing matters to us. On top of working in a highly supportive, friendly, respectful environment you can expect so much more.

We are an employer in support of and offering Flexible working with the option to also work a 4 day week depending on business requirements, where you have the option of Fridays off. We offer Competitive salaries alongside a flexible holiday entitlement.

We have a Wealth of benefits available to you that can be selected through our wellbeing tool upon commencement of employment. Just a few of our amazing benefits are shown below:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Critical Illness
• Life Assurance
• Travel Insurance
• Employee discounts for top high street shops
• Employee Assistance Program which includes free face to face counseling sessions, Legal advice, Financial advice, etc
• Internal training and development alongside our Education assistance programmes
• Reimbursement for a professional membership
• Competitive policies that support flexibility and family leave inclusive of enhanced maternity leave

Business Environment

Lockheed Martin (UK) Ampthill is a rapidly changing, dynamic part of the Lockheed Martin Corporation with both domestic and international customers. It consists of business areas focusing on Platform Integration, Ground Based Air Defence, Special Projects and Weapons, which provide a variety of products and services to the Ministry of Defence and other customers. We are looking for talented individuals to join the company, in return we offer an exciting and challenging career path and excellent work/life balance with a 4 day week (Mon-Thurs) and flexible working arrangements.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Lockheed Martin is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment. Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our culture and reflect our values of doing what's right, respecting others and performing with excellence. By engaging with all our employees' diverse talents and experiences every day, we can innovate different and better, creating cutting edge solutions and unparalleled customer value.

We know that diversity of thought leads to better solutions for our customers. Our top priority is finding the best candidate for the job and if you are interested in the position, we’d love to hear how you might contribute to our mission and our team and would encourage you to apply, even if you don’t believe you meet every one of the criteria set out in our job advert. In addition, we are committed to inclusion of all individuals and will make reasonable adjustments to our applications process. If you require assistance or adjustments to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact [e-mail] or call 023 92 458 000.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Project Management

• Industries

  Defense and Space Manufacturing

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