Project Planner

Project Planner

DV Clearance required - 6 month temporary position

Remote working permitted with occasional visits to Client office in Reading

£40 to £55 per hour PAYE on-payroll only. (The pay rate is inclusive of any expenses for working at the specified base location in Reading)

40 hours per week

Reed Recruitment (Southampton branch) are recruiting for a Project Planner for our client who is a world-leading design, engineering, and project management organisation. They connect people, technology and data to transform the world’s infrastructure and energy systems. Their Project & Programme Services team deliver on some of the most prestigious construction projects across the world.

Role Description:

As a Planner you will have the opportunity to make a tangible, sustainable and hugely beneficial impact, supporting projects across their entire lifecycle. Providing key control and governance expertise. Your primary focus would include the facilitation of planning workshops, schedule analysis, and maintenance on behalf of the schedule owner. At Programme level, the Planner will provide quality assurance across the delivery environment in line with the chosen methodology as well as the approved planning processes and procedures.

Skills and experience:

A working knowledge and demonstrable experience in all or some of the following areas:

• Project planning, scheduling, and monitoring experience using Primavera P6 at advanced level (formal and/or comparable experience)

• Teamwork – ability to work cooperatively with others and provide coaching where needed

• Excellent communication skills – develop strong and efficient communication channels with stakeholders and project teams.

• Customer Service – external and internal customers.

• Flexibility – Understand the needs and constraints of projects..

• Demonstrate the ability to analyse information, breakdown large pieces of work into key tasks and activities to drive the planning process.

Responsibilities:

• Advise and support on planning best practice.

• Create, review, analyse, assure, and maintain Portfolio/ Programme/ Project schedules.

• Identify and maintain dependencies across the delivery environment

• Co-ordinate the schedule update process.

• Lead and facilitate planning workshops and relevant training sessions.

• Proactively identify and progress opportunities to add value to strategic and tactical decision making.

• Demonstrate an understanding of traditional and agile methodologies to advise on most appropriate planning practices.

• Knowledge of NEC4 forms of contract management would be advantageous.

• Ability to create/update project plans, schedules & costs using Primavera P6.

• Ability to utilise earned value analysis to determine project performance

• Manage stakeholders and relationships.

• Ability to incorporate supplier plans or programmes to the master schedule and apply the planning governance or rules within the master schedule.

As an individual:

• Collaborative team player who operates to high behavioural and ethical standards

• Be self-motivated and confident, with strong people skills

• Be able to gain client trust and identify opportunities for adding further value to the client relationship

• A passion for personal development