Senior Planner - Scotland

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May 11, 2021
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Responsibility

Work with the workstream Project Managers and Leads to ensure their plans are aligned to the programme plans and actively managed.
This is a crucial role in facilitating and embedding the best planning practice within workstreams in order to ensure consistency in planning standards and practices across the Programme.
Ensure cross-project and external programme dependencies between are captured in plans at appropriate levels and managed effectively.
Ensure that key planning issues and risks are understood and escalated via the plan reporting process.
Challenge workstream plans and their alignment with programme level plans.

Key Requirements

Minimum of 7 years+ experience on highly regulated, high complexity, industrial engineering projects with durations over 3years, experience gained in planning roles, demonstrating:

Application of EVM, planning and development of integrated programme.

Previous experience in the nuclear industry is highly preferred, especially if you hold current Defence Vetting or Security Cleared clearance. (BPSS Clearance will be sponsored)
Development of Excel based dashboards and management reports, P6 planning methodologies and integration with Cost, Risk and Baseline Management
Directly experience in the production of working level programmes, and integrating programmes into a Master Schedule.
Advising project teams of performance issues with potential solutions in highly regulated, high complexity, industrial engineering projects, and educate them in their roles to support a complete Project Controls System.
Defining Work Breakdown Structures, and resource and cost loading programmes in Primavera P6.
Ensuring the integration of time, resource, costs and risk and that all schedules are coded and to an appropriate level to align with Deltek Cobra requirements.

Key Deliverables

Ownership and on-going management of the level 1 / 2 wave plans according to the agreed programme planning process and quality
Wave plan reporting, associated issue / risk escalation and associated guidance on Change Request process and Programme Quality Plan updates
Management of cross-workstream and external dependencies and understanding of their impact in the development of an Integrated Delivery Plan.
Facilitation of the wave planning cycles and guidance to workstreams in producing level 3 plans.
Ownership and on-going management of L1- L2 wave plans.
Ensure agreed planning process and PM practices are followed and applied consistently across all waves of the programme. Provide guidance in best practice.
Work closely with Workstream Lead / Project Manager to understand Wave planning needs and facilitate x-Workstream planning workshops to help create valid, accurate and useable level 1-3 plans covering all key cross-workstream dependencies.