Job title: Senior Planning Manager

Project: Lift and Escalator team

Regional Location: London

Job Type: Contract - 6 months

Day Rate: £Negotiable on experience

My client is seeking to locate a driven and ambitious Planning Manager to support the lift and escalator team. Planning the renewals and refurbishment interventions over a 10 year life cycle.

• Extensive knowledge of and understanding of capital projects and programmes with an emphasis on Planning & Benchmarking and how this supports and integrates with a wider high functioning environment.
• Extensive knowledge of PPM Systems and Tools especially in regard to the Planning discipline.
• Knowledge of the professional disciplines of programme and project management in the context of complex capital
• Knowledge of different Commercial arrangements, NEC contractual obligations and their impact of project controls
• Expert knowledge in Critical Path Method (CPM) planning techniques.
• Expert knowledge in Earned Value Management methodology.
• Domain knowledge of the planning, design and construction activities undertaken across a majority of project areas.
• Namely track, signalling, stations, civils or surface projects.
• Awareness of safety issues in an operational environment.

Skills and Experience

• Experience of creating, adapting and monitoring process around Planning in major projects and experience of implementing tools to support changes.
• Experience of working in time schedule control in a large, complex, safety focused and regulated organisation(s).
• Experience using Primavera, Primavera Enterprise or similar project time scheduling software.
• Experience of building relationships with, and influencing a range of people at all levels within / outside the organisation.
• Experience building critical path schedules from knowledge and first principles, interviewing and leading workshops with project resources. Experienced in defining and agreeing progress reporting approaches with contractors.
• Experience of a complex operating environment including NEC contract management in a project delivery environment

If you are an experienced Planning Manager looking for that next step to progress your career, please do contact Kirsty Mclean on <phone number removed> <email address removed>

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