Senior Project Planner

Location

Birmingham
(Hybrid working 2/3 days per week)

Salary / Benefits

£60,000 - £65,000 dependant on experience plus package including:

- 25 days holiday + Bank holidays.
- Yearly profit share bonus.
- Income protection and life insurance
- The option to buy and sell annual leave
- Corporate Eyewear scheme.
- Private Medical Insurance, with the option to add family members for an additional fee.
- Paid professional subscriptions.
- Competitive pension matched up to 6%

Company Information

An independent rail consultancy of 10 years' standing, with a wealth of experience and expertise across a wide variety of environments and disciplines is looking to take on a Senior Project Planner to monitor maintain and update project plans/programmes in coordination with all stakeholders on rail projects

Skills and experience required

- Proven in-depth project planning experience
- Civil Engineering experience
- Experience of rail projects would be a significant advantage
- Demonstrable experience of working in an established project planning environment
- Proven experience in delivering projects to the desired outcomes and within quality, time and costs limits
- Highly competent user of Primavera P6
- Proficient to intermediate level in Microsoft Excel as a minimum
- Willing to travel to project sites as required

While not essential it would be advantageous if:

- You have a working knowledge of project management control systems and GRIP (the railway project governance process).

Responsibilities

- Responsible for creating large project schedules ensuring quality, logic, clarity and accuracy. From various sources.
- Support the use/integration of project and contract management systems into the daily operation of the business.
- Provide support for the administration of contracts including programme requirements as part of tender/contract preparation, reviewing of tender progress and monitoring programmes once awarded.
- Perform project progress monitoring duties including identifying critical path activities and reviewing forecasts with progress achieved to date.
- Assist the Project Manager with evaluating schedule impacts arising from sourcing decisions.
- Provide relevant reports and planning support to both project team members and management to ensure the team has all the tools required to make the right decisions to execute the project and meet all established project deadlines.
- Clearly communicate roles, expectations, and accountabilities to all team members on a regular basis.
- Regularly keep management and stakeholders informed of problems, issues, and status of on-going projects.
- Raise the standard of planning, implementing consistency and best practices


Navartis Ltd is a specialist recruitment company supplying highly skilled technical and management professionals within the global Transportation, Civil Engineering & Utility industries, if you are seeking a new position our recruitment team can locate the opportunity to suit your needs.
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