Planner in Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
Job Description
To provide leadership and guidance from a P6 Planning perspective on a major Rail related project. The selected candidate will also steer and guide the Project Management team on site to follow the best principles in Planning & Scheduling.
The main purpose of the role is to provide Planning support and guidance across multiple live projects and for tender programming purposes and to take ownership for managing and maintaining the planning / scheduling on your allocated project.
Requirements:
- Proven experience in planning on Major Programmes
- Proved experience in Design Planning
- Proven experience using Primavera essential
- Strong Transport sector experience. Ideally Rail
- NEC3 working knowledge
- The Ability to follow verbal and or written instructions.
- The ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines.
- Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with co-workers and stakeholders.
- Able to analyse the programmes submitted by contractors and merge and assess the fully integrated programme. Identify blockers and work with the Project Team and Contractors alike.
- Capability to drive and analyse the impact of changes and variations against the agreed baseline programme. Ability to display and share this message with commercial and Project teams by way of documentation.
Essential:
Good knowledge of engineering/design scope, job working instruction / procedures, good project control practices in planning and scheduling and overall awareness of projects in the field of transportation industries, ideally in Rail.