Senior Planner - Rail in Wiltshire, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Wiltshire, Wiltshire, United Kingdom |
£45000 to £65000 per annum, dependent on experience |
Permanent
Senior Planner - Rail
Are you looking for the opportunity to work for a highly well respected and successful first tier contractor in the rail industry?
Ford & Stanley - The Rail Recruitment Experts are recruiting are assisting our client with recruiting for a Senior Planner who will be responsible for working on various signalling projects in the South West of England.
The Opportunity
The Senior Planner will be responsible developing fully base lined, resource loaded, labour costed and logic linked project schedules in accordance with Siemens Project Management and Planning processes.
Location
Wiltshire
Role and Responsibilities
- Schedules should contain all agreed activities, deliverables, milestones, and client deliverables and should be based on the Work Breakdown Structure.
- Schedules should contain all agreed activities, deliverables, milestones, and client deliverables and should be based on the Work Breakdown Structure.
- Provide regular reports on project status meeting internal reporting requirements.
- Work closely with the client to provide regular reports as per client requirements (and contractual obligations).
- Implement and maintain project monitoring processes, such as KPIs, total float, EV, resource and costing profiles based upon company process guidelines and planning best practice.
- Perform analysis and scenario modelling for any potential project change and be able to provide risks, issues, cost, and resource and delay analysis.
- Perform critical path analysis and advise of possible actions and areas of concern.
- Work closely with site and possession planners to ensure cohesion between these different activities and the main project schedule.
- Highlight problem areas and issues and suggest remedial action.
- Provide earned value and KPI reports internally and to the client.
- Implement risk analysis on project and possession schedules.
- Initiate and maintain close liaison with all members of the project team, client representatives and the Programme Management Office
The Candidate
- Degree/ HND/ HNC level or relevant experience
- Experience in project planning, preferably in the Rail industry or civils background
- Experience of working within a project delivery environment
- Good technical knowledge on Primavera P6
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Project or appropriate planning tool
- Self-motivated with sound interpersonal skills coupled with a confident style of behaviour
- Attention to detail and good time management
- Good presentation skills
- Analytical skills with the ability to provide solutions to issues
- Good communication skills when dealing with project staff and potentially the client
- Engineering background
- Knowledge of project management practices
Closing Date: 23rd February 2017
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