My Client, a large Design and Engineering company, now have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Planner to be based in London. You will be required to manage and coordinate a planning process, analyse and challenge schedule/programme updates, progress and variance tracking and dashboard reporting either in its entirety or in cooperation with a project-specific planner. The project planner will be working closely with the project leads to develop and manage schedules in Primavera P6.

Key Tasks:

• Work as part of a project control team to build a best practice project control capability.
• Improve project performance.
• Monitor and Control Project schedule risks.
• Develop and manage resource loaded schedules and guide the project team to create a robust project baseline.
• Facilitate weekly project update meetings to challenge performance and further progress, update forecast to complete hours and implement changes derived from assessments made.
• Highlight potential risk, critical path analysis, and provide suitable mitigation measures to the appropriate lead.
• Support the change control process and implement baseline change requests within Primavera P6.
• Continually improve and streamline the planning process. Maintain a consistent process and evaluate the benefit of reporting.

Skills/Qualifications:

• Technical Proficient Primavera P6
• APMP / PMI
• HND or equivalent in engineering
• Microsoft Excel including advanced formulas and pivot tables
• Experience of Microsoft Project
• Experience with Management Reporting
• Experience of stakeholder Management
• Experience with a variety of Construction Contracts
• Presentation skills and the ability to run workshops
• Good general software ability
• Earned Value Management