Senior Planner in York, York, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
York, York, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom |
£450 - 500 per day |
Contract
Senior Planner - Rail
Location: York, Doncastor, Manchester
Pay: £500 per day
Duration: 6 Months plus
My client is in the market for a Planner to come on board and join the team out of the York, Doncastor and Manchester area. The ideal Planner will be a key member of the project delivery team and support senior project and programme managers in the successful planning and control of project delivery.
Responsibilities for the Senior Planner:
- Work closely with project, commercial and finance managers and members of the wider project team to ensure project schedules are accurately developed, maintained, resource and cost loaded.
- Work closely with site and possession planners to ensure cohesion between these different activities and the main project schedule.
- Work closely with the central Bids & Tendering team to ensure tender plans are developed through the mobilisation process into contract plans.
- Build and maintain close working relationships with client representatives and work collaboratively to find the most efficient and effective planning and controls solutions.
- Perform critical path analysis and advise of possible actions and areas of concern.
- Ensure that the periodic project reporting requirements are met for both internal and client through the provision of key project metrics such as key performance indicators, earned value, schedule delay and critical path analysis reports as required.
- Perform analysis and scenario modelling for any potential project change and be able to provide risks, issues, cost, resource and delay analysis.
- Promote and improve planning and controls within the organisation.
Requirements For the Senior Planner:
Essential
- HND/HNC level qualifications or relative demonstrable experience.
- Experience of planning infrastructure projects preferably in the rail industry.
- Experience of working with project management both internally and in the client organisation.
- Primavera Planning expertise with knowledge and use of other planning tool such as MS Project.
- Analytical and problem solving skills.
Desirable Requirements:
- Knowledge and awareness of project management methodologies, e.g. Prince 2.
- Technical/Engineering background ideally with knowledge of the railway.
If this is of interest then please apply with your most up to date CV and I will be in touch.
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