About Project Planner Role
We are seeking an experienced Project Planner to join our centre of excellence team for Integrated Airspace Protection Systems.
The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring that best practice Project Planning and Controls are deployed across bids in accordance with defined processes.
This includes interpreting data from controls and presenting it clearly as actionable information for Bid & Project Leadership and Senior Management decision making.
Key responsibilities include deploying and performing Project Planning and Controls within the bid function, creating Integrated Master Schedules (IMS), implementing change control across bid & prospect baselines, ensuring resource forward load is accurate and timely, analyzing resource profiles (labour and material) and making recommendations to reconcile anomalies and optimize deployment, ensuring all deployed processes and tools are compliant with relevant company processes, and promoting a continuous improvement culture to Project Planning and Control processes.
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Required Skills and Qualifications
Requirements for this role include experience in PMO, Planning, Estimating/Cost office, or Risk (or similar), or transferable skills and aspirations to pursue a career in PMO.
Desirable qualifications include experience of planning, scheduling, data analysis & cost control within a complex engineering/manufacturing/financial environment.
* Experience of using project scheduling and risk management tools such as Primavera P6.
* Best practice in structuring complex engineering projects including Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and IMS.
* Critical Path Analysis skills.
* Ability to design, deploy, operate and/or improve full range of Project Controls.
* Use of project data (e.g. Schedule Risk Analysis) to influence Bid & Project Leadership and Senior Management decision making.
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Benefits
As a valued member of our team, you can expect a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes:
* A half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00pm.
* Pension Scheme.
* 28 days annual leave (Plus Bank Holidays).
* Life Cover.
* 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app.
* Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers.
* Gym membership discounts.
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About Us
We are committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process.
We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process.