Senior Planner

Job Summary

The Senior Planner establishes and maintains the overall time plan for the Euston Project and monitors and reports performance against it.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare and maintain a robust and realistic integrated master schedule for the Euston Project highlighting critical milestones relating to key activities, deliverables and interfaces.
• Clarify and maintain the visibility of programme interface requirements and dependencies; ensure that responsibilities for the management of interfaces are clearly assigned and understood.
• Collate regular and ad-hoc reports for the Project SLT to provide a timely overview of programme time performance on an exception basis.
• Develop and present regular forecasts of anticipated milestone achievements and use EVA techniques to measure trends and maintain an up-to-date view of the expected completion date for the Project as a whole; recommend Project level actions where appropriate to mitigate potential time over-runs.
• Provide advice and guidance to the project delivery team in the reviewing and challenging where appropriate sub-contractors programmes.
• Ensure that adequate, time provision is included in individual project schedules to allow for overall Programme integration.
• Ensure the effective management of the time contingency built into the Programme for programme level risks to ensure that contingency allowances reflect the current programme position.
• Establish Programme level commissioning and testing schedules taking account of project interfaces and planned completion schedules.
• Ensure consistency of planning techniques and the use of common WBS at all levels of the project.

Qualifications, Certifications & Experience

• Expert knowledge of construction techniques methods and durations
• Very strong understanding of techniques for project planning control and other facets of project control
• Expert knowledge of Primavera and similar planning software
• Strong knowledge of integrated project planning
• Expert knowledge of EVA techniques
• Ability to use schedule risk modelling software such as Pertmaster
• Relevant experience of project planning
• Significant past experience of large projects
• MAPM of formal PM/ Project controls qualification.
• Experience in the railway environment.

Behavioural Competencies

• Strong team leader
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to deep dive into planning
• Comfortable with presenting at senior level
• Able to present facts clearly and simply
• Able to collaborate effectively with others to develop integrated programmes
• Ability to mentor and train subordinate staff

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