Planning Lead
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Qualifications
- HNC/HND, degree qualified or experience in a planning related discipline
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Responsibilities
- Set the planning strategy for complex projects and clearly communicate this through the wider team
- Support the planning, development, and maintenance of high-quality schedules against the agreed project scope to deliver the AMP8 programme outcomes
- Support the establishment of robust systems, processes, and procedures to support the AMP8 works across the programme and supply chain
- Report the current Programme/Project position in line with the governance, process and procedures to include Risk, EV, Change Management and Cost
- Maintain an overview of the AMP8 Programme to provide critical path analysis and identify opportunities and risks
- Demonstrate the establishment and application of governance utilising business systems and commercial, risk and schedule reporting processes
- Manage programmes with respect to change, slippage and mitigation
- Develop a proactive, collaborative open relationship with the Customer particularly in open reporting and evaluation of project data
- Develop, manage, and maintain an integrated plan across the entire programme of works to schedule deadlines, manage dependencies, and coordinate the optimal use of resources
- Support the establishment of common procedures, systems, and protocols, and ensure compliance with all applicable policies, procedures, and standards
- Consolidate data from across the programme to develop monthly reports on progress, benefits and performance against KPIs, in support of framework earned value metrics, performance tables and balanced scorecard
- Ensure that suitably qualified and experienced planning resources are provided to projects in a timely manner, capable of driving collaborative planning
- Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
- Extensive experience of schedule management on large scale civil engineering/infrastructure projects ideally for a tier 1 contractor or client-side
- Significant planning experience in the water industry (preferred) covering large scale infrastructure programmes or experience in non-water large scale programmes
- Extensive experience of multi-project integration
- Project management experience, particularly of complex Major Infrastructure Programmes covering: Risk, Cost, Change Management, Earned Value, Reporting
- Expert on the use of P6 within large-scale project/programmes and critical path tracing and analysis
- Scheduling/Reporting experience within NEC contract framework
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to negotiate and influence key stakeholders
- Experience of maintaining performance and contractual baselines, producing critical path analysis on fully resourced and cost loaded project plans, monitoring changes, and reporting on early warnings and variations
- Strong leadership skills with experience in leading teams and advising senior colleagues to enable delivery of our business goals
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