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Planning Lead

Costain Group
Newcastle upon Tyne, GBR
Full-time
Lead
Hybrid
Discovered 4 days ago

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Qualifications

  • HNC/HND, degree qualified or experience in a planning related discipline
  • #LI-JA1

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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