Planner

Overview

Location: Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom

Our client is a global leader in the nuclear energy industry.

The Role & KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Planner for a high-profile project, you will:

• Create, monitor, and analyse the Level 2 (Full project duration) / Level 3 schedule (12-18 months term) on the allocated engineering scope in accordance with standard of best project practice.
• Monitor project progress, including identifying critical activities and reviewing forecasts and progress achieved to date.
• Provide permanent support to project and technical teams in the optimisation of their schedules integrating also the constraints of the customer / suppliers.
• Identify interfaces at the assigned perimeter, and ensure that they are properly connected to other perimeters.
• Analyse activities on the critical path to identify the possible impact of delays, analyse deviations and propose appropriate actions to project managers.
• Follow up on project milestones, alert in case of delays and participate in the definition of the recovery plan.
• Participate in the calculation of physical progress and Earned Value Management and analyse the results.
• Take part in the quantification of planning impacts in the event of changes in the scope of the contract.
• Contribute to periodic planning reports and KPI's analysis.
• Work closely with the L4 schedulers to link these levels that are in different tools.
• Actively participates in the planning community.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of methods & tools.

Key Requirements

Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's degree is mandatory, Master's degree is desirable
• Engineering or technical background
• Experience in project management field including experience in scheduling
• Experience of Primavera P6 or at least another scheduling tool (MS project/Planisware)
• Understanding of Civil Work, Layout and Electro-mechanical engineering sequence of activities
• Good analytical skills and attention to detail
• Excellent communication (written and spoken) and presentation skills
• Self-motivated, initiative and ability to work as part of a team
• Customer oriented and ability to interact with various levels of stakeholders
• French - bonus

Due to current workloads, Simpson Booth regrets to inform that in the instance you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of your application, you are to consider your application unsuccessful at this time.