Planner
Posted 1 week ago by Carmichael UK
£450 Per day
Outside
Onsite
Gwynedd
Summary: The role of Planner involves working at least three days a week from the Gwynedd Site office in Wales, with occasional travel to the Manchester office. The Planning Engineer will collaborate with stakeholders to develop and manage programmes, ensuring updates and reporting are completed both internally and externally. Key responsibilities include cost loading existing programmes and managing subcontractor plans. The position requires a proactive approach to optimize project delivery and stakeholder engagement throughout the project lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop breakdown structures, quality criteria, product descriptions, and monitoring strategy.
- Enquire, record, and test project assumptions to ensure realistic and achievable plans.
- Interface and integrate with the project controls team to maintain financial alignment with the Project Plan.
- Support the project manager in optimizing delivery through resource smoothing, levelling, and rescheduling activities.
- Identify wider resource requirements for project delivery.
- Ensure stakeholder requirements are understood and addressed in reporting arrangements.
- Provide advice on planning processes throughout the project lifecycle and support capability building.
Key Skills:
- Primavera (P6) trained and experienced.
- Experience in building cost and resource loaded plans.
- Understanding of Earned Value Analysis as a reporting tool.
- Proactive work ethic with the ability to challenge the team for programme savings.
- High level of numeracy and excellent analytical skills.
- Excellent MS Office skills.
- Experience in interpreting estimating, scheduling, programming, and risk tools.
- Relevant experience in Project Controls and/or Project Delivery, preferably in a regulated environment.
- HNC/HND, degree qualified or experience in a planning-related discipline.
- APMG International Project Planning and Control Practitioner or equivalent.
- PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP).
Salary (Rate): £450/day
City: Gwynedd
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Other
An opportunity exist for a Planner willing to work at least 3 days per week from Gwynedd Site office in Wales, with occasional travel to the Manchester office.
As a Planning Engineer you will be a fundamental part of the team, working with stakeholders to develop and manage programmes, completing updates and reporting both internally and externally. You will be expected to firstly work with the QS team to cost load the existing programme of works. Following acceptance of the programme, the role will transition to working and managing subcontractor plans, ensuring updates are fed into the overall programme.
Duties will include -
- Develop of breakdown structures, quality criteria, product descriptions and monitoring strategy.
- Enquire and record and then test project assumptions to ensure that plans are realistic and achievable.
- Regular interfacing and integration with the project controls team to maintain an aligned financial position with the Project Plan.
- Support the project manager to identify options to optimise delivery through resource smoothing, resource levelling and rescheduling of activities.
- Identify wider resource requirements for the delivery of the project.
- Ensure that stakeholder requirements are understood and addressed in reporting arrangements.
- Provide advice on planning processes throughout the lifecycle of the project. Support capability building and the use of best practice in planning and reporting.
Requirement for this opportunity include –
- Primavera (P6) trained and experienced
- Experience in building cost and resource loaded plans
- Experience and show understanding of Earned Value Analysis as a reporting tool
- Proactive work ethic and comfortable in challenging the team to implement savings to the programme and explore and propose mitigations
- High level of numeracy and excellent analytical skills
- Excellent MS Office skills
- Experience / understanding in the interpretation of estimating, scheduling, programming and risk tools
- Relevant experience in Project Controls and/or Project Delivery, preferably in a highly regulated environment
- HNC/HND, degree qualified or experience in a planning related discipline
- APMG International Project Planning and Control Practitioner or equivalent
- PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)
If you are interested in this opportunity, then kindly lodge your CV here now.