Project Planner

Summary: The Programme Planner role is a contract position focused on a significant nuclear decommissioning project in Preston. The planner will report to the Programme Delivery Manager and will be responsible for integrated project planning and reporting using Primavera. Key tasks include leading planning workshops, maintaining project baselines, and ensuring effective resource and cost management. The role requires a planner with over five years of experience, particularly in the nuclear industry, and the ability to manage complex project dependencies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide expertise and guidance for integrated project, programme, and portfolio planning and reporting using Primavera.
• Support the Programme Delivery Manager in developing, baselining, progressing, and maintaining an integrated programme.
• Lead planning workshops to identify individual projects contributing to the programme.
• Input progress, actuals, and forecast dates into P6.
• Conduct regular planning meetings to ensure progress health checks are completed, identifying risks to the Programme Delivery Manager.
• Support the Integrated Delivery Team.
• Ensure all projects/programmes are resource loaded, conducting smoothing and levelling reviews as required.
• Ensure all programmes are cost loaded, reporting on earned value performance metrics.
• Support the Programme Delivery Manager in developing Programme Reporting for the client.
• Maintain the baseline, ensuring robust governance around change control is followed.

Key Skills:

• Over five years of experience as a planner.
• Preferred advanced user of Primavera.
• Experience in developing and managing integrated programmes with multiple projects and complex dependencies.
• Experience with cost management and earned value reporting.
• Understanding of Project, Programme, and Portfolio Reporting.
• Competent in managing programme baselines and robust change control.
• Ability to challenge and encourage change respectfully.
• Experience in producing reports and dashboards at a programme and portfolio level.
• Experience in the nuclear industry, particularly in decommissioning, heavy infrastructure, design, and construction.
• Must be able to gain SC Clearance.

Salary (Rate): £60 per hr umbrella

City: Preston

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: Mid-Level

Industry: Other