Senior Planning Engineer
Senior Planning Engineer
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Job Description
With over 50 years of experience in the rail industry weve delivered complex and challenging multidisciplinary projects all over the world. Our expertise extends to depots operations maintenance analytics and asset management across all aspects of rail including transport technical and sustainability assessments and systems infrastructure.
We are looking for a Senior Planning Engineer to join our Light Rail Team based in Birmingham team to play an integral role in the development of our delivery capability.
You will be responsible for developing and maintaining robust control of the planning schedule. This includes providing active support the project and programme teams in all planning and reporting activities. This role would suit a collaborative individual with great leadership and communication skills who enjoys multitasking loves a busy working environment and thrives under pressure.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure that capital investment programme schedule information is accurate and timely.
- Develop the scope and work breakdown structure for the delivery schedule including the capture of key assumptions.
- Define and control the schedule baseline for our capital delivery schedule and project programme and portfolio levels ensuring that they incorporate learning from previous projects and is realistic/achievable.
- Work closely with the Project Controls Specialists to ensure that the schedule budget and risk/contingency baselines are consistent and integrated.
- Manage the framework for maintaining the schedule interdependencies between projects programmes and portfolios.
- Maintain the framework for forecasting critical resources to enable the identification and mitigation of bottlenecks.
- Establish maintain and continuously improve the framework for template schedules schedule activity norms and standard work.
- Make sure that schedule progress is regularly reviewed and reported identifying risks issues and opportunities.
- Produce and continuously improve schedule management information as part of our monthly reporting cycle.
You must have right to work in the UK.
Qualifications :
- Expert level knowledge of Primavera (P6 and MS Project
- A proficiency in Microsoft Office Applications
- Degree educated ideally
- NVQ level 3 or equivalent (Alevel)
- Good level of technical understanding
- Excellent written and verbal skills
- Strong planning and organising skills with demonstrated ability to manage in fine detail
- Ability to interface with all relevant levels of client organisation
- Development deployment and continuous improvement of planning processes procedures and systems.
- You will have a a logical mindset and methodical approach.
- You will be a good allround team player with the ability to work to tight deadlines.
- Excellent communication and organisational skills
Diversity & Inclusion:
We are an Equal Opportunities employer and we strive to build a workforce that truly reflects the communities we represent. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds regardless of age disability gender gender identity gender expression race religion or belief sexual orientation socioeconomic background and any other protected characteristic. If you decide to apply for an opportunity with us your application will be assessed based purely on your experience the essential and desirable criteria and your suitability for the role. We value each and every ones contribution as this builds our culture and means that if you work with us you will be included listened to and respected.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
