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Framatome is an international leader in nuclear energy recognized for its innovative digital and value added solutions for the global nuclear fleet. With worldwide expertise and a proven track record for reliability and performance the company designs services and installs components fuel and instrumentation and control systems for nuclear power plants. Its more than 20 000 employees work every day to help Framatomes customers supply ever cleaner safer and more economical low-carbon energy. Visit us at and follow us on Twitter: @Framatome and LinkedIn: Framatome.Framatome is owned by the EDF Group (80.5%) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI 19.5%).
Reference number
2025-22299Publication date
5/12/2025Category
G - PROJECT MANAGEMENT - G2 - Project Control
Job Opening Title
Senior Planner
Job type
Non fixed term
BU description
Installed Base BU is in charge for Framatomes nuclear engineering and services for operating nuclear plants for new build projects and for installations in decommissioning phase.
The Installed base BU has more than 60 years of international experience in all types of technologies on more than 380 reactors worldwide.
With 4600 employees in 15 countries the Installed Base BU has a strong identity and its vision is to: Deliver innovative products and services by putting our high-level skills to work to guarantee throughout the world a safe and competitive low carbon source of energy.
Job description
Framatome is a major international player in the nuclear energy market recognised for its innovative solutions and value-added technologies for designing building maintaining and advancing the global nuclear fleet.
With 14000 employees worldwide and over 300 strong in the UK our plans are to grow to 400-500 by 2025 through the development our UK nuclear service offerings
Framatome is owned by the EDF Group (80.5%) Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI 19.5%)
Due to our ongoing and rapid growth we are looking to recruit a Project Plannerideally to be based atAvonmouth Bristol.
The Senior Planner is responsible not only for maintaining integrated master project schedules and associated artefacts within their delegated area of responsibility but also owning the tools and processes used to generate this and supporting outputs. These outputs will be one of the core project controls outputs in support of project management and customer/ business reporting requirements and the role is responsible for ensuring that all outputs produced by junior staff that feed into this are suitable and timely.
This role is expected to produce outputs within the planning sub-discipline but to also engage with other sub-discipline leads to ensure outputs are integrated and aligned. This role is expected to work autonomously with little oversight and guidance and will coach support and direct junior staff in producing supporting outputs
Key activities will include:
Maintain master project schedules for large projects/ collections of projects in an area by establishing and maintaining the overall structure delegating responsibilities to more junior staff and assuring their outputs before integrating these back into the master programme.
Lead the planning process on large or complex projects taking the integrated project team from requirement through to WBS through to the baselined schedule.
Lead on integrated master-level schedule reporting and outputs to the
Business and customer including Earned Value Management (EVM) resource analysis schedule performance and milestone reporting.
Own the tools processes guidance and templates for the Planning discipline used on their projects/ in their area and being an advocate for these processes by promoting engagement with them across the business to foster buy-in and adoption.
Key outputs will include:
- Master Programme Schedules
- Complex PBS WBS OBS and RAM
- Programme level EVM reporting
- Programme level schedule reporting
- Programme/ business line level resource analysis
- Complex Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis (QSRA) model and reports (supporting RAID manager)
- Planning tool configuration settings and structure (e.g. calendars)
- Planning process guidance templates and quality standards
Profile
Senior Planners are expected to hold the following:
- APMG Project Planning & Controls (PPC) Practitioner
- APM Project Fundamentals Qualification
- APMG Earned Value Management Practitioner
- ECITB Planning & Scheduling Practice (or other equivalent Planning qualification)
- APM Full Membership
It is desirable they hold or aim to gain within 2 years the following:
- APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ)
- ILM Level 3 Award in Management
- NEC3/4 Training
Person Specification:
An entrant into the Senior Planner role is likely someone who has spent a significant amount of time in dedicated planning roles (5 years) working on large and complex programmes. They may not have had experience managing teams of planners or integrating the outputs of less senior planners and project controls staff into a master plan but they have the technical knowledge to be able to do this and have had experience coaching and guiding junior staff in planning. They must be more than just adept users of scheduling software being able to guide teams through the planning process and work with teams to generate quality inputs to the planning & scheduling process through questioning challenging and validating data.
An established Senior Planner will have had 1-2 years of experience maintaining a master programme that is fed in to by multiple project controls staff of various levels of experience.
Benefits
In return we are offering a salary of up to 75000 plus excellent benefits to include:
- 25 days annual leave per year raising to30 (1 day for every 2 years service)
- 8% Employer pension contribution (salary sacrifice) 1% min Employee
- Individual and family private health care
- Life assurance (4x salary)
- Employee assistance programme (EAP)
- Income Protection
- Professional Body Membership (1 per year)
- Plus more including access to training and development opportunities.
We are an equal opportunity employer. We value and plan to continue to build on the benefits of our diverse working environment and recognise a priority to improve gender mix.
Everyone will be considered without attention to race colour religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin or disability status.
Job location
United Kingdom Bristol
Job location (site)
Avonmouth
Job family
Standard
Applicant criteria
Minimum level of education required
Bachelor
Minimum level of experience required
Experienced
Employment level
Non cadre
Extra informations
Background checking required
Yes
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Contract
