Project Planner - Rail

Project Planner - Rail - London

The Exciting Opportunity:

If you're interested in working in the Rail sector and ambitious to achieve your full career potential as a Planner, read on.

Join our Rail team as a Planner and we'll make sure you get the experience and personalised learning support you need to take your career as far as you want it to go.

We are seeking a Planner with previous Rail experience to work under the direction of the Project Controls Manager to ensure that the commercial planning and risk management of the allocated Rail projects are carried out to optimise sustainable business profitability. This role will offer you the opportunity to progress your career as your experience grows.

Overview of Role:

To provide support and guidance from a Planning perspective across multiple live project and for tender programming purposes. To steer and guide the Project Management team in the best principles in planning and having an engineering background would be most imperative.

The main purpose of the role is to:

Provide Planning support and guidance across multiple live projects and for tender programming purposes. To take ownership for managing and maintaining the planning / scheduling

to deliver a programme, workstream and project view of an integrated strategic schedule.

Person Specification / Qualifications:

• 15yrs Project Management experience in planning, scheduling, cost engineering with Expert level.
• 10 years' experience using Primavera essential (version P6 essential. P8 advantageous)
• Strong Transport sector experience.
• The Ability to follow verbal and or written instructions.
• The ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with co-workers and stakeholders.
• Able to analyse the programmes submitted by contractors and merge and assess the fully integrated programme. Identify blockers and work with the Project Team and Contractors alike.
• Extensive EV Management - working with Contactors and in house alike to establish the development and management of CPI & SPI monitoring.
• Claims and Delay/Forensic Analysis capability, to drive and analyse the impact of changes and variations against the agreed baseline programme. Ability to display and share this message with commercial and Project teams by way of documentation of claims and delays.

Essential:

Good knowledge of engineering/design scope, job working instruction / procedures, good project control practices in planning and scheduling and overall awareness of projects in the field of transportation industries.

As much of the reporting, data analysis and updates are primed utilising excel, the applicant will be highly competent in the use of excel with a detailed knowledge and experience of using various formulas, including:

• Countif Array
• Sumif Array
• Pivot Table and
• Vlookup.

Desirable:

• Engineering Degree