Senior Project Planner
13 days ago
Liverpool
Role Overview We are looking for a senior Project Planner/Integrated Planning Manager to join a space/defense company based in Stevenage and Portsmouth. You will support the major programmes, growth projects and strategic campaigns/bids. Responsibilities • Creation, maintenance and timely delivery of the top level and lower level schedules, and Integrated Project Team (IPT) schedules, • Analysing project costs versus project forward load in conjunction with resource tracking / management on behalf of the Project Manager, • Payment Milestone tracking, • Risk analysis tracking, • Change Control, • Support management consolidation, judgement, recommendations and the timely provision of all necessary management data and reporting information, • Provide consolidated project reports on a monthly and quarterly basis to senior management including special focus reports as required, • Create and maintain standardised templates for schedules and project reporting, • Project administration support to the Project Manager and the project team Essential: • Experienced in working the defense/space within a Project Management, including scheduling, logic checking, Earned Value and Risk Management, • Knowledge of planning best practice, e.g. logic linking/dependencies, resource scheduling, preforming schedule health checks, critical Path Analysis, and work Breakdown Structure (WBS), • Planning to stage boundaries – contingency planning, • Good knowledge/understanding of Project Management methodologies.