Senior Planner

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As a Senior Planning Engineer you will be a fundamental part of the project, programme or portfolio team, working with stakeholders to develop and manage programmes. You will ensure visibility and alignment of programmes with business plans and Performance Commitments throughout.

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03 - Senior

• Develop breakdown structures, quality criteria, product descriptions and monitoring strategy.
• Challenge and define project assumptions to ensure that plans are realistic and achievable.
• Support the risk analysis process and integrate the QSRA outputs into the project and/or programme baseline(s).
• Regular interfacing and integration with the project controls team to maintain an aligned financial position with the Project/Programme Plan.
• Analyse interfaces and dependencies between projects for different scenarios and recommend appropriate actions where anomalies exist or there are areas of concern.
• Support the project manager to identify options to optimise delivery through resource smoothing, resource levelling and rescheduling of activities.
• Ensure that stakeholder requirements are understood and addressed in reporting arrangements.
• Provide advice on planning processes and different tools that could be used throughout the lifecycle of the project.
• Analyse performance data, looking at trends to identify areas for improvement and collaboration, and selecting appropriate methods and tools to resolve them.
• Contribute to capability building and the use of best practice in planning and reporting.

• Primavera (P6) trained and experienced
• Experience in building cost and resource loaded plans
• Experience of Earned Value Analysis
• Experience / understanding in the interpretation of estimating, scheduling, programming and risk tools
• High level of numeracy and excellent analytical skills
• Excellent MS Office skills

• Relevant experience in Project Controls and/or Project Delivery, preferably in a highly regulated environment
• The confidence to manage teams and communicate at all levels, driving commitments and improvements to meet commercial and technical objectives and deadlines.

• HNC/HND, degree qualified or experience in a planning related discipline

• APM Project Management Qualification
• APMG International Project Planning and Control Practitioner or equivalent
• PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)

Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements.

We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future‑shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

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