Planning Engineer

Morson Talent is collaborating with our defence and space client in Stevenage area to recruit  a Planning Engineer for an initial 12 month contract. The Integrated Planner / Planning Engineer will support the major programmes, growth projects and strategic campaigns/bids across the business.  The Planning Engineer will have excellent knowledge and proficiency of both MS Project Professional & Primavera P6 Professional, be experienced in working within a Project Management, including scheduling, logic checking, Earned Value and Risk Management and have knowledge of planning best practice, e.g. logic linking/dependencies, resource scheduling, preforming schedule health checks, critical Path Analysis, and work Breakdown Structure (WBS).

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

Skill Set

Essential
• Experienced in working 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.
• Excellent knowledge and proficient use of both MS Project Professional & Primavera P6 Professional

Recognising the RESTRICTED nature of the work, suitable candidates will be SC cleared or eligible for this level of clearance