Senior Planner

We have an exciting opportunity for a SENIOR PLANNER to be based at our clients premises in West Cumbria:

About the Role:

To provide planning services to an integrated DSA team including individual schedules and the coordination and integration of all project schedules.

About the Person:
A self-directed individual capable of communicating key issues to the project and project control team.
Preparing, monitoring and forecasting resourcing requirements in line with the _live_ integrated schedule of works.
Ability to communicate effectively in verbal and written format at all levels, including project documentation for clients, project reporting and day to day discussion of tasks with engineers and others.
Identifying and tracking all changes or potential changes to the project baseline and subsequent underpinning of change control mechanisms. Providing project outturns against baseline for LFE and Knowledge Management.
Ability to draw on significant experience to suggest improvements and best practices which can be applied to the portfolio.
Fully partaking in the estimating process to ensure consistency across all estimates produced for new work packages.
Understands EV principles and able to explain variances within the project & discuss potential mitigation options / recovery scenarios with stakeholders.
Ability to apply change control measures & a thorough understanding of the NEC contract model.

Essential Qualifications and Experience:

Conversant with planning software and tools (Primavera P6)
Competent in earned value management and reporting.
Ability to actively feed into and develop project risk registers in line with live schedule updates.
Ability to analyse project risk and estimate uncertainty.
Commercial awareness (e.g. planning requirements, change control / compensation events / cost control).
Thorough knowledge of NEC3 contracts.
Excellent communication skills.

Desirable Qualifications and Experience:

Professional planning qualification.
Nuclear engineering design / construction experience.
Sellafield gated process for projects and other Sellafield Limited applicable procedures and manuals.
Working knowledge of CEMAR or other contract management tool.
Working knowledge of Power BI would be beneficial.