Role: Senior Planner
Salary: Up to £85,000 + package
Location: London
Working Pattern: Hybrid working

Senior Planner Job Summary
The Senior Planner establishes and maintains the overall time plan for the project and monitors and reports performance against it.

Senior Planner Key Responsibilities

Prepare and maintain a robust and realistic integrated master schedule for the project, highlighting critical milestones relating to key activities, deliverables, and interfaces.
Clarify and maintain the visibility of programme interface requirements and dependencies; ensure that responsibilities for the management of interfaces are clearly assigned and understood.
Collate regular and ad-hoc reports for the Project SLT to provide a timely overview of programme time performance on an exception basis.
Develop and present regular forecasts of anticipated milestone achievements and use EVA techniques to measure trends and maintain an up-to-date view of the expected completion date for the project as a whole; recommend project-level actions where appropriate to mitigate potential time over-runs.
Provide advice and guidance to the project delivery team in reviewing and challenging, where appropriate, sub-contractors' programmes.
Ensure that adequate time provision is included in individual project schedules to allow for overall programme integration.
Ensure the effective management of the time contingency built into the programme for programme-level risks to ensure that contingency allowances reflect the current programme position.
Establish programme-level commissioning and testing schedules, taking into account project interfaces and planned completion schedules.
Ensure consistency of planning techniques and the use of common WBS at all levels of the project.
Senior Planner Qualifications, Certifications & Experience

Expert knowledge of construction techniques, methods, and durations.
Strong understanding of techniques for project planning control and other facets of project control.
Expert knowledge of Primavera and similar planning software.
Strong knowledge of integrated project planning.
Expert knowledge of EVA techniques.
Ability to use schedule risk modelling software such as Pertmaster.
Relevant experience in project planning.
Significant past experience in large projects.
MAPM or formal PM/Project Controls qualification.
Experience in the railway environment.
Senior Planner Behavioural Competencies

Strong team leader.
Strong attention to detail and the ability to "deep dive" into planning.
Comfortable with presenting at a senior level.
Able to present facts clearly and simply.
Able to collaborate effectively with others to develop integrated programmes.
Ability to mentor and train subordinate staff.

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