Project Planner Job In Reading

Project Planner

Location: Remote working permitted with occasional visits to Client office in Reading.

Start Date: ASAP pending clearance transfer.

End date: 6 months

Vetting Level: Candidates must currently hold the highest level of UK Government security clearance (DV)

Skills and experience:

A working knowledge and demonstrable experience in all or some of the following areas:

• Project planning, scheduling, and monitoring experience using Primavera P6 at advanced level (formal and/or comparable experience)

Responsibilities:

• Advise and support on planning best practice.
• Create, review, analyse, assure, and maintain Portfolio/ Programme/ Project schedules.
• Identify and maintain dependencies across the delivery environment
• Input to and review of management products.
• Co-ordinate the schedule update process.
• Lead and facilitate planning workshops and relevant training sessions.
• Proactively identify and progress opportunities to add value to strategic and tactical decision making.
• Demonstrate an understanding of traditional and agile methodologies to advise on most appropriate planning practices.
• Where necessary, support resource planning and utilisation analysis
• Knowledge of NEC4 forms of contract management would be advantageous.
• Ability to create/update project plans, schedules & costs using Primavera P6.
• Ability to utilise earned value analysis to determine project performance
• Manage stakeholders and relationships.
• Generate reports on project performance and circulate to stakeholders
• Ability to incorporate supplier plans or programmes to the master schedule and apply the planning governance or rules within the master schedule.

This is a business-critical position and we are looking to arrange interviews as soon as possible. To be considered please apply directly or contact me via email at lewis.thompson@searchability.com