Lead Scheduler

Framatome is a major international player in the nuclear energy market recognised for its innovative solutions and value-added technologies for designing, building, maintaining, and advancing the global nuclear fleet. The company designs, manufactures, and installs components, fuel and instrumentation and control systems for nuclear power plants and offers a full range of reactor services.

With 14,000 employees worldwide, every day Framatomes expertise helps its customers improve the safety and performance of their nuclear plants and achieve their economic and societal goals.

Framatome is owned by the EDF Group (80.5%) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI 19.5%)

In the UK we are currently over 300 strong and our plans are to grow to 400-500 by 2025 through the development our UK nuclear service offerings.

Due to our ongoing growth in the UK, we are looking for an experienced and self-driven Lead Scheduler to take responsibility for the planning and scheduling activities undertaken across a range of projects in our portfolio.

As a young company in the UK with a growing programme of work, we are transforming the way we do project controls across the business through our Project Controls Roadmap.

As part of this, the role would be responsible for:

Maintaining the master project schedules for all projects within our New Build portfolio, covering works within the Avonmouth factory and Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C sites. This will involve integrating the workshop and site plans into programme master schedules and submitting programmes to our customers.

• Using schedules to drive project reporting; milestone reporting, schedule adherence monitoring, progress reporting, Earned Value management, cost forecasting, resource demand and productivity analysis
• Developing schedules from scratch in support of bids, and developing these into delivery schedules once contracted, in line with customer and company quality standards
• Upskilling scheduling capability across the business. This will include coaching and guidance of existing scheduling resource, currently situated at Hinkley Point C, as well as other project controls staff as necessary across the business including our engineering department in Cranfield.
• Driving improvements through implementing the roadmap, improving the quality of existing schedules, and using them in a smarter way to generate deeper insights through project controls reporting and analysis.
• Fostering buy-in by stakeholders through being a project controls and scheduling advocate, convincing others of the benefits and insights that can be gained from good quality planning and scheduling.

To be considered and to be able to achieve the above, the following qualifications, skills and experience are essential:

• Highly experienced P6 user, comfortable with managing several large schedules that require submission to the customer.
• Experience with schedules that are resource loaded and baselined.
• Experience in the construction sector and NEC contracts
• Experience coaching, teaching and guiding junior staff.
• Experience in producing and analysing EVM reporting
• Capable in leading the planning process, bringing stakeholders together to develop the WBS and schedule from scratch.
• Is able to work autonomously and manage their own workload and priorities.

The following experience is desirable but a great advantage:

• Experience with fully cost loaded schedules.
• Experience with EVM driven directly from P6 schedules.
• Experience with Microsoft Project and/ or Project Server/ Project Web App
• Experience managing junior planners and their workload/ priorities.
• Experience in the Nuclear sector or experience in non-construction sectors

In return, we offer a competitive salary and excellent benefits to include but not limited to:

• 25 days annual leave per year raising to 28 (x1 day for 2 years service)
• 8% Employer pension contribution (salary sacrifice) 1% min Employee
• Individual and family private health care (Employee, partner/ spouse and any child up to 24 years)
• Life assurance (4x salary)
• Employee assistance programme (EAP)
• Income Protection
• Professional Body Membership (1 per year)
• Plus, more including access to training and development opportunities.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We value and plan to continue to build on the benefits of our diverse working environment and recognise a priority to improve gender mix.

Everyone will be considered without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.