Project Planner

Our Client, Urenco; trusted, long-term supplier to the nuclear industry, specialising in safe, cost effective and reliable uranium enrichment services, are looking for a Project Planner on a contract basis (inside IR35), to be based in Capenhurst near Chester. The purpose of the role is the production of project schedules in line with Urenco’s standards and procedures. Rate: £55-65 Umbrella (Inside IR35) This role forms part of Group Projects, Project Support team, which provides direct project support to efficiently and effectively manage the delivery of project expenditure. The Project Planner will be assigned to either one major or a number of smaller projects The Project Planner will ensure that the project schedule fully reflects the scope of the project and in accordance with Urenco’s policies and procedures. Project Planning

• Facilitate and run interactive planning sessions for the development of project schedules
• Planning of project activities, including schedule development
• Create initial project baseline schedules and provide planning expertise to project teams
• Ensuring project schedules in Primavera and / or Microsoft Project that reflect all interface milestones and activity durations from multiple contractors
• Development planning activities ensuring flawless integration of all project requirements, deliverables and resources required throughout the project lifecycle

Group Assurance

• Carry out peer reviews of schedules produced by others

Good Practice Development

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of policies and procedures

Experience Needed

• Min 5 years project scheduling experience
• Demonstrable experience from concept development to hand-over
• Brownfield project and/or turnaround/shutdown/outage experience
• Ability to plan at appropriate levels

Specific know-how and skills required

• Ability to convert project requirements into logically scheduled activities
• Thorough knowledge of planning processes and good practice
• Full understanding of Earned Value and scheduling techniques
• Expert user of Primavera planning package and conversant with Microsoft Project
• Probabilistic modelling knowledge
• Experienced user of PRA, @Risk or equivilent
• Conversant in business English
• Conversant in business language specific to role location

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