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Job Summary
The Senior Planner establishes and maintains the overall time plan for the Euston Project and monitors and reports performance against it.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare and maintain a robust and realistic integrated master schedule for the Euston 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 the 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 account of project interfaces and planned completion schedules.
- Ensure consistency of planning techniques and the use of common WBS at all levels of the project.
Values and Cultural Fit
Leadership: Using innovation and challenge to lead by example
Respect: Understanding others, recognising their value and behaving accordingly
Safety: Caring for our workforce, or passengers and the public by creating an environment where no one gets hurt
Integrity: Acting fairly, transparently and consistently
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Person Specification
The key technical competencies required to perform the role well are outlined below.
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Expert knowledge of construction techniques methods and durations
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Very strong understanding of techniques for project planning control and other facets of project control
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Expert knowledge of Primavera and similar planning software
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Strong knowledge of integrated project planning
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Expert knowledge of EVA techniques
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Ability to use schedule risk modelling software such as Pertmaster
The key behavioural competencies required to perform the role well are outlined below.
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Strong team leader
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Strong attention to detail and the ability to “deep dive” into planning
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Comfortable with presenting at senior level
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Able to present facts clearly and simply
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Able to collaborate effectively with others to develop integrated programmes
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Ability to mentor and train subordinate staff
Qualifications, Certifications and Experience required
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Relevant experience of project planning
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Significant past experience of large projects
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MAPM of formal PM/ Project controls qualification.
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Experience in the railway environment.
