Senior Planner

Belcan is seeking an Integrated Planning Manager / Project Planner

Location: Stevenage, UK

Type: Hybrid Working

Contract: 12 months (inside IR35)

About the Role:

Belcan is happy to be accepting applications for an experienced Senior Planner to join our aerospace client's team in Stevenage. In this Senior Planner role, you'll be instrumental in supporting major programmes, growth projects, and strategic campaigns/bids within UK, US & Asia.

Job Overview:

Your day-to-day responsibilities in this Senior Planner role will involve creating, maintaining, and delivering top-level and lower-level schedules, including Integrated Project Team (IPT) schedules. You'll analyse project costs versus project forward load and manage resources on behalf of the Project Manager. Tracking payment milestones and risk analysis will also be part of your remit, along with implementing change control processes.

You'll support management consolidation, provide recommendations, and ensure the timely provision of all necessary management data and reporting information. Monthly and quarterly consolidated project reports to senior management, including special focus reports as required will be your responsibility. Additionally, you'll create and maintain standardized templates for schedules and project reporting, and provide project administration support to the Project Manager and the project team.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Proven experience in Project Management, including scheduling, logic checking, Earned Value, and Risk Management.
• Knowledge of planning best practices, such as logic linking/dependencies, resource scheduling, performing schedule health checks, critical path analysis, and work breakdown structure (WBS).
• Ability to plan to stage boundaries and contingency planning.
• Strong understanding of Project Management methodologies.
• Proficiency in MS Project Professional and Primavera P6 Professional.

Security Clearance Notice:

The successful candidate must have active SC clearance or be eligible for SC clearance to undertake this role.

How to Apply:

If you are a motivated and experienced Senior Planner looking to make a significant impact within a leading aerospace company, we encourage you to apply. Please submit your CV for a confidential chat!

This vacancy is being advertised by Belcan