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Senior Planner

Guidant Global
Posted a day ago, valid for 22 days
Location

Stevenage, Hertfordshire SG1 1PX

Salary

£0 - £35 per hour

Contract type

Full Time

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  • Airbus Defence & Space is seeking a Senior Planner/Project Planner for their Stevenage location, focusing on major programmes and strategic projects in Space Digital across the UK, US, and Asia.
  • The role requires at least 5 years of experience in Project Management, including expertise in scheduling, risk management, and Earned Value Management.
  • Key responsibilities include creating and maintaining project schedules, tracking costs and payment milestones, and providing consolidated project reports to senior management.
  • Candidates must have strong knowledge of planning best practices and proficiency in MS Project Professional and Primavera P6 Professional, along with current SC clearance.
  • The position offers a competitive salary, though the exact figure is not specified in the job description.

Role Overview
We are looking for a Senior Planner/Project Planner to join Airbus Defence & Space based in Stevenage. You will support the major programmes, growth projects and strategic campaigns/bids within Space Digital UK, US & Asia.

Responsibilities
* Creation, maintenance and timely delivery of the top level and lower level schedules, and Integrated Project Team (IPT) schedules
* Analysing project costs versus project forward load in conjunction with resource tracking / management on behalf of the Project Manager
* Payment Milestone tracking
* Risk analysis tracking
* Change Control
* Support management consolidation, judgement, recommendations and the timely provision of all necessary management data and reporting information
* Provide consolidated project reports on a monthly and quarterly basis to senior management including special focus reports as required
* Create and maintain standardised templates for schedules and project reporting
* Project administration support to the Project Manager and the project team

Skill Set
Essential
* Experienced in working within a Project Management, including scheduling, logic checking, Earned Value and Risk Management
* Knowledge of planning best practice, e.g. logic linking/dependencies, resource scheduling, preforming schedule health checks, critical Path Analysis, and work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
* Planning to stage boundaries - contingency planning
* Good knowledge/understanding of Project Management methodologies.
* Excellent knowledge and proficient use of both MS Project Professional & Primavera P6 Professional

Please note: Current SC clearance is required for this role.

Guidant Global (BH4SF) is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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