Project Planner

Morson Talent currently have an opportunity available for a Project Planner to work on the behalf of our aerospace client in Yeovil. This is initially a 12 month contract.

Engineering Planning provides an integrated planning solution through the use of Engineering Technical Area plans in the UK and Italy. Further programme integration at the Engineering level and linking to other areas of the business is currently in progress offering improved adherence to standard times for product design and development, the scheduling of resources at skill level and control through KPI metrics.

An Engineering Planner is sought to:

• Support Engineering departments to maintain and progress Technical Area plans for monthly review.
• Define input and output activities and critical dependencies in order to link activities between plans.
• Support scope change and the timely flow down to relevant managers/areas.
• Prepare and analyse the necessary data in order to support plans progress review.
• Report on programme performance indicators including variance analysis (cost and schedule, corrective action plan).
• Prepare monthly contract profitability reviews.
• Prepare Baseline Change Requests and budget amendments.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• MS Project (desirable).
• SAP experience (desirable).
• Budget Change Request/project configuration control techniques.
• Knowledge in the planning of technical programmes and deriving EVMS/KPI metrics.
• Knowledge of planning practices, budget distribution, cost collection systems.
• Good relationship, communicating and negotiating capability, familiar with problem solving and team working.

Duration: 12 months with possibility to extend
Custom working (work/home split): 50/50 but will need to be 100% for initial familiarisation.
Level of competency: Junior or low level experienced