Project Planner

We have an exciting opportunity for a mid-level planning and scheduling professional to join our fast-growing energy team. As a Project planner, you will play a critical role in ensuring the successful execution of projects within our team. You’ll be responsible for establishing and maintaining the progress management baseline, overseeing earned value management, scheduling, and related disciplines. Your insights will drive informed decision-making and help us achieve project milestones effectively.,

• Baseline Management: Set up and maintain the progress management baseline for assigned projects.


• Earned Value Management: Monitor progress against the performance baseline, analyzing earned value metrics.


• Scheduling Expertise: Coordinate project schedules, ensuring alignment with overall project goals.


• Recovery Actions: Identify areas where project progress deviates from the baseline and implement recovery strategies as needed.


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About you:

We’re seeking a talented individual who thrives in the world of project schedules and understands the intricacies of successful project execution. If you’re passionate about optimizing timelines, analyzing progress, and ensuring efficient project delivery, read on!

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Project Scheduling Mastery:

• Proven knowledge and hands-on experience in scoping and creating project schedules.


• Proficiency in performing, monitoring, and reviewing planning and scheduling functions, including schedule development, control, and analysis.


Conceptual Depth:

• A deep understanding of the principles and concepts of Schedule Management.


• Ability to translate theory into practical solutions that drive project success.


Software Proficiency:

• Detailed expertise in using either Primavera P6 or Enterprise Microsoft Project.


• Navigate complex project management tools with ease.


Collaborative Mindset:

• Assist in the development, maintenance, and monitoring of Project Plans, aligning them with our Schedule Management policies and procedures.


• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to achieve project milestones., Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.


• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.


• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.


• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.


Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.


• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.


• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.


• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.


• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.
  
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Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.Â, The Energy unit delivers services to clients globally across several sectors including hydropower, nuclear, waste, renewable generation and transmission & distribution networks. Together we provide integrated engineering and project management services across the project lifecycle – from concept and design to construction and operations, to decommissioning or repowering and life extension. Together with our clients, we’re helping to deliver the energy transition globally.


• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.


• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.


• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.


 Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.


• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.


• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.


 Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.


• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.


Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.


• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.