Projects Integration and Interface Planner - Airports

As a Projects Integration and Interface Planner at Vanderlande, you play a pivotal role in ensuring seamless coordination across projects within Heathrow's Eastern and Western Campuses. Your insights help identify potential clashes between current and future works, allowing project managers, leaders, and subcontractors to make timely adjustments, regardless of their location. Regular coordination with external subcontractors and internal Vanderlande resources is essential.

Your responsibilities and activities will be:

• Collaborate to identify key interfaces between Vanderlande Projects across all terminals within Heathrow's Western and Eastern Campuses.


• Develop and maintain integrated and interface programmes, ensuring they adhere to best practice planning standards.


• Produce reports to effectively communicate schedule status in alignment with both internal and client requirements.


• Work in adherence to the appropriate client processes and sub-programme working practices.


• Apply critical path analysis to assess the impact of changes on critical and non-critical activities. Deliver information regarding changes and delays that have affected the program.


• Conduct impact assessments and explore "what if" planning scenarios for identified clashes.


• Deliver periodic programme updates and contribute to portfolio reports as needed.


• Coordinate between clients, their partners, consultants, and contractors to ensure compliance with requirements.
  
  As part of the Project Execution team within the Airports and Parcels Operations Team, you contribute significantly to the successful execution of Vanderlande's projects. This role would suit a Junior Planner or graduate with a couple of years' experience and ambitions to progress in the fields of planning and project management., Experience of working in a project organization.


• Expert user of Excel and/or Power BI.


• Primavera 6 experience or any other planning tool.


• 1-3 years of Planning and/or Project Management wide experience


• Strong communication skills and the ability to liaise at different levels. You will have the ability to involve people and to convince them of the importance of sharing and receiving information in order to identify and maintain common project interests.


• Understand of Project Management methodologies required.


• Experience of delivery integration and/or interface planning on highly complex projects would be advantageous but not essential.


• An understanding on NEC contracts advantageous but not essential.


• Aviation and/or baggage experience is advantageous but not essential.
  
  28 days of annual leave (excluding public holidays)


• Bupa Medical Cover


• YuLife - Wellbeing membership with fast access to GP appointments, promotion of health and wellbeing along with daily quests to gain Yucoins that can be swapped for shopping vouchers


• A challenging work environment with lots of opportunities of career progression.


• Cycle to work scheme


• Pension with Aviva


• Achievers - Employee Recognition Platform and discount of everyday shopping!