Senior Planner

Salary from £78,568 inclusive of 20% flex fund

Location can be London or Birmingham

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

Job Purpose

This role is responsible for leading the development and maintenance of an integrated project schedule across delivery area(s), and the wider HS2 Programme of Works whilst supporting the management and coordination of dependencies and interfaces. A key aspect of this role is leading a team and ensuring the application of Project Planning Systems, Policies and Standards are adhered too.

About the Role

• To be accountable for leading the management and integration of the project schedule across delivery areas, ensuring dependencies and interfaces are effectively managed, identifying any risks, potential impacts, and proposing mitigation strategies where applicable.

• To be responsible for leading and enacting schedule input into developing and maintaining an integrated project schedule across delivery areas. Correlating schedule, cost and risk assessment through to influence critical path analysis and providing robust and quality plans to support decision making.

• To be accountable for identifying key programme interfaces and working with delivery teams within both HS2 and the supply chain, to document and manage these.

• To be responsible for working with Project Managers and Project Controls Managers to maintain project schedules and effectively manage change.

• To be responsible for supporting What-if scenario planning, providing integrated solutions to programme and project conflicts and recoveries, supporting trade off decision making.

• Provide proactive specialist planning and integration support where required.

• To be accountable for collaborating with other project delivery teams, the supply chain and stakeholders (including regulatory bodies, and the Department for Transport) where necessary to integrate all time, cost and quality information to support the monitoring of project progress and supply chain performance.

• To be responsible for working closely with the supply chain teams to constructively challenge and enhance delivery performance whilst developing mitigation strategies across the programme.

• Aligned to the reporting cycle carryout associated review/assurance of supply chain submissions whilst adhering to contract requirements. Attend site walkouts as required to validate data.

• To have accountability for providing functional line management, performance management and objective setting support to direct reports.

• To have accountability for developing and delivering the planning and integration policy, processes and standards across the business, taking industry best practice to facilitate continuous improvement and ensure these are implemented consistently and effectively across development and delivery areas.

• Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

About You

Skills:

• Ability to use planning software including Primavera P6 at an advanced level.

• Ability to proactively lead and integrate planning activities across multiple complex projects.

• Ability to lead a team of Planners to deliver planning products, processes, procedures and guidance that support project delivery and improve efficiency and accuracy within planning systems.

• Ability to analyse and interpret data, producing accurate, timely and informative reports in multiple formats targeted to the needs of the audience.

• Ability to present information clearly and concisely to a variety of audiences at various levels.

• Able to solve problems with an attention to detail and communicate solutions.

• Ability to support, coach and motivate direct reports.

• Full drivers licence to attend site visits, ability to validate supply chain submissions.

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of planning systems, processes and procedures that are capable of delivering large complex programmes.

• Knowledge of the core Project Controls disciplines, including; Schedule Management, Cost Management, Change Management and Risk Management and an understanding of how they interrelate.

• Experience of leading and challenging contract progress and schedule change reviews.

• Understanding of NEC contracts / agreements, amendments, early warning notices and the work flows of communications between contractor and client.

• Knowledge of the all stages of the project life cycle.

• Knowledge of metrics used to build and maintain integrated schedules.

Type of Experience:

• Experience of working in a multi discipline environment delivering a senior planning or planning role within complex delivery projects.

• Experience in the core project controls functions, including; baseline maintenance, schedule management, cost performance, change management, risk management and performance reporting.

• Experience of working on projects during all stages within the project lifecycle.

• Experience of governance procedures such as re-baselining, funding approval or major contract implementation.

• Experienced in the management and control of key Project Controls systems (e.g. Primavera P6, Prism, CEMAR, etc.).

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.

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