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Senior Project Planner

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  • Location: Warrington, WA3 6YD
  • Salary: £65 - £75 per hour
  • Job Type:Contract

Posted about 2 hours ago

  • Sector: Nuclear
  • Contact: Christian Hart
  • Contact Email: chart@nrl.co.uk
  • Contact Phone: 01942 323277
  • Duration: 12 Months Initial
  • Start Date: 10 September 2025
  • Expiry Date: 11 October 2025
  • Job Ref: V-294350
Our client, a leading engineering service provider to the nuclear industry are now looking for Senior Planning Engineer to support high-profile projects in the North West (Warrington area). You will be responsible for applying schedule management independently, primarily in complex situations across P3M; Preparing and maintaining integrated schedules of project and/or programme activities and events, taking into account of dependencies and resource requirement. 

 
Tasks/ Responsibilities:

  • Develop/implement and maintain the Project structures (WBS/OBS/RBS/CBS)
  • Develop/baseline and maintain the Project integrated schedule. (Level 1-3)
  • Ensure alignment between the integrated scheduling toolset and the companies financial and material demand toolset. This includes alignment of any Level 4/5 schedules.
  • Regular status update of the integrated schedule and the provision of metrics (eg critical path/total float) and schedule analysis of the impact to the project.
  • Resource/cost loaded schedules to inform the IBP and also to provide financial status of the project


Additional Key Accountabilities:

  • Provision of schedule risk analysis updates on a monthly basis and to inform the baseline
  • Inclusion of key milestones and status against these
  • Critical path analysis of the integrated schedule on a regular basis
  • Correctly record project progress in the schedule), reschedule to take effect of the progress data and communicate the results to the project team and advise of any appropriate corrective action.
  • Understand and report on project using Earned Value Analysis techniques and interpret/communicate the results and any corrective action to the project team.
  • Establishing and leading on Interactive Planning workshops Leading on Rolling Wave (lookahead) meetings
  • Ensuring that the schedule is cost loaded in line with the Baseline budgets
  • Ensuring that the schedule is updated with forecast dates and Estimates at Completion
  • What-if scenarios
  • Support to commercial change process and impact assessments
  • Inclusion of key supplier and subcontract schedules
  • Lead on alignment of schedule to project change register.
  • Attending and contributing the business Scheduling Community of Practise
 

Ideally you will have:

  • Extensive recent and relevant experience in a similar environment / business sector
  • Awareness of various contracting methodologies (Eg. FIDIC, NEC JCT etc.)
  • Advanced knowledge of scheduling toolsets (Eg. Primavera, MSP etc.)
  • Quantitative risk analysis experience
  • Forensic Planning
  • Full project lifecycle experience from bid phase through to close out
  • A bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in engineering / project / construction management or a related field
  • Professional qualification (e.g. APM/Acoste/RICS) (or equivalent)
 



 

 

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