Project Planner - P6 Experience

• Project Planner - P6 Experience
• Oxford - Onsite 5 days a week
• ASAP - 17th August
• Inside of IR35
• £46.30 per hour - 35 hours per week

The Project Planner role is therefore essential to ensure we track project progress and cost against a robust set of integrated plans.

As the Project Planner for the Customisation and Development team you will be responsible for the creation and management of individual project plans as well as the integration of those plans into a master schedule aligned to the business's priorities. The Project Planner will report to the PMO Manager and support the Customisation and Development Project Managers.

Main responsibilities

• Support the Customisation and Development departments to create and maintain resourced project plans, ensuring compliance to project control standards and procedures.
• Be proactive in the monitoring of progress against plans and develop recovery strategies as necessary, escalating to the Project Manager where required.
• Provide timely, accurate and appropriate reporting of progress against project plans to the PMO Manager / Project Managers.
• Provide assurance that change control, risk management and cost controlling procedures are being followed by the Project Managers.
• Participate in and facilitate the planning and preparation of project management events and workshops.
• Take the lead on projects to determine the future Project Planning Tools & Procedures within the PMO.

Knowledge and Skills Essential

• In depth knowledge of project planning tools including P6 (current tool), MS Project (back-up option) and Google based planning tools (future).
• Knowledge of full project development lifecycle including formal gate reviews.
• Experience of managing Design disciplines to develop and maintain resourced project plans.
• Understanding of Work Breakdown Structures, Level of Effort, Cost & Schedule Variance, and Cost Management reporting.
• Experience of compiling and updating Gantt Charts, understanding Critical Path Analysis.
• Experience of Resource Allocation and Resource Capacity Planning.
• Experience of standard reporting metrics including Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Appreciation of Risk Management in projects.
• Able to prioritise complex work within constrained timelines.
• Strong skills with Google suite of programmes.

If you are available and interested, please apply today!

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.