Barking, Essex VGC Group

Planner - Rail

Location: East London

Salary - £45-50,000 per annum plus vehicle allowance and additional benefits

My client is currently looking for a Project planner to join their team out of the East London area. The ideal Planner will come on board and carry out project planning and control activities on designated projects.

The Planner's responsibilities/duties will be:

• Develop and maintain plans in accordance with the clients project management, planning procedures and processes.
• Work closely with project, commercial and finance managers and members of the wider project team to ensure project schedules are accurately developed, maintained, resource and cost loaded.
• Work closely with site and possession planners to ensure cohesion between these different activities and the main project schedule.
• Work closely with the central Bids & Tendering team to ensure tender plans are developed through the mobilisation process into contract plans
• Build and maintain close working relationships with client representatives and work collaboratively to find the most efficient and effective planning and controls solutions.
• Perform critical path analysis and advise of possible actions and areas of concern.
• Ensure that the periodic project reporting requirements are met for both internal and client through the provision of key project metrics such as key performance indicators, earned value, schedule delay and critical path analysis reports as required.
• Perform analysis and scenario modelling for any potential project change and be able to provide risks, issues, cost, resource and delay analysis.
• Promote and improve planning and controls within the organisation.

Experiences:

• HND/HNC level qualifications or relative demonstrable experience.
• Experience of planning infrastructure projects preferably in the rail industry.
• Experience of working with project management both internally and in the client organisation.
• Primavera Planning expertise with knowledge and use of other planning tool such as MS Project
• Self-motivated with sound interpersonal and communication skills
• Analytical and problem solving skills

Desirable Requirements:

• Knowledge and awareness of project management methodologies, e.g. Prince 2.
• Technical/Engineering background ideally with knowledge of the railway.

What you can expect in return:

• Salary - £45-50,000 per annum
• Vehicle allowance - up to £5,000
• 26 days annual leave
• Pension matched up to 7%
• Up to 15% annual bonus
• Additional personal benefits

If you are interested or know someone that is (we do run a referral scheme), please don't hesitate to send me your up to date CV

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