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Project Planner - Construction

Location: Herefordshire

Basic Salary: £40,000 Per Annum

My client is currently looking for a Project Planner based in Hertfordshire.

Main purpose of Job is to manage the preparation of integrated and co-ordinated project programmes, enabling resource and material requirements to be forward planned to meet project deliverables.

Key responsibilities:
- To develop comprehensive, logic linked, project programmes for UK infrastructure projects incorporating resource and skills planning, materials planning, cost estimating, earned value forecasting and reporting.
- To continuously monitor the programmes prepared to accurately reflect progress and maintain accurate earned value, cash prediction, resource data for internal and external purposes.
- To identify critical paths and ensure action plans are developed and implemented to maximise project quality, cost and delivery objectives.
- Through accurate reporting on Work Package progress, co-ordinate all functional activity on the project and ensure that problems and bottlenecks are anticipated and resolved in a timely manner to prevent negative impact on the project
- To provide regular reports and feedback to management on project progress and critical issues
- To prepare and maintain risk and mitigation plans to manage critical issues and problems
- To provide sufficient accurate data to enable the Work Package Managers and Project Managers to ensure that co-ordinated project activity complies with and delivers company financial and business targets on cash and project margins
- Through active dialogue with Work Package Managers and the Project Manager, ensure that the project programmes will deliver customer and contractual requirements to time and cost.
- To conduct regular project co-ordination meetings on the status of the project with specific reference to engineering activity, sourcing, quality, cost and delivery.
- To participate in the continuous improvement of planning and scheduling processes to support successful project delivery.

Essential Skills, Qualifications and Experience required:

• Problem solving and resolution skills and techniques
• Communication skills – ability to communicate and build relationships
• Ability to persuade and influence others
• Action orientated – ‘can do’ approach / Objective and target focused
• Ability to identify risks and minimise exposure
• Work planning, organisation and control
• Pragmatic
• Attentive to detail
• Proactive in pursuit
• Educated to A Level standard
• Experience in project planning / scheduling role
• Knowledge of the railway industry and in particular rail signalling projects particularly Network Rail GRIP 3, 4 and 5-8
• Excellent knowledge of Primavera P3e / P3 & a working knowledge of MS project, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Access packages

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