Job Title: Junior Planner
Reports to: Planning Manager
Location: Remote – With travel to sites
Introduction to role:
The Project Planner will be responsible for creation, updating, and maintaining project plans throughout the project cycle for automated systems of varying complexities in an ever-changing and challenging environment. The successful candidate will work closely with the Planning Manager, Project Manager, Commercial Manager, suppliers, subcontractors, and customers in developing project plans in collaboration with the project delivery teams (Engineering, construction, and integration).
Role Responsibilities:
This role will involve liaising with the project delivery teams, including the supply chain, to facilitate detailing project schedules to the right level of detail required for delivering the project.
Actively gathering progress information from project team members, including subcontractors and factory manufacturing activities, to progress project plans and allow for effective monitoring of the projects and highlight issues/delays to the Project Manager.
Your responsibilities and activities will include:
* Analyse project performance, track progress, and feedback to the project manager on project performance.
* Prepare a 6-week look-ahead plan.
* Investigate, measure, and record project change and variation through the project lifecycle. Ensure all planning changes are clearly documented and recorded and instigate recovery plans if the project deviates from the baseline.
* Work within a challenging project environment to create good working relationships (partnership approach) to ensure successful project outcomes.
* Encourage and construct good coherent relationships and partnerships with project teams, external suppliers and subcontractors, internal business support functions, and wider stakeholders - promoting project engagement and successful delivery against project objectives.
* Continuously improve upon own and others within the project planning team, and champion own development of planning best practices to support better individual and business-wide project delivery.
* Support a safe working environment within project delivery by championing and encouraging a safety-first culture down through the supply chain.
Role Qualification and Skills:
* Primavera experience essential.
* CSCS card desirable.
* Excellent time keeper.
* Ability to balance competing priorities and deliver within deadlines and under pressure.
* Strong and open communicator – capable of presenting to all levels within the organization.
* Project controls and project reporting not essential but desirable.
* Fully independent, including for major projects.
* Experienced business partner for the person responsible for the project.
* Ensures coordination with other disciplines.
* Familiar with all methodologies/tooling for single and multi-project planning.
* Independently states delivery times.
* Evaluates the methods, tooling, and processes used and puts forward proposals for improvements.
* Implements scheduled improvements.
* Experience delivering programmes within an NEC framework not essential but desirable.
Please note: Experience of Baggage Handling/Airport Systems will be considered but not essential as training will be provided.
Please note: UK and Ireland travel will be necessary along with a valid UK driving license. Some occasional overseas travel may be required.
What we offer:
* 28 days annual leave (excluding public holidays).
* Bupa Medical Cover.
* YuLife – Wellbeing membership with fast access to GP appointments, promotion of health and wellbeing along with daily quests to gain Yucoins that can be swapped for shopping vouchers.
* A challenging work environment with lots of opportunities for career progression.
* Cycle to work scheme.
* Pension with Aviva.
* Access to Achievers, an award-winning recognition platform that inspires recognition of coworkers, where points are awarded that can be exchanged for a range of goods and discounts.
Diversity & Inclusion:
Vanderlande is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. If you feel there is a barrier that potentially prevents you from applying, we are always happy to discuss or explore any reasonable adjustments that can be made to support your application.
#J-18808-Ljbffr