Role To provide and maintain a comprehensive Planning framework and service for either a major project, multi-project portfolio or business area. Responsibilities Provide and manage the planning framework, systems and resources to deliver an effective planning and reporting service to Project Managers and Sponsors. Facilitate the production of the project WBS. Prepare, monitor and forecast baseline and working schedules during all project phases. Establish and maintain a Basis of Schedule for all schedules produced. Ensure all applicable schedule activities have Rules of Credit and Quantity Tracking mechanisms established. Identify and track all changes or potential changes to the project baseline and subsequent underpinning of change control mechanisms. Prepare progress reports, including earned value analysis, identifying critical areas and trends and recommend recovery options. Maintain the planning database and validate data across systems. Provide the required information to support the risk process. Provide project outturns against baseline for LFE and Knowledge Management. Accountabilities Ensure the accuracy of data communicated and reported to all stakeholders. The highlighting of any current and potential issues to the Senior Planning Engineer, PCM and Project Manager. Maintain compliance with approved processes, procedures and Project Execution Plans. The active contribution to continuous improvement of the functional quality and performance of Project Controls. To work in compliance with the Collaborative Management Plan. About you You will have exposure of working as a Primavera P6 project planner on large scale infrastructure projects ideally for a tier 1 contractor or a client side consultancy. You will have a construction related degree (civil/structural engineering, or construction/project management or equivalent). You are digitally savvy, can build lasting client relationships and lead strong, motivated teams. You have experience of working on large projects/programmes. You will have a construction or project management background and be hungry to grow your career and enjoy the opportunities Mace have to offer. Experience Required Working in a large portfolio of projects Mentoring and upskilling of inexperienced planners Implementation of planning principles within the project management community Working with large range of stakeholders Planning of complicated infrastructure projects and summarisation of these into portfolio level schedules Desired Experience NEC Construction – living accommodation, offices, workshops, sports facilities, associated infrastructure Familiarisation with other planning software – Microsoft Project, Asta Power Project P6 Essential Requirements Experienced P6 user (P6 pro) Familiarisation with P6 EPPM (Web) – for config management – see below Management of large data sets into simple reporting formats, through coding and layout manipulation Baseline control and config Schedule import and export P6 Desirable Requirements Schedule risk analysis (QSRA) P6 configuration management – user access, OBS creation and management, user profiles, OBS assignation Set up and use of resources – future project not yet required Use of P6 for EVM – future project not yet required.