Project Analyst / Project Coordinator
Location: Peterborough
Salary: £27 FCSA Umbrella (this role is deemed inside IR35), £20 PAYE
Hybrid working available (minimum 3 days per week at the office in Peterborough)
Contract: Long term (initially 12 months, likely to extend beyond and become a long-term ongoing role)
Are you a successful & accomplished Project Analyst or Project Coordinator working within a large complex multi-site, multi-project organization? Do you have experience analyzing key scheduling documentation (Project management concepts, including project charters, scheduling and planning projects, and successful on-time delivery)?
Have you previously been responsible for project control & project scheduling of high-value, highly complex multi-agency/multi-company projects? This could include Aerospace, Aviation, Engineering, Banking, Rail, Transport, or High Technology.
Do you have significant experience within the automotive, aerospace, defence, or similar high-value market? If so, please read on!
We are looking to add an additional contract person to a tight, close-knit team within this company.
Below is an overview of a very interesting & diverse role:
This is an operational Project Manager role where you will cover the following areas day-to-day:
• Creating project plans
• Analyzing the project against the plan
• Analysis of delivering the project against the plan – On time and in full
• Experience managing projects in engineering where a product is manufactured from scratch (preferably Aerospace, Defence, Marine, or Rail Rolling Stock)
Candidates will need very good MS Project and MS Excel skills, including pivot tables & data extraction. Ideally, some form of PMI or PMP qualification (desirable but not essential).
Main Duties
• Deliver planning meetings for smaller projects with little or no requirement for supervision, working with a range of functional areas to develop a detailed work breakdown structure (WBS) and translate the WBS into credible project and program plans while providing leadership in understanding and following program and project management standard processes.
• Develop and produce program and/or project management schedules in Microsoft Project using GPMUK tools and processes, capturing all activity information, identifying relationships between activities, and recommending actions to resolve schedule conflicts.
• Coordinate with Program Leads to schedule and support program control meetings & compression sessions, making schedule changes/corrections during those meetings as required. This includes analysis of data from schedule updates to explain the consequences of any changes and working with project team members to resolve logic errors.
• Create and maintain issues/action logs, risk registers/FMEAs, scope change requests/logs, program work plans, and program cost tracking.
Essential Requirements
• Experience in a Project / Programme Management / Control / Project Planning environment.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Project or similar, and other Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint).
• Experience in producing reporting data for projects.
• Ability to analyze and present complex data accurately and transfer it between applications.
• Understanding of project planning, scheduling, estimation, tracking, status reporting, risk and configuration management.
• Ability to learn new tools quickly and support others in their use.
• Computer literate, with experience of an integrated Project Management System like MS Project Server being an advantage.
• Ability to support and guide Programme/Project Managers and their Teams, with good written and verbal communication skills across all levels of the business.
• Ability to work with diverse project teams and stakeholders.
• Commercial and Business awareness in a complex projects environment.
Desirable
• Prince2, PMP, or equivalent.
• Experience of working with complex systems engineering type programmes.
• Working knowledge of Risk Management Processes.
• Working knowledge of Earned Value Management (EVM).
If you are an experienced Project Analyst, Project Coordinator, Project Planner, Project Controller, or Project Scheduler with a proven background, please apply below by sending your CV in Word format.
We have deliberately kept this specification brief to attract applications from people who are potentially interested and would like to know more details about a position & company that will provide a long-term & stable environment and offer an opportunity to develop & mould a major part of an interesting international company.
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