Our Client who are a multi national Defence company are looking to recruit a number of Lead Project Planners to join existing teams to assist in the delivery of complex projects. By joining the team, you will be working together and using world-class project control techniques to provide expertise with supporting Project Managers in the delivery of exciting and strategically important programmes within our Maritime & Land Sector businesses. The business has a drive towards professionalism, this includes support towards Chartership and further career development. What you will be doing: Using your range of skills, you will support the planning, monitoring and control of projects which will range in size and complexity Operating a project planning or scheduling system to work with stakeholders to resolve scheduling issues and formulate recovery / acceleration plans Support in the generation of project resource demand profiles Support the project team to analyse progress and identify schedule performance issues Manage the integration and involvement with internal and external stakeholders and projects across various levels Your Skills and Experience You will need to have Planning/Scheduling experience demonstrated in a professional capacity in a project and within that, have an understanding of tools and techniques No Degree Needed but suitable experience of between 3-5years deemed essential Have demonstrable knowledge and experience of applying and using integrated schedule tracking and reporting systems/processes Hold knowledge of cost control processes and the interface with scheduling Knowledge across the full project lifecycle from engineering through to manufacturing Requisite skills to look out for: monitoring, planning, estimating, scheduling, analysis, reporting, influencing, cost, budget, forecasting, reporting, finance, performance management, baseline management, quality, risk, change, earned value management Looking for experience of Microsoft Project (basic) through to Primavera P6 (high end)