Rubicon Consulting is currently recruiting for a HVDC Project Planner on a 6 month Contract, located in Staffordshire.
This role falls INSIDE IR35.
Job Description Summary
We are looking for an experienced Planning professional to join our Project Controls team delivering a HVDC project. In Project Controls, our goal is to provide the right insights and recommendations to influence the execution of the projects and maximise value to both our customer and Client. This requires the right rigor around schedule and cost management processes to deliver projects on-time and within budget. You will engage with all functions, be exposed to the leadership, and act proactively to make things happen. With focus and rigor around tools, processes, operating rhythm, and people, here you shall have the opportunity to learn, contribute and excel in one of the best Project controls functions in the industry.
This role is potentially open to project controls position too (cost on top of planning), subject to skillset and appetite for this evolution.
Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
1. Leads the Project Controls team on large and complex HVDC projects, and ensures efficiency and effectiveness of that team.
2. Builds the project baseline gaining approval of client and internal stakeholders.
3. Maintains project schedule with periodic updates, including resource forecasts throughout the project lifecycles.
4. Identifies activities prerequisites and helps anticipate blockers with wider project team and third parties.
5. Drives and challenges progress, agrees forecast and develops mitigations / catch up plans.
6. Ensures schedule analysis through various means (schedule movements, S curve, commodity curve, OTD, Say/Do ratio, overplanning, resource loading, productivity…) to determine project schedule trends and related risks & opportunities then works with project team members to drive mitigation strategies. Provides comprehensive dashboard and evidence to PD for subsequent decision/escalation.
7. Leads collaboration with functional task and resource owners to find strategies to optimize durations and manhours.
8. Ensures that forecast task durations and logic are understood and committed by the task owners.
9. Produces and communicates internal project reporting of project status.
10. Produces contractually required customer reporting and is able to communicate directly with customers on scheduling matters.
11. Leads collaboration with 3rd parties on project schedule interfaces including maintenance of an interface register.
12. Maintains a register of potential schedule and cost risks in collaboration with the Risk Manager.
13. Provides time related calculations to ensure change order schedule / cost estimates are accurate.
14. Aligns with Cost Controller to ensure reconciliation between P6 schedule and approved cost phasing.
15. Generates “what if” scenarios to optimize execution and works with project teams to evaluate feasibility.
16. Supports disputes and analysis of EOT claims, develops forensic analysis.
17. Takes full responsibility for the Project Controls output for the assigned HVDC project in close coordination with his Project Director.
Educational/Experience Requirements
1. Degree qualified either in engineering or project management with 7 years minimum of experience in planning management, including 3 years in electrical substations.
2. Robust experience in Primavera P6 user (Essential).
3. Extensive experience in planning large turnkey projects, in international and multicultural environment.
4. Demonstrable experience in applying forensic analysis and leading EOT claims preparation on large and complex turnkey projects.
5. Experience managing small teams within a large project.
6. Experience of cost control function and interface with schedule.
7. Excellent interpersonal skills for cross functional and leadership interaction / good communicator / anticipation and problem-solving aptitude / team spirit / resilient.
8. Analytical / contributes to the decision making. Provides solutions and alternatives.
9. Autonomous and reliable.
10. Customer focus.
11. Previous experience in building complex, integrated schedules for tenders and in HVDC technology is a plus.
12. Knowledge of risk management processes and tools, quantitative risk analysis is a plus.
Company Overview
Rubicon Consulting is a Talent management consultancy which helps you to optimise business performance and competitive advantage by choosing the right people first time.
Job Info
Job Title: HVDC Project Planner
Company: CV-Library
Location: Stoke, Staffordshire
Competitive
Posted: Nov 22nd 2024
Closes: [Close Date Not Provided]
Sector: [Sector Not Provided]
Contract: Contract
Hours: Full Time
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