The Senior Planner establishes and maintains the overall time plan for the Project and monitors and reports performance against it.
Key Responsibilities
* Prepare and maintain a robust and realistic integrated master schedule for the Euston Project highlighting critical milestones relating to key activities, deliverables and interfaces.
* Clarify and maintain the visibility of programme interface requirements and dependencies; ensure that responsibilities for the management of interfaces are clearly assigned and understood.
* Collate regular and ad-hoc reports for the Project SLT to provide a timely overview of programme time performance on an exception basis.
* Develop and present regular forecasts of anticipated milestone achievements and use EVA techniques to measure trends and maintain an up-to-date view of the expected completion date for the Project as a whole; recommend Project level actions where appropriate to mitigate potential time over-runs.
* Provide advice and guidance to the project delivery team in the reviewing and challenging where appropriate sub-contractors programmes.
* Ensure that adequate, time provision is included in individual project schedules to allow for overall Programme integration.
* Ensure the effective management of the time contingency built into the Programme for programme level risks to ensure that contingency allowances reflect the current programme position.
* Establish Programme level commissioning and testing schedules taking account of project interfaces and planned completion schedules
* Ensure consistency of planning techniques and the use of common WBS at all levels of the project.
Technical Skills and Competencies
* Expert knowledge of construction techniques methods and durations
* Very strong understanding of techniques for project planning control and other facets of project control
* Expert knowledge of Primavera and similar planning software
* Strong knowledge of integrated project planning
* Expert knowledge of EVA techniques
* Ability to use schedule risk modelling software such as Pertmaster
* Strong team leader
* Strong attention to detail and the ability to “deep dive” into planning
* Comfortable with presenting at senior level
* Able to present facts clearly and simply
* Able to collaborate effectively with others to develop integrated programmes
* Ability to mentor and train subordinate staff
Qualifications, Certifications and Experience
* Relevant experience of project planning
* Significant past experience of large projectsMAPM of formal PM/ Project controls qualification or relevant experience
* Experience in the railway environment or construction projects
Project Values
* Leadership: Using innovation and challenge to lead by example
* Respect: Understanding others, recognising their value and behaving accordingly
* Safety: Caring for our workforce, or passengers and the public by creating an environment where no one gets hurt
* Integrity: Acting fairly, transparently, and consistently
* Excellence: Promoting innovation, development, training and continuous improvement to achieve the highest quality of our products, services and employees
* Integrity: Acting ethically and transparently. Demanding the best standards of integrity from its employees and collaborators.
* Trust: Nurturing positive relationships at all levels of the organisation and around the client by developing a strong and long term relationship based on mutual trust.
* Sustainability: Committed to sustainable development and to making an efficient and ethically responsible contribution to society and the environment.
* Committed to act based on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion principles. Equal opportunities, non-discrimination and respect for human rights are basic principles contained in the Dragados Code of Conduct that apply to all Dragados employees.
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