Job Title: Planning Engineer
Location: Warrington, Cheshire + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: £33, - £43, + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
At Cavendish Nuclear we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Planning Engineer at our Warrington site.
The role
As a Planning Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. As our experienced Planning Engineer, you will be the driving force behind ensuring a seamless project and programme delivery.
Day-to-day, you’ll be the driving force behind orchestrating schedules independently, focusing on complex scenarios across P3M. Your role involves crafting and maintaining integrated schedules for projects and programmes, whilst considering dependencies and resource requirements.
1. Develop/implement and maintain the Project structures (WBS/OBS/RBS/CBS)
2. Develop/baseline and maintain the Project integrated schedule. (Level 1-3)
3. Ensure alignment between the integrated scheduling toolset and the companies financial and material demand toolset. This includes alignment of any Level 4/5 schedules.
4. Regular status update of the integrated schedule and the provision of metrics (e.g. critical path/total float) and schedule analysis of the impact to the project.
5. Resource/cost loaded schedules to inform the IBP and also to provide financial status of the project
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with three days days in the office/onsite and two days working from home.
Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Essential experience of the Planning Engineer
6. Extensive recent and relevant experience in a similar environment / business sector
7. Extensive experience applying schedule management in a complex environment
8. Awareness of various contracting methodologies (e.g. FIDIC/NEC3/JCT etc…)
9. Advanced knowledge of scheduling toolsets e.g. Primavera/MSP etc…
10. Quantitative risk analysis experience
Qualifications for the Planning Engineer
11. Ideally a bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in engineering / project / construction management or a related field
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at .
What we offer
12. Generous holiday allowance
13. Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
14. Employee share scheme
15. Employee shopping savings portal
16. Payment of Professional Fees
17. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
18. Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
19. ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
20. Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met.
21. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Cavendish Nuclear
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