Project Planner
12 month contract
Based in Oxford
Offering £46.30ph Inside IR35
Do you have experience using Primavera P6 (Expert level)?
Do you have experience operating across the full project development lifecycle?
Do you want to work with an industry-leading company?
If your answer to these is yes, then this could be the role for you!
As the Project Planner, you will be working alongside a market-leading Defence and Aerospace company who are constantly growing and developing. They are always looking to bring on new talents such as yourself and further develop your skills to enable you to grow within the company and industry.
You will be involved in:
- Support the Customisation and Development departments to create and maintain resourced project plans, ensuring compliance to project control standards and procedures
- Monitoring of progress against plans and develop recovery strategies as necessary, escalating to the Project Manager where required
- Provide timely, accurate, and appropriate reporting of progress against project plans to the PMO Manager / Project Managers
- Provide assurance that change control, risk management, and cost controlling procedures are being followed by the Project Managers
- Participate in and facilitate the planning and preparation of project management events and workshops
- Take the lead on projects to determine the future Procedures, Methods, and Tools within the company
Your skillset may include:
- Experience with WaterFall, Agile, and Hybrid Project Management and Planning Methodologies
- Expert user knowledge of Primavera P6 as well as tools able to support agile methodologies such as Kanban
- Experience of operating across the full project development lifecycle including formal gate reviews
- Experience of project planning in an engineering environment including design, manufacture, and installation
- Experience of managing Design disciplines to develop and maintain resourced project plans
- Experience of compiling and updating Gantt Charts, understanding Critical Path Analysis
- Experience of Resource Allocation and Resource Capacity Planning
- Experience of standard reporting metrics including KPIs such as SPI and CPI
- Appreciation of the application of Risk Management in project planning
- Able to prioritise complex work within constrained timelines
- Experience of Google suite of programmes
If this all sounds like something you will be interested in then simply apply and we can discuss the opportunity further!