VVB Engineering
Junior Planner
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A key role within the department of Planning ensures that the project is given necessary support during design, installation, and handover to perform at its optimum level from a delivery, commercial, financial, and resource perspective.
Key Responsibilities
- Create / Maintain a Robust logically linked, cost & resource loaded programme
- Maintaining Client expectations from programme point view
- Updating Project programme on weekly basis
- Carrying out Regular Programme Reviews and ensuring contractual obligations are in place
- Carrying Out impact assessment and presenting delay programmes, cause & effect programmes
- Keep close track of progress via look ahead & site diaries as well as regular site visits
- Prepare / Submit Weekly Site Progress Photo Reports
- Preparing EOT Programmes, What If Programmes as required to Support Project Planning
- Supporting Planning Team by carrying out similar duties on VVB Projects nationally as requested by Planning Manager
- Implementing the VVB Planning Standards on the Project Programme
- Ensuring realistic programme logic is in place & maintaining a Programme Log for all changes
- Preparing programmes and progress narratives for all updated programmes
- Highlighting programme concerns with Planning Manager & Project Team and proposing mitigations
- Periodically issuing Earned Value Analysis & SPI, CPIs
- The ability to communicate with clients and collate and present programme information at all levels
- Recording and managing planning issues and escalating where necessary
- Manage 4 week look ahead programme on Aphex or MS Excel as necessary
- Insuring all additional works incorporated in programme
- Key dependencies such as TQs, EWNs, Variations are highlighted on programme and tracked regularly
- Supporting Commercial on management of R&O on projects level
- To formulate and support new business initiatives, taking the lead on some as required
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- Minimum of 1-2 year experience in planning
- Be a competent and have experience in the production of planning related documentation
- Previously worked within the infrastructure environment (utilities/civils etc)
Qualifications
- Minimum NVQ/HNC
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