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Arcavia Consulting

Planning Manager

Bury St Edmunds
Posted about 22 hours ago
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Job Summary

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.

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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.

Behavioural Competencies

  • 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 projects.
  • MAPM of formal PM/ Project controls qualification or relevant experience.
  • Experience in the railway environment or construction projects.

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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.

Dragados Values

  • 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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Skills

Project Planning
Primavera
Earned Value Analysis
Integrated Master Schedule
Schedule Risk Modelling
WBS
Construction Techniques
Project Controls
Pertmaster
Stakeholder Management
Mentoring
Railway Environment

Location

Bury St Edmunds, England, United Kingdom

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