Planning and Scheduling Manager

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Opportunity for a Planning and Scheduling Manager working with Altrad on the Hinkley Point C Project,

Reporting to the Head of Project Controls, the role will be crucial in developing the detail to underpin a performance management baseline that will support the project through delivery and successful completion. A key focus will be inspiring the planning team and leading confidently, communicating best practice and ways in which the schedule is a vital tool for a successful delivery within the MEHA project. Driving the development of the schedule from the early stages to establish a robust project controls baseline. This baseline will serve as the cornerstone for all future tracking, forecasting, and reporting efforts, ensuring the project remains aligned with its objectives as it progresses.

The role will interface with both client and internal stakeholders, collating progress and building relationships. Drive for detail will be critical in ensuring the schedule is robust, on time and working to the highest standards by leveraging innovative thinking and collaborative working practices.

Accountabilities:

• Team Leadership: Develop, manage, and mentor a high-performing planning team, establishing a strong foundation and culture.
• Schedule Development: Lead the development of the project's schedule from the early stages. Establish a robust project controls baseline that will be used for all future performance tracking, forecasting, and reporting.
• Schedule Management: Develop, maintain, and update initial project schedules using tools like Primavera or MS Project. Establish the sequencing and tracking methodologies that will guide the project as it progresses.
• Cost Management: Understand the cost alignment to the scope to support budget profiles and variance analysis. Set up the schedule to produce cost profiles at activity level where maturity allows and summary level for full life-cycle profiles. Engage with the cost team.
• Risk Management: Identify, analyse, and mitigate early-stage risks that could impact the project's, schedule. Implement risk mapping and uncertainty mapping to the schedule engaging with the risk team periodically to ensure all schedule risks are capture and develop a risk draw down approach where required.
• Progress Reporting: Establish reporting frameworks and generate regular progress reports for stakeholders, detailing key metrics aligned to the schedule. Utilize earned value management (EVM) from the outset to build a strong performance assessment baseline.
• Resource Management: Coordinate and track the allocation of initial resources by resource loading the schedule, including personnel, equipment, and materials. Produce resource histograms and profiles to support the delivery and resource management at the task level where appropriate.
• Change Management: Implement change control processes from the beginning. Manage early-stage change requests, assess their impact on the project scope, schedule, and ensure that changes are documented and approved. Develop what if scenarios to support approval of change events.
• Quality Control: Collaborate with quality teams to define early-stage quality standards and control measures, ensuring that as the project progresses, it adheres to the highest standards.
• Contract Management Support: Work closely with the commercial and contract management teams to ensure that initial contractual obligations are met and that any early variations or claims are managed in line with project controls.
• Data Analysis and Forecasting: Set up initial data analysis and forecasting frameworks to provide accurate forecasts for project completion dates, costs, and resource needs. Use early data to inform future project planning.
• IT and Digital: Working cross functionally to develop the IT systems landscape, identifying, and deploying a suite of digital tools required to enable the MEH alliance Full Operating Capability.
• Stakeholder Communication: Establish clear and effective communication channels with all project stakeholders, including clients, contractors, and internal teams, ensuring visibility into project performance and alignment with project goals.
• These accountabilities are not an exhaustive list of the responsibilities and activities that the job holder may be required to undertake.

Minimum Qualifications/ Experience:

• A degree or equivalent with professional work experience in one or more specific disciplines relative to the role profile.
• MAPM, P6 Advanced, accreditation. 8+ years of planning on large complex scale projects. Team management experience. SC clearance.
• Extensive experience as a Lead Planner on large and complex infrastructure projects, with a particular emphasis on projects in their early stages of development.
• Experience in the overall project controls integration and how the schedule is vital in delivering success.
• In-depth understanding of earned value analysis (EVA) and other key project controls methodologies.
• Previous experience in developing detailed schedules and working with a large team of planning engineers with interface schedules.
• Strong team skills, with the ability to support newcomers to the team and a positive/ respectful attitude when working alongside others to achieve a common goal.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders at all levels, from graduates to directors.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and a track record of delivering solutions in a fast-paced, complex project environment.

Additional Qualifications/ Experience:

• Initiative & Drive: A self-starter who takes the initiative, is tenacious, and is passionate about quality and continuous improvement.
• Attention to Detail: Strong attention to detail with a commitment to developing and conforming to project procedures, especially in the early stages.
• Ownership & Independence: Ability to take ownership of work and operate effectively with minimal supervision, particularly during the critical early development phase.
• Multitasking Ability: Capable of multitasking and prioritizing in a fast-paced environment, with a focus on early-stage project demands.
• Collaborative & Inclusive: A good listener who works well with others, fostering a culture of inclusion and diversity within the team.

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

The HPC Jobs Service supports local people into exciting, long-term careers across our Project.

Opportunity for a Planning and Scheduling Manager working with Altrad on the Hinkley Point C Project,

Reporting to the Head of Project Controls, the role will be crucial in developing the detail to underpin a performance management baseline that will support the project through delivery and successful completion. A key focus will be inspiring the planning team and leading confidently, communicating best practice and ways in which the schedule is a vital tool for a successful delivery within the MEHA project. Driving the development of the schedule from the early stages to establish a robust project controls baseline. This baseline will serve as the cornerstone for all future tracking, forecasting, and reporting efforts, ensuring the project remains aligned with its objectives as it progresses.

The role will interface with both client and internal stakeholders, collating progress and building relationships. Drive for detail will be critical in ensuring the schedule is robust, on time and working to the highest standards by leveraging innovative thinking and collaborative working practices.

Accountabilities:

• Team Leadership: Develop, manage, and mentor a high-performing planning team, establishing a strong foundation and culture.
• Schedule Development: Lead the development of the project's schedule from the early stages. Establish a robust project controls baseline that will be used for all future performance tracking, forecasting, and reporting.
• Schedule Management: Develop, maintain, and update initial project schedules using tools like Primavera or MS Project. Establish the sequencing and tracking methodologies that will guide the project as it progresses.
• Cost Management: Understand the cost alignment to the scope to support budget profiles and variance analysis. Set up the schedule to produce cost profiles at activity level where maturity allows and summary level for full life-cycle profiles. Engage with the cost team.
• Risk Management: Identify, analyse, and mitigate early-stage risks that could impact the project's, schedule. Implement risk mapping and uncertainty mapping to the schedule engaging with the risk team periodically to ensure all schedule risks are capture and develop a risk draw down approach where required.
• Progress Reporting: Establish reporting frameworks and generate regular progress reports for stakeholders, detailing key metrics aligned to the schedule. Utilize earned value management (EVM) from the outset to build a strong performance assessment baseline.
• Resource Management: Coordinate and track the allocation of initial resources by resource loading the schedule, including personnel, equipment, and materials. Produce resource histograms and profiles to support the delivery and resource management at the task level where appropriate.
• Change Management: Implement change control processes from the beginning. Manage early-stage change requests, assess their impact on the project scope, schedule, and ensure that changes are documented and approved. Develop what if scenarios to support approval of change events.
• Quality Control: Collaborate with quality teams to define early-stage quality standards and control measures, ensuring that as the project progresses, it adheres to the highest standards.
• Contract Management Support: Work closely with the commercial and contract management teams to ensure that initial contractual obligations are met and that any early variations or claims are managed in line with project controls.
• Data Analysis and Forecasting: Set up initial data analysis and forecasting frameworks to provide accurate forecasts for project completion dates, costs, and resource needs. Use early data to inform future project planning.
• IT and Digital: Working cross functionally to develop the IT systems landscape, identifying, and deploying a suite of digital tools required to enable the MEH alliance Full Operating Capability.
• Stakeholder Communication: Establish clear and effective communication channels with all project stakeholders, including clients, contractors, and internal teams, ensuring visibility into project performance and alignment with project goals.
• These accountabilities are not an exhaustive list of the responsibilities and activities that the job holder may be required to undertake.

Minimum Qualifications/ Experience:

• A degree or equivalent with professional work experience in one or more specific disciplines relative to the role profile.
• MAPM, P6 Advanced, accreditation. 8+ years of planning on large complex scale projects. Team management experience. SC clearance.
• Extensive experience as a Lead Planner on large and complex infrastructure projects, with a particular emphasis on projects in their early stages of development.
• Experience in the overall project controls integration and how the schedule is vital in delivering success.
• In-depth understanding of earned value analysis (EVA) and other key project controls methodologies.
• Previous experience in developing detailed schedules and working with a large team of planning engineers with interface schedules.
• Strong team skills, with the ability to support newcomers to the team and a positive/ respectful attitude when working alongside others to achieve a common goal.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders at all levels, from graduates to directors.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and a track record of delivering solutions in a fast-paced, complex project environment.

Additional Qualifications/ Experience:

• Initiative & Drive: A self-starter who takes the initiative, is tenacious, and is passionate about quality and continuous improvement.
• Attention to Detail: Strong attention to detail with a commitment to developing and conforming to project procedures, especially in the early stages.
• Ownership & Independence: Ability to take ownership of work and operate effectively with minimal supervision, particularly during the critical early development phase.
• Multitasking Ability: Capable of multitasking and prioritizing in a fast-paced environment, with a focus on early-stage project demands.
• Collaborative & Inclusive: A good listener who works well with others, fostering a culture of inclusion and diversity within the team.

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Why Join Us?

For more than 60 years, nuclear power stations in the UK have been quietly keeping Britain fuelled with massive amounts of home-grown energy.

Our teams up and down the country are proudly continuing to serve the nation - but they also have an eye on the future.

EDF is leading the UK's nuclear renaissance with the construction of a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C and plans for a new power station at Sizewell C in Suffolk.

Nuclear power is the most reliable, low-carbon energy source currently available to the UK. EDF is playing a key role in the development of nuclear sites, while Hinkley Point C will provide low-carbon electricity to meet 7% of the UK demand. The project is already making a positive impact on the local and national economy as well as boosting skills and education.

We're not just building new nuclear power stations. We're developing careers, upskilling generations and creating thousands of employment and apprenticeship opportunities across a variety of skills areas.

It takes a special kind of person to work in the nuclear energy industry and although we have thousands of them there's always a need for more.

Our industry has a mind-boggling range of opportunities and more jobs, and in more places, than you might think. But it's also an industry which is changing.

We're a responsible business and proud to be Britain's biggest generator of zero carbon electricity. With size, age and experience, we believe we can do even more.