Senior Primavera P6 Planner

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Overview

Expleo is a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting for digital transformation. We help businesses harness unrelenting technological change to successfully deliver innovations that will help them gain a competitive advantage and improve the everyday lives of people around the globe.

At this level a Senior Planning Engineer (PMO Scheduling specialist) is responsible for applying schedule management independently primarily in complex situations across P3M. Preparing and maintaining integrated schedules of project and/or programme activities and events, taking into account of dependencies and resource requirement.

Responsibilities

• Develop/implement and maintain the Project structures (WBS/OBS/RBS/CBS)
• Develop/baseline and maintain the Project integrated schedule. (Level 1-3)
• Ensure alignment between the integrated scheduling toolset and the companies financial and material demand toolset. This includes alignment of any Level 4/5 schedules.
• Regular status update of the integrated schedule and the provision of metrics (eg critical path/total float) and schedule analysis of the impact to the project.
• Resource/cost loaded schedules to inform the IBP and also to provide financial status of the project
• Provision of schedule risk analysis updates on a monthly basis and to inform the baseline
• Inclusion of key milestones and status against these
• Critical path analysis of the integrated schedule on a regular basis
• Correctly record project progress in the schedule), reschedule to take effect of the progress data and communicate the results to the project team and advise of any appropriate corrective action.
• Understand and report on project using Earned Value Analysis techniques and interpret/communicate the results and any corrective action to the project team.
• Establishing and leading on Interactive Planning workshops
• Leading on Rolling Wave (lookahead) meetings
• Ensuring that the schedule is cost loaded in line with the Baseline budgets
• Ensuring that the schedule is updated with forecast dates and Estimates at Completion (EAC's)
• What-if scenarios
• Support to commercial change process and impact assessments
• Inclusion of key supplier and subcontract schedules
• Lead on alignment of schedule to project change register.
• Attending and contributing the business Scheduling Community of Practise

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent) in engineering / project / construction management or a related field
• Professional qualification (e.g. APM/Acoste/RICS) (or equivalent)

Essential skills

• Key Outputs / Deliverables: Business Unit
• Project Cardinal Date Plan
• Level 3 Integrated Baseline Schedule
• Schedule Risk Analysis
• Schedule variance reporting/analysis
• Critical Path reporting/Analysis
• Toolset alignment reports
• Resource Profiles
• EVM Data
• Archived Schedules
• Scheduling maturity model
• PM Controls Framework

Benefits

• Collaborative working environment - we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo

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• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
• Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
• Communicating and promoting vacancies
• Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
• Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

"We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age".

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive

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