Senior Planner in Frimley, Surrey

ARM is currently working with a market-leading engineering consultancy who are looking for a Senior Planner to join their team.

Working with their key Clients within the Defence industry, this is a fully remote opportunity with occasional travel to client sites.

Due to the nature of the sector, this role requires candidates to hold a current SC Clearance.

This really is a great opportunity for a motivated Senior Planner to join an industry-leading consultancy with a great opportunity for career progression.

As a Senior Planner, you will be responsible for:
* Define the Schedule Management Plan in line with best practice guidance to identify the approach to managing the schedule throughout the project/program/portfolio life-cycle
* Provide advice and guidance on planning processes, tools, and standards to the team
* Lead on developing fully scoped L0/L1/L2 plans and associated Work Breakdown structures (WBS)
* Maintain, and update the plans, comparing work performed against the baseline schedule, advising on missed forecasted milestones, missed dependencies, and associated impact assessments
* Test and check logic and be able to identify errors or conflicts that will impact delivery
* Identify and report variances against plan, including activities impacting the critical path, or near critical path, report the impact of changes and offer potential solutions

What you'll need to do the role:
* Proven record in the implementation of planning practices on major/complex projects/programs
* Ability to assimilate planning information from a variety of sources, understand the impact/implications of misalignments and discrepancies and propose actions.
* Understand critical path analysis and able to generate reports and views as part of the management information.
* Must be comfortable working with uncertainty, making, communicating, and testing assumptions.
* Analytic background with skills in problem identification
* Experience in the use of Primavera P6 or an equivalent planning tool

If you are interested in the role; please submit your application to Jason Parish via this vacancy.

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission.