Assistant Planner / Planning Engineer

Tasks/Responsibilities as follows:

*Close liaison with Project Managers to create robust programmes that matches the Annual Plan.
*Support the Project Managers to monitor progress and produce status reports on projects for Project and Portfolio Meetings.
*Collate data from the scheme programmes for reporting against Performance Measures (APIs) and Earned Value Analysis (EVA).
*The creation of scheme programmes in Primavera P6, or similar, in conjunction with project teams and portfolio managers.
*Review programmes against the forecast spend profiles to ensure alignment.
*The proactive monitoring and maintenance of all programmes on a regular basis to ensure that the programmes remain achievable, and identify areas where corrective action may be required.
*Update programmes on a regular basis
*Prepare programmes that contain the correct information, and are of sufficient detail to allow all members of the project team to successfully plan and monitor the works to achieve the project goals.
*All programmes will be logically linked to allow for the analysis of the critical path to ensure the overall integrity of the programme.
*All programmes will adhere to the processes and procedures to ensure that a consistent quality approach is maintained by all member of the project team.
*Work closely with other planners and members of the commercial team to provide data for API and EVA reporting
*Support a “Team” Culture within the project teams and across disciplines
*Be able to work with minimum of supervision.
*Perform other duties as may from time to time be reasonably required.

Typical Skills/Experience as follows:

*Appropriate qualification in Civil Engineering.
*Appropriate experience of working within a Civil Engineering environment.
*Computer literate with competent ability and knowledge of Microsoft Office, especially excel and also experience in relevant programming packages.
*Able to communicate well, both orally and in writing.

People Responsibility: None.

To apply for this position, candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK
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